This is a book for building automation from scratch

Table of Contents
Chapter1: The Evolution of Software Testing to Test Automation....................................14
Setting up the Stage for Test Automation.................................................................14
Test Automation in Embedded Operating Systems.....................................................17
Test Automation Linux...........................................................................................17
Organizing the Grey Matter..........................................................................................18
Some Higher Level abstracts on Test Automation Tools.................................................18
Getting into Insights of Test Automation.................................................................19
Chapter 2 : Evaluating 3rd Party Tools for Test Automation..............................................19
Evaluating Winrunner for Test Automation..................................................................19
How do The Automation Script Engines Work? ..............................................................27
Evaluating LoadRunner.............................................................................................32
Evaluating QuickMacros for Test Automation...............................................................41
Implementation using QuickMacros............................................................................50
How Quick Macros works: Insights..........................................................................58
Evaluating QA Run for Test Automation......................................................................67
Chapter 3: Touching the OS Internals, insights to make a Test Automation Project a Success..
69
Architecture Of Microsoft Windows.............................................................................69
Windows Kernel - A Brief Primer..............................................................................72
The Changing trend of Partitioning:..........................................................................73
What is COM: And how is it associated with Test Automation ........................................82
Chapter 4: Making a Business Case to Build Test Automation: Using 10 different
technologies/languages to do the same Test Automation done using Commercial Test Tools
84
What are Object Models: ......................................................................................95
Capturing and Using Objects:.........................................................................95
Automating Office Applications ................................................................................103
WSH and Test Automation....................................................................................107
Using WSH for Test Automation...............................................................................136
Using Windows Scripting Host for Test Automation based on OOPS...............................141
A brief primer on Application Programming Interfaces (API).........................................152
OLE for Test Automation for Automation of Microsoft Access........................................153
OLE for Test Automation with Microsoft Word.............................................................153
Evaluating Perl for Software Testing ........................................................................188
Evaluating Perl with OOPS...................................................................................188
Evaluating Java Script for Test Automation................................................................206
Testing with/For Databases ....................................................................................209
Perl/ Active Perl For Test Automation..........................................................................217
Untold Truths of Winbatch/CLI/DOS BASED Programming...........................................220
Chapter 5: Technological Advancements/diversification and Automation Challenges:
Suggested workarounds and Best Practices 228
Chapter 6: Touching the Extremes in Test Automation 229
Chapter 7: Stepping up for Vertical Growth in Test Automation/associated technologies..229
Effective Reporting Diagnostics Tools in Microsoft Windows:.................................... 229
Configuring to Capture Kernel Dumps...................................................................230
Using Dr Watson for Effective Reporting................................................................231
Event Viewer and tricks to effective Usages: .........................................................233
Some Third Party Automation Tools: Comments and Technical details: .....................238
Log Analysis Tools .............................................................................................248
7.8Software QA and Testing-related Organizations and Certifications ...........................250
Chapter 10: Conclusions and Summary.....................................................................251
Some Clarifications..............................................................................................253
7.9A couple of un-answered and debate-able questions in Software Testing.................. 254
Some Myths about Testing and Test Automation.....................................................256
Live Examples & Proofs: .....................................................................................256
Knowledge base Test Certifications, climbing up the Technical Ladder.......................256
Lessons Learnt from the Book..............................................................................256
Where to Go from Here:......................................................................................257
Chapter 8. Resources and References.......................................................................258
Touching the Extremes/Cherish towards Intelligence Perfection.................................258
Gearing up for the Future: What lies ahead, and What are going to be the Testing
Challenges............................................................................................................259
Security Challenges: ...........................................................................................259
Conclusions and Summary: ...................................................................................261
Other References/ Technical Articles by Author (The published ones).........................266