Minimize the Browser With Selenium WebDriver - Or Should You?
You can now minimize the browser window with Selenium WebDriver. Selenium being true to its focus on browser automation. It’s a common behaviour people do. But should you use it in your testing? I was browsing LinkedIn this morning and...
What is the best UI automation tool to use?
What is the best UI automation tool to use? It’s a common question I see asked: What is the best UI automation tool to use? Similar to questions such as: What’s better selenium or cypress? Is Java better than Python...
Is BDD and automated regression testing the same?
Is BDD and automated regression testing the same? Introduction When we run Automation in Testing training, BDD almost always comes up at some point with the terms BDD, automation, Gherkin, regression or Cucumber used interchangeably. This pattern has been a...
AiT Online 3 - Postman
AiTOnline is a fortnightly Twitch livestream ‘AiT Online’ in which Mark and Richard explore a different testing tool or automation tool. Each stream is followed up by a debrief to share highlights, features and thoughts on what was covered. If...
TRIMS - A Mnemonic For Valuable Automation in Testing
TRIMS is a mnemonic for creating valuable automation that truly supports your testing. The TRIMS heuristic encourages us to focus on five keys areas when strategising and designing automated checks. Here is TRIMS at a high level and we’ve elaborated...
AiT Online 2 - React Testing Library
AiTOnline is a fortnightly Twitch livestream ‘AiT Online’ in which Mark and Richard explore a different testing tool or automation tool. Each stream is followed up by a debrief to share highlights, features and thoughts on what was covered. If...
AiT Online 1 - Chrome DevTools
AiTOnline is a fortnightly Twitch livestream ‘AiT Online’ in which Mark and Richard explore a different testing tool or automation tool. Each stream is followed up by a debrief to share highlights, features and thoughts on what was covered. If...
Automation in Testing Online Updates!
As our Automation in Testing course has grown in size, scope and maturity, so has our companion open source project Restful-booker-platform which is deployed on https://automationintesting.online/. We’re pleased to announce that we have just released a new version which has...
Introducing Automation in Testing Online
Automation in Testing is about giving people the skills on how strategise, create, use and educate others around how to successfully utilise automation to assist testing. We aim to offer this in many different ways and with that in mind,...
What do you mean by UI tests?
Last month I found an interesting conversation on Twitter about UI tests that started with a tweet from Alan Page: I'm not against discussions on the invalidity of the test automation pyramid. If you don't like it, you use whatever...
Welcome to Automation in Testing
Welcome to Automation in Testing, a place for all things automation in the context of testing. I’m not going to ramble on, the main reason for this page is to see if my Jeykll skills are up to scratch and...