From First Selenium Test at the Age of 12 to Published Author: My Daughter’s Ten-Year Journey in E2E Test Automation
The importance of choosing the right tech stack to learn, which was raw Selenium WebDriver + RSpec, with TestWise IDE.
7 min readFeb 14, 2024
My daughter’s book, “Selenium WebDriver Recipes in C#: Practical Testing Solutions for Selenium WebDriver”, was published by Apress on December 24th, 2023. You can now order it on Amazon.
As the father and her test automation coach, I am proud.
Readers with a cynical mindset might assume, “That’s because you assisted her.” Yes, I did assist in a way one would aid one’s own child. Nevertheless, it was Courtney who did the writing (with me serving as the editor/reviewer), in addition to updating test scripts for the new Selenium v4 and contributing a significant portion of fresh content derived from her writings on Medium. Ultimately, Courtney underwent the rigorous selection process at Apress, an established tech book publisher, as an author.
