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…
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16 reasons why to use Selenium IDE in 2021 (and 1 why not)
(Editor’s Note: This post has been recently updated for accuracy and completeness. It was originally published in March 2019 by Al Sargent.) Have you tried using Selenium IDE for your…
Using Cypress and Google Lighthouse for Performance Testing
The first tool that most engineers probably associate with front end or client side performance testing is Google Lighthouse. So when I stumbled upon a Cypress plugin which lets you…
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…
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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
All4 Tips for Automation Engineers Interested in Site Reliability Engineering
Software has undoubtedly become more complex over the last two decades. In 2000, it was estimated that there were 3.4 million internet users. A few years ago, Google was doing…
Your 80 Questions about Playwright, Answered
Playwright is a relatively new open source cross-browser automation framework for end-to-end testing, developed and maintained by Microsoft. It tests across all modern browsers and is designed to be a…
Getting Started with Cypress Studio for Test Automation
With version 6.3.0, Cypress released a feature called “Cypress Studio.” It allows you to create a test script simply by opening the Cypress window and interacting with your app. If…
What is Mobile Testing?
In this guide, you’ll learn the basics of what it means to test mobile applications. We’ll talk about why mobile testing is important, key types of mobile testing, as well as considerations and best practices to keep in mind.
Advanced Topics
AllTesting Browser Alerts, Confirmations, and Prompts with Cypress
A major component of building for the web is providing our customers feedback as they’re navigating and using our apps. The browser provides native ways to do that including alerts,…
[Visual] Mobile Test Automation Best Practices
Mobile Testing is challenging. Mobile test automation – i.e. automating tests to run on mobile devices, is even more challenging. This is because is requires some added tools, libraries and…
Test Management within Continuous Integration Pipelines
Techniques to manage a large suite of automated tests within a CI environment and yet still get fast feedback.
Writing Tests for GraphQL APIs using REST Assured
REST has been the de facto standard for APIs for a while now, replacing the relatively cumbersome and XML-only SOAP-based APIs with an architecture that is more flexible, lightweight and…
Product
AllThe Many Uses of Visual Testing
As toolsmiths, let’s explore how else we might be able to use visual testing tools to meet our regression testing needs.
How 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…
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
AllStop Testing (Only) The Functionality of Your Mobile Apps! [webinar recording]
We have heard a lot about Mobile Testing and how it differs from Web-based testing. However, do you know there is more to test on Mobile than just functionality and…
Intro 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…