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Ghost Inspector's New WordPress Plugin

Ghost Inspector is an automated browser testing tool for continously monitoring websites. Many of those websites run on WordPress. After lots of demand from our users, we've built a plugin to show your Ghost Inspector test results right inside your WordPress admin panel. The plugin enables you to display the latest test results for a single suite on the dashboard of any self-hosted WordPress installation. Keep reading to learn how to install and setup the plugin.

Headless Browsers & Testing at Scale @ Austin Automation Professionals Meetup

Chrome and Firefox now fully support a “headless” mode to help facilitate and speed up end-to-end testing, with other browsers potentially following suit. But what are headless browsers, exactly? What are the benefits? And how can they help to scale our testing efforts?

Deploy and Test Your App using VSTS, Azure, and Ghost Inspector

Visual Studio Team Services is a one-stop-shop for managing source code, custom packages, agile workflow, and continuous integration. Having recently released our VSTS extension for Ghost Inspector, I thought it would be a fun idea to test and deploy an app with a Microsoft toolchain, namely Visual Studio Team Services, Microsoft Azure, and Ghost Inspector using our new extension.

Exporting and Converting Selenium Files with Ghost Inspector

Ghost Inspector has the ability to export Selenium files in the same Selenium 1 (HTML) format that it imports, as well as Selenium 2 (JSON) format. You can export a single test as a .html or .json file, or an entire suite of tests in a .zip archive. This can be done through both our API and our application.

Data-driven Testing with Selenium using Ghost Inspector

Data-driven testing allows you to supply a set of inputs and verifiable outputs to be used within a test to quickly and easily ensure that your application performs as expected with a range of data. Ghost Inspector has a built-in option for data-driven testing that allows you to upload a CSV spreadsheet file with rows of values corresponding to variables in your test(s).

Testing your responsive design using viewports

It's 2017 and "mobile first" isn't just that thing that's "nice to have" any more. It's become expected that you're going to provide a consistent experience to your end users whether they're hitting your site on their desktop, phone, heck even their watch! It's pretty clear by now that this "mobile trend" isn't going away any time soon, in fact the numbers show that the vast majority of users are reaching to multiple devices (phone, tablet, and desktop) to interact with your site.