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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