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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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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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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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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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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Automating email verification feature of an application?
I'm helping to automate an new web application, part of this application requires email verification. What are the industry standards for automating the black hole known as "email"?
What I'm trying to ...
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What programming languages are good for novice testers to learn?
I'm looking for a programming language to recommend to a friend considering teaching herself software testing. I have a friend who is interested in learning software testing, and I believe strongly ...
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Why Isn't SilkTest More Common?
The title says it all. I've been using SilkTest for about a year now in my current role. It wasn't my choice to use, and I've never used it, or even heard of it, before this role. There are definitely ...
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Does the latest version of QTP have something similar to Selenium Grid?
Does anyone know whether QTP supports parallel test execution on multiple browsers now? I am looking for something similar to Selenium Grid.
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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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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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Is jQuery faster than CSS/Xpath selectors for IE 8.0 in Selenium1?
I am planning to run my existing Selenium 1.x tests in IE 8.0.
After checking few blogs and reading this, I tried to run my tests using jQuery locators with the method mentioned here. My tests uses ...
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What is tested by IcuTest?
In the current "Automated Software Testing" magazine there is a short article about IcuTest. It is written that with "Test Generator" you can automatically create GUI unit tests:
ICUTest is a ...
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Is there any automation tool for Symfony 2 framework in PHP
Is there any automation tool for Symfony 2 framework in PHP? If so, please suggest me some sites that help me study the tool.
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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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List and role of different types of testing environments
There are numerous of different testing environments that I have come across with, and ALL of them seem pretty useful and helpful but which ones are necessary.
For example ... I have seen:
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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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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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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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Test Automation for SAP
I'm evaluating a number of test automation framworks to implement on a SAP project.
Right now I'm looking at
Fitnesse, which we believe we can write some fixtures for, to call SAP
Green Hat, which ...
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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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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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Best free (or very cheap) automation tool for Windows GUI testing?
I used to use vTask Studio, but it seems they've abandoned it. No updates in almost a year.
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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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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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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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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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HP QTP 10 Issue while logging onto the demo Mercury Website
I am trying to log-in on the http://newtours.demoaut.com/ demo website created by HP Mercury to do some hands on their proprietary product QTP 10. I opened this site successfully on IE9 (Win7 X64 PC). ...
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How can I automate in Selenium IDE for email activation link?
In the send invitation process, the user will get a link in his/her inbox. When the user will click on the link, it will ask for a password and confirm the password.
How can I automate it with ...
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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 testing in cloud
I have a Windows application using OpenGL and automated E2E test environment based on Sikuli framework. Tests run locally and are not available outside of my company network. As we have two different ...
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Are Selenium functional tests reliable enough to be worthwhile?
I'm finding that regardless of how solid my tests scripts are, I still have tests that fail (falsely), even though they worked just fine before. I'm not talking about if markup changes (although that ...
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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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What are the tiers of testing that should be done on a large scale distributed system?
Let's say you have a large distributed system in the cloud that's got dozens of developers working on it and actively adding code to. Your job is to make sure all of the quality gates are used and the ...
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Solving “SeleneseTestCase is deprecated” issue
I'm working through the "Selenium Simplified" book just to really gain a solid understanding of Selenium and Java. I know the basics of Java, but this one is frustrating me. I must be missing some ...
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Functional and performance testing for the “Finacle - Infosys” core banking system using IBM Rational
I am trying to evaluate the capabilities of the below IBM Rational tools to handle functional testing automation and performance testing for the "Finacle - Infosys" core banking system.
IBM Rational ...
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What are strong points of RFT comparing to other test management tools?
I've started to evaluate RFT by getting their trial version, I'd like to hear on the strong points that makes you folks to stick with RFT. I'm using QTP and Silktest now and trying to find how useful ...
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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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How to share my test scripts with other stakeholders?
I have written Java automation scripts using Selenium WebDriver in Eclipse.
I uploaded everything to GitHub.
Here my questions are:
How can my manager/colleague execute these scripts in his or her ...
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What Are Some Examples of Why Explicit Sleep Statements Are Bad
I've read various places that explicit sleep statements are a bad practice in automated tests, even if I've used them occasionally. They can be annoying (creating unnecessary waiting in tests) but I ...
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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 ...
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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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Check for Windows version in Silktest Classic Open agent 2011
I am new to Silktest, so can anyone help me out to verify the Windows version and the IE browser that the test is about to run on.
Is there an inbuilt function that I could use in my test case that ...
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What's the relation between Selenium WebDriver and these other tools?
I've used Selenium IDE to test Drupal (PHP) sites but want to create more advanced tests with loops and such. I hear Selenium WebDriver is all the rage, but when I google it, all these terms pop up ...
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How to checkin Eclipse code into git repository in ProjectLocker? [closed]
I could not checkin into ProjectLocker. I exactly followed the mentioned steps defined here.
But when on Final step I am using git push origin master command then I am getting below error:
Warning: ...
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Tools for testing iPhone apps
I was wondering if there any automation tools out there that can help with the process of testing an iPhone application on the device itself and not on a simulator.
Ideally, it would have simulating ...
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One tool to rule them all
This question may have already been asked/answered in various places, and in various forms, but this is my problem. I have been in software testing for a few years now, most of this has been manual ...
