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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

Measuring the success of your continuous testing strategy

Now that we've defined at a high level the steps and scoping for a generic test plan, let's look at some common and important metrics and KPIs that can help assess the level of quality of your web application. These KPIs should be part of the Definition of Done (DOD) (to learn more about DOD, see https://www.scruminc.com/definition-of-done/) for a scoped software release. In addition, quality metrics should be part of the quality criteria section within any test plan document.

Success, like quality, is a moment in time; therefore, it needs to be well monitored and structured in a way that decision-makers can analyze on demand.

There are various types of metrics that can be used, based on product requirements, the market vertical that is being served, historical data, and any other category of metrics that is relevant to the business.

The following are 27 suggested metrics by categories that can be adopted...