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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

3 (1)
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

The future of the Playwright framework

Even though Playwright is the newest open source test automation framework in the marketplace, it has matured fast and offers unique as well as advanced capabilities that some of the other older frameworks do not support. Its ability to cover the major development languages, including Java, .NET, and Python, in addition to JavaScript, as well as all the browser platforms, gives it the flexibility and capability to fit into any web application testing project. This framework can perform complete end-to-end testing with visual comparisons, API testing, and network mocking abilities, as well as use the unique Inspector and CodeGen options to autogenerate test code in various languages. From a frontend test development perspective, the test creation process is accompanied by a powerful debugger tool and a set of stabilization features including autowaiting and the retry mechanism.

From a future standpoint, Playwright is very promising as far as...