Software Testing with Visual Test 4.0

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Summary: The best (and only) practical guide to VT 4.0
Review: If you are new to Visual Test and need to get up to speed in no time flat, this is the tool for you. I had a vicious deadline to design an automation library in VT for our QA team at work. I was able to read the book in two days and start designing industry strength automation script in no time at all.

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Summary: Best book to learn Visual Test 4.0 !
Review: It's the ONLY ONE "thick" book at the market about VisualTest 4.0. I am a beginner in the QA area. I bought this book, read it from cover to cover, it tooks only 2 weeksto do it. It was so good and well-written ! If you want to be a PERFECT QA programmer I strongly recommend to read this book. You can use the test scripts on the diskette ( included with book ) as templates and create professional test projects. Good Luck !

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Summary: Software Test Automation explained, a must have & read!!
Review: This book is a must have for Software QA/Test professionals who have been given the task of automation of testing for their projects or company. The author explains things in simple terms, but does not talk down the audience. Mr. Arnold hits on the principles of Automation for testing and relates them to Visual Test quite nicely. Although the book does not go into great detail on the tool and its language it does give a good general feel and direction on how to first look at how to setup/prepare for automation and how to begin to use the tool to start on the automation path. The book starts off with the basics; Why automate testing? What are the expectations and realities of the task of Software Test Automation. The first 40 pages give insight to the experiences and lessons learned by the author in his efforts with the tool and with automation in general. A lot of people can relate to this section. I know I did, and then some! Having worked with other tools and my personal experiences with automation I felt I was reading my own diary. Next, the author moves you into the following sections building up your knowledge of the tool and how to take advantage of it through examples. This process is general in the respect of automation and specific in how to use Visual Test to perform the automated testing. A lot of the examples could be translated to similar tools and spurs the idea process for the intended audience. It takes a "why reinvent the wheel approach", and helps the reader/user get going with automation. The reader/user starts with simple test cases and moves onto test suite drivers with a finish on how to create and run a complete benchmark test of all the test suites & test cases. Finally, the book goes into the more specialized and advanced topics of automation and how to use Visual Test to perform the tasks associated to them. These sections are a boon for the QA/Test professional. They show how to work more closely with the computer and within it. The paradigm of Client/Server testing is incorporated with the Network Distritubuted testing information. This shows how to get more bang for the buck out of test automation and Visual Test. One of the overall best parts of the book is the numerous Notes, Tips, and Personal Stories that the author has included in the text. This makes it more enjoyable to read. The author could easily take a half the book again and just write a general text on Automation of Software Testing itself. If I were to write a book on Software Testing Automation, I would have done it like this. Too bad Tom Arnold beat met to it!