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How can I convince Squish to recognise the menu bar on Mac OS X?
I'm currently recording some python test scripts for a Mac OS X application using Squish for Qt, version 4.0.2.
The menu bar of the AUT works fine if interacted with manually, but for some reason ...
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How do I tune the probabilities in a Markov chain based load test to produce specific hit rates?
I am writing a load test for a web application. I have a few month's worth of access logs that tell me relative hit rates of various URLs. However, the access logs do not contain enough information ...
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Facebook App testing
The app that I am testing is a plug in app to Facebook. I need to test the app for users having varying fan network ranging from 1 to 1 million.
The question is: How to create users in this range ...
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What is best practice for test failures that have a low priority fix?
If I have a test that fails due to a known bug, but that bug is deemed lower priority to fix than other work, what should be done with the test?
I can think of 2 options:
Leave the test in the test ...
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split stored value using JS in selenium IDE
I am trying to use js split in one of my tests. I need to store a url and save the last part of the url in a log file. I have stored the url successfully but I can't get the slit to work. So far I ...
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Do Academic Researchers in Automated Software Testing Believe All Testing Can Be 100% Automated?
While surfing today, I found this article on attitudes on automated software testing among academics and practitioners. Since I am currently an automated tester in industry, I agree with the ...
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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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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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How can I automate testing of HTTP requests? [duplicate]
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Is there a captureNetworkTraffic implementation in Selenium 2 via webdriver?
I'm using Selenium2/C# to run automated tests of a web app. I need to test the HTTP requests sent ...
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Cucumber and Watin for Acceptance testing in Asp.Net MVC
If the business owner/QA are writing/running the Acceptance test against the front end of a Asp.Net Mvc Application, is there a benefit to using SpecFlow/Watin or SpecFlow/Selenium over Cucumber/Watir,...
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Which language gives better career options: TCL or PERL?
I am an engineer with 1.5 years of experience in Test Automation in Perl. I am getting chance to work in TCL. I am little worried about my career growth. I don't know whether TCL also has the same ...
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Inconsistent results when capturing javascript errors with WebDriver
I'm using a technique I found here, to capture javascript errors for testing purposes. It's a technique that is frequently recommended on Stack Overflow for those who need to catch JavaScript errors ...
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Differences in methods to select an element based on content in XPath
Selecting an anchor link with content, such as <a>test link</a>, I can see three different ways to do it using XPath:
a[text()="test link"]
a[.="test link"]
a[contains(text(), "test link")...
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Continuous Integration and testing environment and configuration for Android
I am an Android developer but I am not satisfied with my testing and Continuous Integration environment and configuration.
Someone could recommend me how to configure the best setup and workflow for ...
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What is the best software to automate complex tasks involving multiple applications/steps?
Basically, I want to automate the creation of a certain type of user account. There are four basic steps, but each step involves a different application and has somewhat intricate details. The steps ...
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Is it possible to test crystal reports using QTP?
Can QTP be used to test reports generated on Crystal Reports Server?
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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]
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Best approach/tool to develop an automation suite to test an XML API?
I'm in charge of the automation for a hotels search/book XML API. My experience is mostly with SOATest and a bit of soapUI. I would like to know if there is a better approach to do it, I'm looking to ...
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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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How to avoid redundant tests
We are building an application using a completely test-driven approach. As developers, we are very familiar with unit tests but haven't been exposed to integrated / functional / acceptance tests. ...
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Is there a way to disable a JavaScript function of the tested application from Selenium WebDriver automation project?
I need to disable a particular JavaScript function of the main application for which I am creating automated tests using Selenium WebDriver.
Is there a way to do this?
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Can someone be a good automated tester and be terrible programmer?
I'm currently working as an automated tester. Mostly I do GUI testing in SilkTest, which I like and think I'm fairly good at. Recently, I've been assigned a COM-testing project for our application's ...
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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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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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Is there a successful approach to automating security testing?
My team uses a security testing tool called Burp Suite. We currently try to manually run it once a release. One of my tasks is to determine if/how we can make that into more of an automated process. ...
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Should I use custom queries or re-use developer queries in your automation framework?
Modifying the question based on Kate Paulk suggestion.
I had a very interesting discussion on Data Validation using Automation
I have summarized Pros and Cons of Reusing Developer Database Queries ...
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Statistics about Success of Test Automation
I'm looking for some statistical data on the success and failure of system test automation projects. I'm especially interested in the reasons of failed approaches. Can anyone help?
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Suggestions for continuous integration, test and deploy infrastructure for a Ruby on Rails application in Amazon EC2 cloud
I would like to know everyone's opinion on the best tools for setting up a continuous integration, test and deploy infrastructure for a Ruby on Rails web application API in the Amazon EC2 cloud and ...
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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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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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Is there some published JavaScript with a list of 'interesting' test strings?
I went looking on the Google for a simple JavaScript object or other bit of JS code that can deliver a list of strings that are interesting for testing. I thought there would be a billion hits, but I ...
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Testing automated tests in Hyper-V virtual machines
I recently started with a company which does not have any other full-time testers (testing as such is done primarily by people from support), so I don't have other people within the company to ask ...
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Tool for Virtual machine Test Orchestration
What would be a good Orchestration tool for Triggering tests in Virtual Machine? Basically I want to trigger multiple parallel VM's to run automated tests. The tool should also have queuing mechanism.
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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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Automated testing tools for iOS apps [duplicate]
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What are some tools for testing Mobile web apps?
I wanted to know if there are any good automated testing tools that can be used to test iOS apps. Looking for some pointers.
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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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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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Is there a commonly used functional test runner/reporter that is lightweight/simple?
Functional tests come in all shapes and sizes. Is there a class of lightweight, simple to use, tools that will discover, run and report on all tests found in a directory? I'm looking for something ...
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Is drag-and-drop possible in watir-webdriver?
I would like to drag-and-drop one element to the position of another, triggered from within a watir-webdriver script.
By "drag-and-drop" I mean picking up a draggable element and releasing it on ...
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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 files....
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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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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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What is a good way to refresh page elements when using WebDriver .Net with IE 8?
I'm automating a part of the User Profile UI we have using WebDriver Selenium 2, I'm coding in Visual Studio so I am using the .Net version as I am more comfortable in C#, and I am testing this with ...
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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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Automating form dealing with large number of element
This is more of test design question than pure Selenium question.
I have a form in my application and while following page object pattern I wrote a method which has many parameters -
newMerchantPage....
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Is there an industry-standard term for choosing which tests to run?
I have been searching for information on mapping tests to code changes but I haven't had any luck. I suspect that there is some industry standard term that would have better google-juice.
Suppose you ...
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What is the best way to create an automated test that asserts the precision of a matrix processing algorithm?
I have and automated test that test an algorithm and the output of this test is the percentual precision of the algorithm. Currently our team is trying to make this algorithm more precise, as well as ...
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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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USB storage emulator
I need to emulate insertion and removal of SD cards to write tests. What is the best way/tool to implement it in .NET?
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php undercontrol replacement
Actually php undercontrol seems to consume a lot of memory so I'm looking for replacement, in order to test a php application.
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