Testing Browser Alerts, Confirmations, and Prompts with Cypress
A major component of building for the web is providing our customers feedback as they’re navigating and using our apps. The browser provides native ways to do that including alerts,…
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Your Favorite Questions about Playwright, Answered From The Applitools Team
80+ questions and answers about one of the hottest new testing frameworks around, Playwright! Playwright is a relatively new open source cross-browser automation framework for end-to-end testing, developed and maintained…
Transforming Software Development through a Modern Feedback Loop
Applitools finds functional & visual bugs for the world’s largest organizations; Rally® is leveraged by the largest enterprises to manage their agile development at scale, including quality management and the…
[Visual] Mobile Test Automation Best Practices
Mobile Testing is challenging. Mobile test automation – i.e. automating tests to run on mobile devices, is even more challenging. This is because is requires some added tools, libraries and…
Future of Testing: Mobile Recap – All About Mobile Test Automation
Applitools recently hosted a conference on the future of testing for mobile applications. Check out a recap of the event and watch the recordings.
Getting Started with Cypress Studio for Test Automation
With version 6.3.0, Cypress released a feature called “Cypress Studio.” It allows you to create a test script simply by opening the Cypress window and interacting with your app. If…
16 reasons why to use Selenium IDE in 2021 (and 1 why not)
(Editor’s Note: This post has been recently updated for accuracy and completeness. It was originally published in March 2019 by Al Sargent.) Have you tried using Selenium IDE for your…
Test Management within Continuous Integration Pipelines
Techniques to manage a large suite of automated tests within a CI environment and yet still get fast feedback.
What is Mobile Testing?
In this guide, you’ll learn the basics of what it means to test mobile applications. We’ll talk about why mobile testing is important, key types of mobile testing, as well as considerations and best practices to keep in mind.
Writing Tests for GraphQL APIs using REST Assured
REST has been the de facto standard for APIs for a while now, replacing the relatively cumbersome and XML-only SOAP-based APIs with an architecture that is more flexible, lightweight and…
Using Cypress and Google Lighthouse for Performance Testing
The first tool that most engineers probably associate with front-end or client-side performance testing is Google Lighthouse. So when I stumbled upon a Cypress plugin that lets you run Lighthouse…
From Selenium To Robotics with Jason Huggins
Jason’s team needed a reliable way to test their application across these browsers. So, Jason and two colleagues at ThoughtWorks did research on the available tools. Finding nothing that met their needs, they began writing what became Selenium.