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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

Getting started with the Selenium WebDriver framework

To get started with Selenium, you'll need to follow a number of steps that include the installation of the framework, as well as setting up the grid for the specific browser drivers on which you would like to run your tests (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Edge).

Your main website to learn from and get started with Selenium is https://www.selenium.dev/. From this link, you will be able to download the relevant driver, see the latest release notes, obtain documentation and code samples, and more.

As you'll learn in this chapter, and even more so later in this book, the Selenium framework consists of three main components:

  • Selenium WebDriver: This is a collection of several language bindings to drive different browsers for testing purposes, as well as the individual browsers controlling code.
  • Selenium Grid: This is a Selenium framework component that is designed to distribute and scale test automation by running...