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Modern Web Testing with TestCafe

You're reading from Modern Web Testing with TestCafe Get to grips with end-to-end web testing with TestCafe and JavaScript

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800200951

Length 168 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Testcafe

Concepts

Test Driven Development

Author (1):

Dmytro Shpakovskyi

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Table of Contents (9) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Why TestCafe?

2. Chapter 2: Exploring TestCafe Under the Hood FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Setting Up the Environment

4. Chapter 4: Building a Test Suite with TestCafe

5. Chapter 5: Improving the Tests

6. Chapter 6: Refactoring with PageObjects

7. Chapter 7: Findings from TestCafe

8. Other Books You May Enjoy

Comparing TestCafe and Selenium

TestCafe, with its 8,000+ stars on GitHub, is gaining a reputation as the 'next big thing' in the test automation world. Let's compare this new challenger with Selenium – a heavyweight leader with almost 18k+ stars that has ruled the industry for more than 15 years.

To start automating with Selenium, you will have to install the WebDriver client for the desired programming language and corresponding drivers for each browser you want your tests to run at. This may sound like an easy thing to do, but it's quite a time-consuming task to just get started with testing and is far from the ideal scenario of the run-one-command simplicity that we're used to with the majority of the packages in the Node.js infrastructure.

TestCafe includes a number of features that would not be possible if TestCafe was built on top of Selenium, such as spawning isolated test environments. Each of the tests performed by TestCafe runs as if...

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Authors (1)

Shpakovskyi

Shpakovskyi

Dmytro has over a decade of experience in Quality Assurance, Test Automation and Software-as-a-Service industries. Skilled in end-to-end, load, and API test automation, he has spoken at several software testing conferences, is a Packt published author, and is also certified by the International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB). During his career, Dmytro was in charge of the quality assurance automation of 60+ highly scalable web applications and services, built and maintained numerous test automation frameworks, managed distributed teams of QA automation engineers, and helped engineers to convert to automated testing. You can often find Dmytro creating and open-sourcing new test automation frameworks, mentoring other QA engineers or exploring new tools and techniques for automated testing. He shares his experience at: stijit.com In addition to that, Dmytro authored a book "Modern Web Testing with TestCafe" - a no-nonsense guide to getting started with TestCafe quickly by building a complete test suite while learning the core concepts of test automation with TestCafe: amazon.com/gp/product/B08HM9JXRK JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, Python, HTML, CSS, XPath Selenium, TestCafe, Playwright, Puppeteer, Protractor, WebdriverIO, Jasmine, Jest, Cucumber

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