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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

Chapter 4: Matching Personas and Use Cases to Testing Frameworks

Choosing a test automation framework is a fundamental aspect of the software development life cycle. A test automation framework serves so many different objectives and, as such, must be suited to cover different needs of both developers as well as test engineers. Specifically, in web application testing, the variety of frameworks that are available is huge; hence, there needs to be a prescriptive methodology that considers all the relevant pillars, as well as meeting the current and future-looking needs of users. Within a typical web application software release, there are a couple of personas that contribute to the overall quality of the product, including frontend developers and test automation engineers (also known as SDETssoftware developer engineers in testing). A test automation framework and, in many cases, a combination of more than a single framework ought to match these personas' needs, skill...