Rule of thumb – the hardware resources and access rights must match the development team

Throughout this book, I will be bringing up some rules of thumb that I use to keep us on the path and out of the thorn bushes.

Let’s talk about why this is important. Upfront, you can assess if your automation project will succeed just by considering if you can install Chrome extensions. If your corporate IT security department prevents the installation of any browser extensions, your automation progress will be severely hindered. We all want to have a successful test automation project. We do not want to start our journey hamstrung. Test automation is code development; it requires developer tools, and you are a developer. Do not let anyone tell you differently.

If your employer or client sees your project as just record and playback, you are at risk of having a project that is doomed to fail from the start. The biggest red flag that this is the case is that your computer resources...