Author: Amrita Angappa

Websites and web apps are growing in number day by day, and so are the expectations of people for a pleasant web experience. Even though the World Wide Web (WWW) was invented only in 1989 (32 years back), this technology revolutionized the world we know back then. The best part is that it has made life easier for us. For example, you no longer have to stand in long queues to pay your bills. You can get that done within a few minutes by visiting their website, web app, or mobile app.

Building a website is also easier with endless web development frameworks in the market. Needless to say, the advent of the web has made the life we know so far simple and comfortable for us.

During the development of a web-based application, there are so many test cases to be executed. For every test engineer, performing actions, such as type, click, and so on, is a must on the HTML elements. While performing automation testing, the test automation tool should be able to perform these operations on the HTML elements just like we interact during manual testing.

But, how does the automation tool know how to locate an HTML element to perform the needed operation? This is where the Selenium locators cheat sheet comes in handy.

Physical device testing has been on the market for a long time. Even today, you can’t deny the importance it holds in the world of testers. In this age of automation testing and real device cloud testing, physical device testing still has the same reverence owing to its unwavering vitality in usability testing and hardware functionality testing, such as camera and GPS. Yet, if you want to reduce your overall project cost, you need to opt for a smarter solution that would enable features such as performing cross-browser testing at scale.

That’s when real device cloud testing comes to your aid. It comes with its own sets of advantages, such as cloud storage, access to communication tool integration, testing with the latest virtual browsers and OS versions, and much more.