{"id":6563,"date":"2019-01-18T03:29:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T03:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/18\/automated-browser-testing-with-selenium-and-phpunit\/"},"modified":"2019-01-18T03:29:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T03:29:33","slug":"automated-browser-testing-with-selenium-and-phpunit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/18\/automated-browser-testing-with-selenium-and-phpunit\/","title":{"rendered":"Automated Browser Testing with Selenium and PHPUnit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/83601088?color=00adef\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>As a small startup faced with the challenge of delivering a secure, scalable, cross-browser payments platform with virtually no QA resources, Joshua and his team at Patientco (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.patientco.com\/)\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.patientco.com\/)<\/a> turned to Selenium and PHPUnit to fully automate their end-to-end browser based testing.<\/p>\n<p>In this December 5th, 2013 presentation, Joshua introduces Selenium\/PHPUnit, demonstrates how easy it is to get started, highlights lessons learned over the past 5 years of using Selenium commercially, and discusses the latest tools\/trends from the Selenium community. Whether you\u2019re leading a large team in a Fortune 500 company or are just a single freelance developer, Selenium is a surefire way to improve your QA and testing process with minimal investment.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Silver is VP of Product Development and the technical co-founder of Patientco \u2013 a fast-growing healthcare IT and payments startup in Atlanta. In addition to leading the development team, Joshua is responsible for Patientco\u2019s overall technology strategy and product direction. His expertise in consumer-centric system design, secure payment processing, and scalable web architecture has helped Patientco deliver a market-leading healthcare payments platform. Joshua brings with him over 13 years of PHP experience and has more than 6 years under his belt of automated testing. 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