Everyone has their own individual learning style. Some people prefer reading, some want to listen, and some need to learn in a hands-on environment. For those who are better with visual stimuli, videos can be a good way to learn remotely. Online videos put learning right at your fingertips.
This is why I’m excited to introduce our new series of training videos focusing on eggPlant Functional! We already provide a wide variety of video materials through our website and our YouTube channel, but we decided it was time to create a dedicated series of videos that follow an intentional learning path, from pinning down your testing needs and goals to learning the tool itself, creating your tests, and debugging them to make sure you have a robust, efficient, and effective automated test suite.
Over the next couple of months we’ll be releasing 1-2 videos a week, starting next Tuesday, October 13th. Each new video will be accompanied by a blog post talking a little bit about the same topic, and all of the videos will be available on a new page of our website. We’ll also conduct a Q+A session on Twitter at the end of each week, following the release of the videos.
Topics that we’ll be covering in this series include:
- Preparing to set up your test environment
- How to script
- Modularization and parameterization
- Using OCR
- Debugging
- Cross-browser testing
- Running scripts
- Results reporting
Whether you’re new to eggPlant Functional, or you’ve been using it for a while, this series should have something to offer to everyone. Follow along on the blog and grow your eggPlant expertise over the course of the series, or tune in when we get to a topic that interests you. Learn at your own pace – you can always come back and watch the videos later (or again)!
Check in next Tuesday for the first of our videos, this one on “Preparing to set up your test environment”. See you next week!
Elizabeth Simons is a Product Marketing Executive at TestPlant. Formerly a part of the Technical Support and Documentation teams here at the company, she’s been working with eggPlant test automation tools for the past 4 years. Elizabeth also loves to paint with watercolors, and designs repeat patterns for fabric and wallpaper.
