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Looking back at test automation in a product development team for describing patterns of success for research purposes, we identified themes where the experienced success significantly differed from what the literature at large was describing.
The testing pyramid – the canonical shape of tests that defined what types of tests we need to write to make sure the app works – is … obsolete. In this presentation, Roman Sandler and Gleb Bahmutov argue what shape works better for testing web applications.
Playwright is a open source framework for Web Testing and Automation developed by Microsoft. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API. Playwright is built to enable cross-browser web test automation that is always green, capable, reliable and fast. You can use the Playwright API in TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, .NET and Java.
Postman is an open source API platform for building and using APIs that has over 10 million users worldwide. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration, so you can create better APIs.
Getting started with Appium is still really hard. Where should you start when you want to take your first baby steps towards performing test automation with the Appium open source testing tool?
Cypress has taken the world by storm by brining an easy-to-use open source tool for end-to-end (E2E) automated testing. Its capabilities have proven to be useful for creating stable tests for frontend applications. But end-to-end testing is just a small part of test automation efforts. What about your API? What about your components?
Standard software testing works just fine when you know your outputs. What happens when success means “at least 95% accuracy at least 90% of the time”? Worse still, what happens when success means “This group liked the analysis it gave, so it is fine for stuff that looks like what came in yesterday”?
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