Case Study: Automation Script to Extract the Top 10 Authors featured in the Software Testing Newsletters

To verify my father’s claim of “most featured author in the leading software testing newsletters”. The result: Yes.

A repost of my daughter’s article, included in the How to do X in Selenium WebDriver? series.

In a recent article, my father made a guess that he was “probably the most featured author in the leading software testing newsletters”. In this article, I will write an automation script to verify this claim, by extracting author names from past issues (since 2021) of the Software Testing Weekly and Coding Jag, both are widely regarded as one of the best software testing newsletters.

Table of Contents
· Analyse
∘ 1. To Extract the Author Names in the description of each article.
∘ 2. There can be more than one author within an article.
∘ 3. Narrow down the sections
∘ 4. Remove article links.
∘ 5. Filter out by exclusion words
· Execution
∘ Counting
∘ Put it all together: analyse all 98 issues over the past 2 years
∘ Charting
· My father featured count in Coding Jag
· Summary
· Full Test Script
· Zhimin’s Notes