Top Automation Framework? New Test Data Tool and More!

What's now the most popular automation testing framework, according to GitHub Stars? Do you think good performance is expensive? How about bad performance? And have you seen the new free tool that helps you with automated test data creation?

Find out in this episode of the Automation and DevSecOps News Show Newsletter?for the week of March 5th.

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First up, Automation news.

Before anyone says anything to me, I'm reporting the news. I don't necessarily agree or disagree with any of these news items. So don't shoot the messenger.

I'm just presenting them to you and have to decide what works for YOU.

So this following post by Hannes Lenke at Checkly stirred up some controversy.

Checkley uses playwright-based tests for synthetic monitoring and executes millions of monthly checks. And in the post, they have a graphic.

He shows how Playwright is now the number one automation testing framework on GitHub. According to people upvoting with stars. Now, whether or not this is a valid way of determining whether or not a tool is the best it's up to you to decide.?

I think the best tool is the tool that works for you.

So regardless if it's open source, free, or vendor bases, I don't care if the tool works for my team and me to create better software.?

But different people have different ways of judging which tool is best. One of them could be GitHub stars. It's a very controversial way of ranking various tools, and everyone has different views on what they think is right or wrong based on this post.

But as you can see by the comments.

Many people say it's a lousy way to determine whether or not a tool is the?"best," just based on GitHub likes. And others talk about how the only good tools are entirely open source and they follow standards.

What do you think? Let me know in the comments for this post.

Struggling with locators?

So if you're using any of the automation tools listed, you're probably struggling with locators and will have another resource to help you with your locator strategy.?

So if you want to know:

• How do you write a good CSS selector?
• Is Xpath always the wrong choice??
• Are there any special kinds of selectors available only in specific automation tools?

Then this webinar is for you.

So Christian Bromann, Filip Hric and Andy Knight will go over:

• How to understand common automation frameworks.
• Handle locating elements in a web?U.I. test
• Best practices for working with selectors and locators, as well as warnings of red flags to look out for.?
• And you're going to explore some specific locators and how they can help create more robust tests.

So if you need help with locators, definitely register for this now .

Playwright MFA

If you're a Playwright GitHub star lover, I have an Awesome resource for handling multi-factor authentication using Playwright.

So this LinkedIn post from Natraj Yegnaraman goes over how they struggled with using Playwright to test their model-driven app and how to handle MFA props.

And although you can turn off multi-factor authentication prompts, explaining it to your SecOps team can be challenging.?

So here's one way of doing it step by step using Playwright, how they worked around this particular issue and including what the problem was, and the approach of handling it with some screenshots, some code, and some key takeaways.?

So if you're doing it in a Playwright in multi-factor authentication, this is a must-read.?

Swagger Hub Explorer

Thanks for Noel Wurst. I also came across a new tool by a vendor SmartBear that can help you with API testing.?

The Swagger Hub Explorer announcement covers how developers can now instantly analyze RESTful APIs in Apache Kafka services.

This is being touted as a developer-centric tool that brings innovation to the SmartBear API lifecycle portfolio of solutions and developers can now.

Gain increased visibility into API endpoints while better understanding the functionality. And it also talks about how thousands of organizations are now using Apache Kafka and how this tool can help you test these API endpoints.?

So if you're doing any API testing or dealing with Kafka, you should check it out and let me know your thoughts.

Tool for Automated Test Data

We talked about open-source tools; we spoke about vendor tools. How about free tools?

Well, this next solution is by Sanjay Kumar for SelectosHub, which keeps releasing more free tools for the testing community.

The latest is AutoTestData , which helps generate test data in just three clicks. No installation is needed; open the URL and create data for your tests. So no more wasting time and writing code to generate fake data.

Check out how easy it is to use now.

New SauceLabs?

Have you been to the SauceLabs site recently?

If not prepared to be startled.

Sauce labs have done a completely new rebranding .

Gone is the beloved red lighting bolt logo, replaced by a more common generic green logo.?

This article goes over why they've rebranded what it looks like and some of its main reasons.

Check it out and let me know if you like the new or old one better.

Checkly Feature

We talked about Checkly earlier, but I just remembered that they also released a new feature you might enjoy.?

Checkly adds monitoring-as-code to their testing platform. And so last week, Checkly added a monitoring-as-code workflow capability to their software as a service platform that is used to create synthetic tests or applications.?

The Checkly platform, if you don't know, spins up browsers to test and can now monitor how applications are performing at both the user interface and the application performance interface level at the API level.?

So another great new feature by the folks at Checkly; it's a platform that's been growing over the past few years.?

Next up is Performance and Site Reliability News.

If you think good performance is expensive, what about the cost of having a bad performance for your applications? This next article covers a framework that might help you figure it out.

Unfortunately, system performance is an invisible element during software development. You only realize performance bottlenecks when it's almost too late and often only when customers are affected, and escalations happen to such problems.

Josef Mayrhofer is introducing these cool performance engineering budget quadrants to help you with guidelines and a reality check on your performance efforts.?

And as you can see, he breaks down the performance budget into four key areas, uses a risk cost type of rating system, and goes over what each area is and what you can do for each of those performance areas.?Must read!

That's a Wrap

So that's it for this Test Guild News Show Newsletter edition.?

I'm Joe Colantonio, and my mission is to help you succeed in creating end-to-end full-stack DevSecops automation awesomeness.?

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As always, test everything and keep the good. Cheers.

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