Test Automation Skills Can be only Acquired by Hands-On Doing It.
You cannot master it by watching some ‘test automation training’ videos. Be aware of talkers!
I authored 13 books (on test automation & continuous testing), spoke at software testing conferences, and published 300+ articles (146 were featured in leading software testing newsletters). It is probably not a brag to say I can talk about test automation. My test automation knowledge came from hands-on work. I consider myself a practical real test automation engineer and have been doing hands-on test automation every working day since 2006.
Many of my articles are hands-on case studies, Hales rated me as one of “The Top 5 Software Testing Writers on Medium” for this reason:
“Zhimin has an interesting niche. He breaks down different types of automated testing test cases, and walks readers through how to correctly configure those tests.”
After 2-years of blogging on Medium, with enough data, I came to a conclusion (a bad one).
“Many So-called Automated Software Testers do not like doing hands-on testing. Ironcially, test automation is hands-on work.” — Zhimin Zhan
