Episode 15 – Test Automation Design

We started the episode with conversation about test maintenance, how to manage the tests as code, and how to tag it in order to get high value in the results.

We continue to talk about test suite scoping ,define tests execution based on its target.

next week Eran will speak in the Selenium conference in India, Let us know if you have a specific topics you want Eran to bring back from this event.

 

Selenium India

 

Episode 14 – BDD with Gauge FW

In today episode we hosted Amir Rozenberg ,  we had very interesting conversation on the rise of BDD and specifically on Gauge FW.

We gave an intro to this FW and also learn from Amir about effort needed to start a new Gauge project.

links:

https://www.gauge.org/

amir’s examples:

https://github.com/AmirAtPerfecto/GaugeWebAccessibility

https://github.com/AmirAtPerfecto/Gauge-Perfecto-Sample

http://blog.perfecto.io/mobile-application-testing/get-to-know-gauge-the-new-cross-browser-testing-framework/

 

Episode 10 – 10 Tips for Better Test Automation

Success metaphor

In the episode we celebrated our 10th podcast with 10 recommended practices to improve your test automation stability:

  • Stable lunch app
  • Popups
  • handle keyboard
  • Test data
  • Application ready state
  • Device ready state
  • One script across different screen sizes
  • working with the rigth object ID
  • Scaling your executions
  • Following best practices

 

More details:

Eliminating Mobile Test Automation Flakiness and More

http://xpathvalidator.projectquantum.io/

 

 

Episode 7 – Progressive Web Apps (PWD)

In this episode we are focusing on the rise of a new technology for web and mobile named Progressive Web App (PWAs).

These web apps are aimed to replace in the future some native mobile apps by providing a ‘native like’ wrapper on top of a responsive web site.

In this episode we covered the following points:

  • What is PWA?
  • What are the benefits and motivation behind such app?
  • What are the differences between a PWA to RWD vs Native vs Hybrid apps?
  • What are some of the growth challenges behind such apps?

In the upcoming podcasts we will provide a recipe to test such apps on both mobile and web either with Selenium and Appium or through other combination of tool stack.

To read more about PWD go to Eran’s blog 

 

Episode 6 – The role of headless browsers testing

In this episode we focused on the growing trend of use of Headless browser testing, especially by developers.

We identified the use cases, benefits and stages in which the use of such browser adds the highest value, as well as highlighted the differences between headless browser testng and selenium end-to-end testing.

Link for the Puppeteer blog:

Getting Started With Headless Browser Testing

 

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