Test Automation Learnings | Gauge Blog

Tobias Lehmann

Feb 26, 2024 Test Automation with Limited Resources
Automated testing can significantly reduce the time spent on regression testing, but the initial effort and maintenance is often a major burden. Using Gauge in combination with reusable libraries, we have been able to introduce automated testing in difficult projects where developers never seemed to have enough time to take care of this important level of testing.

Sai Krishna Vijaya Kumar

Oct 16, 2020 Adapting test automation to project architecture changes
Here's why we moved from Selenium and Cypress to Taiko in our client projects

Soumya Swaroop

Sep 10, 2020 Crossbrowser testing with Non-functional tests
Here's why functional tests are not meant for cross browser testing

Aug 24, 2020 Migration using regression testing - A case study
The team behind a UPI app were migrating from their application framework. Read about how the team ensured that new releases were deployed without affecting its millions of users. To ensure top-notch testing, the team embraced new techniques to deliver quality at speed.

Jul 24, 2020 Adopting Gauge and Taiko at Workstream to simplify test automation
Workstream, a startup in the HR domain, was growing and so were its testing needs. Windy Liu, the lead automation engineer introduced Gauge and Taiko to test the application as well as help introduce new testers to the test automation practice.

Jun 24, 2020 Shifting left with Gauge - a case study
A leading Australian financial services company set out to create a simple and elegant home loan solution. Investing in test automation and using Gauge helped a lot to improve the overall quality of the application and the user experience.

Nov 4, 2019 Gauge made test automation easy at Luminate - a case study
Luminate has been using Gauge for over 2 years now. They started using Gauge when it was still in beta and have now extended its use beyond browser automation. This blog post explains how Gauge made test automation easy for teams at Luminate Security.

Soumya Swaroop Gupta & Nivedha Senthil

Aug 21, 2019 How Taiko compares to other browser automation tools
Taiko is designed to be simple, reliable and a fast browser automation tool. Comparing it with other popular open source tools to find how different it really is.

Robin Ninan

Jul 22, 2019 The Gauge Move
Robin Ninan from Kodoo explains how they've migrated their tests from Cucumber to Gauge

Chad Wathington

Mar 15, 2019 Unit Tests aren’t ‘tests’
At ThoughtWorks, we often debate the value of our existing practices to constantly challenge ourselves and remind ourselves why we do what we do.

Soumya Swaroop

Nov 12, 2018 Minding the Gap between BDD and Executable Specifications
Here's why tools that have human readable executable specifications are not BDD tools.

Zabil Maliackal

Oct 23, 2018 Introducing Taiko - the last mile to reliable test automation
Gauge releases Taiko (beta) - a free and open source browser automation tool.

Zabil Maliackal

Jun 19, 2018 Gauge is out of beta
We’re happy to announce the launch of ThoughtWorks Gauge 1.0, and Gauge is officially out of beta.

Zabil Maliackal

May 15, 2018 Why we built Gauge
At ThoughtWorks we place a high value on test automation. We’ve built a lot of testing tools.

Soumya Swaroop

Feb 16, 2018 Empathy in architectural decisions to empower users
Empathy in architectural decisions to empower users Over the past year and a half, I’ve been part of the team developing Gauge an open source, acceptance test automation tool

Zabil Maliackal

Dec 7, 2017 Language server protocol and DSL’s
Gauge is a external DSL to express test behavior and data outside code.

Kashish Munjal

Dec 7, 2017 Authoring a language runner for Gauge
Gauge is a light-weight cross-platform test automation tool with the ability to author test cases in the business language.

Zabil Maliackal

Oct 4, 2017 Headless Acceptance Tests
Headless Acceptance Tests Using Gauge, Puppeteer and Chrome to run headless tests

Zabil Maliackal

Sep 8, 2017 Gauge updates - September 2017
Release 0.9.2, updates and features. Run and debug tests in IntelliJ IDEA with the newly integrated runner!

Zabil Maliackal

Jul 21, 2017 Gauge updates - July 2017
What’s new in release 0.9.0 and more

Zabil Maliackal

Jul 20, 2017 Why we collect data
To be a better testing tool, from version 0.9.0, Gauge collects anonymous usage statistics (telemetry). The data is public and there’s an easy way to opt out.

Zabil Maliackal

Jul 12, 2017 Testing with headless chrome
The new headless feature in Chrome 59, makes it easy to run gauge with selenium on a CI/CD setup or Docker instances without having to use.

Soumya Swaroop

Jun 13, 2017 The Page Objects anti pattern
Writing automated tests that are easy to maintain require skill, practice, discipline and good design.

Soumya Swaroop

Feb 15, 2017 Five reasons to use Gauge
Despite having the right set of automated tests, writing and managing a growing test suite can be challenging.

Soumya Swaroop

Jan 17, 2017 Why write tests in plain-text?
Writing scenarios to test a functionality involves a lot of thinking. Over time test cases and scenarios become complex even for trivial applications.