Category: Selenium

What Is Snapshot Testing, and Is It Viable in PHP?

Ah-ha moments are beautiful and rare in programming. Every so often, we’re fortunate enough to discover some trick or facet of a system that forever changes how we think of it. For me, that’s what snapshot testing is. You probably write a lot of PHP code, but today I want to talk about something I learned ...

Laravel Dusk – Intuitive and Easy Browser Testing for All!

End to end testing for JavaScript applications, particularly single-page-apps, has always been a challenge. To that end, Laravel released its 5.4 version recently with a new testing library: Dusk.With the release of Dusk, Laravel hopes to give its users a common API for browser testing. It ships with the default Chr...

JavaScript Functional Testing with Nightwatch.js

A while back, Eric Elliott wrote JavaScript Testing: Unit vs Functional vs Integration Tests, in which he explained the different types of test and when to use which. In today’s article, I would like to go into JavaScript functional testing in a little more depth. To do so, we will explore and use the Nightwatch....

Using the Selenium Web Driver API with PHPUnit

Previously, we demonstrated using Selenium with PHPUnit and used a user subscription form example throughout the article. In this one, we are going to explore the Facebook package using the web driver API implementation. It is recommended you go through the previous article first, as it covers some basic concepts ment...

Using Selenium with PHPUnit

Testing is a really wide subject, whether it be unit testing, functional testing, acceptance testing, etc. In this article, we’re going to see how you can do acceptance testing using Selenium. I will use a practical example to illustrate a real use case. I will assume that you already know how to do unit testing usin...