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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

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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

Summary

As highlighted in this chapter, web application developers have a wide range of technology selections when it comes to their frontend web application testing. There are some commonalities between the frameworks; however, there are also some material differences between them. Selecting what makes the most sense for the short term, as well as for the long term, is a tough challenge that we will cover later in this book.

In this chapter, we covered the fundamentals of the top four JavaScript test automation frameworks for web developers.

We provided an overview of the core benefits of the frameworks together with some getting started instructions, so that developers can get a sense of what it takes to use these frameworks for a new project.

As we move forward in the book, we will provide a deeper dive into the advanced capabilities of each framework, as well as some recommendations on when it's best to use one framework over another.

In the following chapter...