Andrew Knight

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Conf42: JavaScript 2022

Visually Testing Your Components

Component libraries are the building blocks of modern front-end apps. Developers can create a component once and reuse it in many places to create consistent user experience. But what happens if a change accidentally breaks any of those components? That could affect many pages! Changes to size, color, layout, and phrases may unintentionally go undetected. How can we easily catch these bugs?...

Andrew Knight

Applitools

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Conf42: Site Reliability Engineering 2022

Open Testing: What if we open our tests like we open our source?

Testing is a vibrant discipline with well-established practices, but many times, nobody but the testers who write the tests ever see them. Tests could offer so much value if they were openly shared - with developers, product owners, and perhaps even end users. So, why don’t we open our tests like we open our source? There are so many parallel benefits: helping others learn, helping teams...

Andrew Knight

Applitools

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Conf42: Machine Learning 2022

How Visual AI Makes Testing a Breeze

Apps break. It's what they do. Everyone has seen skewed layouts, missing buttons, and overlapping text. Those visual bugs are such a pain because traditional test automation usually can't catch them. However, they cause serious reputational risk because appearances matter. The types of problems scripts can catch usually require complicated element locators and assertions, too. The best way to...

Andrew Knight

Applitools

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Conf42: Python 2022

How Decorators Function

Have you ever seen those "@" tags on top of Python functions and classes? Those are called decorators. Decorators, in their simplest form, wrap functions around functions. That might sound confusing at first, but it's actually pretty useful. A simple decorator could measure execution times, add startup steps, or automatically repeat calls. Decorators are one of Python's niftiest language...

Andrew Knight

Applitools

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