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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…

Automated 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…

One 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…

We 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…