Webinar: Accessibility & Automated Testing for GAAD 2021
This webinar took place on May 20th, 2021. Watch the full video recording below. May 20th, 2021 marks the 10th annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). According to the team at GAAD an estimated 1 billion people worldwide have disabilities. Common disabilities include hearing, cognitive, visual, and motor. The web is an essential resource in many aspects […]
Test Management with QADeputy & Ghost Inspector
Quality assurance is a broad initiative. Ghost Inspector strives to be an all-in-one tool when it comes to browser automation. However, QA testing teams often use a range of products to cover all their testing needs, like API testing and load testing. This can lead to testing-related data being scattered in various places. QADeputy is a […]
Browser & System Updates — July 2019
These updates will be deployed at 10:00am Pacific Time on Tuesday July 16th, 2019 Here at Ghost Inspector, we’re continually rolling out new browser versions and automation logic updates. However, this month we’ve got a number of big changes launching at once and I wanted to discuss each in a little more detail. Here’s a […]
Continuous Integration Testing for WordPress
While continuous integration is a common practice for most development teams, the stateful nature of WordPress makes it difficult, but not impossible, to setup. For our open source WordPress plugin, we wanted to integrate our standard build and test process for every pull request using CircleCI. While it might be easier to setup a permanent staging environment, […]
Automated UI Testing for WordPress
Many people don’t test their WordPress websites, and it’s a problem. While the core of WordPress is fairly well-tested by its creators, users, and the open-source community, the same cannot be said for every plugin and theme. There’s an infinite combination of versions, hosting environments, plugins, themes, and configurations. You can’t trust the community to […]
Ghost Inspector’s New WordPress Plugin
Ghost Inspector is an automated browser testing tool for continously monitoring websites. Many of those websites run on WordPress. After lots of demand from our users, we’ve built a plugin to show your Ghost Inspector test results right inside your WordPress admin panel. The plugin enables you to display the latest test results for a […]
Develop a WordPress Plugin Using Webpack and React
Ghost Inspector is an automated browser testing tool for continuously monitoring websites. We recently released our WordPress plugin to show test results inside your WordPress admin dashboard. In this tutorial, you will learn how to build your own plugin using React, Webpack, and the Ghost Inspector API. You can view the final source code on GitHub. Why Use […]
Headless Browsers and Testing at Scale
The Ghost Inspector team got together for our annual company offsite in Austin, TX this year. We always plan our offsite around presenting at an industry-related event. This year we were thrilled to present to the Austin Automation Professionals Meetup on the topic of headless browsers and testing at scale. A big thank you to Handsome for hosting the […]
Deploy and Test Your App using VSTS, Azure, and Ghost Inspector
Visual Studio Team Services is a one-stop-shop for managing source code, custom packages, agile workflow, and continuous integration. Having recently released our VSTS extension for Ghost Inspector I thought it would be a fun idea to test and deploy an app with a Microsoft toolchain, namely Visual Studio Team Services, Microsoft Azure, and Ghost Inspector using our new extension. […]
Testing Your Responsive Design with Viewports
It’s 2017, and “mobile first” isn’t just that thing that’s “nice to have” any more. It’s become expected that you’re going to provide a consistent experience to your end users whether they’re hitting your site on their desktop, phone, heck even their watch! It’s pretty clear by now that this “mobile trend” isn’t going away […]
