Automated Software Testing: Introduction, Management, and Performance

Appendix E. Best Practices

Following the ATLM, as outlined in this book, constitutes the adoption of a set of proven practices. This appendix summarizes these best practices and gives additional recommendations and suggestions that constitute a set of best practices for the development and execution of automated testing. These best practices are aimed at helping the test team to avoid the kind of test program missteps that consume test engineers’ time and increase test program effort. General practices that have served as ongoing themes in this book include the notion that not all test requirements can be supported by test automation. Other general practices include the performance of thorough test planning and related management activities, ...