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🧠Knowledge Series #35: How does automated testing work?
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🧠Knowledge Series #35: How does automated testing work?

Unit tests, integration tests, UI browser tests and the future of automated testing

Rich Holmes
May 19, 2024
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🔒The Knowledge Series is a collection of easy to read guides designed to help you plug the gaps in your tech knowledge so that you feel more confident when chatting to colleagues. Clearly explained in plain English. One topic at a time.

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Hi product people 👋,

Getting your head around the various different types of testing in product development can be pretty difficult. From regression testing to unit testing and integration testing, figuring out what each of these does and how they relate to one one another is sometimes a struggle.

In this Knowledge Series, we’re going to focus on a specific type of testing that spans a lot of these categories: automated testing. 

If you have a dedicated QA or tester in your business then you’ll have probably heard this term a lot but you might not be sure what it means in practice - and how it can significantly improve your product development process thanks to tools like Selenium which can test the UI of your product directly in the browser.

Coming up:

  • The different types of testing explained

  • What is automated testing?

  • How automated testing works - using unit tests, integration testing and UI testing in the browser

  • An end to end example -  how automated testing might work in practice

  • How to introduce automated testing in your company

  • How AI is playing a role in automated testing

  • Tools you can use


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