Test Automation Developer Plan

Note: This plan is WIP

Start an Ultralearning Project

1. Make a metalearning map
2. Design drills
3. Overlearn

Choose an Ultralearning project:

I want to learn:

Test Automation

1. Make an metalearning map

• Concepts
• Facts
• Procedures

What concepts do I need to understand?

• Element Locators
• POM
• WebDriver
• Selenium
• Appium
• Test Automation Pyramid
• iOS Testing considerations
• Android Testing considerations

What facts do I need to memorize?

• Writing Locators
  • Web + Mobile
    • dropdown menus
    • checkboxes
    • text fields
    • buttons
    • links
    • alerts
    • file upload widgets
    • frames
  • Mobile Only
    • swiping
    • pinching
• Git Basic commands
• Shell/terminal basic commands
• Basic Programming Structures

What procedures do I need to practice?

• Automation Scripting

• Postman / Newman

• Charles Proxy

• Terminal/Shell commands

• CI/CD

• YAML

• Checkout: https://github.blog/2019-08-08-github-actions-now-supports-ci-cd/

• Checkout: https://www.valentinog.com/blog/ci-js/

• https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/actions/reference/workflow-syntax-for-github-actions

2. Design Drills

Drill: 1. Web Browser Automation

Sites to practice against:

Restful Booker The-internet (Heroku) ToolsQA Formy ParaBank (login is john/demo) OpenCart

Drill: 2. Mobile Automation

Apps to practice against:

Sauce Labs Swaglabs app

Drill: 3. API Automation

APIs to practice against: Swagger Petstore ParaBank Restful booker Zippopotam.us API Challenges by Evil Tester

Drill: 4. BDD driven Automation

Drill: 5. Visual Automation

Drill: 6. Build Pipelines

Drill: 7. Explore other languages and libraries

Languages

• Java
• JavaScript
• Python

Libraries

• Cypress
• Nightwatch

Drill: 8. Accessibility automation

Drill: 9. Performance testing

Drill: 10. Unit Testing

Additional Resources:

• Article: 10 portfolio projects for aspiring automation engineers
• Automation Week by Ministry of Testing
• Applitools Automation University