How To Perform Automation Testing On Desktop Browsers | LambdaTest

About the Video

Automated browser testing on LambdaTest allows you to automate web testing across 3000+ real desktop browser environments, using frameworks like Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Puppeteer, and more.

Video Chapters

0:04 Introduction

09:50 Automation testing on desktop browsers

09:51 Conclusion

Key Topics Covered

Introduction to LambdaTest for Browser Automation: It begins with an overview of LambdaTest, highlighting its support for browser automation on desktops, emulated simulators, and real devices. The automation dashboard is briefly introduced, showing where tests and builds are displayed.

Getting Started with LambdaTest: The speaker discusses the initial setup needed to use LambdaTest, including obtaining a LambdaTest username, access key, and a hub URL. These are essential for authenticating oneself as a user on the platform.

Creating and Using Capabilities: The concept of capabilities is explained as instructions provided to LambdaTest about the browser, operating system, and version to run the test on, among other settings. The use of the LambdaTest Capability Generator is demonstrated to create a capability object specific to the user's needs.

Writing a Basic Test Case: A basic test case is presented, showcasing actions like opening a URL, performing clicks, and utilizing driver waits. This illustrates how users can translate their local or cloud-based web application tests onto LambdaTest.

Executing Tests and Parallel Testing: The process of creating a remote WebDriver connection for interacting with LambdaTest is described. The video also covers how to configure and run tests across different browsers and operating systems simultaneously, leveraging parallel testing capabilities to speed up the testing process.

Live Interaction and Debugging: LambdaTest's feature for live interaction with the browser during test execution is highlighted, allowing users to manually perform actions and access network logs for debugging purposes.

Detailed Test Reports and Logs: The video explores the detailed reporting features within LambdaTest, including execution videos, command logs synced with video playback, network requests logs, Selenium logs, browser console logs, and terminal logs. It also mentions how screenshots are captured for each command executed during the test.

Reporting with LambdaTest APIs: Lastly, it touches upon the ability to fetch logs, videos, screenshots, and other test artifacts using LambdaTest APIs for custom reporting.

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