Automation of web application testing. Where to begin?

Question

Automation

I work as a tester, I want to automate the testing process. I don't know how to approach this problem. Please advise normal blogs and books (English-language is possible), where the automation process is normally described, what problems may arise, etc.
About me:
- I know java se, ruby, javascript
well - I tried to write tests using selenium webdriver. Either I'm doing something wrong, or manually testing is really faster and more reliable.

Answer 1

In any case, you need to write automatic tests, only manual ones are not an option:
- with a large amount of functionality, manually testing everything will be extremely difficult, and any part of the system can break after EVERY update, so you need to be able to quickly check after each update that nothing broken
- automatic tests reduce the influence of the human factor - it is less likely that during 20m testing of the same feature you will not miss anything by accident
- it is advisable to test some parts of the system using unit tests, and some parts are generally problematic to test manually, such tests should be written by the developers themselves