Automated Testing

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I thought about posting this in Work and Finding a Job because it's job related but it's also technology related and I wanted to attract responses from techie people.

I worked in manual testing for about six years. But I want to be prepared for work in automated testing because the entire industry is shifting in that direction. Without skill in test automation I'll be obsolete.

This is a longshot and there might not be anyone here with experience in this field but, does anyone know software I could use to practice test automation. It should be publicly available for free or for a reasonable cost (not the sort of cost only large corporations can afford).

I'd like to train myself in either the software that most of the industry is using (whatever that is) or one like it. Does anyone know about it?

I know about automated software testing.

Test automation is sometimes a part of programming and sometimes about using a "tool".

Usually the "tool" is a lot like programming - but not as flexible - for example if you want to test a web site you can use a "tool" that records and plays back a "by hand" test. Then you can go in and customize the test - then it gets a bit like programming.

Do you own a Laptop or a Desktop Computer? Is it a Mac or Windows?

Here is a page on "how to" use a computer and Selenium with Javascript for test automation.

https://blog.testproject.io/2020/06/17/ ... beginners/

What kind of testing have you done in the past?

Do you know any programming languages, or have any experience programming?

Test automation is a good thing and a bad thing - large automated test suites can be built up and be run and this can save time - however humans are still more flexible than most test automation, so most places I have worked they use both kinds of tests.

Test automation often uses a computer to simulate a person typing at a terminal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expect

Or simulate a person using a keyboard and mouse

https://metacpan.org/pod/X11::GUITest

https://metacpan.org/pod/Win32::GuiTest

Or simulate a browser

https://www.simplilearn.com/tutorials/s ... -with-java