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

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803238319

Length 304 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Selenium

Concepts

Front End Web Development

Author (1):

Eran Kinsbruner

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

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

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Coverage challenges for web application developers

An additional challenge that developers face is coverage across web and mobile operating systems and platforms. On a monthly basis, both Google (https://www.chromestatus.com/features/schedule) and Mozilla (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/Calendar) release public General Availability (GA) and beta versions to the market. Such releases disrupt the web applications in many cases and require developers to ensure that the new versions are still compliant with their apps. As web traffic is higher on mobile platforms nowadays, ensuring the continuous quality of the web application across different iOS and Android devices and OS versions is key to success.

The following figure shows the browser market share month on month for the period from October 2020 to October 2021:

Figure 2.2 – Browser market share worldwide, all platforms (source: Statcounter GlobalStats)

Google Chrome is the most used...