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…
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How to Test Your GitHub Pull Requests so You Don’t Break Your UI
Many people think of GitHub as a niche website that hosts open-source projects. In June 2018, that niche website with a mere 28 million users got more media attention than…
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…
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
In the days before web applications, programmers wrote applications for a specific platform and used that platform’s native development environment and user interface controls. Before the application’s final release, a…
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…