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…
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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 uplift…
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 as expected. However, a better option for testing JavaScript applications is using testing frameworks like Jasmine and…
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…
Checking element visibility might seem simple, “It’s just on the page!”. However, there are several issues with visibility checks. Why do we even need visibility checks? While it may seem trivial, let’s discuss why visibility checks are needed. You might want to check that something is visible or invisible before performing an action (an explicit…
At Testim, a lot of what we do is build AI-based features on top of automation frameworks to add stability, accelerate test creation, and improve root-cause analysis. We evaluate a number of test automation frameworks to understand their strengths and weaknesses, feature differences, and non-functional attributes. As a new framework, Playwright reaches stable versions, it’s…
Have you ever tried to interact with the web using apps like cURL or some programming language with its HTTP Client Library? If so, you have undoubtedly run into struggles with HTTP headers, authentication, cookies, specific application layer requirements, or a seemingly simple task like taking a screenshot. Puppeteer screenshot is one of the tools that…
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…
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…
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…