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How to start UI automated tests with Playwright

The advantages of using Playwright for UI testing?

In the modern trends of web applications development the great advantage is to have an opportunity to create automated tests quickly, launch them and get representative execution results for the analysis. That’s why to achieve it and gain the edge over the popular webDriver and Chrome DevTools protocol technologies, Microsoft started its open source project Playwright, which provides QA engineers with following features in UI automated testing:

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Introduction to Allure and its usage in Java autotest frameworks

What is Allure and what is it used for

Allure is an open-source framework that is designed to create beautiful, interactive, and easy-to-read reports for automated tests. It allows developers and testers to create detailed and meaningful reports of their test results and can be integrated with various test frameworks such as JUnit, TestNG, and more.

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IT companies Christmas Special.

Christmas eve was always related to the grand planning process – how we should organize a proper celebration and make those holidays as comfy as we can. At ISS Art we start preparations during early Autumn to make every detail in time. Today we are completely ready to celebrate our 19th Christmas. 

And we’re pretty sure that all our IT colleagues around the world are at the same point. In this article we’ve collected several examples of how the biggest IT companies celebrate Christmas.

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AI integrations, still actual?

It’s been five years since ISS Art agency started to focus on AI software solutions development and integrations. This is a great time to look back and think whether this trend in custom software development is still relevant or we should completely go into something more trendy like web3 or back to classic web/mobile development focus.

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Graph Neural Networks and their applications

A Graph Neural Networks (GNN) is a class of artificial neural networks for processing graph data. Here we need to define what a graph is, and a definition is a quite simple – a graph is a set of vertices (nodes) and a set of edges representing the connections between the vertices. There are many data sources which produce data that can be organically presented in a graph form. For example, we can consider social network users as graph vertices where two vertices are connected if corresponding users are friends.

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Crowdsourcing in machine learning: expectations and reality

Every person who works in machine learning (ML) sooner or later faces the problem of crowdsourcing. In this article we will try to give answers to the questions: 1) What is in common between crowdsourcing and ML? 2) Is crowdsourcing really necessary?

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How much is RMSE? Technical and business metrics – exchange rate.

It is not a secret that people who work in the sphere of Machine Learning sooner or later start to see themselves as a kind of carriers of sacred knowledge. They know what back propagation, cross-entropy, tensors are and how you can transform them.

It goes without saying that staying in this kind of ML bubble affects the perception. The developers start to think that everybody knows about technical specifications of this work, as they do. But it is far from being the truth. In the Machine Learning sphere there are two main parties: engineers and customers. In this article we offer you to see the process of ML development from the point of view of the customer.

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ISS Art is a Leading AI Development Company this 2022

The AI industry is usually remembered for post-apocalyptical scenarios where robots invade earth and rid of humanity altogether. That is far from the reality, as a matter of fact, AI has been playing a vital role in helping different industries as they improve to better answer their business needs and problems. Companies like ISS Art have been at the forefront of this industry by providing incredible AI development services globally.

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Katalon as the first step towards automated tests

Katalon Recorder is an extension for Google Chrome and Firefox browsers that allows you to record test scripts as code in a specific language with the application of specific frameworks.

This tool is convenient when you need to quickly make an automated test. Also, tests recorded with Katalon clearly show which methods are responsible for a specific step, which is very useful not only  for beginner QA Automation engineers.

Even for experienced testers, this tool will come in handy as creating templates for autotests. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install this tool and to write a simple test.

In this article, we will demonstrate the installation of Katalon recorder for the Google Chrome browser.

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