Readers would be pleased to know that I have teamed up with Packt Publishing to organize a Giveaway of my book Robot Framework Test Automation

Two lucky winners stand a chance to win e-copy of the book. Keep reading to find out how you can be one of the Lucky One.

Overview:

Create a Robot Framework test file and a test suite
Identify and differentiate between different test case writing styles
Full of easy- to- follow steps, to get you started with Robot Framework

How to Enter?

All you need to do is head on over to the Book page and look through the product description of the book and drop a line via the comments below this post to let us know what interests you the most about this book. It’s that simple.

Winners will get an e-copy of the Book.

Deadline

The contest is a limited time contest, so hurry. Winners will be contacted by email, so be sure to use your real email address when you comment (On that page: http://bit.ly/1bXReXr)!

Monday, September 9, 2013

On book writing

For the past month and a half, I've been involved in writing a short technical book that introduces automated acceptance test driven development through an open-source tool, Robot Framework. Now that the drafts have been sent to the publisher, I can introspect on how things happened. Book writing has been challenging and rewarding at the same time. It often happened that I completed my draft revisions way past 1 am and arrived red-eyed in the office the next day. Like a blog post, I built up the contents of the book line by line, then like a blog post, different topics that went into the construction of different chapters.
As it was my first book, I managed to finish the drafts in time due to a constant urging in back of my head to finish the chapter X by the end of this week. I kept doing that when I had my holidays, or after arriving from work in the evening. Even when I visited relatives or did my gardening on the weekends, I managed to have this constant reminder which allowed me to keep up my pace with the delivery schedule. I'd also like to thank many other accomplished authors out there who encouraged amateurs like me to go about with the writing business and will definitely encourage and help anyone who stumbles here with his/her writing plans as it is as satisfying as drinking a fresh coconut water when extremely thirsty on a hot summer day.