Katarzyna Rdzanek, Patryk Kamiński

FRONTEND TEST AUTOMATION AS AN UNDERESTIMATED ELEMENT OF THE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

The purpose of the work is to show the value of automating web application tests using the WebdriverIO tool. The authors show the differences between static and dynamic tests and the benefits of using them. They also demonstrate the need for early testing by analyzing the increase in the potential cost of fixing errors found late in the software development process while also pointing to the inability to find all errors using static testing methods. The authors present possible reasons for resigning from attempts to automate test cases in development teams and propose a solution in the form of using the WebdriverIO tool. They analyze the most useful features of this framework and, on the basis of their automation project, present the basic scheme of WebdriverIO files, at the same time making it available to interested parties for their own use. The authors point to the need to ensure software quality and associate the possibility of obtaining one by implementing basic test automation in development teams.