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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)
1
Part 1 – Frontend Web Testing Overview
7
Part 2 – Continuous Testing Strategy for Web Application Developers
11
Part 3 – Frontend JavaScript Web Test Automation Framework Guides

Part 2 – Continuous Testing Strategy for Web Application Developers

Ensuring web application quality isn't a one-and-done activity but, rather, a continuous process that should be built upon a solid strategy, involve multiple personas, and be properly measured through metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). In this part of the book, you will learn how to build a proper testing strategy for any of the web application types, and maintain and modify the strategy over time based on changes to objectives, roadmaps, market events, and so on.

In this part, we will cover the following chapters:

  • Chapter 6, Map the Pillars of a Dev Testing Strategy for Web Applications
  • Chapter 7, Core Capabilities of the Leading JavaScript Test Automation Frameworks
  • Chapter 8, Measuring Test Coverage of the Web Application