So, is Protractor easier than Selenium? Yes! In this blog post, I’ll give you a taste of why you’d benefit from using Protractor for your JavaScript tests instead of using Selenium webdriver directly, even if your app has nothing to do with AngularJS yet – or just a partial usage.
Visual UI testing is more than just testing your app on Desktop browsers and Mobile emulators. In fact, you can do more with Visual UI testing to run your tests over physical mobile devices. Visual UI testing compares the visually-rendered output of an application against itself in older iterations. Users call this type of test […]
The Problem There is a stark misconception in the industry when it comes to visual testing. Namely that it is hard to automate. Even noted automaters in the field share this misconception, which can be seen by this quote. “Visual testing, something that is very difficult to automate.” – Richard Bradshaw (@FriendlyTester) [source] As a […]
What is a design system? Who would use it, and for what benefit? In May 2020, Applitools had the pleasure of hosting Tyler Krupicka from Intuit for an hour-long webinar discussing design systems and testability. Tyler works at Intuit, a 9,400 employee company headquartered in Mountain View, California, that specializes in accounting and tax preparation […]
Ready For a Challenge? If you are up for a challenge and enjoy learning new skills, join the world’s best quality engineers between now until June 30th to compete in the industry’s first next generation cross browser, cross device, and cross operating system hackathon. Focused on the use of Visual AI and Ultrafast Grid, this virtual […]
How much is it worth to catch more bugs early in your product release process? Depending on where you are in your release process, you might be writing unit or systems tests. But, you need to run end-to-end tests to prove behavior, and quality engineers require a high degree of skill to write end-to-end tests […]
As a quality engineer, what do you think about when you consider the return on investing an hour of your time? Or two hours? What if it could save you up to half the work hours you spent over the past year? If you spend a lot of time writing or maintaining your end-to-end tests, […]
Note: Today’s guest post author, Giridhar Rajkumar, holds many roles: speaker, author, founder, and instructor. He founded Tips for Test Automation, LearnDevTestOps, and The Tester’s Hub. He serves as a Cypress.io ambassador. Giridhar has 10+ years of experience as a test automation consultant at Wipro Limited. We all are living in a Digital Era where […]
Do you believe in learning from the experiences of others? If others found themselves more productive adding Visual AI to their functional tests, would you give it a try? In November 2019, over 3,000 engineers signed up to participate in the Applitools Visual AI Rockstar Hackathon. 288 completed the challenge and submitted tests – comparing […]
The obvious question — why is it so much faster to author new tests using Visual AI? It’s because Visual AI uses just a single line of code to take a screenshot of the entire page.
Many thanks to Applitools for the exciting opportunity to learn more about Visual AI testing by competing in the hackathon. While trying to solve the five challenges step by step, you truly grasp the fact that proper UI testing is impossible without visual testing. But let’s start from the beginning. Two versions of the same […]
ReactJS provides a library of reusable components for building JavaScript applications. When combined with Storybook and Applitools Eyes, you can validate the visual appearance of your React components in a controlled testbed. With Applitools Ultrafast Grid, you can run your visual validations across a range of browsers and viewport sizes across multiple screen combinations simultaneously. Together, React, Storybook, and Applitools make you much more productive by developing once in React, testing once in Storybook, and rapidly validating everywhere in Applitools.