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Today we’re going to take a look at one of the more under-utilized features of Ghost Inspector, “viewports”, and how they can be used to test the user experience on your responsive website.

A couple of the features of the Ghost Inspector application that you’re familiar with are now available in our API: Duplicate Test and Duplicate Suite.

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.

For 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 Ghost Inspector an “automated website testing and monitoring tool.” Let’s talk about testing first.

Today 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.

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.

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…

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…