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A Frontend Web Developer’s Guide to Testing

By : Eran Kinsbruner
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Book Image

A Frontend Web Developer’s Guide to Testing

3 (1)
By: Eran Kinsbruner

Overview of this book

Testing web applications during a sprint poses a challenge for frontend web app developers, which can be overcome by harnessing the power of new, open source cross-browser test automation frameworks. This book will introduce you to a range of leading, powerful frameworks, such as Selenium, Cypress, Puppeteer, and Playwright, and serve as a guide to leveraging their test coverage capability. You’ll learn essential concepts of web testing and get an overview of the different web automation frameworks in order to integrate them into your frontend development workflow. Throughout the book, you'll explore the unique features of top open source test automation frameworks, as well as their trade-offs, and learn how to set up each of them to create tests that don't break with changes in the app. By the end of this book, you'll not only be able to choose the framework that best suits your project needs but also create your initial JavaScript-based test automation suite. This will enable fast feedback upon code changes and increase test automation reliability. As the open source market for these frameworks evolves, this guide will help you to continuously validate your project needs and adapt to the changes.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Part 1 – Frontend Web Testing Overview
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Part 2 – Continuous Testing Strategy for Web Application Developers
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Part 3 – Frontend JavaScript Web Test Automation Framework Guides

Chapter 14: Wrapping Up

In this very thorough book that is aimed mainly at web application frontend developers, we've provided a complete compilation of all testing aspects that are important to keep web applications at high quality and performance. The book was divided into three parts, each building upon the ones before it.

To achieve continuous software delivery performance, both frontend developers and SDETs must keep evaluating their testing assets, reviewing their results, and maintaining and adding to their existing suites. In addition, knowing all options in the marketplace, both open source and commercial, can help practitioners to make better decisions and even combine multiple technologies to enhance testing coverage and capabilities.

In Part 1 of the book, we provided a deep overview of the web application testing types, the marketplace for frontend web application developers and testers, the key testing objectives, and the main roles that need to be concerned...