Testim Playground was discontinued on June 26, 2023. We are preserving this post for your reference. As software development organizations shift-left, more of the testing responsibility is moving to developers. Developers are increasingly asked to create and manage GUI functional and end-to-end tests, often running on open-source test automation frameworks. Coding these tests takes time…
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What is Test Architecture? Test architecture can be thought of at two levels. At the broader, more strategic level, test architecture is thinking holistically about the best way to test an application. It can help answer questions, such as, how do we want to use unit, integration, and end-to-end tests to gain coverage? What tests…
As a developer, I want to test the software I write. I’m constantly trading time spent testing software for time spent coding. It’s a struggle to know how much time I should spend testing a new feature to ensure it works. It’s also a struggle to know just which tests to write. When I’m writing…
You can’t go anywhere today without hearing the term “artificial intelligence” (AI). It is in the vehicles we drive, the flight systems of the commercial aircraft we fly, and the commercial systems we interact with daily. It’s also in the vocabulary of most IT professionals these days. But precisely what is AI? In simplest terms,…
The Testim blog has been publishing a lot of posts about JavaScript testing related concepts and tools. We’ve covered Jest testing, Cucumber.js, and load testing with Artillery, among many other topics. Today, we carry on with the trend by covering yet another JavaScript testing-related tool: Sinon JS. Sinon JS is a popular JavaScript library that…
According to Wikipedia, “Regression testing is rerunning functional and non-functional tests to ensure that previously developed, and tested software still performs after a change.” Whether you’re dealing with the agile, waterfall, scrum, or another software development methodology, automating regression testing plays a key role in building quality code. In this post, you’ll learn web application regression testing…
As a web developer, one of the thorniest issues I run into is testing functionality in my web UI. I understand the importance of automated software testing, but writing tests for a UI is difficult. For starters, parsing HTML your server generates is difficult. It is possible to run your tests in a system like…
QUnit is one of the most used automated testing tools for JavaScript, and it’s the subject of this post. But we’re not giving you another QUnit tutorial. Instead, today we’ll focus on a specific facet of working with QUnit: code coverage. The Code Under Test Let’s begin by presenting the code we’re going to test….
This post is about data masking tools. More specifically, it’s about which data masking tools are worth checking out. Why is this important, and how does it relate to software testing? Well, protecting customer data has never been so important. This is not only because it’s the right, moral thing to do, but also because…
Automated testing. “Yeah, yeah, yeah,” you say. “I know it reduces bugs and increases code reliability and allows us to have fearless deployments.” You might think, “I have automated unit tests of our front-end and back-end code. I have integration tests of interactions between our front end and our API and between our API and…