Capturing API traffic during your end-to-end testing using Selenium

Have you ever been interested in tracking which endpoints your functional or end-to-end tests hit during execution? Using Selenium's Chrome Dev Tools (CDT) network interface is a simple way to implement a listener that can record and filter network events. Let's implement this interceptor during a

Two user interactions using parallel pages in Playwright

Does your application have frequent interactions between two users? Sometimes functional testing of these interactions can be difficult and time consuming when running actions sequentially. Luckily, some modern test automation frameworks incorporate multi page handling which make these scenarios easier and quicker. Let's take a look of how

Why you should be using Selenium Manager

💡Selenium Manager is the official driver manager of the Selenium project, and it is shipped out of the box with every Selenium release. Do you have an old test project using selenium where you have haven't updated the dependencies in ages? Well there has been great new features

Reqnroll and Playwright in .NET

Looking to start a new automation project in .NET and want to try out some of the newest frameworks out there? Today we will look at creating a project that combines the BDD features of Reqnroll with the modern browser handling from Playwright. Tool Setup For my example I will

Intercepting API events in your Playwright functional tests

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you wish you could leverage an API request or response to help solve a automation issue when writing your functional tests? Whether you looking to solve those problems, or just looking to add some enhanced event logging, Playwright has some great

Cucumber with Playwright

Playwright has powerful features for test automation, but currently lacks native Cucumber integration. Can we get the best of both worlds? There are a few options out there, but the one I prefer is playwright-bdd. This plugin allows you to keep the awesome features of playwright in the forefront and

Should Startups Write Tests?

Should startups write tests? Coming from Testery, a company created by testers for testers, our answers might surprise you. Startups face unique challenges that more established organizations don't worry as much about. In a startup, the goal is often to move as quickly as possible to find something

Kicking off test runs triggered by deployment

In the fast-paced world of software development, ensuring the quality of your product is paramount. Testery comes in, revolutionizing the testing process by allowing users to kick off test runs triggered by deployment. With Testery, developers can ensure that every deployment is thoroughly tested before reaching production environments, thus minimizing

Analyzing flaky tests with Testery

Sometimes no matter how hard we try to isolate and keep tests stable, there can be times were flaky tests creep in during infrastructure changes or be inherited from legacy projects. Testery has great features which help identify your current flaky tests and track them over time until they are

Testery Features: Test Plans

Use cases The Test Plans feature in Testery is a powerful way to organize your test runs for complex testing scenarios such as: * Setup and tear down requirements before main test suites * Coordinating parallel and sequential test suites * Running suites across multiple projects or environments at once To try out

Leading causes of Flaky tests

What is a Flaky Test?  A flaky test is an automated test that validates inconsistent behavior, generating distinct results when implemented multiple times on similar functionality. Such tests are known for their unpredictability, as they can fail or pass intermittently without any alterations to the code or the application under

Blocking PR Merges on Test Run Failures

One strategy to maintain quality in a trunk branch is to block the merge of any Pull Requests that fail to pass their tests. Internally at Testery, we follow this practice to ensure that our mainline is deployable at all times. When pushing a PR commit on its master branch

Using Github Actions to Trigger Test Runs

One common use case for Testery customers is triggering a Test Run from actions in your version control system. For Github users, it is simple to trigger a Testery to begin a test run on a commit or merge using Github actions. To get started, you'll want to

Uploading your tests to Testery

After you set up your test projects and environments inside Testery the next step is getting your tests uploaded so you can start running them either manually or through your CI/CD pipeline. Testery has two options for pulling test source code: 1. Pulling the code directly from your source

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Quarantining Flaky Tests on the Testery Platform

Flaky tests can be a challenge for your team to manage.  At Testery, we give you the tools to manage test flakiness using the flaky test quarantine features.  Check out the demo video below to see how it works. Start a Free Trial On Testery To keep our runs reliable

Adding Your Unit Tests to Testery

At Testery, we believe you should have all of your test results available in one place. While the Testery platform is an ideal place to run your tests to take advantage of our fast, parallel run capabilities, there may be some situations where your tests need to run elsewhere. For

Introducing Jira Integration for the Testery Platform

Jira is the #1 project management tool for high-performing teams. Flexible for the work you do, connected to everything. This tool is used by software engineering teams around the world to track issues, features and development progress. Testery is pleased to announce General Availability for our latest integration which introduces

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Introducing Playwright Support on the Testery Platform

Playwright is one of the most exciting end-to-end testing frameworks to emerge over the past few years. This open source tool is built on modern NodeJS foundations to provide reduced flakiness, excellent cross-browser support, and high quality debugging and reporting. Testery is pleased to announce General Availability for Playwright support

API testing using Cucumber

What is an API? APIs are mechanisms that enable two software components to communicate with each other using a set of definitions and protocols. API stands for Application Programming Interface. APIs work by sharing data between applications, systems, and devices. This happens through a request and response cycle. A user

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Hardest QA Fails of 2023

Get your schadenfreude on as we recap some of the biggest system and testing failures of 2023.

Testing AI/ML Classification Algorithms

In AI and machine learning, classification algorithms classify data into predefined categories or classes. Whether it's spam email detection, medical diagnosis, sentiment analysis, or any task where you want to categorize data, classification algorithms are at the heart of it. Two key metrics used to evaluate the performance

Testery Orchestration - What is it?

In AI and machine learning, classification algorithms classify data into predefined categories or classes. Whether it's spam email detection, medical diagnosis, sentiment analysis, or any task where you want to categorize data, classification algorithms are at the heart of it. Two key metrics used to evaluate the performance

Hiring for Test Orchestration

Test Writing is an important and non-trivial job. It involves selecting the right frameworks, implementing good design patterns for testing, and writing plenty of code. But in today's fast-paced, devops-driven software shops, simply writing the tests isn't enough. Getting the right tests to run at the

Who should write tests?

Before getting into who should write them, we need to talk about what kind of tests we're writing. The answer could be different when you're talking about unit tests vs end-to-end tests. Unit tests make sure that individual classes and methods are working as intended, and

What language should the tests be written in?

It's hard to answer this question without first asking, Who will be writing tests?, but once you've figured that out, here are some things to consider. If your goal is to get developers to participate in writing, executing, reviewing, or troubleshooting tests, it's usually