Software Quality and Java Automation Engineer Survival Guide

Book excerpt: The book is about Software Quality Engineering with basic concepts, self-review, interviews preparation for java based projects test automation in a practical sense with questions and answers mode. There are about 500+ questions and answers to ease on understanding the concepts and review purpose. There are 15 core skills covered in this book as listed below.1. Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), 2. Software Quality Concepts, 3. OOPS, 4. XML, 5. XPath, 6. SCM/SCCS(SVN/GIT), 7. Unix/Linux, 8. Java & JDBC, 9. ANT, 10.Maven, 11. JUnit, 12. TestNG, 13. Jenkins/Hudson (CI), 14. Web Applications Testing - Selenium, 15. Web Services - SOAP/REST API.This book is aimed at beginners to the software quality and also useful for experienced quality engineers to assess and be on top of relevant skills. Here the author is considering "Quality Assurance" and "Quality Engineering" as same to carry out the similar effort except that to stress the importance of applying the Engineering principles rather than simply repeating the assurance test actions. This book should help in making sure that you get the basic core concepts, working knowledge and in summary as a survival guide for programming and automation with all required skills. The goal is not to aim at making you an expert at one skill or entirely on these skills. For the Manual QA engineer, this book helps in understanding quality concepts, SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle), technical terminology, etc. Also, this helps in moving from manual to automation engineer.It is also useful for Developers working on Java projects because Java programming, unit testing and most of the other skills are in common with QA automation. Also, it gives understanding some of the test frameworks and terminologies in the test development. Finally, this book is an attempt to share and build confidence in core skills for Software quality engineering.