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Cypress: The Web Testing Framework of the Moment

Cypress 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 development frameworks, from Angular 1 or Angular 2, to the more popular React and VueJs, to new one like Svelte, and less popular like EmberJs and BackboneJs.

Why monitoring website performance is important?

Nowadays, in the era of instant gratification, when everyone want everything in a matter of moments, understanding the performance of your website, web application, web service is more important than has ever been. Using web performance tools to understand how your application behaves is easy and a best practice that you should follow on a daily basis.

Using Selenium IDE Record and Playback tool

Selenium 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 work out of the box the new version of Selenium IDE. Test suites are available in order to group previously generated test cases, and exporting your test cases is a click of a button away.

Using TestCafe for End to End Testing

TestCafe is a Node.js tool to automate end-to-end web testing. 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. TestCafe is a Node.js tool to automate end-to-end web testing and functional testing. TestCafe uses a URL-rewriting proxy called Hammerhead that emulates commands using the DOM API and injects JavaScript into the browser.

Chrome Extension for Google Lighthouse as a service

KissFront 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.

KissFront: Lighthouse as a Service

KissFront is a web performance monitoring tool running Lighthouse continuously or on-demand (using Lighthouse as a service) to monitor your website performance and get insights on speed with modern performance metrics. Lighthouse is an open-source automated tool for analysing and improving the quality of web pages with audits for performance, accessibility, progressive web apps, SEO and best practices.

What is First Meaningful Paint (FMP)?

Time 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 users was looking for when they entered your website.