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Modern Web Testing with TestCafe

By : Dmytro Shpakovskyi
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Modern Web Testing with TestCafe

By: Dmytro Shpakovskyi

Overview of this book

TestCafe is an open source end-to-end testing framework that combines unmatched ease of use with advanced automation and robust built-in stability mechanisms. This book is a comprehensive, project-based introduction to TestCafe that will show you how to use the TestCafe framework and enable you to write fast and reliable tests; plus you’ll have a proof of concept ready to demonstrate the practical potential of TestCafe. You’ll begin by learning how to write end-to-end web tests using the TestCafe syntax and features of the TestCafe framework. You’ll then go from setting up the environment all the way through to writing production-ready tests. You’ll also find out how to build a sample set of tests in a step-by-step manner and use TestCafe to log in to the website, verify the elements present on different pages, create/delete entities, and run custom JavaScript code. As you advance, you’ll delve into several stages of refactoring that will take you through the showcase setup/teardown and PageObject patterns. While this test suite is relatively simple to build, it showcases some of the most prominent features of TestCafe. Finally, this TestCafe book will show you how the tests can be run on a free and simple-to-use website, without requiring you to build and deploy your own servers or backend services. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to write and enhance end-to-end tests with TestCafe to solve real-world problems and deliver results.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Comparing TestCafe and Selenium

TestCafe, with its 8,000+ stars on GitHub, is gaining a reputation as the 'next big thing' in the test automation world. Let's compare this new challenger with Selenium – a heavyweight leader with almost 18k+ stars that has ruled the industry for more than 15 years.

To start automating with Selenium, you will have to install the WebDriver client for the desired programming language and corresponding drivers for each browser you want your tests to run at. This may sound like an easy thing to do, but it's quite a time-consuming task to just get started with testing and is far from the ideal scenario of the run-one-command simplicity that we're used to with the majority of the packages in the Node.js infrastructure.

TestCafe includes a number of features that would not be possible if TestCafe was built on top of Selenium, such as spawning isolated test environments. Each of the tests performed by TestCafe runs as if...