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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Chapter 8: Measuring Test Coverage of the Web Application

How do you know that you've tested your web application enough? There are many metrics and measures for code quality, including defect density, user stories covered, and other "black-box" measurements. However, there is also a complementary metric that has been on the market for a long while and is more of a "white-box" metric, which is code coverage. In this chapter, you will learn how to complement the quality assessment of your web application with code coverage across the various test automation frameworks featured in this book (Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, and Puppeteer).

The chapter is designed to cover the following:

Understand the differences between code coverage and test coverage and when to use them.
Learn about the recommended tool(s) for JavaScript code coverage measurements.
Understand how to complement code coverage measurements with test coverage capabilities (for...