Testing
Aqua ALM is primarily a manual test management tool, but automated test results belong in the same traceability chain as manual ones. When an automated Selenium test verifies a requirement, that result should show up against the test case linked to that requirement -- not disappear into a CI log file
Testing
In 2023, Tricentis -- the company that acquired SpecFlow -- announced that SpecFlow would be discontinued in favor of their commercial product, SpecFlow+. The open-source SpecFlow project was effectively end-of-lifed. A group of maintainers and community contributors responded by forking the codebase and creating Reqnroll, keeping the spirit of
Testing
The ApprovalTests library is the canonical implementation of approval testing, available across Java, .NET, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, and PHP. It handles the mechanics of capturing output, managing approved/received files, and opening diff tools—leaving you to focus on what to test. This guide covers practical usage across the three
Approval Testing
Microservice architectures distribute the blast radius of API changes across multiple teams and deployment pipelines. A field renamed in the user service breaks the order service, which breaks the notification service, and nobody finds out until three services are deployed and the monitoring lights up. The standard advice is "
Test Automation
Some outputs are too complex to specify with traditional assertions. A PDF report with hundreds of fields, a JSON API response with nested structures, a rendered HTML email, a generated CSV — writing assertions for every field is tedious and brittle. Change one field name and a hundred assertions break. Approval
Testing
What do you do when you can't write an expected value for your assertion? When the output is a complex JSON object, a rendered report, a formatted table, or an entire HTML page—and writing expect(output).toBe(...) would require typing out hundreds of lines? Approval testing solves
Approval Testing
The problem with complex outputs isn't that they're hard to test — it's that the obvious way to test them is wrong. When your API endpoint returns a JSON object with twenty fields, the instinct is to assert on each one: assertEquals(result.status, "
Visual Testing
Both Applitools Eyes and Percy (now part of BrowserStack) catch visual regressions in web applications. They take different approaches to the core problem, and the better choice depends on your team's scale, workflow, and how much you need AI-powered analysis versus simple diff reviews. Overview Applitools Eyes
Visual Testing
Cross-browser visual testing traditionally means running your test suite once per browser/OS combination. With 5 browsers × 3 OS × 4 viewport sizes, that's 60 sequential runs. Hours of execution for what should be a pre-deploy check. Applitools Ultrafast Grid solves this by capturing the DOM once
Visual Testing
Adding Applitools Eyes to existing Selenium tests is straightforward. The SDK wraps your WebDriver instance and adds visual checkpoint methods. Your existing test structure stays intact. This guide covers Java, Python, and JavaScript integrations with practical examples. Java Integration Maven Dependency <dependency> <groupId>com.applitools<
Visual Testing
Applitools Eyes is a visual testing platform that uses AI to detect UI regressions. Instead of writing pixel-level assertions, you take visual "checkpoints" during your tests, and the AI identifies changes that matter — ignoring rendering noise while catching real layout breaks. This guide covers the core concepts,
Appium
WebdriverIO's Appium integration is the smoothest way to write mobile automation tests in JavaScript. The @wdio/appium-service handles starting and stopping Appium automatically, the configuration is declarative, and the same test code works against iOS and Android with minimal platform-specific branches. This guide covers setting up