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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 9: Working with the Selenium Framework

As highlighted in Chapter 3, Top Web Test Automation Frameworks, Selenium is one of the oldest test automation frameworks on the market. The framework is open source and supports many language bindings (Java, JavaScript, Python, and so on), and it is the base for many other leading frameworks in the marketplace such as WebdriverIO. Being W3C-compliant and based on the WebDriver protocol, this client-server framework allows developers to build test automation across all available browsers (desktop and mobile) and through its Grid tool, run in parallel and at scale. In this chapter, the reader will get a deep technical overview of the framework with a focus on its advanced capabilities, including support for CDP, relative locators, visual testing, cloud testing, support for Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) testing, and self-healing add-ons. The goal of the chapter is to help frontend developers enrich their test automation coverage with...