Create A Basic UI Automation Check

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Simon Tomes

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Challenge Description

In this challenge, your goal is to create a basic UI automation check that completes the ‘Contact us’ form and checks to see if the form was submitted correctly.

For this challenge, you can use any UI automation tool you like, such as:

  • Off the shelf frameworks like Cypress and TestCafe
  • Custom-built frameworks with tools like Selenium
     
What you’ll learn
  • Use tools to automate a Web UI

Prerequisites

Be sure to run through the following, which comes from the Automation In Testing Three Day Course Prerequisites. You don't have to install a local version if you don't wish to. You can just automate your checks against the public version of the Restful Booker Platform.

Kill the Mutants! - Nico Jansen & Simon de Lang
Should We Just... Delete It? - João Proença
Hello, Cypress! - Kate Nesmyelova
Testing Below the Application
Feature Spotlight - TestCompass: Impact Analysis
Breaking Boundaries Using Charles - Suman Bala
World Without WebDriver? Automated Test Strategy for Modern Web Applications - Bart Szulc
Testing Ask Me Anything - UI Automation: Pros & Cons
Tooling for Automated Testing with Butch Mayhew
The 3rd episode of The Testing Planet, The Toolsmith will be all about, yes you guessed it: tools 😉
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Episode Three: The Toolsmith
A free monthly virtual software testing community gathering
MoT Foundation Certificate in Test Automation
Unlock the essential skills to transition into Test Automation through interactive, community-driven learning, backed by industry expertise