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What test automation skills will be useful in 5 years?
A year ago, I would have said that you should learn Java very well and then use it with an automation library that works for your application.
But today, I do not have the same answer.
The test automation field is very crowded today with many free and paid solutions, for different languages, different platforms and environments.
You have Selenium WebDriver for web automation but also Puppeteer, Cypress, Katalon Studio, Tosca and others.
On the commercial side, popular solutions are Ranorex, UFT, Test Complete, Tricentis, to name only a few.
Test automation projects can be created in Java, C#, JavaScript, Python and Ruby.
What should one learn for a test automation career?
Which technologies are going to be useful in test automation in 5 years?
The last StackOverFlow survey shows JavaScript as the most popular technology in 2019 with 68% from all votes.
This means that the majority of developers write code in JavaScript either for front end (using frameworks like React JS and Angulaj JS) or for back end (with Node.JS).
Aside from the developer popularity of JavaScript, there is another interesting evolution to take in…
