3 minutes readCypress is one of the best web testing frameworks created so far. With more and more new web development frameworks on the market, it’s harder and harder to find an end to end testing or integration testing framework that would work well in any situation. In the recent years, we’ve seen a spike in web… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Test Automation
Using Selenium IDE Record and Playback tool
2 minutes readSelenium IDE is an open source record and playback tool used. Easy to use and fast in generating UI functional test cases. End to End testing is quite fast when you create tests from the Selenium IDE Chrome Extension or Firefox Add-on. Debugging tests, setting breakpoints, running an UI test to a specific test step… Read more »
Using TestCafe for End to End Testing
2 minutes readTestCafe is a Node.js tool to automate end-to-end web testing. What are End to End tests and why are they important? End to End tests cover real journeys that your customers do, they are slower to execute but can be much more valuable comparing to unit and integration tests. E2E testing cons: slow and non-consistently… Read more »
Chrome Extension for Google Lighthouse as a service
< 1 minute readLoadFocus uses Google Lighthouse as a Service for continuous modern performance audits. KissFront’s Chrome Extension for Google Lighthouse is live now. This will enable easier view of the modern performance metrics like Performance Score, First Meaningful Paint, First Contentful Paint, Speed Index and others. Try to understand more about Google Lighthouse here. Monitor your website… Read more »
What is First Meaningful Paint (FMP)?
< 1 minute readTime to First Meaningful Paint (TTFMT) is a modern performance metric introduced by few engineers from Google, and is the time to paint the main content that users are interested in, so the thing the users came here for. Rendering some background color can be much easier and faster, but that’s definitely not what the… Read more »
Why Should You Run Load Tests Every Day?
< 1 minute readLoad Testing is all about caring for your customers. Running load tests all year round is a best practice and you should have this idea in mind. Here are just a few things that can affect your sales, by getting less conversions and increasing the churn rate: New releases containing new code/features with performance issues… Read more »
Introducing LF Page Speed Monitoring – Easily track speed of your website and compare with competitors
2 minutes readCustomers conversion rate is a very important metric for every online business, even if you have a simple website, a blog, an ecommerce marketplace or a complex platform. At LoadFocus, we saw this as an opportunity to add a new service under the same plans, a service which will help you keep an eye on… Read more »