How to use Selenium IDE with Ghost Inspector
Selenium IDE is a popular open-source tool for recording and running automated browser tests. You can use it to interact with a browser the way a human would, doing things like navigating to URLs, filling in forms, and clicking on links and buttons. You can also use “assertions” to verify things are working as expected, like checking […]
Back to the Basics Tutorial: A Beginner’s Guide to Browser Testing with Ghost Inspector
Welcome to our guide on how to perform browser testing with Ghost Inspector! If you’re reading this, you may be trying Ghost Inspector for the first time or considering it as a tool to help you streamline your company’s testing efforts. Our goal is to provide you with a simple way to catch bugs on […]
How EnergyCAP Automated 3,600 Daily Test Runs with Ghost Inspector [Case Study]
Introducing Zac ODonnell, the Manager of Software Engineering at EnergyCAP, who shares his testimonial on how Ghost Inspector has revolutionized their development process. EnergyCAP helps businesses effectively manage energy usage, utility bills, and carbon footprint while achieving substantial savings. However, they faced challenges in keeping their product running smoothly amid frequent changes and security patches. Enter […]
Keep Your Tests in Sync with Code Versioning
Keeping up to the pace of software changes with good acceptance tests is challenging, and can often put a lot of pressure on the relationships between teams. Being able to detect issues faster and earlier in the development cycle is crucial to shipping good software quickly, but communicating those changes is always challenging — and […]
Introducing our New Feature, Explicit Window Targeting
We’re excited to introduce a new (and much requested!) feature to the Ghost Inspector community: Explicit Window Targeting. Now you have the power to specifically target which window or tab you want to focus on during your test steps. Usually, when you use a CSS selector in your test, Ghost Inspector’s test runners go through all […]
How WordPress Plugin Developer Automates Acceptance Testing with Ghost Inspector [Case Study]
Whether you’re a solo developer or part of a larger team, it can be challenging to keep up with ever-evolving customer requirements and testing standards. In our latest case study, we dive into the world of WordPress plugin developer Justin Labadie who uses Ghost Inspector to automate acceptance testing and ensure his plugins meet customer […]
The 7 Best QA Tools for Software Testing in 2023
Consider the following: You go to the Apple Store to pick up the latest iPhone. You get home and turn it on, only to find that the screen is defective, the buttons aren’t working, and every one of the built-in apps is glitching. Thanks to QA tools, this is an extremely unlikely scenario. Before the […]
Why Automation Testing is Essential for Effective Quality Assurance
We recently wrote a post about Test Automation Best Practices, but we think this topic deserves a deeper dive for those who might be curious about the basics of automation testing, how it can transform your QA process, and how to get started with a tool like Ghost Inspector. Let’s start by understanding what it […]
The 7 Best UI Testing Tools for Testing Automation
Usability is critical for the success of any website or web application. To make sure your web-based project is bug-free, you need to run UI tests, many of which can—and should—be automated. Doing so lets you detect issues like bugs, slow loading times, or poor responsiveness so you can fix them before they make a […]
CSS Selector Cheat Sheet: Strategies for Automated Browser Testing
“Change breaks the brittle.” — Jan Houtema I love this quote, though I’m not quite sure if “Jan Houtema” is a real person. It may be a Paul Graham pseudonym… But in any case, yes, change breaks brittle things and one of the challenges of automated browser testing is to mitigate that effect as much as possible while you […]
