The UI Testing Hack You Need to Know : Hybrid Tests Explained
There are many applications where the user-interface is key and the primary-means by which end-users experience business-benefit. API testing cannot fully replace UI testing in such cases, and approaches such as Exploratory Testing, Context-Driven Testing are of value.
So can teams - that have achieved maturity in core API testing - aspire to perform hybrid-testing, where a test-suite can switch between calling APIs or driving a UI even within the same test-script? Are there advantages to Hybrid testing?
Is it possible to involve API calls, fake API responses (via mocks) and UI automation into a single flow of a test automation script, when using a suitably capable test-automation framework?
We hosted Nathan Chilton on 30 Mar 2023 at 10am ET to dive deep into Hybrid Tests.