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RESTful JSON Web API Testing - what tools?
My company is working on its API which is RESTful JSON Web API. So far, all my testing was done using Selenium WebDriver. Starting from one and more tests I manage to create some sort of framework. ...
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Open-source functional testing automation tools for testing Silverlight based applications
I am looking for an open-source functional testing automation tool that supports testing of Silverlight based applications.
To be more specific, the tool should be able to recognize objects within ...
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Where should I create a coded UI project?
Should Coded UI tests be within the solution that they are testing (similar to Unit Tests), or should they be contained in a separate, generic Coded UI solution that is built only once and executed ...
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How to locate element inside <form> <table> element </table> </form>?
I want to locate element TableHeader which is inside a form table, it has the following page structure:
<form>
<table id="topNavigation" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" width="...
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What is the fastest way to test a website across all browsers and browser versions?
I have made a social media web application and I want to test the compatibility of the web application for the different type of browsers and browser version.
I started testing my web application ...
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If/else with test on checkbox in SELENIUM IDE
I want to do an if/else test in SELENIUM IDE. If the checkbox is checked the test should run the IF-condition, whereas otherwise it should go into the ELSE. I tried several commands for the TARGET of ...
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What are the top browsers to test on?
I have made a web platform for the cab booking service. And I want to ensure the user interface and functionality of my web application is working across different browsers.
But there are many ...
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Getting nosuchElement Exception for a web element even though I tried all possible solutions
I am using Selenium with Cucumber to automate one web application, But I am stuck at one element which is not working out with the XPaths and link text
I also applied the implicit and Explicit wait, ...
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Open source tools for automation of Java GUI application testing
The testing tools (or tools that could be used in testing purposes) for testing Java GUI application I know are:
Jemmy - jemmy library contains methods to reproduce all user actions which can be ...
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Test Result Management and Reporting tool
I'm looking for a some sort of management/reporting tool that collects the results of tests, stores them for reporting, then lets users generate reports based on those tests.
We have numerous test ...
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What additional benefits does an software engineer bring to a QA position
I have noticed in the last few years that employers are now looking for QA/Developers (QA engineers that have been skilled developers).
I would like to know what others believe are the actually ...
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How do I convince someone who's bought the Record-Playback line that object oriented framework is essential?
Here's the basic setup - over a number of years the testing team at my workplace has developed a sophisticated (probably rather more complex than strictly necessary) object-oriented, data-driven ...
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What are good guidelines to determine when to automate a test?
When it comes to test automation, I use a very arbitrary method based on experience that 80% of all tests should be automated.
This has worked well in practice, but is based more on "voodo" than ...
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Selenium: How to click at x,y coordinates?
I want to click at x, y coordinates like 52, 216-52, 295.
How can this be done using Selenium? (I am using Mac OSX 10.8.5 with Selenium 2.40.0 and Firefox version 29.0)
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Moving from Selenium to Protractor
I have been using Selenium/Java/Maven for functional automation testing in my project. But since angular is getting a lot of popularity, the development team has started using it for the development ...
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Automation and bypassing Google No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA
My client want to use Google's No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA (NCRC) to prevent robots completing an application.
QA have automated this process, but if the business introduce NCRC into the form, then this ...
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How should you interview for QA *Automation* positions?
A variant on the How should you interview for QA positions?
I am interviewing candidates for an Automation position, we don't use commercial automation tools, but rather use a framework using mainly ...
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API test automation: GUI tool vs programmatic approach?
We have a Rest API written in C# and I need to investigate a good approach to automate the tests. There are 2 ways to automate API tests:
GUI tool (e.g. SoapUI)
Programmatic approach, using some test ...
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Faking system time/date with Selenium Webdriver?
Is webdriver capable to run a browser with a faked time, date or time zone?
Such ability would be highly useful for my automation purposes.
Yet, I did not find any such ability in the webdriver ...
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What do I need to start from zero in automated testing?
I am new to testing. I need to learn because I have an opportunity to work in this field in the the future. I would like to know what I need to get started. Preferably, I would like to study automated ...
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Is model-driven testing a viable technology for real applications yet?
Computer scientists are actively researching model-driven testing as a means of testing applications automatically. The papers I've read are interesting, but so far the modelling technology appears ...
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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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Techniques for test selection, give a large suite of test cases
I have a huge collection of test cases (inputs). I'd like to select a small subset that's likely to catch most of the bugs. Are there any standard or known techniques in the testing literature for ...
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Suite of automated tests - owned by devs or testers?
I'm working on a project that involves 4 developers and three QAers.
I've tried to encourage the other devs to write tests for every new feature they have added, and we have built up a suite of ...
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Testing random number generation
I have a program which generates random numbers. How can I test if the random number generator is generating actual random numbers?
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Is selenium webdriver capable of database testing?
After reading so many answers and forums it makes me confused. Some people say:
Selenium webdriver is a browser automation tool and it has nothing to do with the database.
And some other showing JARs ...
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What practices do you use to Test-infect your engineers?
Let me start with some contexts in the form of a quote from JUnit Test Infected: Programmers Love Writing Tests:
The Problem
Every programmer knows they should write tests for their code. Few do.
The ...
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Setting up QA Department from Scratch (Web Development)
So I'm going to be starting a Job here in a few weeks, I've been doing QA for about 6 years now. Pretty much your standard Test Plans/Testing with a little normal SysAdmin stuff that sometimes comes ...
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How do I handle the login modal dialog created by onLoad in a WebDriver & Java based test automation
I am working on the test automation that uses WebDriver (Selenium 2) and Java. The AUT is web-based application. A modal dialog pops up that requires user authentication before the user can access ...
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Tool for automatic GUI testing of Gupta Windows applications?
I'm searching for (a) tool(s) to write and execute automatic GUI testing of Windows 7 applications written with Gupta Team Developer.
We got "QTP" here but its main problem is that it can't identify ...
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What tests to automate in a full stack web application? API vs UI
I joined a full stack automation team recently. There are some selenium tests for the frontend and APIs aren't automated yet. My question or thought process is should I pick the test cases carefully ...
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Difference between Selenium and TestNG
Am a beginner in Selenium and am trying to learn selenium on my own by googling. One thing which I noticed was in many of the posts which I read about selenium the name of the framework by name "...
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Compatibility between Selenium WebDriver and the major web browsers
Is Selenium 2.53.1 compatible with Firefox 47? Which version of Safari I need to install MacOs to have it working with Selenium 2.53.x? I've asked myself such question many times and I can see a lot ...
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Soapui or Rest Service Testing? and where I can find good Soapui and rest service testing tutorials?
I want learn Soapui or Rest Service Testing, so could you please let me know which one is good for me? as per your knowledge/Experience.
Before today I discussed the same with my colleagues, some ...
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Use Page Object vs other models for Automation in Selenium Webdriver? [duplicate]
I have been doing automation testing since last 2 years and I am following below ways for any website and mobile application automation testing.
Create Global Method class where I implement all test ...
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Selenium + FF : How to fix error, Unable to connect to host 127.0.0.1 on port 7055 after 45000 ms?
My script is not running even by using selenium 2.53.1 and firefox 47.0.1. Unable to connect to host 127.0.0.1 on port 7055 after 45000 ms. is the error returned.
The script that was tried is,
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What tools work well for automating .NET 4.0 web sites using web forms with dynamic data?
What would be the best solution to accommodate automated testing of web forms with code-behind (.NET 4.0)? Specifically, we need a solution that can automate web form testing and handle dynamic data ...
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Automated tests in CI: same or different repo as SUT?
I'm currently writing API and UI automated tests for a website. My goal is to plug these tests in the CI workflow (Jenkins is used in this organization). The workflow would be: if there's a new commit ...
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Data Driven testing in Postman Tool
Can anyone please let me know how the data-driven testing is done using the Postman?
I read some post in the online, it seems to be by using collection we need to run the collections at the time we ...
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How to take ScreenShot & save it with different filenames by using Selenium & Java? [closed]
I have created screenShot() method to take the screenshot of the web page. When I used this method in my code first time it will capture the screen and it will save the image with image1 name. When I ...
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Communicating markup changes between developers and testers
From time to time, our end-to-end tests fail because of a markup change made by one of our UI developers - for instance, there was an id on an element but it got removed/replaced, or an Angular ...
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Strategies for automating testing on features that are only on certain environments
Say we have a dev environment, an integration, a pre-production and a production environment.
We have features A-G that are on everything, while new feature H is on dev+int only, so far.
We want to ...
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How to avoid the pop up message while downloading an application (.exe) using selenium
I am trying to download an application and check if it's downloaded into my local system or not. But when I click the download link I have a popup with Save or Cancel options, which is stopping me ...
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How to query the Canvas using Selenium with JavaScript Executor or Protractor?
I like to know if it's possible to automate this 'graph' which is created on the canvas, if yes, how to automate it. I have to interact with all the elements on the 'graph or a map like thing' by ...
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Clean up test cases
How do companies clean up test cases? If I have 5000 tests in my library and 1000 of them are deprecated because we have cleaned up the code associated originally, how do we ensure that the tests are ...
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How to select an element from a drop down list inside 'svg viewbox' container using Java/WebDriver?
<svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" style="display: inline-block; fill: rgb(224, 224, 224); height: 24px; width: 24px; transition: all 450ms cubic-bezier(0.23, 1, 0.32, 1) 0ms; position: absolute; right: ...
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What is progression in test automation? What open source tool could be used to design automation framework for that?
I 've been working in automation for the last 8 years. Recently, I have come across the term "Progression" in test automation. I've learned basics but still, I am not sure how to implement this ...
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iOS Mobile App Testing on Windows
I am taking my first dive into testing a mobile app. It will be available to iOS and Android. I've been searching for a way to test and automate iOS without having an actual iPhone or any other Mac ...
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Should the test code be written in the same language in which actual code is written
The product I am testing is mostly written in Java. I have to write autonomous code to compare the two outputs(one developed by our dev teams and other by me). Is it good idea to write my code as well ...
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What is the advantage of Model Based Testing and how is it used in practice?
I just attended a webinar for Tricentis and their Tosca tool which looks promising.
How can this be applied to the real world? Would this tool replace manual testing?
What does Model Based ...
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