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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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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

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

Guidelines for picking a web development framework

When picking a web development framework, frontend developers must consider the following:

  • Features and differentiating abilities of the framework against the user stories at hand
  • Rapid development abilities with fewer coding requirements
  • Vast community support (open source benefits)
  • Simplified debugging
  • Learning curve
  • Consistent performance
  • Reusability of application components
  • Built-in security features of the framework
  • Misc: Built-in dev tools (DOM snapshots), plugin-friendly, app layout design, support for the TypeScript language, accessibility support

The previously mentioned development frameworks vary by their age, features, community, and suitability for the application types that are being built. It is nice to see how these frameworks have trended throughout the years based on Stack Overflow questions (https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=angular%2Creactjs%2Cjquery...

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