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. Commonly, test automation involves automating a manual process already in ...
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Fitnesse editor with syntax validation?
We use Fitnesse with tens of project-specific fixtures to design the tests. However, writing the correct test is tedious, because of some trivial errors we make:
Syntax errors: unclosed tables, ...
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What is page object modelling? and Why is it so important?
I have been hearing a lot about page object modelling? Why is it so important?
Can someone please outline me page object model?
I'm currently working as QE in webservices area
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How to verify alert message is displayed or not and its text content using SAPB1TC?
I require to verify that click on a button have displayed an alert message.if so also verify what was the text content.
guys please guide me on this issue.
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iOS UIAutomation UIAElement.isVisible() throwing stale response?
I'm trying to use isVisible() within a loop to create a waitForElement type of a function for my iOS UIAutomation. When I try to use the following code, it fails while waiting for an element when a ...
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Outlook Mail testing
I want to know how to use outlook to test mails (the mail has a link that needs to be clicked to approve or deny the request). How do I write this in Selenium Webdriver in c#. I am quite new to ...
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What are some good test cases in order to do License Key authentication while software is being installed?
I want to learn about:
What could be the test cases to ensure the test coverage while any proprietary software is being installed using a license key. I wish to avoid (a) re-installation (b) multiple ...
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What are the features of SAPB1TestComposer automation tool?
I am now exploring SAPB1TetComposer and require useful suggestions to learn this tool.
please share important links or resources to learn SAPB1TetComposer.
what are the drawbacks of this tool?
Is ...
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Selenium.click not working on some anchor elements
The application that am working on was recently revamped and as part of that a new JQuery calendar was introduced. I need to click on a link in the calendar to select the time and date. However, ...
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Under what circumstances is Sikuli better for test automation than Selenium or Watir?
The Sikuli website says:
Sikuli is a visual technology to automate and test graphical user
interfaces (GUI) using images (screenshots).
Under what circumstances is Sikuli a better technology ...
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ITKO LISA-Service Virtualization-Tutorials
We have planned to implement ITKO LISA as a service virtualization tool for creating mock enviroments for testing.What I found lagging is there are no materials for studying/training resources.Is ...
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Align and maintain functionality across multiple platforms/programming languages
We are developing a library that we are looking to support on multiple platforms. We currently have a .Net(Desktop, CF, Silverlight, WP7), a Java (desktop and android) and a C++ (win32 for now) flavor ...
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SpecFlow - test MVC3 Web site with action calls
I'm very new to BDD testing, and would like to ask, is it possible/OK to test ASP MVC3 actions directly (using WebClient) using SpecFlow?
i.e.
Feature: Login
Scenario: Logging in
Given I post ...
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How to keep track of the features in a website for impact analysis?
I have been working for an ecommerce client for the last 6 years as manual and automation QA engineering. New features gets applied to our site once in 2 weeks. Whenever a redesign project comes up, ...
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Advantages of Rational Functional Tester?
Cost aside, does RFT (Rational Functional Tester) have any advantages over the other tools in the market say Selenium or Watir/Watin...etc?
I'm in a small team and we are evaluating choosing other ...
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Can I (in Eclipse/java) automate the logging of all enters and leaves into or out of all functions, including library ones?
While comparing the run of my wizard and a similar standard one, I have to check all entrances into all functions for both cases. Is there some tool that can automate the process? I can't do it by ...
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What is automation testing and why do we need it?
I am new to the field of software testing. I would like to clarify the following basic things:
As there were different types of testing process, we used to do manually enter testcases and write for ...
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UI and DB automation tool suggestions
Currently we (in the team) are using silktest (for last 8-9 years) and now looking for other tools to replace silktest, it's a different argument on why to look for other tool, setting that aside, ...
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What are the advantages of web driver over selenium RC?
Please provide answers in detail, So that we could clarify that which one is to choose, Web driver or Selenium RC.
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weighing tools/approaches for testing of database components
Currently the way we do this on LedgerSMB is to have SQL scripts which insert records into a test results table. This table is created in a transaction which runs the tests, and the tests always roll ...
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Compare screenshots of rendered web pages
In my team, we use Selenium for automation of functional testing. We also do a lot of manual regression testing to make sure the appearance of the rendered web pages is ok. I would like to develop a ...
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Automated tests pass every time when run individually, but when they are clumped into a test suite it's a toss up if the tests will pass
I have around 200 test classes for my web application at the moment. I use Selenium2/Webdriver and the tests are written in java, with TestNG used as my framework.
When I run each test by itself, ...
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What are the things to care for while choosing an automation testing tool?
I am new to software testing field ,I clarified for the need of automation tools What is automation testing and why do we need it?
Now it arises me the following questions
what were the things care ...
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How to deal with automated test cases that always fail?
I'm facing a lot of automated GUI tests that fail one or more verifications during their run. All the failings points have been reported in our tracking system and they are known issues but get ...
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Provoke automation tree update from my automated test case
I am using AutomationElement and UITestControl for programming representation of the UI controls I want to interact with. The problem which I faced with is that in some cases the automation tree is ...
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Tools similar to Google Test for C++ unit testing?
Are there any tools similar to GoogleTest for the purpose of functional testing in C++. I plan to do them as part of Unit Testing and would like to know of other options available so that I can make ...
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Are there tools that can help validate data imported to Excel from a grid view image?
I want to convert a scanned grid view image into excel spreadsheet, and then test its content using some automation tool.
Conversion can be done through Optical Character Recognition system but how ...
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Should automated tests be efficient?
I've written and edited a bunch of automated GUI tests. In some cases, the tests are inefficient (eg to select an item from a list, instead of a clever search, a dialog is opened and starting fro the ...
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What tools are available for automated testing of flex/html5?
I have been tasked with implementing automated testing for a web portal. The product is currently developed using flex, but we will be transitioning to html5 at some point. My supervisors want a tool ...
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Techniques for test selection, give a large suite of test cases
I have a huge collection of test cases (inputs). I'd like to select a small subset that's likely to catch most of the bugs. Are there any standard or known techniques in the testing literature for ...
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In house built testing tools
I've been having to deal with a lot of testing tools lately for testing tasks that should/must be automated. These include things like performance/load testing, webservice testing, vulnerability ...
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Looking for a content-aware library for regression testing of PDF files
I'm doing some automated regression testing on a web application using Rational Functional Tester with Java.
I need to test some PDF files produced by that application, comparing them with a "base" ...
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TestComplete working with a very large application loses the ability to access application internal properties
I work with automated testing of a very large Delphi XE application using TestComplete 9. The application has a 180MB executable. The automation environment is Windows XP, 32 bit.
TestComplete is ...
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Framework and tools for managing testing and monthly releases?
I'm not anywhere close to being an expert on professional QA and testing but I do work with it as part of managing a IT system at work. To be honest, we are not very mature when it comes to using an ...
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open source tool to automate the process of installing Adobe applications on Mac
we are trying to automate the process of downloading app and installing the same on Mac. Currently we are using Selenium till downloading app, for installation we are finding difficulty to handle, ...
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Good resources/tutorials/tips for beginner doing automation?
I've just started automating all the tests our team has (~5000). I'm using Telerik Test Studio for the Silverlight automation. I have some tests written, but I'm quickly realizing that with each test ...
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Automation engineers- general purpose vs. dedicated
As part of our recent recruiting effort we need to decide on the best approach for choosing automation engineers.
On the one hand software engineers, or programmers, can write great automation ...
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Maintaining regression results on web server or locally
I have a set of test cases which are run on every release of the compiler. The regression logs have to be in readable format. I already have a script to extract information from the logs which gives ...
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Automating Installation of Application in Mac [closed]
I want o automate the process of installation of application which is downlaoded and saved in downloads folder in Mac. I thought of using Applescript for the same, we are using Selenium Testing ...
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Service layer automation using Fitnesse
Does anybody used Fitnesse before? I am new to Fitnesse trying to set the automation framework at the Service layer. Any idea of how to do it in Fitnesse and any resources would be greatly ...
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Upgrade SilkTest automation scripts to work with IE9
We use SilkTest 2010 Open Agent to perform Automated Web Testing. Our scripts currently work on IE6 - IE8 and on Firefox 3.X.
IE9 has changed modal boxes to unintrusive pop-ups at the bottom of ...
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Resources for test automation
I'm trying to learn more about test automation as it relates to the QA process and there just doesn't seem to be a lot of resources out there. For example, if I do a search for TestComplete (a tool ...
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any suggestions on automation tools for mobile application? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are some tools for testing Mobile web apps?
Me and my friends have developed an application for all the mobile platforms.
The mobile camera opens immediately ...
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What should be the critieria for the selection of new feature test cases to be moved into build acceptance test suite?
I am working on a project to move new feature test cases to build acceptance test suite. Later on I will also be selecting which test cases should be moved to regression suite.
While I was selecting ...
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What is the best practice for testing against modules which collect statistic
We have a distributed application which should be monitored. There are some modules which collect external data (disk usage, free disk space, CPU utilization, memory utilization, etc) and some ...
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What are the best practices for Integration Testing of a middle-ware?
I want to know about the best practices of Integration Testing for a middle-ware product. It includes several backends and also I want to test it over multiple platforms. The features of Clustering is ...
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If the position of objects change will the same script work?
I am testing a Java applet with QTP.I am adding the objects in the applet to my object repository.I am able to create an action that works with the objects in Objects Repository.My doubt is if an ...
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Using UI Automation framework without AutomationID or Name
I'm beginning to explore the possibility of doing UI automation using the UI Automation library that came with .NET 3 (will be using c#). There aren't a ton of tutorials out there on this, but the ...
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Setting the resolution of the slave used by Network Suite of TestComplete wanted
We are using a Network Suite inside of TestComplete 9 to do distributed testing. We have already setup a project that executes on 2 remote computers, our slaves.
Sometimes the resolution on the slave ...
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How common is testing based on log files analysis?
Here is a document that outlines challenges and solutions of testing of Mars Science Laboratory:
http://compass.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ws-slides/havelund.pdf
I found the approach of log files ...
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Does anyone have any suggestions for a Selenium with Ruby tutorials?
I have gone through this book http://www.compendiumdev.co.uk/selenium/ which is excellent and I highly recommend it to everyone! I was wondering if there is a similar book/tutorial with a Ruby focus ...
