# Projects to gain hands-on automation experience

**URL:** https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/projects-to-gain-hands-on-automation-experience/46576
**Category:** Archive
**Tags:** learning, automation, career-development
**Created:** [25 January 2021 08:00 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/projects-to-gain-hands-on-automation-experience/46576 "2021-01-25T08:00:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![heather\_reid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/heather_reid/32/29_2.png) [@heather\_reid](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/heather_reid)
#### Post date: [25 January 2021 08:00 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/projects-to-gain-hands-on-automation-experience/46576/1 "2021-01-25T08:00:02Z")

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If you’re trying to get hands-on experience with a project for automation and you’re not in a role that facilitates that, it can be pretty difficult or confusing to find projects to practice on.

The restful booker app springs to mind for me as an excellent place to start!  
[https://restful-booker.herokuapp.com/](https://restful-booker.herokuapp.com/)

I was wondering if anyone else had other project suggestions for getting hands-on automation experience?

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### Author: ![fullsnacktester](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/fullsnacktester/32/13479_2.png) [@fullsnacktester](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/fullsnacktester)
#### Post date: [25 January 2021 20:30 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/projects-to-gain-hands-on-automation-experience/46576/2 "2021-01-25T20:30:21Z")

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@angiejones did a great article on building a Test Automation portfolio that provides 10 great options that might inspire anyone who has missed it.

> **[10 portfolio projects for aspiring automation engineers | TechBeacon](https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/10-portfolio-projects-aspiring-automation-engineers)**
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> Test automation leader Angie Jones shares projects those just getting started in the field should consider to help them stand out in the crowd.

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### Author: ![kristof](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/kristof/32/10839_2.png) [@kristof](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/kristof)
#### Post date: [27 February 2021 17:30 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/projects-to-gain-hands-on-automation-experience/46576/3 "2021-02-27T17:30:04Z")

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> **[Spring Petclinic community](https://github.com/spring-petclinic)**
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> Open Source community hosting Spring Petclinic forks - Spring Petclinic community

A lot of different kind of projects to work on. Examples:

- REST api
- Microservices
- JDBC
- GraphQL
- …

Easy to setup and nice to test! 😉