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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 13: Complementing Code-Based Testing with Low-Code Test Automation

While the open source community offers a wide range of coding test frameworks as highlighted in this book, there are also new and emerging intelligent testing solutions that can base their record-and-playback abilities with self-healing machine learning (ML)-driven features to provide an additional layer of test automation coverage. In this chapter, we will learn about the available options in the market, the relevant places and use cases to use such tools within a development pipeline, and caveats or pitfalls to be aware of.

Through our study of the four leading testing frameworks that we've covered in this book, Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, and Puppeteer, we've seen that each of these frameworks have some level of low-code/no-code capabilities. Within this chapter, we will highlight these specific capabilities but mostly provide an overview of the additional intelligent codeless test automation...