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 […]
Case Study: How WP Dev Automates Tests with Ghost Inspector
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 […]
9 Test Automation Best Practices
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 frontend of your application or website. The true workload ultimately comes with the maintenance and evolution of your […]
Announcing our Jira integration
Overview Jira is one of the most popular task management products available today, and for good reason: it’s been around for a long time. The team at Atlassian is constantly working to improve the way users can utilize their software, but for a long time if you wanted to integrate with Jira as a developer, […]
Upcoming Feature Changes — Q1 2022
These updates will be deployed on Monday Feburary 14th, 2022 Here at Ghost Inspector, we’re continually rolling out changes that we think make our customer’s lives better. Occasionally that means undoing some bit of logic we created or allowed in the past in order to move the product in a direction that makes it more […]
Webinar: WordPress Witchcraft – How to Test Your CMS
This webinar took place on October 28th, 2021. Watch the full video recording below. WordPress is a powerful tool for building great websites, but all great websites need great testing too. Join our founder, Justin Klemm, as he walks us through the best practices for QA testing WordPress websites. He’ll also take us on a tour of […]
Spooktacular Customer Appreciation Month
With a name like Ghost Inspector, you know we take Halloween seriously. This year we’re finally embracing our spooky spirits and celebrating in style, welcome to our first annual SPOOKTACULAR CUSTOMER APPRECATION MONTH! Customer Spotlights Follow us on our social media channels every Friday through the month of October as we conjure up some of […]
Webinar: Back to Basics with Ghost Inspector
This webinar took place on September 23rd, 2021. Watch the full video recording below. School is in session so we think it’s a great time for a beginners’ webinar. Join our Senior Operations & Strategy Manager Renata Santillan as she guides us through creating tests with Ghost Inspector and how to use our checking email feature. […]
Rebuilding Our Jekyll Website with Next.js and Theme UI
Recently we redesigned and rebuilt our promotional site that was built in Jekyll and I thought it might be interesting to explain why we did it, as well as talk about the choices we made like deciding between Gatsby and Next.js for static site generation, using React (JSX and MDX) as a templating language and for writing […]
