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2021-11-09

Selenium 4: what's new

Selenium 4 has been released on October 13, 2021 and it's packed with exciting new features and improvements.


TestingBot is fully compatible with Selenium 4. Simply pass in a selenium-version: "4.0" capability and you'll be using SE4 with TestingBot for your tests.


What's new in Selenium 4?


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2021-04-30

Automated Accessibility Testing with TestingBot

Automated Accessibility Testing allows you to test if your website is accessible to all types of users.


The popular accessibility testing framework Axe allows for testing your website for all kinds of accessibility issues.


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2021-04-09

Puppeteer Testing in the Cloud

TestingBot has been providing a Selenium-based cloud service since 2012.

We started with offering a Selenium RC compatible grid and added Selenium WebDriver support when it was released.


In recent years, a number of other E2E testing frameworks have emerged. While these new frameworks offer the same end result (automated testing in browsers), their integration differs from each other.



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2020-11-09

Run Cypress tests on TestingBot's Browser Grid

TestingBot has released testingbot-cypress-cli, a CLI program that allows you to run your Cypress Automated tests on TestingBot's browser grid.

What is Cypress Automated Testing?

Cypress is an end-to-end testing solution. It allows developers and testers to easily create tests and run these tests in a browser.



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2020-08-10

Run TestCafe tests on TestingBot's Browser Grid

Today we're releasing testcafe-browser-provider-testingbot, a plugin for TestCafe.


TestCafe is a NodeJS framework to do automate end-to-end web testing. It allows you to write tests in Javascript or TypeScript and is easy to install and use.



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2020-07-27

Selenium 4 (Alpha) Testing on TestingBot

TestingBot now supports Selenium 4 (Alpha) testing on its Selenium grid!


Even though Selenium 4 is still only available as an alpha version, we've already added support for this upcoming release.


This allows you to prepare your tests to be compatible with Selenium's upcoming new version. You'll get access to the latest upcoming features (see below).


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2020-07-02

Test on macOS Big Sur and Safari 14

macOS Big Sur Preview 1

We have added Apple's upcoming OS to our list of platforms.


Apple announced this next new major macOS release in its latest WWDC keynote. The version number of the OS will be incremented from 10 to 11, the first time since the release of Mac OS X Public Beta in 2000.



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2020-05-28

Take control of a physical iOS device via VNC

Today we're excited to open-source a feature that we've been using in production for the last 3 years: an iOS VNC Server.


This will allow you to connect with your favorite VNC Client to a physical iOS device (no jailbreak required).


The program streams the screen of the iOS device through VNC and listens for mouse and keyboard events.


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2020-05-26

TestingBot has improved its Analytics Offering

TestingBot has long been providing Analytics to its users, where metrics are both visualised and available in table format.


Recently we've been working on improving this. We're excited to tell you about a couple of new features available in our Analytics offering.

Test Insights


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2020-03-19

Codeless Web Automation on iOS and Android

What is Codeless Automation?

Codeless Automation allows for creating and running automated tests, without writing the tests.



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2020-01-31

Microsoft Edge Chromium - Automated Selenium Testing

The new Microsoft Edge is a browser based on Chromium and was released on January 15, 2020. It is available on both Windows and macOS.



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