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Re:Selenium IDE alternatives for UI regression testing by Vinnl on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @04:41AM (#13588256)
> (I know the "real solution" is "use a frontend framework and write front-end-unit-tests instead", but usually you're writing the acceptance tests for something that already exists).

Eh, GUI tests definitely have their place, although they can be far less specific than your unit tests. They're pretty great for quick and regular confidence checks.

Anyway, TestCafe says it doesn't use Selenium, but I haven't tried that yet: https://testcafe.devexpress.com/

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Re:Selenium IDE alternatives for UI regression testing by reaktivo on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @05:00AM (#13588339)
I was about to suggest TestCafe even though I haven't tried either. After reading a bit, it seems to work with a small proxy that injects a script to trigger events on the page via the normal DOM api's. If might be a good solution if you're targeting modern browsers.
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