Future of Cross Browser Test Automation (hint WebDrive BiDi) TGNS52

Want to know what the future of cross browser testing is? This is big news and you don't want to miss it. What's the state of UI UX testing and have you heard of Apple's recent announcement and how they impact developers and testers? Find all the answers to these and all other end to end full pipeline DevOps automation testing, performance testing and security testing in 10 minutes or less in this episode of the Test Skill New show for the week of July 31st. So grab your favorite cup of coffee or tea and let's do this. This episode of the Test Skill new show is sponsored by the awesome folks at applitools. Visual AI Validation testing is a must have for any automation project. If you're not doing it now, check out applitools free account offer now by clicking in the link in the first comment below. And while you're there, why not like leave a comment and subscribe to get alerted every time I release a new episode. First up Automation News first up, we have Robocop announcing the release of the public beta of Automation Studio, which is the first code native low code RPA development solution that offers developers and business users the latest and fastest way to create automation enterprise processes. All right, RPA has been a big trend recently and so I'm happy to see more and more vendors coming out with solutions such as this one. So RoboCop deals with a lot of different companies and they notice that a lot of them are struggling with RPA and how to scale the development of new automation and that this new gen 2 RPA solution is going to help people virtually eliminate broken bots and the need to fix them. It provides limitless automation opportunities across technology stacks, helps you create a scalable, portable and reasonable bots without vendor block in, and requires no licensing fees and has no long term commitments. So some new innovation in RPA led by the folks at robocop. Definitely check that out in the first comment down below. So if you're a tester, you do any sort of software development, you know the UI UX nowadays is one of the most important parts of an application, but how do you test it effectively? So this next resource is a webinar on the state of UI UX testing. And so in this webinar the folks from applitools have the results of a survey they did of over 800 of the best front end developers, designers and testers so you can help benchmark yourself against these particular results. So in this webinar you're going to hear what organizations say is the hardest part of front end testing. You're going to see how often today's teams are doing usability testing and you're going to explore just how much automation is really happening in some of the roadblocks to adoption. So if you're looking for real world what's happening with other automation testers in this space and developers and how they're handling different situations with the UI UX testing, you definitely need to register for this awesome webinar and you can catch it in the first comment down below. So as you probably know, despite advances in test automation, low code, no code, and other solutions testing still sometimes remains a blocker for software innovation and development velocity. But why this next article covers how to transform your test automation to actually work. This article is by Amir and also Iran, two industry leaders in the automation space and it goes over some of the common areas where automation isn't keeping up to speed with software development and some reasons why it's ineffective, and also goes over how these things can be changed, gives eight different ways and has different phases on how to implement a more effective testing solution. So great resource. Thank you Amir for that and thank you Iran also for helping co author this particular article as well. And so this next article is also written by Iran on how Apple's recent announcement impacts developers and testers. So it just goes over what the announcements were and also what's even more important is how to get ready for some of these before they actually launch. So things developers and testers can do right now to get ready. So definitely check that out and get ready for these new developments for sure. So this is a big announcement if you really want to know what the future of cross browser automation is and that is webdriver Bidi. This is by the folks at Google and it talks about some of the current solutions out there. Obviously Selenium webdriver, some of its strengths and also some of its limitations. It also goes over the Chrome Developer protocol once again has some strengths and weaknesses for that approach and also Puppeteer talks about some of its strengths and weaknesses before it actually gets into why WebDriver bidi is needed. If you don't know, WebDriver bidi is a new standard protocol for browser automation which will be based on the BI directional transport protocol WebSocket or pipes and the idea is to get the best from the two worlds, webdriver and CDP and a standard browser automation protocol with fast bidirectional transport with low level control. And the article goes on to talk about some of the advantages of bidi. So this is a must must read. So if anything you listen to, this is probably the number one thing you should listen to this. Definitely check this out in the first comment down below. Next up, Performance and Site Reliability News So if you're looking for performance engineering resources but you don't know where to start, Scott Moore, one of the leading Go to places I hit up for any type of performance information. Just released a new video with some quick things you can do or resources to help get you up to speed with performance engineering. And all these resources are online and if you click on the link within LinkedIn and so you have to watch the video to actually pull out all the different resources that you can get for free on performance engineering. Definitely a must watch video. Definitely check that out. So if you watch this show for a while, you know we cover a lot of news items on automation testing from mobile apps, but what about site reliability engineering from native mobile apps? So that's what this next resource is all about. So obviously the reliability of mobile applications is a vital quality of any application in the modern world. But a lot of times people think that the development of mobile applications is a simple matter, but creating sufficiently reliable applications on a large scale is associated with several problems. And this article goes over what some of those problems are, and it also breaks down some SRE principles directly for mobile applications, for example mobile application risk, application availability crashes, and how you can learn from failures. So if you want to learn more about applying site reliability principles to your testing of mobile apps, here's a good resource to get started with. So if you know me, I'm always on the lookout for new open source solutions around any type of automation that can be done in your DevOps pipelines, especially with performance testing. So this next article is all about a new open source load generator. And so this next article is by Andre and he announces the availability now of Incarno, which is written in Golang and built to be used by atorres. So some key features of this open source load generator project is it accurately load generates up to tens of thousands of hits, it has precise results measurements of nanosecond resolution, it's effective and has low overhead, it's written in go and it has minimalistic scripting with regex, extracts and asserts and also goes over some usage and how to use it. And make sure to start on GitHub and show Andre some love to let him know you appreciate this new open source solution. Next up, Security news. So I didn't find many articles around security Testing that caught my attention this week or even last week. I missed last week, but this next one did. It's how DHS seeks automated SBOM tools for enhanced supply chain visibility. Same time I see automated and tools and security, it grabs my attention. So let's check it out. So what is DHS? What is SBoM? Well, the DHS is the department of Homeland Security and they want to encourage tech companies to develop automated software bill of materials tools offering more visibility into supply chain. Been paying attention to security in the news the past year. Supply chain has been huge. So these tools are really needed. Vulnerabilities in software are a key risk in cybersecurity, with known exploits being primary paths for bad actors to inflict a range of harms, says the director Alan Friedman of Cisi. And by leveraging SBOMs as key elements of software security, you can mitigate the risk of software supply chain and respond to new risk faster and more efficiently. And so this new call for tools has different phases. So what's great about this program is that they're offering 500,000 up to 200,000 in funding to produce a minimal viable product within three to nine months. So if you're a testing nerd, you want to get into security or you want to start developing tools, or you're already developing tools, here's a great opportunity to put it to good use and to also get some cash. So don't miss this and check it out before phase one ends in October. All right, for links of everything of value we covered in this news episode, head over to the links in the first comment down below. And while you're there, why not check out our sponsor applitools free account offer and discover how to take your automation testing to the next level. Leveraging visual AI so that's it for this episode of the Test Guild News Show. I'm Joe. My mission is to help you succeed in creating end to end full stack pipeline DevOps automation awesomeness. As always, test everything and keep the good. Cheers.