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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…

Ghost 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 Inspector…

We 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. As long as you perform at lease one operation during…

Last 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 Inspector…

We’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…

When we initially started building our test recorder, 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 specification