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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800200951
Length 168 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dmytro Shpakovskyi Dmytro Shpakovskyi
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

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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