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What is geckodriver? How to use it in Selenium Webdriver? [closed]
What is geckodriver? How to use it in Selenium Webdriver?
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I have been struggling for more that a day to fix the Duplicate class given when running my android project for automation
Error: Duplicate class org.openqa.selenium.SearchContext found in modules jetified-java-client-7.3.0.jar (java-client-7.3.0.jar) and jetified-selenium-server-standalone-3.141.59.jar (selenium-server-...
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How can I ensure testNG test method does not abort if any assert fails
I know there is a difference between assert and verify in Junit; the assert results in a runtime exception, causing test method execution to abort. To overcome this problem, we can have verify which ...
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E2E: Retrieve email-link - How to invoke callBack function for mailListener?
I do have an E2E test for retrieving confirmation email after registration. I need the link in the confirmation email to login the user as the link in the email contains the token etc. for access.
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How is Selenium RC different from Selenium Web driver and some good pointers for a naive beginner to learn to scripting please? Thanks! [duplicate]
I am a manual functional tester and I am keen on shifting my career from Manual testing to Automation testing using Selenium. What is the best way to begin with this goal of mine? Thanks!
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Firefox browser opens but URL is not launched
I am working on selenium. I am using linux os. I am using firefox driver for automated testing my app. My firefox version is 53.0.3 (64 bit). When I run the code the Firefox browser open and don't ...
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How to resolve NullPointerException error in my below POM code?
I am getting java.lang.NullPointerException while executing my test case , I am using Page Object Modle with PageFactory ,following are the code snippets
LoginPageObjec.java
public class ...
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AllureRestAssured , how to ignore logging headers
I am using rest-assured and allureRestAssured for testing api
given().header("Content-Type", "application/json")
.header("key", key()).filter(new ...
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Find element within another element using explicit wait
I have the following code:
List<MobileElement> messages = driver.findElements (By.id ("body_bubble")); //find all messages
MobileElement lastMessage = messages.get (messages.size () - 1); //get ...
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Are there GUI test tool better than Selenium? [closed]
I have read and heard from many peple that Selenium is used by many people.
Do you know if there is a better tool than Selenium in relation to open source?
Thanks!
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Can a Test Automation engineer switch to a DevOps profile easily?
I work with Selenium Automation, API testing tools etc but if I want to switch to a DevOps engineer role, then how challenging will it be for a QA to learn all tools?
Also, Where does UI automation ...
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Write Selenium Result output into Excel Sheet
I am having output results in console need to import in to excel any advise.
for (String available : list1) {
System.out.println("Available hotels: -------"+available);
My results will ...
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Testing a download link using Selenium?
I have a situation where I have to check the download link to make sure when someone clicks the link download is going to kick off and the product will be downloading, Is there anyway that we can do ...
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What is the difference between keyword driven and Data driven frameworks in Automation?
I am having problems fully understanding the purpose of keyword driven frameworks compared to data-driven frameworks.
What circumstances would make a keyword-driven framework more appropriate for an ...
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How to run two Thread Group in a loop - JMeter
I'm facing problem here, There are 2 Thread Groups and both are correlated ( run thread group consecutively is ticked in test plan ).
1st is user thread group and 2nd is Driver thread group. So ...
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Can a Manual Tester survive in software industry without learning Automation?
I mean to say is that if I dislike coding and don't understand complex code, then will I be able to survive as a QA. Or do I need to learn test automation to grow position and pay in my career, as I ...
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How to explain the concept of test automation to a team that only knows manual testing?
I have been working as a QA in our 9 developer team for about a year. Had lots of 'firsts' within the year between personal and professional life. I replaced a QA who only did manual testing and ...
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How can Internet Explorer 5 be emulated in 2020?
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One of our customers uses a rather old software solution, and this is still based (yes, it's unbelievable!) on Internet Explorer 5, and the customer still uses IE 11 in compatibility mode.
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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 for ...
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Has automated UI regression testing helped you in finding critical defects in system?
I have heard a lot of "abuse" about automated testing, especially UI bases automated tests. As UI is very fragile and prone to change (especially in agile shops). Personally my automated tests have ...
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Mobile automation: Boss wants 100% coverage. How feasible is that?
Just started a new mobile automation role using react native for iOS.
I'm not new to automation, but I am new to React Native (with detox and jest). The learning curve is slow, but we are getting ...
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What's the recommended practice for separating unit tests from integration tests for automated testing?
On a project I've been working on, we've been steadily increasing the code coverage through tests. Some of these tests were done as integration tests and some as unit tests. The integration tests can ...
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Should application and automated test languages match?
If an application is written in a certain language, e.g. Python, Ruby, Clojure, etc. should Quality Engineers use the same language to write the tests?
Should this be a decision that we can apply ...
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Does automating your manual tests give you good automated tests?
I notice that the tag wiki for the "automated testing" tag contains the following sentence: "Commonly, test automation involves automating a manual process already in place that uses a formalized ...
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Is it realistic to try to hire someone who is a developer and a tester?
I've been trying to hire a tester for a few months without success. I really want to find someone who is both a tester and a developer, not because I want them to do two roles, but because the kind of ...
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In agile (Scrum) practices, where do I start with making QA (testing) more efficient if the team is transitioning from waterfall to agile?
My team has recently transitioned from the traditional waterfall method to practising Scrum. Being the QA lead, really the only tester on a small team, how can I get the process more aligned with ...
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Tools for testing iPhone apps
I was wondering if there any automation tools out there that can help with the process of testing an iPhone application on the device itself and not on a simulator.
Ideally, it would have to simulate ...
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Are Exhaustive "Brute Force" UI Tests Worth It?
Lately I've been asked to write some automated GUI tests of the following style:
Open the application
Open ALL dialog boxes
In each dialog check for ...
Are these types of tests worthwhile? What ...
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What is the difference between "automated testing" and "automated regression testing"?
"Automated Testing" as a term seems to have a number of different uses. For some, it means built in unit tests that, when a new build is run, execute to make sure code refactors have not broken ...
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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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Testing of automated scripts
How much testing of your automated scripts do people generally do?
Is it best to treat the automated test suite as a separate project or part of the Agile development cycle of the product your are ...
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What techniques are available to determine which browsers to test?
When websites being deployed to the internet are about to go live, the age old question always comes up. "Which browsers should I test?"
I am not asking that question because it will soon become ...
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Best free (or very cheap) automation tool for Windows GUI testing? [closed]
I used to use vTask Studio, but it seems they've abandoned it. No updates in almost a year.
Is there are any other automation tool for Windows GUI testing?
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Testing interactions with external systems
I'm trying to find a way to test the interactions of our platform with external servers, like Twitter, for example.
On our online photo sharing application, we have, for example features which let ...
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Test strategy to bring automated tests from UI to lower(API/Unit) layers?
Background/Problem Statement: Recently I came across a project team, which is having thousands of UI automated tests covering all kind of manual tests including positive, negative etc., and obviously ...
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What are the challenges around the integration of Manual and Automated Tests?
This is more a request for your professional opinion than a question...
We are seeing how test automation is spreading to more and more organizations. This in itself is a good thing, but at the same ...
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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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Performance testing - a way in?
We have an a browser based application that is built on the Microsoft Stack, specifically .NET 3.5. It also uses Ajax, iframes, jQuery etc.
At the moment we are just guessing at the concurrency ...
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Random test data: How to do it right?
Several months ago I started an experiment in test automation. Each test, before it starts, picks up random test data. For instance, when my test requires a user with administration privileges, I draw ...
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Is retrying failed tests good strategy to handle flaky tests?
Like many companies we have flaky tests in our test suites. Google has this problem as well:
Unfortunately, across our entire corpus of tests, we see a continual rate of about 1.5% of all test runs ...
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Webdriver Firefox "Element could not be scrolled into view"
I am facing this problem on Firefox v.59, Selenium 3.11.0. I just click on an element, like this:
webDriver.findElement(By.id("row_0")).click();
and I get exception:
org.openqa.selenium....
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How can testers motivate developers to write unit tests?
Unit-testing, oftentimes, is thought of as a burden and not exciting at all - more code to write, configure and maintain which requires time which results into delays in delivering features or fixes.
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What is Snapshot Testing?
I've recently stumbled upon this new (at least to me) testing type: Snapshot Testing:
For Facebook's native apps we use a system called “snapshot testing”: a snapshot test system that renders UI ...
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How to avoid flakey E2E selenium tests?
I'm under the impression that most of the E2E selenium tests are flakey. A major reason seems to be timing issues. Another one is that they often test against servers that are not controlled by the ...
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Can a proportionately scaled down testing environment find performance load issues?
At my company, we are working on ways to improve our testing of database changes, in our testing environment first.
Since there are no resources to have a production like volume of data in servers ...
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Testing email generation
Some applications generate emails. There may be multiple email formats based on the purpose of the message. The email may be destined for a single individual or a group. It may also be locale-...
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How to verify two images using Selenium WebDriver? [duplicate]
Webdriver does not provide direct any function to image verification, but we can verify images by taking two screenshots of the whole web page using TakeScreenshot WebDriver function, one at script ...
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Detecting complicated CSS selectors
This is a follow-up to What makes a good selenium locator?
Motivation
I've been thinking about detecting the complexity of CSS selectors statically.
The scope I'm working in is both test-automation ...
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Where tools for automated UI test like selenium or Coded UI fits in Dev Ops cycle
My manager asked me to look into how we can utilize automated UI testing to gain productivity and help testers automate basic functionality of the system.
I developed few test suites and cases using ...
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What is the difference between Software Test Engineer, Test Automation Engineer and Software Developer in Test (SDET)?
Software Test Engineer usualy performs “manual” testing (without spending time on automating and supporting the tests). Usually is responsible to find all (as more as possible) critical bugs in the ...
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