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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)
1
Part 1 – Frontend Web Testing Overview
7
Part 2 – Continuous Testing Strategy for Web Application Developers
11
Part 3 – Frontend JavaScript Web Test Automation Framework Guides

Summary

In this chapter, we went deeper into the high-level considerations frontend web application developers have when it comes to selecting a test automation framework.

As outlined in the chapter, there are a few generic considerations, such as ease of use and reporting, but also some specific requirements around test coverage, API and mock testing abilities, visual testing, and others that would vary from one project to another.

We provided a useful table that can be used as a baseline for a comparison of the various test automation frameworks.

Later in the book, in chapters 9-12, we will look into each of the capabilities (supported languages, community engagement, and so on) represented in the table, and provide a deep-dive analysis and comparison of each of these categories.

That concludes this chapter!

In the following chapter, we will advance the preceding test consideration matrix and provide a way to match each test automation framework with a testing methodology...