The Clean Test Automation Monthly is a monthly blog post that highlights the best test automation content which I read during the current month. This blog post is always published on the last day of the month.
Let's begin!
Should your tests manage transactions? In this insightful post, Thorben Janssen reveals what's the best way to manage transactions when you are writing automated tests. If we follow his advice, our tests help us to ensure that our application is working as expected when it's deployed to the production environment.
An Introduction into Karate Test Automation by Stuart Dewar provides an introduction to Karate which is a test automation framework for API, performance, and UI testing. In this blog post, he demonstrates how Karate's Gherkin-like syntax allows us to write test scenarios without the need for writing extensive setup and glue code. This makes Karate more accessible than tools like Cucumber.
Boost Your Test Coverage Without Breaking Your Flow. In this practical article, Chamila Ambahera demonstrates how we can use soft assertions for maximizing the information that's provided by our tests. If we follow the advice given by this blog post, we can shorten our feedback loop and boost our productivity.
Justifying Automated Testing. In this thought-provoking post, Rob Kokochak explains why the value of automated tests can be hard to grasp, provides a compelling justification for writing automated tests, and describes why we shouldn't write our tests on autopilot.
React Unit Testing is a comprehensive blog post that tells us everything we need to know when we want to write our first unit tests for a React application. This article contains practical examples that help us to understand the testing techniques discussed in this blog post.