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Discussion on: Taking the horror out of UI testing 😱

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Eugene Cheah • Edited

Co-founder here - having given a similar answer on cypress in the snippet launch post

Cypress - focuses on chrome based testing, being embedded inside the browser itself. On the downside, while it means lack of other browser testing such as IE11, it has one of the fastest! test speeds without any of the webdriver overheads. Its test scripts are also more technical in nature.

Uilicious - on the other hand, focuses more on simulating user behaviour, across multiple browsers, including the minor slow downs and delays between actions, and key strokes. With a test scripting language to cater for the non-programmers : 90% of the time.


As for open source projects, we have in the pipeline the functionality to execute test scripts from a public git repo, similar to travis CI. Its still in extremely early stages of development. But thats the plan (no fixed date yet, as its heavily dependent on our next investment round) πŸ™‚

Its something we are committed in doing for our FOSS community and local Engineers.SG. Hopefully paving the way for more opensource friendly companies in our country Singapore, which we feel is lacking in our asian region.

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kontrollanten

Thanks for your answer! It looks really promising! Thanks for pushing the development further in this field!