About the Author
Mark Collin is a professional software tester who has been working in the
software testing industry since 2001. He started his career in the nancial sector
before moving in consultancy. As a consultant, he has had the privilege of
working on numerous projects in many different sectors for various large and
well-known companies. This has allowed him to gain an eclectic range of skills
and prociencies, which include test automation, security and penetration testing,
and performance testing.
He loves technology and is always exploring new and exciting technology stacks
to see how they can enhance the capability and reliability of automated checks.
He is fully aware that though automation is good, at the moment, nothing can
replace the human mind when it comes to having a well-rounded test solution.
He is a great believer in open source technology and spends a lot of time
contributing towards open source projects. He is the creator and maintainer
of the driver-binary-downloader-maven-plugin, which allows Maven to download
ChromeDriver, OperaDriver, the IE driver, and PhantomJS to your machine as a part
of a standard Maven build. He is also a core contributor to the jmeter-maven-plugin,
a tool that allows you to run JMeter tests through Maven. Mark has also contributed
code to the core Selenium code base.
A big thank you to all the core Selenium committers, especially
David Burns, Jim Evans, and Luke Inman Semerau. Without these
determined individuals, the Selenium project would not be where
it is today.
Thank you Raúl Ireneo García Suárez for being a sounding board
and pointing me in the right direction many times.
Finally, I'd like to thank my wife and family for giving me the time
to put all of this together.
