How do I Start Test Automation on Day 1 of Onboarding a Software Project?
Making a good impression, End-to-End (via UI) Test Automation can be real, useful, and proven quickly.
I switched my day work from Programming (a 10X Java contractor) to Automated Testing in 2010. Since then, I have worked on many software projects as a test automation engineer (short-term contractor).
From my experience, many software teams only have a vague idea about test automation, as only a few have witnessed a successful one like the one below.
The management commonly hires a test automation engineer because the existing manual testing was highly stressful, and they hoped for relief.
Day 1 here I mean the first day that I got the resources (computer, accounts, access permissions, …) to do the work.
Onboarding a software project, a new team member needs a starting time (e.g. online training). People usually don’t expect a newbie to get real work done in the first week or two, which is…
