Tag: Trends

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Selenium – Headless Webdriver Tests

Selenium WebDriver tests will no doubt make up a massive part of most modern UI test automation suites, and for good reason. It’s arguably the best tool out there for the job and it’s incredibly easy to use and it will integrate with just about any language. Due to its ease of use, building a…
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Trends – The Return of Codeless Automation

In my first ever test automation role, I was introduced to a tool called QTP which my team had used to bodge a very crude framework written in Visual Basic. Alongside their coded tests, they had a suite of tests that were used by QTP’s record and playback tool. Even at this infant stage of…
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Trends – Picking a Language

You’ve made the decision to begin learning how to code, so that you make the move in to automation testing. But now you need to pick a language to learn. That in itself can be a daunting task and I t’s not uncommon to see a number of languages across various job adverts and learning…
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Trends – The Demand for Automation and The Risk for Testing

The demand for automation skills when hiring testers has increased dramatically in the time I’ve been involved in the industry. Back when I started, it was a “nice to have” skill set that would at most be listed under the desired skills but never the list of required. Now though, it’s rare to see a…
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