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ISSUE #50 - March 11, 2018
This post and the next couple will be on testing web UI, from front-end components to end-to-end workflows. Today’s focus is on Javascript / React. An earlier post on UI test automation with some still-relevant resources can be found at:
http://testersdigest.mehras.net/2017/07/30/testers-digest-26-ui-test-automation.html
Which testing frameworks are used with today’s Javascript? Mocha, Jasmine, Jest, Cucumber JS. (This answer probably became obsolete as I typed it, given JS community’s rate of change.)
https://gojko.net/2018/02/25/javascript-testing-tools.html
Nice detailed overview of different testing layers and frameworks for Javascript front end. TL;DR; Use Jest for unit and integration tests and TestCafe for UI tests.
https://medium.com/welldone-software/an-overview-of-javascript-testing-in-2018-f68950900bc3
How one team selected a front-end testing framework, settling on Nightwatch.js. Our web development team at Quid took the journey from WebdriverIO to TestCafe to Cypress - we should blog about that…
http://adventuresinqa.com/2017/09/19/nightwatch/
Use cases and design considerations for a date picker widget, food for thought in testing UI elements:
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2017/07/designing-perfect-date-time-picker/
And a couple of handy tools. This post covers Chrome extensions for testing web page link validity and providing problematic inputs and mocked data for input forms.
https://michaldymek.me/essential-testing-tools/
Carte Blanche, integrated fuzz testing for front-end components. Warning: hasn’t been updated in 2 years; but works with React.
https://github.com/carteb/carte-blanche
HTTP status codes explained with cat or dog GIFs, good for lulz, great as a memory aide:
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