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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
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Part 3 – Frontend JavaScript Web Test Automation Framework Guides

Chapter 7: Core Capabilities of the Leading JavaScript Test Automation Frameworks

Earlier in the book in Chapter 4, Matching Personas and Use Cases to Testing Frameworks, we provided a table that broke down all the critical capabilities across the top four test automation frameworks – Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, and Puppeteer. In this chapter, we will connect these capabilities and provide per each capability the recommended test framework to go with it. When combining multiple capabilities with the recommended frameworks, frontend developers can use this chapter to make a data-driven decision.

The chapter is designed to offer the following:

  • An overview of the core capabilities of the leading test automation frameworks
  • A compelling events list that can suggest a re-assessment of the test automation framework currently in use

After reading this chapter, you should be able to better evaluate a web test automation framework while considering its core capabilities...