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Cypress 5.x Adds Test Retries and Shadow DOM Support
Cypress, a browser-based test runner and dashboard, recently introduced native support for test retries in the Cypress 5.0 release, helping developers avoid intermittent test failures. Other recent Cypress advances include networking stubbing and shadow DOM support.
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GitHub's OpenAPI Spec Open-Sourced in Beta
GitHub has open sourced an OpenAPI description of its API. Aimed to allow developers to discover the API capabilities first-hand, GitHub's OpenAPI also enables the programmatic creation of mock servers, test suites, and language bindings.
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Brenda - an Artificial Intelligence Team Member
Brenda uses artificial intelligence with machine learning to monitor the infrastructure, do quality assurance checks and support troubleshooting, handle alerts and communicate critical issues, and apply auto-healing. Sree Rama Murthy Pakkala and Collin Mendons from Swisscom will talk about an AI/ML framework named Brenda, who helps their teams to increase quality at Swiss Testing Day 2020.
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OverOps Releases Second Annual DevOps Survey
In their recent survey, OverOps, a continuous reliability platform vendor, found that within DevOps investment initiatives, organizations invest the most towards enabling the constant flow of software development. The survey also revealed that automated code analysis is being adopted more as engineering teams embrace cutting-edge technologies and practices.
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Puppet Relay Provides Event-Driven Automation for Common Workflows
Puppet has announced the beta release of Relay, their event driven automation platform. Relay allows for automating processes as code. There are a number of pre-written workflows and there is support for creating additional workflows. Relay has a number of integrations available for use in workflows including AWS, Kubernetes, Azure, PagerDuty, and GitHub.
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Applying Observability to Ship Faster
To get fast feedback, ship work often, as soon as it is ready, and use automated systems in Live to test the changes. Monitoring can be used to verify if things are good, and to raise an alarm if not. Shipping fast in this way can result in having fewer tests and can make you more resilient to problems.
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GitLab Annual DevOps Survey Shows Emerging Trends and Changing Roles
Completed by over 3500 developers from 21 countries, GitLab's DevOps survey encompasses three major areas, development and release, security, and testing. The survey hints at faster release cycles and improved quality, with the more recent DevSecOps area requiring more organizational fine-tuning. InfoQ has taken the chance to speak with GitLab's senior developer evangelist, Brendan O'Leary.
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Playwright 1.0 Release Automates Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit-Based Browsers
The Playwright 1.0 release and now supports automation with all evergreen browsers based on the Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit browser engines.
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Shifting-Left Testing with Mabl DevTestOps Platform
Corresponding to the ideas of "test early, test often" and "test as early as possible" in the development lifecycle, shift-left testing is a well-known approach. Recently, the combination of shift-left testing and CI/CD is fueling a new approach to DevOps dubbed DevTestOps. InfoQ has spoken with Dan Belcher, co-founder at DevTestOps platform maker mabl.
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Rewriting Dropbox Sync with Confidence Thanks to a Robust Test Strategy
Over the last few years, Dropbox engineers have rewritten their client-side sync engine from scratch. This would not have been possible had they not defined a clear testing strategy to allow them to build and ship the new engine through a quick release cycle, writes Dropbox engineer Isaac Goldberg.
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Report Validates Impact of Visual AI on Test Automation
Empirical data from 288 quality engineers across 101 countries provide insight and credibility behind a report demonstrating the benefits of Visual AI in the field of test automation. The report comes from Applitools, a company that sells functional and visual testing tools using visual AI.
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Browser-Automation Library Puppeteer Now Supports Firefox
Mathias Bynens, Google developer working on @ChromeDevTools & @v8js, released Puppeteer 3.0. Puppeteer now supports Firefox in addition to the Chrome browser. The new version also upgraded support to the latest Chrome 81, and removed support for Node 8.
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WebDriverIO Version 6 Release Adds Native Chrome DevTools Automation Protocol Support
The recent release of WebDriverIO version 6, a browser test automation framework for Node.js, adds Chrome DevTools protocol testing to its existing support for WebDriver and makes it easier to leverage tools like Puppeteer and Cypress.io.
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Microsoft Announces General Availability for UI Flows, Enabling Robotic Process Automation
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of UI Flows on April 2nd, for customers worldwide. UI Flows is an addition to Power Automate, formerly known as Microsoft Flow, that enables democratized access to automation and workflow. In this this latest release, Microsoft is enabling robotic process automation (RPA) capabilities in the Power Automate service.
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Airbnb Transfers Ownership of Enzyme, Its React Testing Library
Airbnb transferred ownership of Enzyme, its React testing library, to the new enzymejs GitHub organization. Airbnb nonetheless plans to continue to use and contribute to Enzyme.