A Frontend Web Developer's Guide to Testing
Explore leading web test automation frameworks and their future driven by low-code and AI
Eran Kinsbruner
BIRMINGHAM—MUMBAI
A Frontend Web Developer's Guide to Testing
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Contributors
About the author
Eran Kinsbruner is a bestselling author, chief evangelist, and senior director at Perforce Software. He was a DevOps evangelist of the year finalist in 2021 for DevOps.com. His published books include the 2016 Amazon bestseller The Digital Quality Handbook, Continuous Testing for DevOps Professionals, and Accelerating Software Quality – ML and AI in the Age of DevOps, which was named the "best new software testing book" by Book Authority. Eran has many years of experience in development and testing at companies such as Sun Microsystems, Neustar, Texas Instruments, and General Electric. Eran is a patent-holding inventor and is active in the software development and testing community. He can be found across social media (LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/erankinsbruner/, Twitter - https://twitter.com/ek121268, Medium Articles – https://ek121268.medium.com/) and has his own blog, http://continuoustesting.dev.
About the reviewer
Bruno Bosshard is an experienced software quality assurance manager and test automation architect at Pepgo Pty Ltd, based in Sydney, Australia. He has experience in test management, functional testing, and performance testing, working for clients in Europe, the Middle East, and Australia, both on a management level, such as developing test strategies, plans, processes, and templates, as well as on a practical, hands-on level, including development and implementation of automated test frameworks in Agile continuous integration environments. He is a test automation specialist with good development and DevOps knowledge who knows how to implement successful test automation to achieve real business value. Bruno can be contacted via LinkedIn.
Foreword
I have known and worked with Eran Kinsbruner for more than 3 years. Eran is a software testing expert in web and mobile applications. He contributes to the community through his speaking engagements and content creation as part of his role as Chief Evangelist at Perfecto by Perforce.
As web applications have become so complex in recent years, test automation needed to advance as well. In this book, Eran picked the top leading open source frameworks that practitioners will find useful in maturing their test automation coverage.
As one of the main contributors to the Cypress testing framework, I can confidently state that by using the insights covered in this book for network control testing, API testing, functional and accessibility testing, visual testing, and more, frontend web application developers can learn a lot and ensure that they are building better apps that can function and perform well across all leading web browsers.
Beyond getting familiarity and getting started with the top testing JavaScript frameworks, you will also learn how to build a solid testing strategy for your web application from the ground up.
In A Frontend Web Developer's Guide to Testing, Eran provides a complete and informative guide to both newcomers as well as veteran frontend web application developers around building test automation that works, scales, and provides value to the business.
Lastly, the book is filled with great and simple-to-use code examples, references, and visuals that can help practitioners ramp up quickly with their testing activities.
Gleb Bahmutov
Senior Director of Engineering at Mercari US
Previously VP of Engineering at Cypress.IO