Functional Test Myopia
Functional testing myopia results from the code-based nature of functional testing. How can you tell that your app appears the way your customers expect?
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Test Automation Day Rotterdam, Netherlands 2018
Applitools heads to Test Automation Day to speak on visual UI testing.
Top 16 Influencers and Thought Leaders in Test Automation
Influencers and thought leaders in Testing Automation are shaping the discourse of today’s quality assurance. By providing tools, practices and ideas driving effective implementation of Agile, Continuous Deployment & DevOps, the following 16 influencers and thought leaders offer great impetus of innovation for organizations embracing these movements beyond the apparent hype. List appears in alphabetical […]
Master Appium in 4 Steps and 11 Tutorials
If you are like me, the mobile app development world broadsided you.
How To Handle Visual Testing False Positives – Part 1
The Problem One of the biggest hurdles to successful automated testing is making sure that when your tests fail, they’re legitimate failures. Getting false positives is a slippery slope that can easily lead to a death knell for any testing initiative. This holds true in automated visual testing with common issues like elements being offset […]
Automated Visual Testing in The Cloud: Enhance Your Cross-browser Coverage
Watch it Now: Free, on-demand In our last webinar, hosted by Sauce Labs, Adam Carmi from Applitools & Chris Broesamle from Sauce Labs showed how to enhance cross-browser coverage with cloud-based Automated Visual Testing.
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 develop it and checking that it works with any existing code. Many of you are probably using some form of automated functional testing as well. […]
How To Remove Blind Spots With Visual Testing
Visual bugs are errors in the presentation of an application. They appear all the time, and frequently surface when applications are viewed in the various viewport sizes of our mobile devices (laptops, phones, tablets, watches). What’s horrifying about these pesky visual bugs is that they cannot be caught by typical automated tests. This is because […]
How to Do Visual Regression Testing with Selenium
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 […]
How Visual Regression Testing Can Help You Deliver Better Apps
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Jay Phelps, Reactive Programming nut and compiler enthusiast. Testing, for me, is a love-hate relationship. On one hand, I absolutely love the feeling that comes from having great test coverage: I can ship new features fast, fix bugs and be confident they won’t return, and above all, effectively collaborate with teams both […]
Design Systems and Testability
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 […]
Announcing the $50,000 Ultrafast Cross Browser Hackathon
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 […]