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The ATBOK consists of five areas. These are detailed below.

1. Test Design for Automated Test Execution
   1. Understanding Test Design
   2. Designing tests from requirements
   3. Designing tests from scenarios
   4. Requirement-based test design methods and techniques
   5. Separation of data from scripts
   6. Code-based test design
   7. Automation considerations when designing tests
   8. Selecting candidate tests to automate
2. Introduction to Test Automation
   1. Overview of automation
      1. The purpose of test automation
      2. Different uses of technology to manage the testing effort (management, functional, performance, other types of testing, and with different SDLC approaches such as waterfall or iterative)
      3. Comparison of the vendor landscape to support test automation
      4. Selecting and acquiring test automation tools
      5. Determining automation requirements
         1. Defining goals and requirements including feasible uses of automation
         2. Determining return on investment
         3. Application compatibility
      6. Vendor selection and evaluation
         1. Understanding the potential for diverse vendors and solutions
         2. Vendor tool evaluation techniques
   2. Effective installation and maintenance approaches
      1. Infrastructure considerations
      2. Implementation approaches that support ongoing ease of use
      3. Organizational considerations to support automation
   3. A Survey of Test Automation Tools
      1. Functional Testing tools
         1. Through the interface
         2. Under the interface
         3. Web services
      2. Non Function Testing tools
         1. Load
         2. Performance
         3. Security
      3. Code Level tools
         1. Structural Test Execution tools
         2. Static Testing/Analysis tools
      4. Test Automation Support Tools and Systems
      5. Test Management Tools
3. Scripting Methods and Techniques
   1. Understanding of basic and advanced scripting and programming techniques frequently utilized in Test Automation
   2. Working with files
   3. APIHTML
   4. OCR
   5. VB Script and Windows in the examples
   6. Robust Execution
   7. Object Validation
   8. Action Validation
   9. Recovery Design
   10. Status Reporting
   11. Maintenance Control
   12. Regular Expressions for Dynamic Object Recognition
   13. Dynamic Data Generation
   14. Object Class Modification
   15. Business Process Path Modification
4. Database Testing:Structured Query Language (SQL)
   1. Relational DBMS Basics
   2. SQL Basics – Select, Insert, Update, Delete
   3. Using Aggregation to determine data health
   4. Combining Data from Multiple Tables with Joins
   5. Foreign Key Problems
   6. Using Sub-queries
   7. Generating Test Data
   8. Views
   9. Indices
   10. Testing Scalable Architectures
   11. Transaction Process Monitor (TPM)
   12. Database Integrity
   13. UML Database Model
   14. Outer Join example for testing 
   15. Queries for Data Verification
5. Test Automation Architecture
   1. Overview of automation architectures for various testing efforts (functional, performance, etc.)
   2. Characteristic of a good test automation architecture
   3. Description of test automation architectures
   4. Design approaches for architectures
      1. Functional
      2. Performance
      3. Other types
   5. Design approaches to support the organizational model
      1. Minimal automation resources
      2. Various levels of experience
      3. Unattended testing
   6. Integrating multiple tools into the design
      1. Scripting tools
      2. Data query and validation tools
6. Test Automation Frameworks
   1. Test Automation Frameworks Overview
   2. Coding Standards: Design Patterns & Anti-Patterns
   3. Database Frameworks
   4. Robust Execution
   5. Regular Expression
   6. Debugging
   7. Reporting

1. Database Fundamentals for Test Engineers
2. Database Testing: Advanced Topics
3. Risk Based Testing Analysis and Management
4. Testing Web and eCommerce Applications
5. Performance Testing for Web and Client/Server Applications
6. Performance Testing Fundamentals
7. Advanced Performance Testing & Tuning Techniques
8. Programming and Database Concepts for Testing and QA Professionals
9. Programming Concepts for Test and QA Professionals
10. XML and Web Services Testing
11. Application and Data Security Testing
12. A Survey of Test Automation Tools