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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The “State of AI applied to Quality Engineering 2021-2022” Report Released
Applitools was invited to share our expertise in applying AI to quality engineering, and we’re honored to be co-authors of this comprehensive report by Sogeti.
What’s New In Selenium 4?
(Editor’s Note: This post has been recently updated for accuracy and completeness. It was originally published in June 2020 by Manoj Kumar.) There are a lot of cool and new…
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…
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AllApplitools Wins 2020 Red Herring Top 100 North America Award
The Red Herring award recognizes the continent’s most exciting and innovative private technology companies, and Applitools was recognized for its AI-powered test automation platform. Applitools is honored to be a…
Announcing: Applitools Holiday Shopping Hackathon
Ready for a holiday testing challenge? If you are up for a fun holiday themed challenge and enjoy learning new skills, join the world’s best quality engineers between now until December…
Black Lives Matter. Applitools is With You and We Will Impart Change.
Dear Applitools Family, We are deeply saddened by the events that have taken place in the United States. As a company, and as individuals, we must acknowledge and address them….
What Business and Technology Leaders Should Know about the Quality of their Web and Mobile Apps in this Challenging Time
We live in a day and age where web traffic and mobile app usage are at an all-time high. Recently, Verizon’s CEO recently reported that “In a week-over-week comparison, streaming…
Getting Started
All4 Tips for Automation Engineers Interested in Site Reliability Engineering
Software has undoubtedly become more complex over the last two decades. In 2000, it was estimated that there were 3.4 million internet users. A few years ago, Google was doing…
Your 80 Questions about Playwright, Answered
Playwright is a relatively new open source cross-browser automation framework for end-to-end testing, developed and maintained by Microsoft. It tests across all modern browsers and is designed to be a…
Getting Started with Cypress Studio for Test Automation
With version 6.3.0, Cypress released a feature called “Cypress Studio.” It allows you to create a test script simply by opening the Cypress window and interacting with your app. If…
What is Mobile Testing?
In this guide, you’ll learn the basics of what it means to test mobile applications. We’ll talk about why mobile testing is important, key types of mobile testing, as well as considerations and best practices to keep in mind.
Advanced Topics
AllEverything 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,…
Product
AllTransforming Software Development through a Modern Feedback Loop
Applitools finds functional & visual bugs for the world’s largest organizations; Rally® is leveraged by the largest enterprises to manage their agile development at scale, including quality management and the…
16 reasons why to use Selenium IDE in 2021 (and 1 why not)
(Editor’s Note: This post has been recently updated for accuracy and completeness. It was originally published in March 2019 by Al Sargent.) Have you tried using Selenium IDE for your…
The Many Uses of Visual Testing
As toolsmiths, let’s explore how else we might be able to use visual testing tools to meet our regression testing needs.
How Do You Simplify End-To-End Test Maintenance?
How do you reduce code maintenance of your end-to-end tests? You spend significant effort to develop end-to-end software tests of your web and mobile apps. Do you think you spend…
Meet Our Team
AllWhy I joined Applitools: Dave Haeffner
Dave Haeffner has had a varied career that began with a degree in networking engineering. He worked various roles in IT operations, eventually stumbling into QA and test automation without…
Ram Nathaniel: Pushing the boundaries of Computer Vision
Ram Nathaniel joined Applitools in 2017, with a mission to make visual AI and visual testing accessible to all frontend developers and functional testers across all web platforms and devices. To do this,…
Yarden Naveh: Linking product and people with successful outcomes
We sat down to speak to Yarden Naveh, Director of Customer Success at Applitools, based in our San Mateo, California office. Yarden’s career path has combined his passion for innovative…
Tomer Steinfeld: Why I joined Applitools
Tomer Steinfeld has been working as a Frontend Developer with Applitools for over a year now. He’s an expert developer and the nicest of people! His currrent focus has been rewriting Selenium…
Events
AllStop Testing (Only) The Functionality of Your Mobile Apps! [webinar recording]
We have heard a lot about Mobile Testing and how it differs from Web-based testing. However, do you know there is more to test on Mobile than just functionality and…
Intro to GitHub Actions for Test Automation — with Angie Jones and Brian Douglas [webinar recording]
Watch this on-demand webinar to learn how the new GitHub Actions can help you build, test and deploy faster and easier! Curious about GitHub Actions and how this feature can…
Refactoring Made Easy with IntelliJ — Corina Pip [webinar recording]
What is refactoring? Do we, as testers, need to perform such a task? Why and when? And especially, how can we do it easily? Listen to Senior Automation Engineer Corina…
Holiday Shopping Hackathon Winners Announced!
With over 1100 registrations and 300 completed submissions – it came down to only 50! It’s an honor to announce the winners of the first ever Holiday Shopping Hackathon. Please…