Test automation is the use of software to control the execution of tests, the comparison of actual outcomes to predicted outcomes, the setting up of test preconditions, and other test control and test reporting functions.
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Any good open source functional testing tool for java based Web Application
Any good open source functional testing tool for java based Web Application Regression Testing
which require less coding effort
Except Selenium
our Web application is only run in Google Chrome
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manual tester wanting to get into automation
So its been a year since I have been studying python, and just recently I started picking up webdriver. It was a long journey, and I am still pretty noob, but I finally understand how to use it lol. I ...
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Mocking for MXUnit
I'm fairly new to Coldfusion; at my new position, we're using MXUnit for unit testing our service library, but so far we're not mocking out the database (so we're testing against live data). I want to ...
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Does Selenium's LoadableComponent make sense in a SPA (Single Page Application)?
I'm writing a UI testing suite for a single page javascript application using Selenium 2 web driver. I'm still experimenting with how to fit the app inside a page object model. At the moment I am ...
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Best QA techniques [closed]
Can anyone tell me what are the best techniques to do a full QA on a social networking sites. I have a social networking site which is now growing each day. A whole lot of feature have been developed ...
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Any good test plan/cycles or experiences without using crowdsourcing?
I'm trying to rethink our test cycle that we use at my company and am wondering if anyone could give any leads, examples, experiences, etc. to how you test without the use of crowdsource data. The ...
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How would I unit test these functions?
I have the following functions :
Get(ds,filename) - gets a file from a data source ds.
Put(ds,filename) - puts a file into a data source ds.
List(ds) - lists all files in data source ds.
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What are the available multi platform test tools available for native mobile applications?
I'm trying to push my organisation into more modern ways of testing our mobile software, thus I'm trying to build a list of tools that I can use to present to my line manager and his bosses.
By ...
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How to get the Event Object of the Click event on Selenium IDE?
I am a newb at selenium thing.
I have image map area and on click event of this area a function is firing where the click Event Object is being passed to do some calculation.
I have recorded the ...
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how to locate cursors randomly in map
there is a lot of cursors in the map
every time you refresh the map you will get another different cursors with different IDs
so i can't use the IDs :(
i want to click at any cursor, tooltip should ...
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Looking for growth in automation
Is there something or an automation test tool that is free that I could be using to enhance my skills in automation? My company is not allowing me to grow in my field, and this is not good. They do ...
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Recommendations for code coverage tools?
I have a wishlist for code coverage tools and am wondering if people could recommend some tools that fulfill all or many of my wishes. I am starting my search for tools that work specifically with ...
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JMeter Concurrent Users Count Practice
I have a web application which is working in production and there are 2000+ users of my application. Now I have to perform performance testing on the system so is there any idea how many concurrent ...
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What is the most appropriate tool to test web app for beginners? [closed]
I want to start test automation for web app. But i have confusion in selecting the tool. e.g, Whats tool to use and how to use it..... I did not use any tool before, just manually test the web app.
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How do I automate “service-level” testing for a GUI app
I have extensive experience automating GUI testing with tools like TestComplete or Microsoft's CodedUI. However, I am trying to get out of the game of testing at the UI layer and instead would like to ...
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Automated Test Management: Running, Saving Results, Querying, etc
The team I am currently working with has a very large application to test (several custom programs, running in a distributed environment), and has built up a very large set of automated test cases for ...
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select random cursors on map using selenium ide
I'm using google map api in my site and I want to test the cursors on map using Selenium IDE.
Now I use this code and it works fine:
clickAt > xpath=(//map[@id='gmimap85'])
but it tests only one ...
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Is it worth having one set of tests for both functional and performance testing?
I have been writing RESTful service tests using Jersey client. Though the tests are functional, it occurerd to me that I can execute same tests from JMeter and for performance (With some tweak of ...
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Acceptance testing between iOs and web app with cucumber
I have an iPad application which sends some data to our web application. With this data, you should be able to do different kind of things.
We have cucumber tests for the web application (Using ...
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Automate functional testing for WCF services
I am trying to develop a tool to automate functional testing of WCF web services. I have researched a lot on previous projects and developments to start but I did not find any valid resource to start. ...
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What are features of MS Visual Studio Coded UI Test framework that are not present in other tools?
I've recently started working at an organization that has no automated testing in place. They are migrating to Team Foundation Server for project management and source control, and use Visual Studio ...
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SeleniumHQ stuct in Checking Resource aliases
I want to run testsuite from Hudson, for that i have installed seleniumhq plugin and configured in hudson, but when i run the hudson it stuck on "Checking Resource aliases" step.
Started by user ...
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Oracle Forms automation using Cucumber or similar framework
I'm looking for toolset recommendations to automate testing of an Oracle Forms application, with the tests (ideally) to be driven from Cucumber.
I am aware of Oracle's OATS. Can its APIs be called ...
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Testing Server/Workstation Hardware specs recommendations?
I wanted to reach out and get some opinions of Testing hardware. Should I use VMs or a stand-alone tower? If I use VMs, what would be some recommended hardware specs for the hosting server? If a ...
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Automated testing tool for testing 3d modelling applications [closed]
I am looking for an automation tool, that I can use to automate the testing of a desktop 3d design application.
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Automated network capture and analysis?
I was curious to know if anyone has done any work on automated network analysis such as starting network traffic capture (to file) before executing some test, perform some test, then stop capture, ...
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Does anyone know of an automation tool that will perform actions on sending or receiving of an email?
I need to test that a series of sites are up and running and that they can send and receive email.
Step one: send email from example1@example.com
Step two: expect response email ...
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How to make Selenium IDE prefer name attribute over id attribute while recording?
How to make Selenium IDE prefer name attribute over id attribute while recording?
This feature is needed when ids are auto generated by web framework.
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What are the options for automated testing of screen reader in Web apps?
Our team's resources are limited, still we need to make sure our site is accessible (government site, EU). Manual testing includes a lot of fiddling around with JAWS, sometimes other screen readers, ...
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Validate worksheet name using WATiR
How to validate the worksheet name / file name of Excel and CSV files in WATiR?
Because if we save the CSV file in with different name, the worksheet name will also change while in Excel it will ...
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Tool to generate test cases for configuration app based on use case variation?
I am making changes to a configuration tool for a web application. The tool allows internal users to configure messages and custom experiences for external users of the webapp.
I have been given a ...
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How to read data from Excel by using loops? [closed]
I created an Excel file name "readdata.xls" and entered some inputs like
UserName Password
Akshit Ak12345
Ashwika AS12345
I've written a code like this ....
package ...
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ArrayOutOfBoundException when reading test data from Excel [closed]
I am very new to Selenium RC. Please, help in my question.
I installed jxl.jar file (Java library for Excel) and added it to Eclipse build path.
I created an Excel file as readdata.xls where I ...
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Web application GUI automation best practices
Our team develops automation solutions for various web based products.
I'd like to compile a list of patterns and best practices from the GUI web automation space that have been used and proven as ...
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Selenium - page load timeout
Is it possible to set timeout for page load in Selenium test?
I have a problem, when sometimes test execution freezes on page load (application doesn't load new page, test hangs up), so test needs to ...
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Why can't my Selenium Grid VM node get parameters from/register to the hub?
I'm trying to set up a Selenium Grid node on a virtual machine. I am using VirtualBox for the VM and Jenkins (with VirtualBox plugin) to set up the grid. When I try to register the node, I get the ...
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Selenium WebDriver: select value from KendoUI DropDownList
I'm not being able to select a value from a Kendo's dropdown, this is the code (C#):
var select = FindElement(By.Id("Type"));
select.SelectByValue("HouseHold");
That's not the selenium raw api, I'm ...
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Open-source/freeware testing tool for Set-Top Box
According to Wikipedia a set-top box (STB) is:
an information appliance device that generally contains a tuner and connects to a television set and an external source of signal, turning the source ...
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Considering automation parameters, which is better: relative Xpath or absolute xpath? [closed]
I want to perform automation (selenium) using Xpath. Which one gives better results?
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What test generators do exist?
What tools exist to automatically generate test scripts (or test script templates) from a formal specification or a program's source code?
EDIT:
The background of this question is, that I’m ...
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Which automated tests do devs create vs SQA staff?
We have a big remote SQA team now who have identified about 600 bugs with test cases to both assist in manual testing and prepare for us to start automation testing.
Our development lead has setup a ...
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Looking for open source, Java-based tool for performance testing
Goal:
I have an enterprise application written in java to test for performance. I need to do it separately, so I will be basically simulating a user interaction over http/https.
My findings:
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Test automation strategy for mobile apps
I am currently working on planning a test strategy for test automation for our mobile apps.
The problem is that all the automation frameworks I've seen utilize a slightly different context than what ...
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Webdriver Check if Checkbox is Set and Set it if Not
I am learning Webdriver with JUnit by going through Alan Richardson's Selenium Simplified book and taking translating the exercises/tests from Selenium RC to Webdriver. So far, this has proven to be ...
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How can my team move away from record-and-playback when not everyone has scripting experience?
(Inspired by this question)
My team is currently doing automated testing via our tool's record-and-playback function. I've read about the benefits of developing a more robust test solution via ...
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Automated Web Testing against Sharepoint solutions in a windows development house
I'm researching which web browser automation tools is most suited to running functional user tests against SharePoint based solutions and potentially MVC based custom web parts at a later date. We are ...
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How can I automate the testing of flash games?
If I want to automate testing of flash games like car race, bike race bubbleshooter, video slot games or video poker. Is there any open source automation testing tool available for this purpose. I ...
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Object Spy for Android apps
Is there any open source object spy tool exist for android applications? Any tool that can be used to identify object properties? We can use this information for writing test automation scripts.
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Enforcement of quality as a runtime requirement
I come from a background that strongly emphasizes automated testing baked into the build process. You commit, the code is checked out by the build system, compiled, and tests run against it. If it ...
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Is it possible to automate Silverlight in windowless mode?
Does anybody have an application under test (AUT) that uses a mixture of HTML and Silverlight controls, which they have successfully automated?
My AUT web app has screens with a mixture of HTML and ...
