WinAppDriver – Free Test Automation Tool for Windows Desktop...
Almost every tester out there is familiar with Selenium WebDriver for automating Web applications, and many are also familiar with Appium for automating Mobile apps. However, not as many are familiar with automation tools for desktop applications. This...
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How To Select The Right Test Automation Tool
Every software development team or company will come to the point where a test automation tool is needed to downsize the effort of regression testing. The test automation tool can help the tester and the whole team to concentrate on other important...
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How to Decide What To Automate
When I started my career as a software tester a decade ago, test automation was viewed with some skepticism. Automated tests were hard to set up, time-consuming to run, and provided unreliable results. But since then huge advances have been made, and now...
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7 Reasons to Skip Tests
A brilliant article by Piet Van Zoen was recently published which discussed reasons not to skip tests. In this article I'm going to discuss reasons why we might need to do the opposite. To clarify, I do not think we should be skipping tests. I strongly...
Integrating TestProject with Jenkins CI
While automated tests have a value of their own, integrating them in your CI flow can have a significant impact on your product's overall quality. Ensuring that your automation (or at least part of it) will be executed each time there is a version build,...
What’s So Great About JUnit 5?
JUnit is a unit testing framework for Java and is one of the most popular frameworks used by organizations. After we've been working with the 4.12 JUnit version for a while, a new and exciting version is out - JUnit 5. In this post, we will learn what...
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Adapting Recorded Test Cases to Improve Your Test Automation
A lot of test automation tools include a record and playback feature (I wrote about the benefits of this feature in a previous article). Record and playback enables user actions to be recorded as they are carried out on an application. These recordings...
7 Reasons Not to Skip Tests
We’ve all been tempted to skip writing tests. Whether it’s time pressure, business pressure, the complexity of testing, or we just want to get on with something else. We might be tempted to say “YOLO!” and move on. So here’s a list of 7 reasons...
Setup A Cloud Test Automation Lab Using AWS
In this tutorial, I will guide you through all the necessary steps for creating an AWS cloud test automation lab. Setting up such a lab that is in the cloud can have various advantages: Scalability - Testing in the cloud allows you to increase the...
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Benefits of Record and Playback Features in Test Automation
Record and playback features are a really useful tool for automated test development. The way they work is that the test developer clicks a record button, does some actions, and then clicks stop. When replaying the recording, the same actions should be...