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Browse TestKase blog articles tagged "automation". Guides, walkthroughs, and best practices for QA teams working with automation.

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Accessibility Testing in CI/CD: Catching WCAG Issues Before They Ship

accessibility, automation, CI/CD, QA

Accessibility Testing in CI/CD: Catching WCAG Issues Before They Ship

Three integration patterns, GitHub Actions / GitLab / CircleCI templates, and a 3-quarter rollout playbook to take an engineering team from zero accessibility in CI to block-on-fail.

Oct 7, 202615 min read
Auditing Pages Behind a Login: A Practical Guide to Authenticated Accessibility Scanning

accessibility, automation, QA, security testing

Auditing Pages Behind a Login: A Practical Guide to Authenticated Accessibility Scanning

Most accessibility scanners stop at your login page. Here's how to audit the 70% of your app that lives behind authentication — cookie, login form, and header methods compared.

Sep 26, 202614 min read
Manual vs Automated Testing: When to Use Each

testing, automation, QA, best practices

Manual vs Automated Testing: When to Use Each

Automate the wrong test and you get a brittle suite nobody trusts. Skip automation on the right one and you burn a person's week every sprint. Here's how to tell which is which.

Jul 30, 20268 min read
How to Run Load Tests in Your CI/CD Pipeline with k6

performance testing, CI/CD, automation

How to Run Load Tests in Your CI/CD Pipeline with k6

Step-by-step guide to running k6 load tests in CI/CD pipelines. Covers scripting, thresholds, GitHub Actions setup, result analysis, and scaling strategies.

Jul 25, 202619 min read
Jest Test Reporting: From Unit Tests to Quality Dashboard

integrations, automation, tools

Jest Test Reporting: From Unit Tests to Quality Dashboard

Set up Jest test reporting that feeds CI results into a quality dashboard. Covers custom reporters, JUnit XML, coverage trends, and flake detection.

Jul 19, 202618 min read
How to Reduce Test Automation Maintenance by 50%

automation, best practices, testing strategy

How to Reduce Test Automation Maintenance by 50%

Cut test automation maintenance in half with proven strategies: resilient selectors, Page Object Model, API setup, explicit waits, and smart test architecture.

Jun 14, 202620 min read
REST API Test Automation: Best Practices and Common Pitfalls

API testing, automation, best practices

REST API Test Automation: Best Practices and Common Pitfalls

REST API test automation best practices: test design, authentication handling, schema validation, data isolation, and parallel execution strategies.

Jun 3, 202623 min read
Regression Testing Strategy: How to Stop Bugs from Coming Back

testing strategy, automation, best practices

Regression Testing Strategy: How to Stop Bugs from Coming Back

Build a regression testing strategy that catches reintroduced bugs fast. Covers test selection, risk-based prioritization, automation, and suite management.

May 17, 202620 min read
Test Data Management: Strategies That Actually Scale

automation, testing strategy, best practices

Test Data Management: Strategies That Actually Scale

Master test data management with proven strategies for generation, masking, seeding, and cleanup. Reduce flaky tests and scale QA across environments.

May 5, 202619 min read
How to Report Playwright Test Results to Your Test Management Tool

integrations, automation, tools

How to Report Playwright Test Results to Your Test Management Tool

Build a custom Playwright reporter to send test results to your test management tool. Covers mapping, CI/CD setup, sharding, and attachments.

Apr 29, 202622 min read
GitHub Actions for Test Automation: A Complete Setup Guide

CI/CD, automation, integrations

GitHub Actions for Test Automation: A Complete Setup Guide

Build production-grade test automation with GitHub Actions: matrix builds, sharding, caching, secrets management, and CI/CD reporting in one complete guide.

Apr 12, 202623 min read
Page Object Model: The Design Pattern Every Automation Engineer Needs

automation, best practices, tools

Page Object Model: The Design Pattern Every Automation Engineer Needs

Master the Page Object Model (POM) pattern with Playwright, Selenium, and Cypress examples, component composition, anti-patterns, and scaling tips.

Apr 1, 202620 min read