Having recently seen Alister Scott's reasons for preferring Playwright over Cypress, I thought it would be nice to do a comparison with WebdriverIO. I've never used Cypress in anger, but I certainly identify with the challenges it has for performing ...
We have recently started using the Visual Regression Testing Service, and I thought I would share how we incorporate it in our test automation. It's quite straightforward to capture an image, then run the test again and perform an assertion, checkin...
Sometimes with Selenium and libraries or frameworks that use it, we need to wait for an element to stop moving before attempting to click on it (to not enconter StaleElementReferenceExceptions, for example). One approach to wait for the element to st...
Visual regression testing with Detox Detox supports taking screenshots, which can be used for visual regression testing purposes. As discussed in the Detox documentation: In both cases, the concept is mainly useful for verifying the proper visual...
Tests Reports are of course an important part of any automation framework. While most (all?) test runners and languages will provide a Junit output that can be parsed easily by CI tools (including CircleCI), it can be useful to add other types of rep...
Detox is a popular automation library for mobile apps, usually those built with React Native. I recently upgraded our implementation of Detox to use Jest Circus following this as the test runner instead of Mocha, as recommended. One of the things men...
