5 minutes readKey takeaways POST parameters travel in the body, not the URL, which is why they do not appear in logs. The Content-Type header decides how the server parses them: form-encoded, multipart or JSON. Getting that header wrong is the usual cause of a server seeing an empty body. In today’s digital age, understanding the intricacies… Read more »
2 minutes readKey takeaways TestCafe needs no WebDriver, which is why a working suite is possible in half an hour. Automatic waiting removes most of the sleep-based flakiness beginners hit first. Use a public site to learn the framework, then point it at your own app. In this article, we’ll demonstrate how to create End-to-End (E2E) UI… Read more »
3 minutes readKey takeaways E2E tests earn their cost only on the journeys that make money; everything else belongs lower in the pyramid. Brittleness comes from locators and timing, so use stable test hooks and explicit waits. A suite people rerun until it passes is not a safety net, so fix flakiness rather than retrying. LoadFocus –… Read more »
2 minutes readKey takeaways Puppeteer's click waits for the selector, but not for the element to be genuinely interactive. Wait for visibility explicitly when the page animates or loads content late. If a click does nothing, check for an overlay intercepting it before blaming the selector. LoadFocus – is a easy to use cloud testing tool, and… Read more »
2 minutes readKey takeaways linkText matches the full visible text; partialLinkText matches a substring. Both break on copy changes, so prefer a stable attribute when the text is likely to move. Whitespace and case matter, which is the usual reason a correct-looking locator fails. Here is how to click a link by text with Selenium WebDriver in… Read more »
4 minutes readKey takeaways Puppeteer captures viewport, full-page or single-element screenshots. Set the viewport explicitly, or headless defaults produce a different image to what you expect. Wait for fonts and images before capturing, otherwise the shot is of a half-rendered page. What is Puppeteer? Puppeteer is Node library that you can use in order to control Headless… Read more »
2 minutes readKey takeaways Debugging transpiled code needs source maps, or breakpoints land on the wrong lines. Configure Babel to emit maps and point WebStorm at them before starting a session. Verify by setting a breakpoint in source and confirming it stops there, not in the output. Here are the steps you need to follow in order… Read more »
