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By Ghost Inspector
When it comes to developing and building websites and web applications, a certain amount of technical debt is expected. In fact, some even argue that it can be a good thing if used strategically. Still, it’s important to stay on top of tech debt before it can overwhelm your business and cause problems that have long-term consequences. Too much technical debt can throw a wrench in business operations and slow down development, stealing hours of valuable time from your dev team.
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By Ghost Inspector
Consider the following: You go to the Apple Store to pick up the latest iPhone. You get home and turn it on, only to find that the screen is defective, the buttons aren’t working, and every one of the built-in apps is glitching. Thanks to QA tools, this is an extremely unlikely scenario. Before the iPhone reaches your hands, both its hardware and software have been tested repeatedly by a Quality Assurance (QA) team.
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By Ghost Inspector
Selenium IDE is a popular open-source tool for recording and running automated browser tests. You can use it to interact with a browser the way a human would, doing things like navigating to URLs, filling in forms, and clicking on links and buttons. You can also use “assertions” to verify things are working as expected, like checking that elements are present, text is present, inputs contain certain values, et cetera.
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By Ghost Inspector
Every QA tester knows: time is money. When something breaks down on your website or web application, it can cause major issues for users within minutes. Because you’re constantly working to prevent fires from spreading (or happening at all), it’s important to have numerous strategies at the ready to help you manage your time wisely. One of these QA testing timesavers is called smoke testing. But exactly what is smoke testing?
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By Ghost Inspector
Quality Assurance testers play an important role in verifying that company software maintains its functionality and reliability. Because the world of software testing is an expansive one, QA testers should equip themselves with an understanding of which types of software testing are most relevant to their daily tasks. With so many different software testing types, it can be overwhelming knowing where to start.
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By Ghost Inspector
If you work in Quality Assurance testing, you know that automated browser testing saves every tester from hours upon hours of manual test work. But exactly what is automation testing, and how does it fit into a typical QA workflow? We’ve got the full explanation for you in this straightforward guide on the basics of automation testing, how it can transform your QA process, and how to get started with test automation tools like Ghost Inspector.
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By Ghost Inspector
End-to-end testing (E2E) is an important part of the software development process, serving as a comprehensive way to verify that applications and systems work properly not only in the testing enviroment, but also in real-life scenarios. It provides a level of assurance that your application will correctly exhibit behavior from start to finish.
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By Ghost Inspector
You’re testing a user registration page on a website to ensure that new users are able to set up their account easily. You build a test that checks to make sure that users can: Congratulations, you’ve just automated a user acceptance test. But what is user acceptance testing (UAT)? And why is it important for QA testers to understand? In this article, we’ll walk you through everything a QA tester should know about user acceptance testing.
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By Ghost Inspector
Here’s a scenario: You’re a QA tester building automated tests for a new online email app. One test case requires you to confirm that the email reply button is working correctly. The challenge is that the email thread updates dynamically without changing its web address URL, complicating the process by limiting the effectiveness of using CSS selectors alone. So what else can you do? The answer: It’s time to bring in XPath selectors.
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By Ghost Inspector
While continuous integration is a common practice for most software development teams, the stateful nature of WordPress makes it more challenging to set up. For our open source WordPress plugin, we wanted to integrate our standard build and test process for every pull request using CircleCI. CircleCI is a cloud-based CI/CD platform that streamlines the development process for creating, testing, and deploying code changes.
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By Ghost Inspector
Join us in an insightful interview with Tai Fujimura, Founder and CEO of Cantilever, a renowned web design and development consultancy serving clients like Esquire, The Bipartisan Policy Center, and The American Cancer Society. 🌐 About Cantilever: Since 2011, Cantilever has been delivering top-notch services in web design, branding, digital product design, and technical consulting. With a commitment to excellence, equity, and sustainability, Cantilever has become a trusted partner for businesses globally.
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By Ghost Inspector
🚀 Discover how our intuitive UI revolutionizes testing, making it accessible for non-developers. From robust tests to seamless automation, find out why Cantilever recommends Ghost Inspector to their clients.
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By Ghost Inspector
In this video, Emilio will guide you through how to set up your Ghost Inspector account, create tests, and take advantage of the most popular features on our platform.
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By Ghost Inspector
Discover how Ghost Inspector has transformed businesses. Here's what our customers are saying.
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By Ghost Inspector
WordPress is a powerful tool for building great websites, but all great websites need great testing too. Join our founder, Justin Klemm, as he walks us through the best practices for QA testing WordPress websites. He'll also take us on a tour of the Ghost Inspector WordPress plugin. If you're using WordPress this is a webinar you won't want to miss.
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By Ghost Inspector
School is in session so we think it’s a great time for a beginners’ webinar. Join our Senior Operations & Strategy Manager Renata Santillan as she guides us through creating tests with Ghost Inspector and how to use our checking email feature. This is a great webinar for first time users and anyone interested in getting started with Ghost Inspector.
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By Ghost Inspector
LayerCI is a continuous integration service that offers preview environments for full‑stack web apps. LayerCI can provision complete instances of your application for every branch, making it easy to run your Ghost Inspector browser tests across all of your code changes. During this 30 minute video, we will demonstrate.
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By Ghost Inspector
Here at Ghost Inspector even some of our power users will ask, "Am I using Ghost Inspector to its full potential?" Maybe Ghost Inspector is so easy to use that sometimes it can feel like it’s too easy? Join us for this webinar on June 24th where our founder Justin Klemm will be covering advanced use cases and best practices when it comes to getting the most out of Ghost Inspector. We’ll cover nooks and crannies of our features that you may have missed and help unlock Ghost Inspector to the max!
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By Ghost Inspector
May 20th, 2021 marks the 10th annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). According to the team at GAAD an estimate 1 billion people worldwide have disabilities, common disabilities include hearing, cognitive, visual, and motor. The web is an essential resource in many aspects of life. It's important that we provide equal access and equal opportunity to people with diverse abilities. Access to information and communications technologies (including websites and web apps) is defined as a basic human right in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
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By Ghost Inspector
This video discussed what assertions are and how to use them in the context of automated browser testing.
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Automated Browser Testing & Monitoring. Easily build browser tests for your website or application. Monitor continously.
Ghost Inspector is an automated website testing and monitoring solution that allows you to check for bugs/issues/problems with your website or web application.
Typically, developers (or their QA team) will check for problems by manually testing the system, or by hand coding tedious tests. This is slow, costly, and often allows things to be missed. Ghost Inspector makes this much more efficient. We provide both a Chrome extension for recording tests right in your browser, as well as a test editing interface for manually building your tests.
Once tests are created, they’re stored and run in the cloud without any setup on the customer's end. Tests can be run manually, on a set schedule, or via our API. Results are stored indefinitely and notifications can be emailed to you.
Catch website bugs and regressions before they cost you.