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Re:Ask HN: How do you test CMS-based websites? by wprapido on Friday January 25, 2019 @05:06PM (#19003002)
If Selenium doesn't work, give Puppeteer a go. It's NodeJS-based though.

How do you go about? Pretty simple. Define criteria, run Chrome Headless against it, and check results. Jest is a nice add on in your toolchain!

As there are many use cases and a million criteria to test agains, coming up with a one size fits all solution is difficult. Katalon is perhaps closest to it, but it has many shortcomings.

Some food for thought. Rely more on screenshots and compare them with what you expect. I'm writing a simple downtime checker as we speak and one of the key features is very basic analytics that compares screenshot to blank screens, generic error pages, parked domain landing pages, etc.

Re:Ask HN: How do you test CMS-based websites? by andrei_says_ on Friday January 25, 2019 @06:44PM (#19003696)
What are some of Katalon's shortcomings you've experienced? Asking because it's one of the top options right now.
Re:Ask HN: How do you test CMS-based websites? by wprapido on Sunday January 27, 2019 @05:38PM (#19014202)
Doesn't play nice with other tools