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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……

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…

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!

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…