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…
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7 Year Old Girl vs Visual AI
Every morning, just before we leave our house, my seven-year-old daughter and I love to spend a few minutes playing the spot-it game located on the last page of our…
Making Your Website/Application Accessible: a Guide for Front End Developers
As front end developers, our job is to present visual information that looks good and gives users cues to help them understand content quickly. Even a static, text-only web page…
Comparing JavaScript Browser Automation Frameworks: Selenium Versus Webdriver.io Versus Puppeteer
Automated developer testing is simpler than ever before. All you need to do is pick two frameworks: a test automation framework for writing and running test code, and a browser automation framework for simulating a web browser. This post explains what these frameworks do, examines the most popular options, and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of each respective framework.
A Decision-Maker’s Guide to Test Automation
It’s not often that software testing makes the news, but when it does, it’s usually because something within the test automation has gone spectacularly wrong. At 8:05 AM on January…
A Front End Developer’s Guide for Creating Serverless Applications
At some point while each of us were growing up, we wished that the adults in our lives would just disappear. They made our lives miserable with their arbitrary rules…
Progressive Web Apps: Building Compelling Apps with the Latest Mobile Web Technology
Have you ever asked yourself why all apps aren’t web apps? Well, this is actually already the case on desktops and most of the apps you use at home and/or…
Visual Testing: A Guide for Front End Developers
It is probably safe to assume that any developers reading this article are already testing their applications. At the bare minimum, you’re testing the feature you’re working on as you…
4 Ways Differences Can Help in Test Automation
At an industry event recently I had the opportunity to listen to a keynote by Janet Gregory, co-author of “Agile Testing” and “More Agile Testing”. During the talk, Janet asked…
Challenges of Testing Responsive Design – and Possible Solutions
Traditional software products render essentially the same on any device. Microsoft Office, for example, looks the same on every personal computer. Imagine taking Microsoft Word exactly as it runs on…
How to Increase Efficiency for Automated UI Testing
Many years ago, I heard a senior executive at one of my companies make a statement that changed the way I would think about things for a long time. The…
How Testers can Speak the Language of Frontend Developers
The agile development movement is making testers shift their tests to the left. From a practical perspective, this means that the testers are getting closer to the frontend developers, and…