Google recently announced that they released Puppeteer, a Node library which provides an API to control headless Chrome. Within 24hrs they received great feedback from the community; 6,685 stars on Github 2.2K likes and 1.2K shares on Twitter So why should we care? Here’s a snippet from its GitHub documentation: In Google’s own words, there…
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Last month we announced a new UI test recorder for Playwright GUI functional tests. I hinted that we weren’t done. Our fabulous engineers have adapted it to work for Puppeteer! Today, Testim is announcing the free Puppeteer recorder, a new tool to record and play GUI functional tests that can be run as code on…
In our recent Ask Me Anything event, our community joined guest speaker, Benjamin Gruenbaum, Testim Dev Leader, to get all of their questions around Testim automation and software development answered. The Testim Community is a free platform where developers and QA automation professionals can learn from peers, attend online events with industry leaders, and…
Testim Puppeteer Recorder was discontinued on April 30, 2023. We are preserving this post for your reference. End-to-end testing involves testing the complete flow of an application from start to finish. It can be a manual test done by running the application in an actual browser and trying out features to see if things work…
What actually happens when you click your mouse in your browser window? In this talk, we took a deep dive into how your web browser works and what actually happens when a mouse is clicked. We also took a deep dive into what browsers do, how events work internally, and why. Our developer Benjamin Gruenbaum…
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…
What’s visible on the screen is the only thing that matters to end users. A firm needs to check how a site looks and functions before it goes live. To ensure an impeccable graphical user interface (GUI), front end testing is a must. In this post, we’re going to understand what front end testing is,…
The JavaScript world offers plenty of options for … well, pretty much everything. Today we’ll focus on testing tools, answering the question “What is the best JavaScript framework?” We’ll walk you through five of the most popular JavaScript testing frameworks and, by the end of the article, we’ll be electing the one we think is…
Automated UI testing is a critical and often neglected part of the software delivery pipeline. I can’t count the number of projects I’ve worked on with terrific, comprehensive unit tests for server code and absolutely nothing for the UI. Part of the reason for this is because UI testing is a real challenge to set…
tl;dr Testim is launching Root Cause, a new open source software project to capture screenshots, console logs, and network logs to help troubleshoot Puppeteer and Playwright tests. The project is hosted on GitHub and maintained by Testim. Testim is also launching the Testim Root Cause cloud service, a SaaS-based offering using the Root Cloud code…