CSS Selector Strategies for Automated Browser Testing
Justin Klemm — Jun 12, 2017
Change breaks brittle things and one of the challenges of automated testing is to mitigate that effect as much as possible while you design tests for an ever-changing application. This is especially true with end-to-end testing being done in a web browser, since we're interacting with our application through its GUI and touching various different layers.
Read MoreWhere Does End-to-End Testing Fit into a Comprehensive Testing Approach?
Justin Klemm — Jun 8, 2017
Every type of automated testing has a maintenance tax. Everything from simple unit tests up through end-to-end tests that are performed on the GUI of your application. Of course this tax rate varies depending on the complexity of the test...
Read MoreSimulate Drag and Drop with JavaScript and CasperJS
Justin Klemm — Apr 12, 2016Today I'm going to present some JavaScript code that can be used for simulating drag-and-drop events in a browser. This can be used as standalone code, or you can call it through CasperJS to simulate drag-and-drop events in your tests. I'll show you both.
Read MoreSelenium Import is Here!
Justin Klemm — Jan 28, 2016
Yes, you read that correctly! Selenium is a popular, open source browser automation tool set — and for a while now, Ghost Inspector has allowed you to export your tests in Selenium's HTML format. Now, Ghost inspector allows you to import tests in that very same format.
Read MoreDemocratizing QA: How Automated Testing Tools Empower Teams
Patrick McKenna — Aug 18, 2015
We’re excited to have Patrick McKenna, Global Head of Product Engineering at Kurtosys, discuss the evolution of QA with the Ghost Inspector community. Sometimes I wonder how quality assurance (QA) got this bad. Humanity’s engineering achievements are...
Read More5 Post-Launch Steps to Make Your App Successful
Ashely Waxman — Jul 7, 2015
This post originally appeared on the Build Blog by ThinkApps. View the full, original post by Runscope’s VP of Developer Relations, Neil Mansilla. So you’ve designed, built and launched your app. Before you pat yourself on the back and move on to the next...
Read More5 Best Practices for Automated Browser Testing
Justin Klemm — Jun 1, 2015Automated testing entails much more than simply creating tests and enabling them. A “set it and forget it” approach won’t get you very far with automated tests — particularly automated browser tests, which interact with the ever changing...
Read MoreAutomated Browser Testing During Continuous Integration with Ghost Inspector, CircleCI and ngrok
Justin Klemm — May 5, 2015One question we receive a lot is how to run your Ghost Inspector automated browser tests on your application during the continuous integration process. We’ve put together a tutorial below demonstrating exactly how to achieve this with the use of ngrok and the...
Read MoreIntegrate Ghost Inspector with Slack
Justin Klemm — April 27, 2015We’re very excited to announce that we’ve just launched our Slack integration. Slack is a popular platform for team communication. You can now hook up your Slack account with Ghost Inspector and have test results posted directly to a channel. To enable...
Read MoreIntegrate Ghost Inspector with PagerDuty
Justin Klemm — Mar 3, 2015We’re very excited to announce that we’ve just launched our PagerDuty integration. PagerDuty is an incident management system for IT monitoring. You can now hook up your PagerDuty account with Ghost Inspector to trigger and resolve incidents through your...
Read MoreYou can now run Ghost Inspector tests with Firefox!
Justin Klemm — Feb 11, 2015We’re very excited to announce that you can now run Ghost Inspector tests using the Firefox web browser! We’re working hard to expand our ecosystem of browsers and Firefox is the first step in that expansion. You can now choose to run your tests with...
Read MoreGruntJS Plugin for Ghost Inspector
Justin Klemm — Dec 7, 2014We just released a new Ghost Inspector plugin for GruntJS called grunt-ghost-inspector. Grunt is a JavaScript task runner that’s often used for building projects and related processes. Our simple plugin lets you execute your Ghost Inspector tests and suites from...
Read MoreWe’re now recording video of all tests!
Justin Klemm — Aug 18, 2014We launched a huge new feature over the weekend that we thought was worthy of a blog post: Video! We’re now recording video of all your test runs. This is available to all account tiers, even our free tier. As long as you perform at lease one operation during...
Read MoreTips for Making CasperJS Tests More Reliable
Justin Klemm — Aug 18, 2014Ghost Inspector currently uses CasperJS under the hood — a powerful open source navigation scripting & testing utility. Over the past 6 months we’ve learned a ton about what it takes to make CasperJS tests as reliable as possible. Because Ghost...
Read MoreWebcast: PhantomJS, CasperJS, Screenshot Comparison, and Ghost Inspector
Justin Klemm — Jun 27, 2014Last night I had the privilege of presenting a webcast to the NYC Metro Selenium Users Meetup. I’m happy to report that over 80 people tuned in for the presentation on PhantomJS, CasperJS, screenshot comparison tools — and of course — Ghost...
Read MoreEverything You Need to Configure a 10 Server Infrastructure Stack for $50/mo
Justin Klemm — May 21, 2014We’re excited about a lot here at Ghost Inspector. One of the things we’re most excited about is our server stack — specifically, just how easy and affordable it has been to setup. I remember a time when you had to pay $100+/mo for a physical,...
Read MoreRegex for validating the HTML id Attribute
Justin Klemm — Apr 3, 2014When we initially started building our Chrome extension, we needed a way to validate the id attributes being used on the page. We would sometimes capture an id attribute in a recording, only to find that it failed when we used it in a test because it didn’t meet...
Read MoreWhy Did We Build Ghost Inspector?
Justin Klemm — Mar 24, 2014For our first blog post, I wanted to elaborate on why we built Ghost Inspector. The simple answer is to meet, not just one, but two needs that we see when it comes to ensuring your website is online and functioning. You’ll notice in the video demo that we call...
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