A Day at the Automation SPA Means Waiting for Elements to Disappear
A day at the spa. What could be better: a massage, maybe some sauna time, or a mud bath. Wow, that sounds totally relaxing. Unfortunately, that kind of spa is…
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How to Maintain High Quality Design Systems with Storybook by Leveraging Visual AI
Component libraries and design systems are important development and design tools that allow teams to focus on building consistent and high quality experiences. Storybook is a tool that helps us…
Migrating End-to-End Protractor Tests for Angular Projects
Protractor, the Angular end-to-end testing tool, is officially being sunset. With development ending at the end of 2022, we need to assess what our options are for further investing in…
Everything You Need to Know About Integrating Applitools with GitHub
Overview Applitools is used by the world’s top organizations to help expedite time to market with Visual AI-powered functional & visual testing. Applitools easily fits into existing toolchains, turbo-charging CI/CD…
A Comprehensive Guide to Testing and Automating Data Analytics Events on Web & Mobile
I have been testing Analytics for the past 10+ years. In the initial days, it was very painful and error-prone, as I was doing this manually. Over the years, as…
Automating Functional / End-2-End Tests Across Multiple Platforms
This post talks about an approach to Functional (end-to-end) Test Automation that works for a product available on multiple platforms. It shares details on the thought process & criteria involved…
Testing 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…
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…
Selenium Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP) API: How Does It Work?
Angie Jones explains the architecture behind Selenium 4’s new Chrome DevTools API and how to use it to take your tests to the next level.