The Utility Belt – Tools Every Superhero SDET Needs

This is not your ordinary technical manual, which can be dry and boring. This book is intended to be fun. That’s why many of the chapters share a comic book theme. But unlike some superheroes, you won’t need to be bitten by a radioactive arachnid to get these powers. We just need some tools to create a great framework using WebdriverIO in TypeScript.

If you are just beginning your journey as a software developer engineer in test (SDET), you might be tempted to just skip ahead, install the TypeScript coding environment, run your first test, and hopefully see a Pass result. I’ve done that myself, only to realize later there were some tools I missed that could have helped make the journey easier from the start. That is why this first chapter speaks to the system specifications, tools, and configurations that will help us write better code from day one.

Along the way, I’ll be providing tips and...