Part V – Automation Engineering

Part V develops Automation Engineering as the practice of designing, operating, and improving maintainable automation systems that produce trustworthy, timely, and diagnosable quality evidence.

Chapters

1. Chapter 1 — Automation Engineering: Purpose, Evidence, and Boundaries

   150 minutes, plus the practical exercise · Status: Draft · Version: 0.1.0

   Prerequisites: Parts I–IV, or equivalent experience with programming, test strategy, evidence, APIs, and asynchronous behaviour

2. Chapter 2 — Automation System Architecture and Feedback Design

   165 minutes, plus the practical exercise · Status: Draft · Version: 0.1.0

   Prerequisites: Chapter 1; Parts II–IV, or equivalent experience with modular code, evidence boundaries, APIs, configuration, and diagnostics

3. Chapter 3 — Reusable Automation Design: Abstractions, Fixtures, and Test Data

   175 minutes, plus the practical exercise · Status: Draft · Version: 0.1.0

   Prerequisites: Chapters 1–2; Part II programming, configuration, data, and refactoring foundations; Parts III–IV evidence and dependency boundaries

4. Chapter 4 — Deterministic Automation: State, Synchronization, Dependencies, and Flakiness

   180 minutes, plus the practical exercise · Status: Draft · Version: 0.1.0

   Prerequisites: Chapters 1–3; Part II asynchronous programming, errors, diagnostics, and test-data foundations; Parts III–IV evidence, state, and dependency reasoning

5. Chapter 5 — Browser Automation as an Engineering System

   165 minutes, plus the practical exercise · Status: Draft · Version: 0.1.0

   Prerequisites: Chapters 1–4; Parts I–IV, or equivalent experience with evidence strategy, automation design, deterministic feedback, and APIs

6. Chapter 6 — Composing UI, API, Component, and Service Automation

   150 minutes, plus the practical exercise · Status: Draft · Version: 0.1.0

   Prerequisites: Chapters 1–5; Parts I–IV, or equivalent experience with evidence boundaries, automation architecture, deterministic feedback, and API quality

7. Chapter 7 — Parallelism, Isolation, and Environment Strategy

   160 minutes, plus the practical exercise · Status: Draft · Version: 0.1.0

   Prerequisites: Chapters 1–6; Parts I–IV, or equivalent experience with deterministic feedback, test data, browser contexts, and automation boundaries

8. Chapter 8 — Diagnostics, Reporting, and Failure Investigation

   165 minutes, plus the practical exercise · Status: Draft · Version: 0.1.0

   Prerequisites: Chapters 1–7; Parts I–IV, or equivalent experience with automation evidence, deterministic feedback, browser boundaries, and debugging

9. Chapter 9 — Continuous Feedback: CI-Oriented Execution and Test Selection

   85 minutes · Status: Draft · Version: 0.1.0

   Prerequisites: Chapters 1–8; Part III Chapter 10 on regression strategy

10. Chapter 10 — Sustainable Automation: Maintenance, Debt, Governance, and Scaling

    95 minutes · Status: Draft · Version: 0.1.0

    Prerequisites: Chapters 1–9; Part II maintainable-code and refactoring practices

11. Chapter 11 — Specialized Automation Evidence: Visual, Accessibility, Cross-Browser, and Mobile

    95 minutes · Status: Draft · Version: 0.1.0

    Prerequisites: Chapters 1–10; browser boundaries and diagnostics from Chapters 5 and 8

12. Chapter 12 — Capstone: Quality Automation System

    150 minutes · Status: Draft · Version: 0.1.0

    Prerequisites: Chapters 1–11