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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Selenium automating ICEFaces Application - locator for dynamically generated ids
I'm trying to automate a very short sequence in a web application developped using ICEFaces. I need to click on a button which is coded as
<input type="image" title="Unterbrechen" style="padding: ...
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Plans For Testing a Web Application Before The Site Is Built
An acquaintance of mine is building a website for his (non-profit) organization. Since I'm currently an automated tester on a desktop-based application, I thought I could help him do some web testing. ...
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Is opening site during set up a bad practice?
I have been using set up method to launch site but it has made made it difficult for me to maintain tests, especially now when there are multiple URLs for application -
public void setUP() {
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Testing drag-and-drop with Selenium 2 on Telerik controls
I need to automate drag and drop functionality with Telerik controls, I currently use WatiN for my automation (see related quesiton Testing drag-and-drop with Watin on Telerik controls
. I am ...
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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 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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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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Automation for export tasks (Word/PDF/CSV)
I am looking for ideas for automating export tasks you would usually see in reports (SSRS SQL Server Reporting Services example - Export to PDF/Excel/CSV). What I have observed is when you export ...
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Running Selenium test on TFS
I am currently working on implementing UI tests of .NET web application using Selenium RC.
The tests are now coming together and I am beginning to look at how these will be incorporated into TFS. ...
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testing Touchscreen driver
I am testing a touch screen driver for an embedded device. Unfortunately it is tightly coupled to the hardware so simulated data can't be pushed in real time in order to simulate real usage.
Basic ...
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Can someone explain Modeling and Prototyping?
In this blog post, the author points out that "modeling" or "prototyping" are one of the more effective ways to test software.
http://kev.inburke.com/kevin/the-best-ways-to-find-bugs-in-your-code/
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Creating a dummy database for automated functionality testing
I have a continuous integration build server (using Team City). When people check code in, I'd like to run a set of tests which run through a set of functional cases such as:
Using an administrator ...
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Looking for a test tool for Flash-based web applications. Any ideas?
I'm looking for a Selenium-like tool to test Flash-based web applications (specifically a guided interview with questions and form fields that the user navigates through to produce a document at the ...
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Multiple Assembly QA Systems?
I'm having difficulty deciding whether or not using multiple assemblies for a QA system is the right approach to take. Here are some important details:
The underlying system is a single assembly ...
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Can the base-url be changed in the same browser session using Selenium RC?
Suppose I login to evernote.com using Selenium RC. Is it possible for me to change the base_url to google.com while staying on the same page. I do not want to open a new browser for google.com. When I ...
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testing embedded asymmetric multiprocessing system
I am testing an embedded system consisting of multiple processors working in different speeds, with different resources, all communicating through dedicated channels using a proprietary message ...
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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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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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Selenium 2.0 Webdriver file structure for automation testing
My team uses Selenium 2.0/webdriver to test our enterprise web app. We've been learning and playing with webdriver commands for a while. Each team member has their own style to keep their script ...
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Open source deployment validation tool
Asked this on stackoverflow and earned myself the tumbleweed badge... Anyone here know of any?
I'm looking for an Open source tool to help with deployment validation for mainly web based applications ...
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Selenium IDE has stopped recognising pop-up windows
I'm relatively new to Selenium and since the update to 1.0.12, when I run my tests, each case with a selectWindow command fails. If I run these steps seperately, by clicking individually, it passes, ...
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Selenium test timing out
I am facing a strange issue with Selenium RC. I have a test which runs perfectly fine when I run my selenium server manually on the default port. The test passes in seconds. However since my tests are ...
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Approaches to Testing a Scientific Library
I'm quite interested in the Scipy/Numpy project which is basically a Python scientific computation/numerical methods library. I'm also interested in testing. What are some good approaches for testing ...
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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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Problem in First soapUI Project
I have download SoapUI trial from SoapUI site,
went go to following page:
http://www.soapui.org/Getting-Started/your-first-soapui-project.html
created a soapUI project;
added following WSDL:
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Regression testing for web services and SharePoint workflows - What should I research?
Apologies if this question has been addressed before or not relevant to this exchange. I did some initial searching and I've only recently discovered this area of stackexchange so I'm unsure of the ...
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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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Recycling publicly available tests?
What are the best ways to reuse existing tests for new things?
For example, Java and C# (Mono) both have tests testing their implementations of Hashtable.
If I write my own Hashtable (let's say for ...
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How to transfer Test Cases from one TFS2010 server to another
We have two TFS servers, one we use for testing the output of our developers, and one we use for testing features in TFS. The main problem with this is that it means I have to create new test cases to ...
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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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PageObjects: Aggregation/Composition vs Inheritance for nested components
I need to refactor my Selenium tests, and was wondering what the best design solution would be for a portal with a hierarchical page organization. We are using tiles, and we have defined a baselayout ...
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Xml Diffing Best Practices
There's a lot of xml out there, and diffing it against canned data has helped me in the past.
But there's a few things I find I need to do:
Delete segments of the xml I don't care about ...
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Using FitNesse with .Net across multiple servers
My previous work involved writing embedded Linux code. We used a couple of the embedded devices in a test harness, a Linux PC and the Windows Perforce repository. The Linux PC ran an instance of ...
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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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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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RFT - very slow to add objects
I'm currently exploring RFT for my team. I have come across few issues (as per IBM help website, it's a known issue) with Java Scripting. Hence ditched it and now got .net scripting working with 2010 ...
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Fully qualify window path after upgrading to QTP 11?
After I upgraded from QTP 10 to 11, it required me to fully qualify my window paths using descriptive programming.
For example, this sort of thing worked in QTP 10:
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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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Testing webservice engine: best practice
I am currently working in a web-service testing project. The web-service engine works on a large set of input data and returns some data that undergo a lot of calculations and filtering.
The testing ...
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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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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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Is it good practice to combine my Test and Prod BDD tests in one Framework?
This question has been bothering me lately, more from the fact that in the past this is something I would never do, yet in the past I wasn't writing BDD tests. Since incorporating SpecFlow into a ...
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Tools for insufficient authentication
I must test a website for insufficient authentication. Use case:
I go to website which I'll testing.
Log in as admin(user with the highest permissions/privileges)
Run some tool.
Tool has login and ...
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Is FitNesse the only DSL for Selenium, or is there another DSL available?
I'm looking for a DSL for Selenium (or another testing tool) that will allow a non-programmer to automate functional tests.
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Automate verification of emails being received
One of the applications that I have to do an enhancement to soon has a number of emails that are sent from the application. To the point of verification, I need to see the delivery failure ...
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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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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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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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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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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" ...
