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Trigger Selected Cypress Specs Using GitHub Actions
Have you ever needed to run only certain tests on CI? Gleb Bahmutov shows you how to do that and with an bonus of specifying how many parallel machines to use.
Is it possible to run only Playwright Tests that changed in GitHub actions on a pull request?
Butch Mayhew reveals how to find changed Playwright tests introduced by a pull request and only run those tests using Github Actions.
Improve Cypress e2e test latency by a factor of 20!!
Murat Ozcan gives you what you need to improve Cypress test latency that will speed up your CI feedback in this step-by-step, detailed article.
Visual regression testing for Cypress with Visual-Regression-Tracker
With many visual testing tools out there, Richard Forjoe shares how to use open-source tool Visual Regression Tracker.
Start Playwright for Component Testing
Component testing helps ensure functionality, and increased confidence, along with many other benefits. Kailash Pathak highlights how to set up component testing with playwright with examples.
Validating your Environment Variables with Playwright and Zod
We all know the hassle of keeping up with an .env file in team and Stephen Kilbourn demonstrates how to use Zod to validate environment variables.
Interesting Reads
How I learned to stop worry and leverage python to become an influencer
The title says it all. Jean-Edouard Reuglewicz shares the start of their journey on how to influencer business using BigQuery, Google Cloud Storage, Google Cloud Functions, and Google Compute Engine all with nice charts and graphs.
How to get a Pokémon Cafe reservation in Japan using Python
Like most highly prized reservations, The Pokemon Cafe can be booked quick. Patrick Leung shows how they used Python to help book their reservations with a simple use of Selenium for Python.