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Integrating tests to your development pipeline. Quickstart guide to Loadero API.

Sometimes using a graphical user interface isn’t enough to fulfill your daily tasks, especially when you start automating your testing routines. Imagine a scenario, when you perform a regression test on a piece of functionality every time you push a new release or merge your code to a particular branch. It would be a nightmare to manually run those tests every time, especially if your team is rather large and you’re practicing continuous delivery.

Create and Run Jobs with a Cypress Test in Github Actions

In this video, you will learn to set up two simple jobs with GitHub Actions and Saucectl to create a pipeline that builds and tests an example web app, as well as runs a test on Sauce Labs' virtual machines using Testrunner Toolkit and Sauce Control. Starting from a project set up in a previous tutorial, learn to add jobs to a github workflow .yml file. Use Actions to start a Sauce Connect Proxy Tunnel, install saucectl, and use it to run an automated test using Cypress.

The Ultimate Guide to Performance Testing and Software Testing: Testing Types, Performance Testing Steps, Best Practices, and More

Performance testing is a form of software testing that focuses on how a system running the system performs under a particular load. This is not about finding software bugs or defects. Different performance testing types measures according to benchmarks and standards. Performance testing gives developers the diagnostic information they need to eliminate bottlenecks.

Set up a Cypress Test Project with Github Actions

In this tutorial, you will see how to set up a app project file cloned from the public `Swag Labs` web app provided by Sauce Labs, and create your own GitHub repository. Setup secrets in Github, and create the YAML file in the .github/workflows directory that will allow you to build & test the app using GitHub actions. Set the events in testrunner.yml that trigger the workflow to run, as well as the environment variables. The following video will show you how to set up and run the jobs.

Setup Sauce Connect for Saucectl

Learn how to download and run the Sauce Connect proxy software so that you can create a secure tunnely for testing apps that require one. Download the `sc` file, and use a few simple terminal commands to run it on your machine, see how to change the tunnel id to run on different tunnels, and how to run your test on a shared tunnel so that you can use saucectl to run tests against an app in a protected environment.

Run a Cypress Test with Sauce Connect

Once you have a Sauce Connect proxy tunnel up and running, learn how to run your test on a shared tunnel. See how you can run this test in different Sauce Connect tunnels with Cypress on Sauce by simple changing you tunnel-id. See a demonstartion of both options you have for running the test in the 'sauce' test environment (on the Sauce Labs Cloud of virtual machines), by updating config.yml, or using a --tunnel-id flag in SauceCTL when you run your test.

Test a Local App with Cypress and Saucectl

Cypress on Sauce with Testrunner Toolkit allows you to perform tests on an app that you have on your local machine (or other non-public environments), then test it against the wide variety of devices available on Sauce Labs on. in Sauce mode (on the Sauce Cloud), or run your tests in a Docker container in your local environment and send the test results to Sauce Labs. This tutorial shows how to do this using the open-source Swag Labs web app.