What Does it Take to Become a Real E2E Test Automation Engineer? Part 1-C: Broad Knowledge
Technical Perspective Reasons why real E2E test automation engineers are so rare?
Part 1: Broad Knowledge 1-A, 1-B, 1-C.
Part 2: Willingness to Learn.
Continue from Part A and Part B.
Table of Contents:
∘ 10. Continuous Testing
∘ 11. Regular Expression
∘ 12. Misc Skills
∘ 13. Highly Efficient using keyboard shortcuts
∘ 14. Advanced Software Design
· When lacking some knowledge, …
· Don’t feel intimidated.
10. Continuous Testing
You have seen that “CI/CD” is often included in the selection criteria in Job Ads for test automation engineers. But in fact, it is Continuous Testing for Executing E2E tests. Very few people have exposure to Continuous Testing, which is far more challenging than CI/CD for obvious reasons: E2E Tests are more brittle (prone to changes) than Unit/Integration Tests (in CI), and their execution time is much longer.
For more Continuous Testing knowledge, check out my book, Practical Continuous…
