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Currently we are using browser stack to run our web based automation scripts automated using protractor framework. As browser stack is costly , we are looking for an alternative option for browser stack which supports our UI automation scripts. We are ready to make necessary changes in our set up according to new options.
Can anyone suggest any open source or less costly alternative option for browser stack ? TIA
In terms of pricing, I am doing the same analysis, and there are two paths, either a paid solution/service.
On my shortlist, I had these
Lambdatest
SauceLabs
AWS Device Could Farm
BrowserStack
CrossBrowserTest from SmartBear
I haven't found anything cheaper, that is useful, but could be other have.
Other alternatives are to setup either a local Selenium grid or a Selenium grid on the same infrastructure as your website is running on.
But I would expect that you spend the same cash on maintaining your own Selenium grid, over just having access to one?
This is the costs for the various services with unlimited minutes and one parallel session. (Most have this)
Note: I haven't tried to use TestingBot and Experitest yet.
But think about how many test minutes you need, and how many parallel tests you want running at the same time.
But if you decide to run your own, then look into the costs of other infrastructure costs, such as CI/CI hosting, Production software hosting. (Unless these are internal/hidden costs)
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I am currently in an internship for this Internet of Things company that has written their server code in Javascript. I will try to run the code that regulates connection between their Gateway (the device that will send and receive information to the server).
The gateway uses Raspberry Pi units to do the communication. My question is, how do I do stress tests to see if the server will accept up to 10,000 Raspberry Pi's? I found tools like
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/programs/ab.html
But are there other ways to do it? Like using virtual machines to test whether 10000 RSPi's will be handled?
And second part of the question, how can I test the firmware of raspberry pi IoT without the hardware, like through a virtual machine. Is that possible??
Any pointer about to where to find this stuff would be greatl appreciated!!
I think you're approaching it wrong - it doesn't matter that the clients are Raspberry Pis or that there are 10k of them. You load test to find out how many QPS (queries per second) your server can handle within acceptable response times. This is what tools like ab, JMeter, vegeta, locust, etc. are made for. Then figure out how many QPS you expect to be generated - how often are the RPis going to be making calls? Multiply that by 10k and you have your expected load. There is no reason to actually simulate 10k RPis explicitly.
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After research i made on the web, i found two frameworks: for desktop development - electron and for mobile development - ionic
Are above platforms recommended choices for mobile and desktop development with web technologies? If not which frameworks should we use for this purpose?
There is few technologies regarding to your question. Cordova-PhoneGap-Ionic (they rely on Apache Cordova) applications are running on WebViews. This means there may be performance issues if you use them for some goals, for example hard calculations. By the way you can still use native functions via Cordova Plugins too.
Also there are NativeScript and ReactNative too. With these technologies, your applications are running on native environment. It looks like these technologies are trending now.
You have a bunch of different possibilities, for instance OnsenUI, Kendo, Ionic (1 or 2), etc. I would recommend you to spend a bit of time to understand which one is better for your needs, even though I would say that Ionic is pretty popular now.
This page is a good start to have an overview of a few popular ones with a short review. http://www.gajotres.net/best-html5-mobile-app-frameworks-ionic-review/ Please note that Framework7 is not in the list, but might be worth mentionning (but I feel more iOS oriented).
Your question is specific about HTML, CSS and Javascript. But as a side note, please do not forget that you might have other options as well as suggested above (ReactNative, Xamarin with C#...) You may check: http://noeticforce.com/mobile-app-development-cordova-vs-react-native-vs-xamarin
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We have a webshop and we sell lots of items.
Our checkout process consists of 4 different pages where the user has to input their address, select a delivery method and confirm their order on different pages/urls. Each of those pages relies on communication with the server and lots of javascript / jquery.
Some of our users have reported problems at some parts of those pages. We suspect it could be a combination of OS/browser that can't understand a part of our javascript code.
Is there any way to automate testing of a checkout process of 4 different consecutive pages, each requiring user input?
We would like the testing environment to test on different brosers/browser versions.
We also had a customer recently that had an antivirus program that would change the urls of our js source files, is there any way to capture cases like that by testing?
Sounds like you might use E2E testing, using Protractor/Selenium.
It's basically about writing user behaviour, and the browser driver does it instead of user. You can write what should happen on the page and if any of these conditions is not met, it will be included in the post-test report. You can configure it to use whatever browser driver you like.
I suggest you to take a look at Selenium. The main purpose of it is to automate browsers actions.
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I would like to make a web scraping application that is able to log in to a website (I was able to do this with twill (python)), and also to be able to execute JavaScript which trigger access to other pages.
I would definitely prefer to use something in python, but I am ready to try something new. I have installed mechanize, watir, Hojocki, etc. but not sure if this really helps.
I'd recommend PhantomJS.
It's a full Webkit browser, but headless and scriptable.
It's ideal for this sort of thing.
I believe there are a few modules (such as Ghost), but I have used Selenium/WebDriver for things like this. It is ostensibly a testing framework, but it provides you with a lot of methods to allow you to interact with the page just as if you had loaded it as a normal user. You also have the benefit of running it so that a browser actually opens and you can watch the code execute (makes debugging easier), or in a 'headless' mode where the code just executes (there are other sites/SO answers with much better explanations than I can give :) ).
That being said, Ghost looks great as well, so try them both and hopefully one will get you what you need!
Also, see Javascript (and HTML rendering) engine without a GUI for automation? for a similar question that may have some additional answers.
I would recommend Octoparse, a free web scraper for Windows.
It's not programmble but it's very easy to use. But there's no Mac version.So...
JavaScript can be handled by Octoparse btw.
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I'm wondering if there's a dedicated application for the purpose of running programs written in JS (+HTML/CSS) that can be redistributable freely with any such program.
My project may grow into something bigger and it just can't simply depend on an internet browser (also, I'm not sure about the security of running a JS app which doesn't connect to the internet in an internet-ready browser).
I've read that one must use AJAX to manage files through JS in a web browser, but are there any frameworks which allow to run JS code with all file management permissions?
Basically, I'm looking for the framework that web browsers use to show webpages - the very essence of a browser. What are the better alternatives that could meet my requirements?
Are you looking for something like node.js? Node