Effective GUI Test Automation: Developing an Automated GUI Testing Tool（1）

 今天终于下到了这本书——于目前的我而言，此书堪称圣经！～

好了，废话少说，以后我会陆续将此书发到博客上，并及时将自己的心得体会附在其后，算是狗尾续貂吧！～

呵呵，先来一段背景知识：

Acknowledgments

To the folks at Sybex, especially Tom Cirtin who made this book available, Acey J. Bunch

for his technical expertise, and Erica Yee and Judy Flynn for their contributions to this
book. I want to thank Rodnay Zaks, the president of Sybex, who signed the contract. I also
extend my thanks to the other people in the Sybex team.
I still need to thank other people, especially the readers who have provided me with their
comments and suggestions about my previous works. During the process of writing this
book, the test monkey in Chapter 3 frequently reminded me of my early days as a schoolboy.
My friends and I spent most of my childhood summer nights listening to the stories of the
monkey king told by the old folks in our village. What I learned from both the old folks and
my friends makes it possible for me to write this book today.
When I was a small boy, my uncle OuYang Minghong carried me in a bamboo basket to
visit my grandma. My uncles Zuomei and Zuodian carried me on their backs or in a wheelbarrow
to watch movies and catch fish. Since I was five, my aunt Youai led me to the school
and taught me to count with my fingers.
I didn’t learn how to swim and fell into a pool when I was eight or nine. Meiqing risked
his life and saved me from the water with the help of my uncle Zuohuang, Guicheng, and
another whose name I don’t know. Meiqing has always been my big brother. Then I learned
how to swim at 20 and swam across the Xiangjiang River on a summer day and the Leishui
River on a cold fall afternoon. Thank you all for teaching me about water, including Zeng
Xilong, Li Wenbing, Kuang Chuanglun, Bai Maoye, Chen Xiaohu, Zeng Yigui, He Hechu,
Wen Xiaoping, Long Yongcheng, and Xie Hengbing.
Tang Duzhang, Li Zuojin, Li Zuojun, Luo Xixing, Chen Xinhua, and Kuang Chuangren
and I spent our best years in the middle school. At that time we learned food was valuable.
Together, we discovered that boys were shy and girls were caring. Thanks to all of the former
classmates who form the memory of my childhood.

 

—Kanglin Li

Leiyang, China
2004