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Modern Web Testing with TestCafe

You're reading from   Modern Web Testing with TestCafe Get to grips with end-to-end web testing with TestCafe and JavaScript

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800200951
Length 168 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dmytro Shpakovskyi Dmytro Shpakovskyi
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Why TestCafe? 2. Chapter 2: Exploring TestCafe Under the Hood FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Setting Up the Environment 4. Chapter 4: Building a Test Suite with TestCafe 5. Chapter 5: Improving the Tests 6. Chapter 6: Refactoring with PageObjects 7. Chapter 7: Findings from TestCafe 8. Other Books You May Enjoy

Exploring TestCafe development and future plans

The birth of TestCafe can be traced back to early 2010, when developers from DevExpress started working on it. Initially, when released in 2013, it was a commercial testing framework. In 2016, it was decided to open source the core of TestCafe. Since then, there have been more than 760,000 downloads per month and the figures are still growing. DevExpress also released a commercial testing IDE called TestCafe Studio (https://www.devexpress.com/products/testcafestudio/), which was built on top of the open source TestCafe core. So, it looks like TestCafe is here to stay. DevExpress will keep developing it because this will add new features to TestCafe Studio.

Let's recap some of the advantages of TestCafe:

  • Open source.
  • Easy and fast installation.
  • Headless testing.
  • Cross-platform and cross-browser out of the box.
  • Supports one of the most popular programming languages for web development: JavaScript/TypeScript...
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