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(More customer reviews)Before proceeding you need to know that this book is specific to the Microsoft .NET environment, and is not a general book on test automation. That said, this is possibly one of the most important books recently published on the subject for those who develop for Microsoft technologies. Moreover, the tool it leads you through developing is worth many times the price of the book. The best way to describe this book's strengths and benefits is to align them to three different classes of reader who will benefit the most:
(1) developers or QA practitioners who need to quickly implement a testing tool that dramatically reduces the time it takes to execute test cycles. This book will service this audience as a technical manual for the tool, which can be downloaded in source and binary formats from the publisher's web site.
(2) developers who want a baseline tool that can be extended and modified to suit their specific needs, or to be integrated into (or augment) a suite of existing testing tools. The clear explanation of how this tool was designed and the code that makes up the tool will easily meet this audience segment's needs. More importantly, the book even shows how to develop assemblies with which to test the tool.
(3) developers who want to improve their own skills by examining an integrated application that has been engineered by experts. The tool upon which this book is based is one of the most elegantly designed and implemented examples of good programming practices and software engineering. Not only does it show how to harness some of the capabilities of the .NET framework and associated IDE, but also shows how to integrate into Microsoft Office applications and create a seamless enterprise application. The tool in this book is integrated into Microsoft Excel (version 2000), and the concepts, use of XML, and the way everything is tied into a coherent application that provides useful services exemplify how to develop business applications.
The tool itself is one of the most useful and clever test automation approaches I've seen in any environment. It auto-discovers what must be tested, and develops test scripts with virtually no intervention on the part of QA. It also dramatically reduces test time, and will significantly contribute to the deployment of defect-free applications, especially in a rapid development environment (such as those shops using extreme programming or agile methods). While the tool will not completely replace other testing tools, it will nicely augment them. I think the best use of this tool is in the development domain to be used for unit and integration testing. It also supports incremental regression testing, which can be effectively executed by the build manager before promoting to QA for final test and release. Of course, this tool will also fit nicely within the QA domain, especially with its ability to support both white- and black-box testing.
In combination this book and the associated tool are, in my opinion, important contributions to the QA profession, and to teams working with Microsoft technologies.
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