Recommended read to anyone looking for a career and finding a job in the field of automation. Based on the author´s personal journey, it shares not only professional advice but has a lot of valuable technical information both about the field as well as about how to successfully proceed with the job hunting.
For readers with a medium to advanced level of knowledge in the domain.

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An awesome collection of a step-by-step automated testing, without coding.

When the reader starts a book, he has some clear expectations what the book is about. This book does not meet any expectations, it has too many topics, and it's not strong in either one of them.

The first chapters are about the author's personal career steps. He learned hard, got a certification, tried many tools and wanted another job, about automation, not manual testing. It's cool, the author is respected, but really, nobody is interested. The reader is interested in his own career, what he can learn and what he is able to use - from these chapters, actually nothing.

The next part about getting a job. I don't know where this guy lives, but in general it's simply not true that there's a big competition in this given area (software testing). If you have an ISTQB paper, know some tools, have some experience, it won't be a problem to find a good job. If you can write a relevant blog about your profession, the headhunters will fight for you! So giving lousy, general advices for the interviews - not for testers, but for everybody - these chapters are useless again.

There are problems with the automation topics too. Automating the testing tasks could be useful for many purposes, actually ISTQB clearly defines where it's useful. Simply replacing manual testing to automation is not possible, and in many cases, it's not worth it. It's also not true that you don't need "coding" as the title promises - some basic tests may could be made without coding, but serious testing couldn't be automated without coding knowledge.

And finally, Katalon Studio could be a great software, but writing long chapters simply listing the program's features... it's a very wrong way to make your book longer, if don't have any more ideas. If I may be interested in Katalon Studio, from this book I couldn't find out more about why I need to download it.

So the author's career is not interesting, his career advices are too general, and I don't think that Katalan Studio is the one and final answer for every testers' problems. I appreciate this guy as an expert, but I really don't know why he wanted to write and publish this book.

Stop coding is all about how to become an automated test engineer with no coding knowledge needed. I found this to be interesting since what he is looking to replace is what I had been doing at work, so it was interesting to me and also scary - how easily we could all be replaced! It is easier to retest quickly when things are automated so it saves time and money. In addition to talking about how to learn to test, the book also goes over common interview questions and what you need to say/know to answer them in a way that is appealing. I'm not in the market for a new job right now, but this could become a valuable resource to me later on down the road, or anyone who is looking to enter the work field with this discipline.

I received a free e-copy of this book in order to write this review, I was not otherwise compensated.