Starting Small but remember it will go bigger I’m just starting to learn how to write and run some tests so lets just run them on my computer. I don’t need a big hub and several nodes to run hundreds of tests at a time lets just begin running one test at a time. So I want to start my automated testing adventure by verifying that a form launches correctly.

Since there is just one of you, you should just automate everything A few days after I started this position last year, this was something that I heard regularly from my upper-management. You should start testing “X” we get lots of updates for that so you should automate the tests for that. This is coming from people who have never tested anything, and definately have no clue what it means to create automated tests.

Continuing into the World of learning new things Back in my developer days I checked out Selenium, but from what I learned at the conference, that was back in their infant days. From what I saw at the conference Selenium has come a long way and it has only just begun. Pre-Conference Workshop I was lucky enough to be able to attend a pre-conference workshop on getting started with Selenium. Some basic stuff was covered but it was a real good overview and very helpful on getting started with Selenium.