Zhimin Zhan
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Test automation & CT coach, author, speaker and award-winning software developer.
A top writer on Test Automation, with 150+ articles featured in leading software testing newsletters.
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There is no rule mandating that the “Coding Language and E2E Test Scripting Language Must be Identical”. In fact, Mostly Better to be Different.
End-to-End testing is the process of verifying an app according to its specifications from the viewpoint of an end user. For web test automation, this simply means, E2E test scripts drive the app in a web browser.
By Zhimin Zhan2 years ago in Geeks
A Story: Principal Software Engineer Undermines E2E Test Automation
A few years ago, within the first week of onboarding at a large financial company, my End-to-End test automation scripts (driving the app in Chrome browser) showed great help to the project team. Business Analysts and Manual Testers used automation (either requested me or self-help, I built an interface for them) to create test data scenarios (cutting time from a typical workflow operation from 40 to 6 minutes).
By Zhimin Zhan2 years ago in Geeks
Why Gherkin (Cucumber, SpecFlow,…) Always Failed with UI Test Automation?
Many software projects tried or are trying to use Cucumber for test automation, commonly with Selenium Driver for testing web apps. Some might wonder whether my title is just a personal and radical view for attention. No, I just reworded the view from Aslak Hellesøy, the creator of Cucumber:
By Zhimin Zhan2 years ago in Geeks
