Practical Web Test Automation 2nd edition

Posted on Apr 28

By Zhimin Zhan

I started writing Practical Web Test Automation (PWTA) book in early 2011. The situation was different.

IE has over 60% browser market (Chrome was just released)
Selenium WebDriver wasn't not released yet

Now Chrome dominates in browsers and Selenium WebDriver dominates web testing, no questions about it. The first editions of PWTA uses RWebSpec, an extension of Watir. In later revisions, I added a chapter for Selenium WebDriver.

For the second edition, I changed sample projects to Selenium WebDriver, as a result, a large percentage of screenshots and test scripts updated. But the essence of the book: maintainble test design and test refactoring remains. I even added more examples of applying these techniques to Watir, RWebSpec and Capybara.

The print version of 2nd edition shall be available next month. If you already purchased the 1st edition of Leanpub ebook, you can get this update free.