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How to Automate Testing: A Non-Technical Guide to Improving Quality and Making an Impact

Almost all software and web-based companies (SaaS, e-commerce, and more) that care about a bug-free user experience will eventually need a systematic and repeatable process to test their products. And for most software teams, the only way to feasibly accomplish testing fast enough that it doesn’t become a bottleneck in the software development lifecycle is to incorporate automation tools.

Backtrace Acquisition Adds Error Monitoring; Enables Customers to Receive Quality Signals Throughout Entire Software Development Lifecycle

Today is a great day at Sauce Labs! We just announced that we’ve acquired Backtrace, a provider of best-in-class error monitoring solutions for software developers and engineers. Backtrace enables organizations to mitigate application risk and improve digital quality by empowering development teams to rapidly deploy code with confidence knowing that they can quickly identify and remediate bugs once in production.

Is Selenium the Best Test Automation Framework?

As far as web test automation goes, Selenium is certainly the most popular toolset. That popularity is uncontested. A survey on test automation finding that 54% of the respondents were using Selenium might be surprising only in that the number is so low. Many of the alternatives to Selenium, Software-as-a-Service products that record and re-run entirely in the browser, still use the Selenium as the core driving technology.

Local Test Project Code - Selenium Java and JUnit4

This video review the sample code used in Sauce Labs' Web Automation Quickstart module for Selenium Java. See how to access the code sample on Github, and get an overview of the structure of the test suite, including the Maven pom.xml file. Understand the Page Object Model of the example test suite, and some of the abstraction and methods used. Learn about the file you will need to edit, BaseTest.java, that you will be editing to run this examples test on the Sauce Labs Cloud.

Setup to Run Web App Tests On Sauce Labs

In this video, you will learn how to set variables for your Selenium Java test suite in a config file, create a switch statement for running tests either locally or on the Sauce Labs Cloud, and add the setting such as the url you are testing against, and set up you test to send capabilities to Sauce Labs. In the next video, you will see how to add these capabilities and run your test. Connect with Sauce Labs on Social Media Twitter: @saucelabs.