Being a beginner in software testing might feel overwhelming. One of the reasons is that there are many types of testing: unit testing, end-to-end testing, and load testing, to name a few. To make things worse, there are additional terms that look like additional kinds of testing, but they’re not. An example would be shift-left…
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Selenium is a tool that makes it possible to automate a web browser. According to the developers of Selenium, its usage is limitless. You can use Selenium to perform tasks that you would’ve done manually in the browser. Using Selenium to automate tasks can save time and reduce boredom. Selenium can perform actions including opening…
CSS is an essential component in front-end web development. But in the past, automated CSS testing didn’t get the same attention as testing JavaScript. Now that front-end development involves ever-more-complicated systems for writing and using CSS, its testing has transformed from a niche to a necessity. This guide aims to demystify the rapidly changing world…
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…
In testing, we often refer to tools and frameworks as either coded or codeless. What does that mean? And, is any tool truly codeless? Well what about low code testing? While we are at it, what’s the difference between no code, codeless, and low code? Why would you choose one of these low code tools…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are advancing at a rapid pace. Companies like Apple, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Facebook and others have started investing more into AI to solve different technological problems in the areas of healthcare, autonomous cars, search engines, predictive modeling and much more. Applying AI is real. It’s coming fast. It’s…
Challenges with Open Source automation frameworks If you have been in software test automation for more than a minute, you’ve probably heard of frameworks like Selenium or Puppeteer for browser and test automation. And, if you’ve worked with them, you know the time and skill required to author tests as well as their propensity for…
Unit testing’s benefits aren’t restricted to just a few languages. To prove that, today, we’re focusing on TypeScript unit testing. In this post, you’ll learn how to unit test your TypeScript code in a hands-on tutorial. You’ll also learn what unit testing is and what you gain from using it. Since this is a tutorial,…
Today’s web applications are more complicated than ever. Libraries like React have opened up a whole new world of application complexity and functionality. As an experienced developer, you know that it’s important to test every part of your web application. You probably already have a plan for testing your server’s code. That’s great! But it’s…
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…