7 Production Testing Pitfalls
This list of pitfalls to avoid when testing in production serve as my notes on Amber Race’s Webinar: The Joy of Testing in Production If you don’t already know her,…
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Test Your Service APIs through Test Automation
(Cover photo by Florian Olivo on Unsplash) You need to test your service APIs. You may expand your application into a service API. Or, you may consume someone else’s service API….
Integrate test results into Slack [step-by-step tutorial]
Update: We have recently released a new, native Slack integration. For additional details please visit our step by step guide for Applitools & Slack integration. One of the great things…
How to update Jenkins build status in GitHub pull requests [Step-by-Step Tutorial]
I regularly use Jenkins CI and GitHub to help our customers integrate Applitools into their continuous integration workflow. Even though I’m pretty familiar with both tools, one thing drives me…
Cypress vs Selenium WebDriver: Better, or just different?
There’s a new claim to the throne of functional test automation tools: Cypress.io. Is Cypress fast? Yes. Is Cypress interactive? Yep. Is Cypress reliable? You bet. And best of all……
How to Visually Test React Components Using Our Storybook SDK
React is, first and foremost, a library for creating reusable components. But until React Storybook came along, reusability of components between applications was very limited. While a library of common…
How to Automate Your Video Testing using Selenium
With JavaScript, you can set the video to whatever time you want to capture a frame on the video. For example, if you wanted to capture the frame five seconds into the video you can use Selenium and JavaScript and set the “currentTime = 5”, then take a visual check and upload to Applitools. On calling eyes.close, if Applitools reports back any differences, you then know you video changed or is incorrect!
How to Make Jira Easier to Use with Integrated Visual UI Bug Tracking
Why is Jira so hard to use for bug tracking? This seems to be a continual refrain heard on the web: “Jira isn’t suited for Agile development”. “Jira is complex…
Getting Started with Applitools Eyes Test Manager
All organizations that build software realize that testing is an integral part of the software development process. Like many important tasks and processes, it is not fun. When we are…
How to Test Your GitHub Pull Requests so You Don’t Break Your UI
With the release of the Applitools Eyes GitHub integration, you can include automated tests that perform visual UI testing as part of your build process. Visual UI testing lets you create tests that accurately simulate real users interacting with your software.
Why Screenshot Image Comparison Tools Fail With Dynamic Visual Content
The QA team is the last frontier before your customers get their hands on your latest product version. Assuming your testing team has already completed smoke testing, integration tests, functional…
Visual UI Testing: One Does Not Simply Do Bitmap Comparison
As a genre, fantasy is often looked down upon by fans and writers of science fiction. There are some who argue that the worlds created by JRR Tolkien were influenced…