Dear Applitools Family, We are deeply saddened by the events that have taken place in the United States. As a company, and as individuals, we must acknowledge and address them. But most importantly, we must do our part to support justice and equality for Black People.

We live in a day and age where web traffic and mobile app usage are at an all-time high. Recently, Verizon’s CEO recently reported that “In a week-over-week comparison, streaming demand increased 12%, web traffic climbed 20%, virtual private networks, or VPN, jumped 30% and gaming skyrocketed 75%.”

At Applitools, we are deeply saddened by the horrible bushfires that have scoured the Australian continent over the past several months. Bushfires in Australia started in late 2019 and have continued through 2020 damaging more than anyone could have imagined. The economic damage from the bushfires devastating Australia’s eastern seaboard is likely to exceed the […]

When we think of the word superstar, it is usually associated with fame. But in the tech industry, the real superstars are the ones who are able to do the work. At Test Automation University – affectionately known as TAU, we offer a variety of free test automation courses covering web, API, mobile, visual, AI, […]

Coding recipes using the newest automation testing tool There’s a new kid on the block in the world of automation testing tools….Playwright! Created by Microsoft, Playwright is an open source browser automation framework that allows JavaScript engineers to test their web applications on Chromium, Webkit, and Firefox browsers. While Playwright is still very new, there’s […]

Early January this year, Applitools announced the results of their Visual AI Rockstar Hackathon winners of which I am lucky to be included as one of their silver winners. I blogged about my experience as to how I approached the hackathon and my honest feedback as to why I think it’s modernising the way we do test […]

Using any Web Content Management system could be one of the best investments you make in your digital presence. It not only powers up your website but simplifies the management & delivery of the content as well without any technical skills. What is a content management system (CMS)? A CMS is a program that helps […]

I took Nyran Moodie’s course on Test Automation University: Automated Visual Testing with WebdriverIO. If you want the explicit link to the course, here it is: https://testautomationu.applitools.com/automated-visual-testing-javascript-webdriverio/index.html Course Introduction If you use WebdriverIO regularly, and you are unfamiliar with the basics of using Applitools for automated visual testing, you will appreciate this course. Nyran focuses you […]

In an era of digital transformation, software is no longer just a tool; it is at the heart of every business. Why is it at the heart of a business? Because we are constantly interacting with our users and customers through a booming number of software applications: web, mobile, and native. Applitools recently sponsored an […]

In February 2020, we were fortunate enough to have Erica Stanley present at the Applitools Days in Atlanta, GA. She spoke about virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality and gave some examples of next-generation mixed reality. When you create new technology, you think “fail fast”. Why should an R&D team prioritize quality? In February […]

Manoj Kumar published a teaser on Selenium 4, listing the new features expected and important deprecations across the Selenium Suite( Selenium IDE, Selenium WebDriver, and Grid).  This has already caused a buzz in the industry for not only testers but for the Ops and Dev communities as well. And why wouldn’t it? Features such as […]

In this series on Selenium 4, we are providing use cases and code samples to explore the upcoming changes to the WebDriver API. In the previous blog post, we discussed Migrating to Selenium 4 and today we’ll detail how to install Selenium 4 so that you can check out all of the new features! While Selenium […]

How do you reduce code maintenance of your end-to-end tests? You spend significant effort to develop end-to-end software tests of your web and mobile apps. Do you think you spend too much time on test maintenance? We assume you are reading this because you have built automation for your end-to-end application tests. When organizations ran […]

As a quality engineer, what do you think about when you consider the return on investing an hour of your time? Or two hours? What if it could save you up to half the work hours you spent over the past year? If you spend a lot of time writing or maintaining your end-to-end tests, […]

Overview The intent of this post is to share with you details of the Applitools Ultrafast Grid, an evolution in cross-browser testing designed for modern teams who test modern apps at scale. The Ultrafast Grid represents the first true breakthrough in cross-browser testing architecture since it’s initial inception many years ago. It’s important to understand the […]

How much is it worth to catch more bugs early in your product release process? Depending on where you are in your release process, you might be writing unit or systems tests. But, you need to run end-to-end tests to prove behavior, and quality engineers require a high degree of skill to write end-to-end tests […]

Colleagues past and present suggested that I write a blog post about my tips and tricks in working from home. I’ve never considered myself an expert, but do have some systems in place that work for me.

Dave Haeffner has had a varied career that began with a degree in networking engineering. He worked various roles in IT operations, eventually stumbling into QA and test automation without a background in programming. This started him on a path that ultimately lead him to author ‘The Selenium Guidebook‘. Along the way, he’s helped various […]

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Interview with Ram Nathaniel, Head of Computer Vision Algorithms at Applitools Ram Nathaniel joined Applitools in 2017, with a mission to make visual AI and visual testing accessible to all frontend developers and functional testers across all web platforms and devices. To do this, he set about building a team of innovative algorithm developers. […]

We sat down to speak to Yarden Naveh, Director of Customer Success at Applitools, based in our San Mateo, California office. Yarden’s career path has combined his passion for innovative technology with his desire to make these technologies accessible to wider audiences.  In this interview, Yarden talks about how a Customer Success role at Applitools […]

The Selenium WebDriver maintainers have been hard at work on a brand-new version: Selenium 4! Some of the features are already available in alpha mode — which allows us the opportunity to try it out, provide feedback, and even pitch in with development. Watch this webinar, where Angie Jones explored some of the most promising […]

Ace functional and visual component testing with Cypress.io and Applitools — watch this on-demand webinar with two engineering giants: Gleb Bahmutov (VP Engineering @ Cypress.io) and Gil Tayar (Sr. Architect @ Applitools). Functional and visual testing work very well together for end-to-end frontend tests. In this hands-on session, Gleb Bahmutov and Gil Tayar showed how […]

As a company that focuses on browser-based functional tests, Applitools stays on top of all things Selenium. We are excited to be Gold Sponsors of the virtual Selenium Conf 2020, which starts with online workshops tomorrow morning in India and tonight in the United States. There will be lots to learn, whether you are just […]

Branch Insurance is disrupting the insurance industry by allowing customers to bundle home and car insurance in as little as 30 seconds. What exactly is under the hood that helps a company like Branch to disrupt a well-established industry such as insurance? In this webinar, Joe Emison — Co-founder and CEO of Branch Insurance — […]