Common Tools and Frameworks

Every test automation engineer or SDET will have to take advantage of existing tools to build and maintain automation frameworks. For most common use cases, teams could benefit immensely by making use of a plethora of tools and libraries to suit their needs and deliver top results. We introduced test automation and the considerations for devising an effective strategy in the previous two chapters. This chapter will equip you with practical insights and steps to use the command-line interface (CLI) and Git, which are basic skills needed for any test engineer.

We will also touch upon a variety of test automation frameworks and their architecture. This will give you a flavor of different frameworks, their primary purposes, and their benefits. The tools selected for our review here are some of the most commonly used in the market, at this time, and can be applied to different kinds of testing.

The following are the main topics we will be looking at in...