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I have been at Webtrends for over a year where I am overseeing the automation efforts. Prior to Webtrends I was at Microsoft for 13 years. Early challenges have included updating a full-featured, yet complex and poorly maintained in-house automation framework, building a common automation logging and reporting platform, creating a tool for simple Deployment Validations, creating automated Performance tests for multiple products, building an object oriented wrapper/abstraction layer for web UI automation on top of selenium and a couple of minor quick-fix tools to increase the speed of manual testing. I have also been involved in a hiring effort to bring our team of one (me) up to a team of 5.
During my time at Microsoft my responsibilities evolved from test planning and manual testing on various projects to --> writing automation and overseeing manual testing efforts from vendors to --> Developing automation tools and processes for the Windows Live organization including a web UI automation framework and a test result reporting platform as well as other smaller tools.
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Feb 21 |
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How to test data migration procedure? I mean that in very large data migrations the migration is often taking place while the system is still up and running and collecting new data. Often there will be an initial run of the migration process happening in the background, then you will flip the switch to the new data store and run a second process to migrate any additional data inserted into the old data store during the initial migration process. If you are simply taking down your service while the migration happens then this is not applicable. |
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Feb 16 |
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Cannot locate button with changing ID in Selenium I would avoid using text()="Login" if at all possible, this allows you to run your automation in localized builds as well. It is generally a best practice to use identifiers in the markup rather than identify them by text visible to the user. |
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Feb 16 |
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How do I convince someone who's bought the Record-Playback line that object oriented framework is essential? It's really unfortunate. One of my dreams has been to create a robust record and playback that was smart enough to store what it records in an intelligently thought out pattern where it doesn't duplicate data and re-uses existing infrastructure as well as outputing the code in an abstracted manner that is maintainable. I'm sure it would never be 100%, but it could be a lot better than the crappy script that most record/playback features generate and might actually be useful. |
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Feb 15 |
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What is Selenium's default timeout for page loading? Thanks for the answer, I did not know that! |
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Feb 15 |
answered | Cannot locate button with changing ID in Selenium |
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Feb 14 |
answered | How to test data migration procedure? |
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Feb 7 |
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What is really tested in an integration test? I agree with most of the above. I have always looked at integration tests as tests that validate interaction between classes, or between a class and an external component. True unit tests can always be run without needing stubs or mock objects. Integration tests may (not always) require mock objects to get thorough coverage of the possible interactions. |
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Feb 3 |
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Is it good practice to combine my Test and Prod BDD tests in one Framework? I have always wished I could run the same automation in production, but always had reasons I could not - most of the products I have worked on I could not modify anything in production and most of my tests ended up modifying something. In those cases, I have still had a subset of my automated tests that I could run in production, and tagged them in a way to where it is easy to run only the production tests. |
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Feb 2 |
answered | Is it good practice to combine my Test and Prod BDD tests in one Framework? |
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Jan 27 |
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Selenium automating ICEFaces Application - locator for dynamically generated ids If you are still unable to figure it out from the article that user1316 suggests, post more of the html so we can see how the ancestors change as well and I could probably help you figure out some xpath to use. Alternatively, is the title unique? Does it change? You may be able to use it. |
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Jan 26 |
answered | WebDriver: find elements by text |
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Jan 25 |
answered | Open [hidden] new window in webdriver without instantiating new driver in WebDriver |
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Jan 18 |
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Locating element by link text (anchor tag innerHTML) or xpath fails in Selenium 2.0 Webdriver Personally, I don't even like Selenium's wait functions, they seem too fragile and I have to be explicit in what I want to wait for. In my selenium wrapper classes I implemented polling/retry logic on every action, so I can navigate to a new page and immediately call a click method on an element I know won't appear for another 10 seconds and it will try and retry up to a specified amount of time and eventually either work or time out. This has avoided so many headaches for me. |
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Jan 17 |
answered | Locating element by link text (anchor tag innerHTML) or xpath fails in Selenium 2.0 Webdriver |
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Jan 17 |
answered | What are recommended scenarios to use Selenium Tests for? |
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Jan 13 |
answered | Running Selenium tests as a scheduled task |
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Jan 13 |
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How to fix 'Access is denied' errors when trying to .quit() Chrome in Selenium WebDriver tests? Sorry, just noticed this. Yes, the selenium user forum is hosted on google groups: groups.google.com/group/selenium-users |
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Jan 12 |
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Selenium Select option from suggest box Oh, another possibly simpler solution would be to use the recorder to record the scenario and use whatever method of identifying the element the code from the recorded scenario uses. |
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Jan 11 |
answered | Should I use custom queries or re-use developer queries in your automation framework? |
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Jan 11 |
answered | Selenium Select option from suggest box |
