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Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment

You're reading from   Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment Reliable and faster software releases with automating builds, tests, and deployment

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787286610
Length 458 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sander Rossel Sander Rossel
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Preface 1. Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment Foundations FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up a CI Environment 3. Version Control with Git 4. Creating a Simple JavaScript App 5. Testing Your JavaScript 6. Automation with Gulp 7. Automation with Jenkins 8. A NodeJS and MongoDB Web App 9. A C# .NET Core and PostgreSQL Web App 10. Additional Jenkins Plugins 11. Jenkins Pipelines 12. Testing a Web API 13. Continuous Delivery 14. Continuous Deployment

Headless browser testing

There is just one problem we have not tackled yet. First, it is pretty annoying that you need to have all those browser windows open to test your code. Second, our server does not even have a user interface, so how is it going to open any browser? I will get back to the server issue later: even if we had a graphical interface, we would still have problems with IE, Edge, and Safari, so we need to tackle all of that. However, I am going to tackle that first issue right here.

While it is not necessarily a problem that we have multiple browser windows running, they come with a trade-off. First, of course, they take up space on your screen. You have to work around them, make sure you do not accidentally close any of them, and you should also not get too distracted by all the flashy test runs. Another issue with browsers is that it takes time to render your...

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