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Does Selenium's LoadableComponent make sense in a SPA (Single Page Application)?
I'm writing a UI testing suite for a single page javascript application using Selenium 2 web driver. I'm still experimenting with how to fit the app inside a page object model. At the moment I am ...
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How to get the Event Object of the Click event on Selenium IDE?
I am a newb at selenium thing.
I have image map area and on click event of this area a function is firing where the click Event Object is being passed to do some calculation.
I have recorded the ...
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how to locate cursors randomly in map
there is a lot of cursors in the map
every time you refresh the map you will get another different cursors with different IDs
so i can't use the IDs :(
i want to click at any cursor, tooltip should ...
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select random cursors on map using selenium ide
I'm using google map api in my site and I want to test the cursors on map using Selenium IDE.
Now I use this code and it works fine:
clickAt > xpath=(//map[@id='gmimap85'])
but it tests only one ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Is there any way to convert existing QTP script in to selenium?
Is there any way to convert existing QTP script in to selenium? if yes then how ? is there any converter to convert or recreation of script is only possible solution for tha?
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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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How to test the test scripts?
Once an automation test is created, how do I test it and make sure the test does what its supposed to do? I can easily test the scenarios where test passes, but how to go about the ones that fails due ...
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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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what is the best way to write automated end to end user scenarios?
When automating user scenarios, we typically cover an end-to-end user flow.
Unit testing recommends that each test method should be independant and only test one thing.
But things are different in ...
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Need a similar functionality like WaitForPageToLoad in MonkeyTalk
Is there any similar function/ command in MonkeyTalk, like WaitForPageToLoad which is in Selenium, that lets me specify the script to wait for a screen to render before moving ahead? I checked ...
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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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How do fitnesse and selenium work together
I have read about Fitnesse in a number of books but when I look on the web I don't see much activity with it.
And a newbie question - how does fitnesse fit into the Selenium world? Are they ...
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Testing Page Layout with webdriver
Has anyone tried to test the page layout of a website using webdriver? To be specific, using webelement.getPosition() and webelement.getDimension().
Shouldn't these two methods be enough for testing ...
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selenium runs the same method more then once [closed]
i have started with selenium few weeks back. i have designed my test this way
using @BeforeClass i am creating a object and calling a method of class which is opening the browser and performing a ...
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how to start work with selenium web driver any reference site for selenium web driver? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Where can I find information on getting started with Selenium 2
I want to learn selenium web driver from the scratch. any one suggest me the reference site for selenium ...
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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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Selenium RC using Grails unable to open URL
My Selenium RC code is launching the browser but it is taking me to C:\Users\Kanishka\AppData\Local\Temp\customProfileDir3e16427300054effa807e843dd1a332f\core\Blank.html instead of the intended URL.
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Is the source code required when using Selenium-RC with Grails?
Can anyone help with using Selenium-RC + Grails? I have used Selenium with Java but had no problem writing the code and launching the browser. But is the source code of my project required when i need ...
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Error while running script selenium RC
I am working on selenium 2.18.0 version with firefox 8.0.1.While executing script i am getting error like
15:52:07.342 INFO - Started HttpContext[/wd,/wd]
15:52:07.347 INFO - Started SocketListener ...
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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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What's the best approach to asserting values with automation testing test cases from complex business logic?
Suppose you have automation tests (my example uses Selenium) to assert complex business logic for a web site. What is the best way to assert that thousands of different test cases are outputting the ...
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Is mail testing with selenium possible?
We have merely just had a kick off meeting for a new project that i am required to automate and ASAP. The project is essentially a "mailbox project",if you will,and i have no idea as to where to start ...
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What are recommended scenarios to use Selenium Tests for?
My company is introducing BDD into our projects. Our customers have differents processes-cases wich also may fork at specific points. It is a mostly long and tedious work to test each case and each ...
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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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Test isolation and automation
We are using Selenium webservices for our automated functional testing .
I have a test which tests creation of some objects. If I run the same test again, I need to make sure that each test has a ...
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Do you verify presence of text in your automated tests?
While automating multi locale application I had to stop using -
assertTrue(selenium.isTextPresent("success text message"));
where success text message would change for each locale.
to -
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How to use Selenium's PageFactory annotations with dynamic loaded elements?
I'm rewriting some Selenium tests according to the page object design pattern taking advantage of Seleniums' annotations. My problem is that I have some html select elements whose option elements are ...
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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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Is Selenium's LoadableComponent a good solution as test design pattern?
I need to refactor my Selenium tests, and come across their LoadableComponent wiki page. I began trying to use it, though I couldn't really understand what is it good for. I took a look at their ...
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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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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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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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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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What aspects normally differ when developing automation framework in QTP VS Selenium
I have worked in Selenium. For developing Web UI Functional Test automation suite I considered below aspects
Using TestNG Framework
Using Page Object pattern
XML based configuration
Logging of ...
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Testing Java or Silverlight plugins embedded in a page using Selenium?
We have a product that defaults to a Java plugin to upload files, and then Silverlight after that if Java's not installed. There is a third fallback of a HTML 4 + JavaScript uploader, but I'd like to ...
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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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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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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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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 ...
