Automation, Hard Waits, and The Six Million Dollar Man
As a kid in the 70s, I loved The Six Million Dollar Man. Many of us know the story: Colonel Steve Austin, astronaut, has a catastrophic crash and is rebuilt…
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A Guide to Appium – Our Top 10 Appium Tutorials in 2021
In this collection of free Appium tutorials, guides and courses, find our most popular Appium articles so far in 2021 to help you improve your mobile test automation skills.
Adding Vision to Cypress Component Test Runner with Applitools Eyes
Modern applications typically revolve around the idea of smaller components, where you may have pieces like a button, navigation, or an interactive widget that all fit together like puzzle pieces…
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…
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.