Getting started with Ghost Inspector

Ghost Inspector is an automated website testing and monitoring service that checks for problems with your website or application. It carries out operations in a browser, the same way a user would, to ensure that everything is working properly.

Check out our Getting Started page for more information.

Key Features

Ghost Inspector is a powerful tool in your QA arsenal to ensure that your websites and application are behaving as expected.

Some of our key features:

• Painlessly record tests in your browser using our browser extension.
• Build and manage your tests with our Visual Editor.
• Monitor the functionality of your website or application on a schedule or on demand.
• Catch and review Visual Regressions with our screenshot comparison tool.
• Customize and override test settings in advance or at runtime.
• Notify your team when things haven't gone as expected.

Trigger tests from your Azure DevOps build

Adding Ghost Inspector test suite execution to your Azure DevOps build is as simple as adding a new Ghost Inspector task. Once the task has been added, you have the ability to customize your build step:

• Suite ID: specify the ID of the Ghost Inspector test suite you wish to execute.
• API Key: provide your Ghost Inspector API key (provided in your account).
• Start URL (optional): provide the alternative URL of your test environment to execute your test against.
• Additional Parameters (optional): additionally provide any other API parameters or custom variables in JSON format (eg, {"browser": "chrome", "myVar": "some value"}).
• xUnit Results Path: (optional) specify where you would like to store the results reports in xUnit format for publishing in a later step.