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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

Summary

In this chapter, we focused 100% on codeless tools that are offered by the open source community, as well as commercial tools. We looked at the capabilities of such tools and what to look for in such tools from a feature set perspective and provided a quick getting started guide for each of the tools. We dived deeper into the three main commercial codeless and AI-based tools and explored their core capabilities. While these tools mark a transformation milestone in the marketplace, they are still new and emerging, and there are still major gaps in using them. As opposed to open source codeless tools, commercial tools are licensable and paid products, and the expectations are high. From my evaluation of all the commercial tools, it was clear that they provide great value and can complement code-based testing tools with exploratory and mid-level complex test creations. However, the level of stability in such tests as the scenario becomes more advanced and the ability to playback...