There are plenty of opinions about software testing, but what exactly is it? First and foremost, it’s a process that’s designed to assure quality and verify that your application performs as expected. And software testing isn’t exclusive to just one language or framework. Today, we’re going to talk about software testing with Jasmine. More specifically,…
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The JavaScript world offers plenty of options for … well, pretty much everything. Today we’ll focus on testing tools, answering the question “What is the best JavaScript framework?” We’ll walk you through five of the most popular JavaScript testing frameworks and, by the end of the article, we’ll be electing the one we think is…
Functional testing helps you validate the requirements of your software. For instance, you’ll want to verify if each function or component of the application works as expected. You can do this with various types of testing that all fall under the functional testing umbrella. The software you develop should also meet functional specifications. For example,…
Every business owner wants to see their firm grow, right? Constant progress is like a dream come true for any company. Of course, making it happen is a whole other challenge. And do you know what’s the biggest hurdle in making this dream come true? People are unaware of how they can use resources to…
We’re living in the age of automation. No matter how small or large, every company is using test automation in their projects. But why? The reason is because automation testing reduces a lot of time that testers consume while testing repetitive scenarios. In this automation age, JavaScript is a developer-only language no more. With new…
One of the things that human beings have consistently done, right from the time of our existence, is making things easy. Automation is one such thing. You see automation taking over in almost every industry. Cars are getting built automatically, and Siri in your iPhone helps you out with your tasks. It was no surprise…
How Testim.io handles Shadow DOM Shadow DOM & Custom Elements – Background If you are familiar with shadow DOM and custom elements, feel free to skip this intro, and continue reading from the next section, where I discuss the challenges of testing web pages that include Shadow DOM. Like any other field in programming, web…
Following my latest article “CssSelectors not only for styling” many people asked me about the difference between using CssSelector and XPath, and what are the benefits to using XPath as a locator. Sadly, I see many engineers struggling to identify an element by using other selectors, find themselves blindly copying a WebElement’s XPath using the…
QUnit is one of the most used automated testing tools for JavaScript, and it’s the subject of this post. But we’re not giving you another QUnit tutorial. Instead, today we’ll focus on a specific facet of working with QUnit: code coverage. The Code Under Test Let’s begin by presenting the code we’re going to test….
When companies buy proprietary software, subscribe to SaaS services, or commission an agency or internal team of developers to create software, it’s not always easy to figure out how much money they’re spending. For example, let’s say the year is 2000, and a company just bought 1,000 Microsoft Office licenses. When it comes to total…