The Way of the Web Tester

Chapter 1The Testing Pyramid

Before we can talk automated testing, we need to lay down some groundwork. In this chapter, we set up the framework, model, and language we’re going to use to discuss automated testing for the rest of the book. Something called the testing pyramid.

Learning the pyramid will not only make you more knowledgeable in automated testing, it will give you a feel for how each kind of test works, along with how they fit together and complement one another.

This will give you the vocabulary to talk automated testing along with the insight to know where and how to use each kind of test.