Making cross-browser testing beautiful
How many times have your Selenium test suites run beautifully on one browser only to fail when run in any other? This is a common problem faced with cross-browser tests. Not all browser drivers are created equal, but that doesnt mean you cant create a robust suite with cross-browser tests. Meaghan Lewis shares strategies for making cross-browser tests invincible.
| Talk Title | Making cross-browser testing beautiful |
| Speakers | Meaghan Lewis (GitHub) |
| Conference | O’Reilly Open Source Convention |
| Conf Tag | Making Open Work |
| Location | Austin, Texas |
| Date | May 8-11, 2017 |
| URL | Talk Page |
| Slides | Talk Slides |
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Automated cross-browser testing is important to the success of any software application. It gives teams the confidence that the application works the same in all browsers, allows them to easily and quickly test changes in each browser, and saves time from constantly manually testing features. As helpful as automated cross-browser testing is to your product, it is tricky to implement smoothly, and there will inevitably be problems during setup. You might think that running your tests in Chrome should have the same behavior as Safari or IE, but oftentimes that doesn’t happen right out of the box. Tests need some tweaks to be able to run successfully, 100% of the time in all your supported browsers. Meaghan Lewis shares strategies she has found successful for cross-browser tests using Selenium WebDriver. Topics include:
