This Month’s Most Viewed Article (2023–12–01) — Most Viewed Article Right Now: Zhimin Zhan’s Quotes on E2E Test Automation & Continuous Testing Most Viewed New Article Last Month: A Follow-up for My Article, “Cypress.io is Dying” After 3 Months All-Time Most Viewed (All: Categorized; Series; Favourites; Featured in newsletters) & Quotes. Cypress.io is Dying Why Cypress sucks…

To hide their incompetence in E2E Test Automation. — In previous articles (#1, #2), I mentioned the embarrassing history of ‘Headless Browser Testing”: PhantomJS (2010–2015) Deprecated in 2017. Google Chrome headless is a separate implementation, before v112 Real software testers know what it means. Despite that, the love of “Headless Browser Testing” did not fade. The default running mode…

It results from bringing “Developer Mindset and Practice” to E2E Test Automation. — Other articles in this E2E Test Automation Anti-Pattern series: Semi-Automated Execution Using Developers-Coded Utility For Preparing Test Data Why do some software engineers create jokes about node_modules, like the one below?

A real fact-check. Beware of cunning tricks in technical writing. — In preparing the article “A Follow-up for My Article, ‘Cypress.io is Dying’ After 3 Months”, I found one article that criticized my original article, “Cypress.io is Dying”, by an author with 10K+ followers on Medium. Fact check: Is Cypress Really Dying? No, it isn't tomaszs2.medium.com Despite many wrongness in the above article, which I will prove in a moment, I…

A proper End-to-End Automated Script is 100% fully automated, with no human intervention at all. — Let me start with a story. Several years back, I joined a software team (as a test automation consultant) that already had a senior automated tester X (contractor) on board. During the demonstration of test automation execution (using Ranorex), I observed that X had to manually press a button or…

Few people do real UI test automation, many fake it by toggling frameworks or chasing hypes. — This article title might upset some people. Oh well, we are testers and shall speak with results, objective results like this one. My Selenium E2E test suites have enabled me to do daily production releases for all my web apps, since 2012. Yes, E2E UI test automation is so useful…

Design your software and automated tests that can cope well with future changes. — In 1998, I participated in the WWW7 conference and had the opportunity to hear Sir Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of WWW and Director of W3C) deliver the keynote speech: “Forward Compatibility.” While the specifics of the speech elude my memory, the underlying concept remains vivid. …

Prove it or silently admit it is just another hype. Testers verify. — The biggest IT news in recent days is about OpenAI, the company that created ChatGPT.

Avoid over-test-design. Day 1 here, I mean, the first day that one has all the resources to start hands-on writing test scripts. — First of all, it is very feasible to a limit (test counts, see explanations later) by the capability. Within the limit, even just a handful of simple tests, if run daily, it is useful to the team. How do I Start Test Automation on Day 1 of Onboarding a Software Project? Making a good impression, End-to-End (via UI) Test Automation can be real, useful, and proven quickly.zhiminzhan.medium.com