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10 Portfolio Projects for Aspiring Automation Engineers
Angie Jones describes a portfolio of ten projects that help even novice test engineers demonstrate their skills to get the job.
Selenium vs Cypress: The Rematch
It’s been 2 years since we last evaluated Selenium vs Cypress. Let’s see what’s changed since then!
Stop the Retries in Tests & Reruns of Failing Tests
The key is to try and find a pattern when the intermittent failure happens, and then dig deep into the RCA for the same.
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AllApplitools Wins 2020 Red Herring Top 100 North America Award
The Red Herring award recognizes the continent’s most exciting and innovative private technology companies, and Applitools was recognized for its AI-powered test automation platform. Applitools is honored to be a…
Announcing: Applitools Holiday Shopping Hackathon
Ready for a holiday testing challenge? If you are up for a fun holiday themed challenge and enjoy learning new skills, join the world’s best quality engineers between now until December…
Black Lives Matter. Applitools is With You and We Will Impart Change.
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….
What Business and Technology Leaders Should Know about the Quality of their Web and Mobile Apps in this Challenging Time
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…
Getting Started
AllHow to Add Applitools Eyes to Storybook
Creating component and design systems are an important way to make sure you’re delivering consistent experiences to the people visiting your website or application. Storybook makes this easy with its…
Tutorial: How to Automate with Power Automate Desktop
For anyone trying to automate repetitive and time-consuming tasks, Microsoft has just quietly released a free tool that will make your life easier. Power Automate Desktop is a codeless tool…
Guide to Conducting Test Automation Code Reviews
A code review is a quality assurance activity to ensure that check-ins are reviewed by someone other than the author. If not pair-programming when writing the code, mature development shops…
How to Improve Cypress Test Coverage with Visual Testing
Cypress is a powerful tool for automating tests inside of a browser, but can be limited by only running code-based tests. How can we take advantage of Cypress and add…
Advanced Topics
AllAutomate PDF Testing
Applitools lets users inspect the entire document, or just selected pages. The scope of comparison matches the needs of the test. Users can target specific sections of a PDF for testing and ignore sections that are not relevant to a test. And, armed with the Applitools layout algorithm, users can validate a PDF layout even if the internal text has changed.
How to Setup GitHub Actions with Cypress & Applitools for a Better Automated Testing Workflow
Applitools provides a number of SDKs that allows you to easily integrate it into your existing workflow. Using tools like Cypress, Espresso, Selenium, Appium, and a wide variety of others,…
Getting Started with Appium 2.0 Beta
Appium team has released 2.0.0-beta.10 recently with the official Appium image plugin and some minor bug fixes and improvements over its earlier beta versions.
Stability In Cross Browser Test Code
If you read my previous blog, Fast Testing Across Multiple Browsers, you know that participants in the Applitools Ultrafast Cross Browser Hackathon learned the following: Applitools Ultrafast Grid requires an…
Product
AllHow Do You Simplify End-To-End Test Maintenance?
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…
How Can 2 Hours Now Save You 1,000 Hours In The Next Year?
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…
The Next Generation of Cross Browser Testing is Ultrafast
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…
How Do You Catch More Bugs In Your End-To-End Tests?
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…
Meet Our Team
AllWhy I joined Applitools: Dave Haeffner
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…
Ram Nathaniel: Pushing the boundaries of Computer Vision
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,…
Yarden Naveh: Linking product and people with successful outcomes
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…
Tomer Steinfeld: Why I joined Applitools
Tomer Steinfeld has been working as a Frontend Developer with Applitools for over a year now. He’s an expert developer and the nicest of people! His currrent focus has been rewriting Selenium…
Events
AllIntro to GitHub Actions for Test Automation — with Angie Jones and Brian Douglas [webinar recording]
Watch this on-demand webinar to learn how the new GitHub Actions can help you build, test and deploy faster and easier! Curious about GitHub Actions and how this feature can…
Refactoring Made Easy with IntelliJ — Corina Pip [webinar recording]
What is refactoring? Do we, as testers, need to perform such a task? Why and when? And especially, how can we do it easily? Listen to Senior Automation Engineer Corina…
Holiday Shopping Hackathon Winners Announced!
With over 1100 registrations and 300 completed submissions – it came down to only 50! It’s an honor to announce the winners of the first ever Holiday Shopping Hackathon. Please…
“Automate to Collaborate” – with Vodafone’s Test Innovation Manager: Alejandro Sanchez-Giraldo [webinar recording]
Test automation is a tool that has been used for decades to assist us in ensuring quality in software development — but like any tool, there are many use cases,…