Introduction to Top Web Test Automation Frameworks

When it comes to end-to-end test automation frameworks, front-end developers have a variety of choices to pick from. The open-source community continues to innovate and leverage existing technologies to enhance testing frameworks and offer more coverage and depth to practitioners.

Goal of this chapter

This chapter focuses on the top four leading open-source frameworks on the market and provides an intermediate tutorial on how to get started with each of these. Since we have so many choices around testing our application code, it’s very important that we understand the architecture and fundamentals of the top frameworks out there so we can make guided decisions.

After reading this chapter, we’ll know how to get started with the four leading JavaScript open-source test automation frameworks and run a basic test scenario on a web browser.