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A Frontend Web Developer's Guide to Testing

You're reading from   A Frontend Web Developer's Guide to Testing Explore leading web test automation frameworks and their future driven by low-code and AI

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803238319
Length 304 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Eran Kinsbruner Eran Kinsbruner
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Preface 1. Part 1 – Frontend Web Testing Overview
2. Chapter 1: Cross-Browser Testing Methodologies FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Challenges Faced by Frontend Web Application Developers 4. Chapter 3: Top Web Test Automation Frameworks 5. Chapter 4: Matching Personas and Use Cases to Testing Frameworks 6. Chapter 5: Introducing the Leading Frontend Web Development Frameworks 7. Part 2 – Continuous Testing Strategy for Web Application Developers
8. Chapter 6: Map the Pillars of a Dev Testing Strategy for Web Applications 9. Chapter 7: Core Capabilities of the Leading JavaScript Test Automation Frameworks 10. Chapter 8: Measuring Test Coverage of the Web Application 11. Part 3 – Frontend JavaScript Web Test Automation Framework Guides
12. Chapter 9: Working with the Selenium Framework 13. Chapter 10: Working with the Cypress Framework 14. Chapter 11: Working with the Playwright Framework 15. Chapter 12: Working with the Puppeteer Framework 16. Chapter 13: Complementing Code-Based Testing with Low-Code Test Automation 17. Chapter 14: Wrapping Up 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

The future of the Playwright framework

Even though Playwright is the newest open source test automation framework in the marketplace, it has matured fast and offers unique as well as advanced capabilities that some of the other older frameworks do not support. Its ability to cover the major development languages, including Java, .NET, and Python, in addition to JavaScript, as well as all the browser platforms, gives it the flexibility and capability to fit into any web application testing project. This framework can perform complete end-to-end testing with visual comparisons, API testing, and network mocking abilities, as well as use the unique Inspector and CodeGen options to autogenerate test code in various languages. From a frontend test development perspective, the test creation process is accompanied by a powerful debugger tool and a set of stabilization features including autowaiting and the retry mechanism.

From a future standpoint, Playwright is very promising as far as...

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