How can you integrate automated testing into your continuous integration flow?

Tools that provide better insights on your tests with analytics are the one's to keep. Also support and reliability is the big factor on it. Always be aware of pesticide paradox and scale and improve your code.

in my personal experience, for front end automation we use Cypress for the automation and publish our results with the Cypress dashboards. However, we write our test and commit to the repository and through github actions we ensure that the test are invoked when code is pushed to the repo. For monitoring results we have integrated the cypress dashboard and also slack notifications so that if a test has failed once the github action has completed the execution, though the dashboard and slack notifications we are able to see what test has failed and the cause behind it. For API test invocations, we use postman and invoke the postman scripts when the though use of newman through Github actions when code changes are pushed.

The subsequent task is to configure your CI server. This entails establishing the server to monitor your repository for alterations and to initiate the testing process whenever new commits are submitted. You'll have to set up build jobs that incorporate the execution of your automated tests. This might involve crafting scripts outlining the procedures the CI server should follow, such as fetching the latest code, executing the tests, and subsequently presenting the outcomes.

Always write test by becoming a proxy user. Think what a user would do. Most important thing is to plan what, how and when to test. Become the user!

Start by writing automated tests that cover different aspects of your application, including unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests. These tests should verify the functionality and behavior of your code under various conditions. Integrate these tests into your continuous integration (CI) pipeline, ensuring they run automatically whenever changes are made to the codebase. This integration provides immediate feedback on the code quality and helps catch bugs early in the development process. By incorporating automated testing into your CI flow, you can improve code reliability, accelerate development cycles, and ensure a smoother deployment process.

Document data testing, plan it with multiple cases and scenarios. Most people do exploratory test and compare the data in the database but if you go through you already written test cases and continuously monitor the database with the results, you are going to find a lot of reportable issues.

We periodically refine our process by fine-tuning test scripts, expanding test coverage and learning from failures. Bi-weekly or monthly review should be adequate.