I have some programming experience and want to switch to QA roles that suit my skills better, I have more knowledge of Java but some Python.
I am wondering if I should focus on Selenium that I have some knowledge of or Protractor or Cypress that are considered as the latest standards?
I am more of a front end guy as a developer.
Also, I generally use guru99, tutorialspoint or w3schools to get started. Any other great resources for free or less expensive for quick learning for these topics?
Will cloud upgrades affect this learning process?
Please advice.
Selenium is still the most wide used web UI automation tool, having a lot of tutorials for any level of experience etc. Also, once you know one tool, you will be able to learn other similar tools in the future easily. Also, Selenium supports and mainly used in programming languages you already know while the other tools you mentioned using JavaScript. So, I'd advice you to start (and then continue) with Selenium.
I think Protractor is being dropped by Angular in favor of Cypress.
Please see
The State of end-to-end testing with Angular
...we’ve decided to deprecate Protractor
and #cypress/schematic.
Component testing
Also consider that Cypress has first-class component testing (as well as e2e testing) which has better speed than e2e but better coverage than unit testing.
See Quickstart Angular
and Cypress Component Testing vs Angular Test Harness
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Does anyone have the exact idea on Devexpress TestCafe tools?
What I have found that "User can get the JavaScript codes, which has been created on the test page at the time of recording. User can directly copy-paste those codes in any other projects."
But I am not sure that if a user can execute his/her own project in TestCafe or not. Please help.
TestCafe is a functional web testing framework. It is intended for creating and performing functional web tests. You can learn more about functional testing and TestCafe in particular from these links:
Unit tests vs Functional tests
TestCafe Documentation
TestCafe Studio, a cross-platform IDE for end-to-end web testing
What is the difference between a paid and an open-source TestCafe version? What is TestCafe Studio?
I'm trying to understand what is the best practice for running remote e2e tests written in Selenium - for running different suites on different environments. the testing code is attached to git and basically we use TeamCity, but it doesn't have ti be used.
any suggestions would be great
thanks!
You can have a look at my protractor example project on GitHub. I'm not sure my examples would be considered "best practices" but it's how I currently do things :)
The examples cover:
page objects
Running on TravisCI
Running tests on Sauce Labs and Browserstack
Running multiple browsers at once
I have a hard time figuring out how you actually do integration tests
Is it still automated test with JUnit, NUnit or whatever, or is it just using the program (it has a gui) an making sure that everything works?
You can refer what-kinds-of-tests-are-there and whats-the-difference-between-unit-functional-acceptance-and-integration-test
GUI testing can be listed in system testing, acceptance testing.
GUI test tool mostly depends on type of UI (Web/Desktop/Mobile). e.g. for web testing you can evaluate good open source tools like selenium.
While ReactJS homepage mentions clearly that Jest is the way to go about unit tests, it says nothing about higher level integration tests (or e2e, as they are called in Angular world).
I'm quite unfamiliar with testing actually. So what kind of tools can I use for this? I've heard about selenium, but it's a blurry picture for me.
You can use cypress. Cypress is most often compared to Selenium; however, Cypress is both fundamentally and architecturally different. Cypress is not constrained by the same restrictions as Selenium.
This enables you to write faster, easier and more reliable tests.
I am looking at some options for using a web automated framework. I have so far looked at Selenium and Web Test (part of Visual Studio), Web Test does not test any client side code, so that kind of rules that one out. Selenium has most the features needed although I need to generate the .NET code for the tests, so that I can run the tests under TFS build server.
Is selenium the best automated testing web framework, or is there anything else worth looking at that could integrate with .NET and the TFS build. Ideally I want minimal code changes if any.
Appreciate your thoughts
Cheers
I've been constantly frustrated with Web Test in Visual Studio, though I'm not sure I understand what you mean when you say it can't test client side code.
For developer community support, ease of use, and cross platform access, I'd say Selenium is the hands down winner for programmatic browser automation. Selenium 2 works on every major OS/browser and even mobile.
I've tried WaitN and found some bugs in recent version of IE. There was a recent 2.0 release that has probably worked things out, but there are so many more people using Selenium it's worth relying on that community.
Selenium can generate C#. You can use the Selenium libraries in a C# class to create a web UI test library. Selenium is probably the most common tool.
Another option is WatiN, which is a descendant of Watir for .NET. It's another web UI automation library
This StackOverflow thread discusses using the two to test ASP .NET webforms, and might give you a good set of concepts to start from. My experience with the two is that they were both nice. I would go with Selenium if working with non-programming testers due to its great record-and-playback tools (for Firefox), and WatiN if working with SDETs / developers due to its richer libraries. When in doubt, Selenium is more common and more frequently used.
I've been using Selenium 2.0 (the C# bindings in particular) / NUnit / Hudson. Works well, and Selenium 2.0 is constantly improving and working out the remaining bugs