For many organizations that work in the web app development space, Selenium is the tool of choice for automated testing. Well, there’s a reason for that: Selenium is indeed a powerful and useful tool, and there are plenty of good things we can say about it. Unfortunately, every rose has its thorn and Selenium is…
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Checking element visibility might seem simple, “It’s just on the page!”. However, there are several issues with visibility checks. Why do we even need visibility checks? While it may seem trivial, let’s discuss why visibility checks are needed. You might want to check that something is visible or invisible before performing an action (an explicit…
At Testim, a lot of what we do is build AI-based features on top of automation frameworks to add stability, accelerate test creation, and improve root-cause analysis. We evaluate a number of test automation frameworks to understand their strengths and weaknesses, feature differences, and non-functional attributes. As a new framework, Playwright reaches stable versions, it’s…
Finding elements on a web application is important for automated testing. You can’t assess the behavior of an element if you can’t perform actions on it. And you can’t perform actions on it if you can’t find it. To make sure all the elements on your application are working fine, you have to test each…
Improving team collaboration is a crucial goal of nearly every software development team. Methodologies like DevOps, tools like Jira, and activities like daily standups all serve to improve cooperation and align teams toward common goals. Testing is too often the final step, rather than an integral part of the development process. Yet, releasing faster requires…
Web applications have become a very important part of any business today. You reach out to the people on the internet using web applications. It is very important for you to make sure your application is impressive. You carry out a lot of tests to make sure your application is good enough. And when it…
It’s frustrating, isn’t it? Customers want more features, and they want them yesterday. At the same time, everyone wants fewer bugs. You know what they say. Speed, quality, and money: pick any two, but not all three. At least your developers and testers appreciate what you’re dealing with. They understand the need to test what…
What actually happens when you click your mouse in your browser window? In this talk, we took a deep dive into how your web browser works and what actually happens when a mouse is clicked. We also took a deep dive into what browsers do, how events work internally, and why. Our developer Benjamin Gruenbaum…
What’s visible on the screen is the only thing that matters to end users. A firm needs to check how a site looks and functions before it goes live. To ensure an impeccable graphical user interface (GUI), front end testing is a must. In this post, we’re going to understand what front end testing is,…
Selenium tests have the reputation of easily becoming fragile tests. We’ll look at some common causes of fragile Selenium tests, how you can alleviate some of these issues, and how Testim can provide extra value and robustness to your UI tests. What’s a Fragile Test? A Selenium test can be fragile just like any other…