Selenium is an open source framework for testing web applications.
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Building “slow to break” regression tests
I need to build a lot of regression tests for our product at work and I plan on using Selenium. I am concerned about building tests that will become quickly outdated and broken based on the fast pace ...
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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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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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Whether to choose Selenium over Watir or Lightweight Test Automation when testing web applications created using c sharp?
I am currently researching testing frameworks to test c sharp developed web applications. I have been leaning more towards the use of Selenium over Watir or Lightweight Test Automation but hesitant ...
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What are the best beginner tutorials for Selenium IDE
I have gone through the possible duplicate question,it was related to selenium webdriver .
I am new to Selenium IDE tool. Could you please suggest me some best PDFs and sites with Selenium tutorials ...
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How do I keep Selenium test cases DRY?
I'm somewhat new to Selenium and I have a problem. Whenever I write a test case, that test case starts with logging in, and it's the same four steps every time. If I change the password for that ...
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Is there a captureNetworkTraffic implementation in Selenium 2 via webdriver?
If yes, how is it called, or where can I find more info about it? (I'm not talking about using WebDriverBackend.)
If not, what alternatives are there?
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Maintaining automation framework for different browsers like IE and FF
How to maintain automation framework for different browsers like IE and FF?
In my current set up, I maintain two different configuration properties files, one with xpath locators that FF supports ...
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How is Selenium different from other GUI automation tools?
I have used WatiN and WebAii but I have limited experience with Selenium. How does Selenium differ from these other tools?
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Why should I move to Selenium 2 from Selenium 1?
What are the real benefits of using Selenium 2 instead of Selenium 1? I've read several posts related to new version but didn't get what are the advantages of Selenium 2.
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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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How do I start the Internet Explorer WebDriver for Selenium in Python?
I had a devil of a time figuring this out. It wasn't documented on the web anywhere I could find. I ended up reading the webdriver init.py to find out.
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How to eliminate \ reduce invalid failures in automation due to GUI changes?
I am into the automation of a web application using Selenium. I write test cases without hard-coding anything in the test cases. There were many invalid failures in the run due to GUI changes such as ...
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What is the correct way to select an <option> using Selenium's Python WebDriver
I would like to select an <option> child of a <select> using the Python WebDriver.
I have a reference to the option WebElement I wish to select and have tried select() and click() methods ...
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QTP vs Selenium [closed]
I have largely worked with Selenium for front end automation. Looks like there is great market for QTP in this arena, especially when you could afford commercial tools. Have you worked with both QTP ...
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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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What's the difference between Selenium IDE, RC, 2, and WebDriver?
Selenium seems to have a lot of different components and the website does not explain them very well and I'm still a bit confused which is which. What's the difference or purpose between:
Selenium ...
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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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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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Handling self-refreshing pages from selenium
I have been running into intermittent errors with some java selenium-rc tests which I think are related to a page which has an ajax poll and automatically refreshes when some condition is reached on ...
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Which locator do you use with Selenium CSS or XPath?
I have heard that, when using Selenium, the CSS Locator has better performance than the XPath Locator. Which Locator do you use in your tests? Have you seen a great performance improvement when using ...
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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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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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“java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError” Error when running Selenium RC script
First of all I have recorded the script in Selenium IDE, then exported into the junit4 (RC), then copied the junit4 (RC) code into Eclipse IDE. When I run the project with junit test, I found the ...
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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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Selenium:how to delete single characters from a textbox
Using Selenium how to delete single characters from a textbox using Selenium?
I have to delete the last 2 characters from text box.
Ex.ABCD to AB
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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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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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Can Selenium and Bromine 3 execute overnight and email the results
I would like to automate the testing with selenium - even when I am right now a beginner with automatic testing and especially selenium. Therefor I am working with Bromine 3 RC 2. Is there a way to ...
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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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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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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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Creating test cases for site registration using Selenium IDE
I'd like to know how you can automate the registration process for a site that requires a unique email address or username each time, using Selenium IDE. My only thought would be to insert an ...
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Starting selenium always spawns a second window
I am not sure if this is the right place for asking this.
Any time I start a selenium test I get two windows. One
with the command which are right now been performed and
the second one with the test ...
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Functional tests for Flash
We are using a rich client developed with Flex. We would like to build automated tests to test whole features. I saw a module for Selenium, Flex Monkium, which could do the job.
Did you try it out? ...
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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: reuse existing browser session, instead of opening new windows?
This has been asked a million times on the web, but there's no clear cut answer. I tried "-browserSessionReuse" today without any luck; my tests keep spawning new browser windows.
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Selenium Server and Windows Server compatibility
I want to run Selenium Server on a recent version of Windows Server so as to be able to test IE browsers as well as Firefox, Chrome, etc.
My choices for Windows Server are 2008 R2, 2008, or 2003. ...
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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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Selenium with Ruby - getting an error SeleniumRubyWindowsTest.rb:1:in `require': no such file to load
SeleniumRubyWindowsTest.rb:1:in `require': no such file to load -- selenium (Loa
dError)
from SeleniumRubyWindowsTest.rb:1
I followed the steps from this blog - ...
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Send keys to no element in particular
The way I know of sending keys using the WebDriver Python bindings is as follows:
element.send_keys(value)
How can I send a key (specifically the Escape key) to no element in particular, just to ...
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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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Selenium-2 Webdriver browser support
I have a question about selenium2 (webdriver).
As selenium-2 supports following 4 types of web drivers..
1-IE
2-firefox
3-chrome
4-htmlunit
Is there any way to use any other webdriver apart ...
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Selenium Select option from suggest box
I must test an application that you type 3 letters in a text box and pick an option from a generated list.
How can I do this with Selenium IDE?
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Getting nose test runner to execute a test against multiple browsers / configurations?
Surely someone else has run into this problem. I'm trying to figure out how to loop through Firefox, Chrome, and IE in conjunction with nose.
Right now I have:
"setup.cfg" file that specifies ...
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Logging with Selenium Server?
Right now I have several Python Selenium scripts in which I am manually writing results to a text file. Is there a more standardized / centralized way I can log my results without much difficulty?
I ...
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Selenium Tests run in the background when TeamCity CI is run as a Windows service
Our test suite is written in Python and makes use of the WebDriver Python bindings. We are looking into moving to TeamCity for continuous integration.
The setup I have in mind is a build triggered for ...
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OperaDriver is not navigating to desired URL
I have tried to open a URL using the OperaDriver. My issue is that I am getting browser launched but the desired page is not getting loaded. Below is the code.
@BeforeClass
public static void ...
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Handling browser level authentication using Selenium
I am automating an application which contains browser level authentication.
When I open the application, the browser performs basic authentication, i.e. it prompts for a username and password. How ...
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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 ...
