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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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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How have Guava unit tests been generated automatically?
Guava library for Java has unit test cases automatically generated:
Guava has staggering numbers of unit tests: as of July 2012, the
guava-tests package includes over 286,000 individual test ...
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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 ...
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Where to focus testing? On integration level or unit level?
Consider a modern web application that serves JSON through a REST API to a rich Javascript-based application with one or more single-page apps within it. Our own application is written using Angular ...
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Downloading a file in Internet Explorer through Selenium
I have to automate a case in which I have to download an Excel file using Selenium IDE.I have done this in Firefox by using custom profile feature which automatically downloads file and saves it into ...
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Is Selenium the right tool for browser compatibility testing?
I have been seeing a lot of customers pushing for browser compatibility testing using Selenium. Was wondering whether this is really necessary. The push is mostly due to Selenium grid supporting multi ...
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Why session is not created in Bot-Bot?
I'm using Bot-Bot, Android automation testing tool with record and replay features.
I was able to start a server, record and play sample APK accompanied with bot.
Now I need to test my own APK, so I ...
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Any tool for testing distributed app with Big Data (Hadoop + Cassandra + Tera Data)?
We are doing a feasibility study of Lightweight Automation Testing (non GUI) of systems involving of Hadoop/Cassandra/Tera Data.
We tried searching for automation tools support, its big data ...
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Custom error testing: How to find status code after page load/button click? [closed]
How to find status code after page load or button click for custom error testing?
After button click the page crashes. I want to check status code.
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Should I try the evaluation version of HP Quality Center?
I'm trying to determine if I should spend some time working with a trial version of HP Quality Center. For a number of reasons, my time is very valuable to me right now both at work and in my ...
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Framework for testing Dojo
I need to automate tests for Liferay portal with portlets on JavaScript. I am going to try several frameworks before implementing tests. For now, I am considering D.O.H. and Selenium Webdriver. ...
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Is there test inheritance in VisualStudio?
Imagine you have a sequence of web tests in Visual Studio, recorded individually i.e., "Login", "Event A" and "Event B".
To do both "Event A" and "Event B" you need to login. Is there a way for tests ...
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How to report test execution method when using @Factory in TestNG?
I am using @Factory annotation from TestNG to create tests dynamically. It will read a property file that contains the list of test cases to be executed and return them.
@Factory
public Object[] ...
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Cell not found in new DataGrid entry in Silverlight
I'm trying to automate the testing for a Silverlight application but I'm a bit stuck.
There's a DataGrid that needs a new entry.
First, I press a button which adds a new row to the DataGrid.
Then ...
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Should tool generated test data be deleted during tear down in test automation?
I have seen this recommendation many times that tear down is supposed to clear test data which is created during tests. This is supposed to avoid interference with any future tests. For example ...
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How to make sure your test data are correct?
We are doing integration tests where we simulate manually data coming from external systems to our application. Integration tests task has become bottleneck in our team, because preparing test data is ...
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Open-source functional testing automation tools for testing Silverlight based applications
I am looking for an open-source functional testing automation tool that supports testing of Silverlight based applications.
To be more specific, the tool should be able to recognize objects within ...
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PHP: code instrumentation library to capture/record new unit test cases?
I have a library that seems to work as intended. I would like to add some instrumentation to the library to capture (some) current input and the result and save that as a test case. Is there a library ...
