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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

The future of the Puppeteer framework

Google's Puppeteer framework is quite mature and has been on the market since January 2018 (https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/releases/tag/v1.0.0). As mentioned earlier in this chapter, it is the baseline for the Playwright framework. The fact that this framework has been on the market longer than Playwright and Cypress is not well reflected in its maturity and capabilities. As we've learned in this chapter, there are some very useful and unique capabilities for this CDP-based framework, such as generating traces, HAR files, grabbing screenshots, working seamlessly with the DevTools APIs, performing advanced audits of websites through Lighthouse tool integration, working with BDD, integrating with CI tools and third-party frameworks such as CodeceptJS, and more. While these are very great features that allow frontend web application developers to test and debug their websites, this framework lacks some important capabilities that...