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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

A case study – a real-life web application testing strategy

Let's take a specific website and design a testing strategy that will fit end user expectations. For this exercise, I used the Miro tool to create a mind map of the E2E website application flows and scoping of the tests.

The following illustration is based on the Barclays website application, serving mainly the UK. I placed the major testing types with some real-life navigation options that are available for the customers of this bank from any mobile device or desktop OS:

Figure 6.4– A mind map example of web testing for the Barclays website, drawn with Miro boards

As you can see from the preceding mind map, the website testing plan covers all types of test categories to ensure the high quality and performance of the web application. The mind map focuses on tests such as API testing, functional testing broken by the navigation flows within the website, the usability of the web...