Create A Basic UI Automation Check

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Simon Tomes

Community Lead at Ministry of Testing

Challenge Description

In this challenge, your goal is to create a basic UI automation check that completes the ‘Contact us’ form and checks to see if the form was submitted correctly.

For this challenge, you can use any UI automation tool you like, such as:

  • Off the shelf frameworks like Cypress and TestCafe
  • Custom-built frameworks with tools like Selenium
     
What you’ll learn
  • Use tools to automate a Web UI

Prerequisites

Be sure to run through the following, which comes from the Automation In Testing Three Day Course Prerequisites. You don't have to install a local version if you don't wish to. You can just automate your checks against the public version of the Restful Booker Platform.

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