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Issue with losing focus of “hover” command when the mouse is outside of the active window
If I automate mouse actions using Selenium2/Webdriver in combination with Firefox 12, I can easily get the "mouse" to move to and hover over a context menu so the sub-menus are seen. However, if I ...
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What is the best way to have a SpecFlow project run across multiple browsers?
I'm working on setting up a SpecFlow project to test a portal. Thus far I've haven't had issues writing some "hello world" features and steps. My question is as the testing project grows, what is the ...
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What common browser plugins should be tested against?
In previous companies, I'd decided not to test against Skype plugin breaking my website's UI.
Is it common enough now that it should be tested, just as Flash is/was common place?
I have no analytics ...
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Industry standard on testing zoom levels
Is there an industry standard on how many zoom levels should be tested when working on a website?
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Should web pages be tested for ZOOM levels?
As a Product Manager, one of my entry-level SQA Testers asked me an interesting question - "Should we be testing for zoom levels? ie, when a user magnifies or zooms out in their browser or an iOS user ...
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What are some tools for testing Mobile web apps?
I'm thinking along the lines of a Firebug for the iPhone/iPad/Android/BB that can truly give more insight on the markup/scripts.
Even when testing on the simulator/device, it's hard to truly simulate ...
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Cross Browser Testing of enterprise applications
I'm looking for a cross browser testing solution for an enterprise banking application during the QA phase. Is there a tool out there that mimics the action that the tester takes on one browser and ...
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Testing IE 7, 8, 9. Is the IE9 compatability mode sufficient?
I am wondering if people find that IE9 compatibility mode is sufficient enough to complete testing sites for multiple IE versions. In comparison to IE collections, virtual machines, etc.
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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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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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Getting older (any) Firefox version
Where to get installer for older Firefox version?
For testing, I often need particular version and language mutation of particular browser, and Google often leads to sites that tend to either serve ...
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Curious behaviour of Firefox when using a proxy for local IP Addresses
I'm currently debugging a rails application and sahi.
Previously working without a problem:
I would have a proxy running on: 10.2.33.44:9999 (sahi proxy)
rails server (host) is also running on ...
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Utilu vs IETester vs Virtual Machines
I have used IETester in the past for testing in older versions of IE, however I've recently come across Utilu IE Collection and Utilu Firefox Collection. However, I'm not certain of the reliability ...
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Is browser version matrix a thing of the past?
Microsoft announced that they will automatically update users to the latest version of IE if they have automatic updates turned on (this is a change from before where people had to explicitly accept ...
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How do I close the browser window at the end of a Selenium test?
I have googled for the answer, but the ".stop()" so frequently mentioned doesn't work for me. The Chrome window the test was running in remains open.
def test_getResults(self):
sel = ...
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What are my options for non-local environment creation?
What is the industry-standard method of creating multiple environments on one physical machine?
I need to test multiple Web applications in multiple browsers on multiple OSes -- like everyone else. I ...
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How do you determine critical areas to test when verifying multiple browser support?
With Microsoft putting out a new version of IE every year or so, competitors like Google Chrome, Firefox, and Safari also doing the same, there are questions, frequently, as to whether a web ...
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Firefox (3.6) not loading Flash when running Selenium2 tests
I've seen several mentions of an issue when running tests in Firefox: the Flash player doesn't load the SWF if the browser window doesn't have focus. This causes sporadic test failures if the system ...
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What techniques are available to determine which browsers to test?
When websites being deployed to the internet are about to go live, the age old question always comes up. "Which browsers should I test?"
I am not asking that question because it will soon become ...
