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

View More author details

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

18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Packt is searching for authors like you

Summary

As highlighted in this chapter, web application developers have a wide range of technology selections when it comes to their frontend web application testing. There are some commonalities between the frameworks; however, there are also some material differences between them. Selecting what makes the most sense for the short term, as well as for the long term, is a tough challenge that we will cover later in this book.

In this chapter, we covered the fundamentals of the top four JavaScript test automation frameworks for web developers.

We provided an overview of the core benefits of the frameworks together with some getting started instructions, so that developers can get a sense of what it takes to use these frameworks for a new project.

As we move forward in the book, we will provide a deeper dive into the advanced capabilities of each framework, as well as some recommendations on when it's best to use one framework over another.

In the following chapter...