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WebDriver Clicking button issue in IE 11
Have a suite of web-drivers tests that run in chrome and IE 10, but will not run in IE 11.
The tests fail in IE-11 when clicking a button as the following action (a form popup) does not occur. I ...
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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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Exercises on software testing
I've been learning how to program in Python. I've passed the MIT course "Introduction to computer science, using Python" on edx.org. I can write small programs in Python. I want to become a tester. I'...
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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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What should an automation tester create a script for?
I am a newbie in automation testing. The question that bothered me while creating scripts was:
Is it only GUI testing or do we also have to create Integration automation scripts? What would be our ...
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Database code unit testing tips
I'm working on developing a big 3-tier application.
Database has a lot of code (stored procedures, functions, triggers, etc). I'm looking for a valid approaches how to implement unit testing for the ...
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Automate verification of emails being received
One of the applications that I have to do an enhancement to soon has a number of emails that are sent from the application. To the point of verification, I need to see the delivery failure ...
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What is page object modelling? and Why is it so important?
I have been hearing a lot about page object modelling? Why is it so important?
Can someone please outline me page object model?
I'm currently working as QE in webservices area
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Free/Sample Selenium test suites (code) for Open Source projects
I am a student and for learning purpose I am looking for following:
Open source projects who have a ready-made selenium test-suite, free for others to use:
can be any sort of web application, in ...
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Test Automation Design Question
I am analyzing automation design for an Intranet based web app with a limited user base:
UI Layer
Web Service Layer
DB Layer
My Approach for automation is:
Web Services layer Test automation
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Are there specific coding guidelines for test automation?
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Currently we are trying to find more ways to write better code. Of course, this does not exclude our automated test cases. We are already testing in the dev environment with SonarCube and ...
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How to record in JMeter when proxy settings is configured to connect to internet
To record scripts in JMeter we need to run the proxy on local port 8080, where as in browser I need to configure for internet connectivity proxy to connect to internet.
The company I work for is ...
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Is it really possible to be a Full-Stack QA & if yes then list the technical skills required?
Everyone needs an all-rounder whether it is a software developer or Tester these days. Hence we are hearing the term “Full Stack QA” these days so my question is what skill-set makes a Full Stack QA &...
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How to switch-handle-close particular popup window, When multiple popups are opened?
I know how to switch to single popup window, but I do not know how to switch particular popup window when you have more popup windows.
Scenario is: Go to the each and every popup
Get the title
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Structuring Selenium tests to avoid duplication
I'm refactoring our test suite to take advantage of page object pattern. I'm missing how to structure the actual tests.
Lets say that I want to test StackOverflow posting and deleting. Once scenario ...
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Importance of test automation experience to advancing in QA departments
I am a test engineer with about 7 years of work experience. I am not an computer science / engineering graduate. I have done a post graduate conversion course that included a good mix of software ...
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Difference in Web Services & REST/SOAP API from Black-box Tester perspective
I have practically tested web-services/APIs (testing back-end requests of mobile apps, JMeter scripting for a web-application) but when it comes to differentiating between web-services/APIs(REST/SOAP) ...
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How to further expand knowledge in Software QA?
I recently passed the ISTQB Foundation Level exam and even though I did pretty well in the exam I have the feeling that I haven’t learned much at all except maybe some basic concepts and a few ...
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"Conventional" Test cases in an Agile environment?
I've just started at a Web Development company that does websites/mobile apps. I've done QA for 5-6 years now and they wanted someone that had QA experience but wasn't set in their ways to be their QA ...
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How to keep track of the features in a website for impact analysis?
I have been working for an ecommerce client for the last 6 years as manual and automation QA engineering. New features gets applied to our site once in 2 weeks. Whenever a redesign project comes up, ...
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Is Eggplant any good for image capture and image recognition?
As a software tester looking at different automated testing solutions, I need a tool that will interact with a heavily graphical interface such as a flash website or application.
I want the tool to ...
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Organizing and maintaining protractor test files within multiple suites
I am just getting started with Protractor and inherited roughly 40 automated test cases. They are currently meant to run sequentially and are not organized or built to run independently. I am taking a ...
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Getting up to speed quickly with automation tests
I'm starting a new QA engineering internship and I've been tasked with automation tests. I was going through the documentation for selenium and testNG and it seems straightforward and easy to pickup.
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How to export test cases in the latest selenium IDE
How do I export test cases in the latest version of Selenium IDE? There is no export option in the file menu.
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How do you test your unit-tests for false negatives?
How do you test your unit-tests for false negatives (tests that pass but should have failed).
For example, I am writing a mission-critical class in JavaScript. To make sure every little nook and ...
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Test automation | Are we focusing more on automation than testing?
Take a very specified example of web application testing with selenium: It seems obvious that (almost) everyone is suggesting using element ID as the best locator strategy, and that your GUI-...
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ETL testing- checklist for testing
Can anyone tell me the basic test scenarios and checklist for ETL process testing for beginner level with any example ?
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Which kind of Manual Test cases should be automated for Regression Testing?
Automating each and every Test case would be futile. So which kind of Test cases should be automated so that more time is not spend on writing the automated test cases than actual manual testing of ...
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MS-SQL server sql test automation
I'm looking to create a batch of automated tests in SQL on MS-SQL server, these will include tests like - insert some records, call stored procedure, check certain conditions in various tables. There ...
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Balancing readability and reliability in end-to-end testing
One of the things that often helps to make tests more reliable and to reduce flakiness is Explicit Waits - waiting for an element to be visible or clickable before interacting with it, waiting for a ...
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Testing ExtJS UI with WebDriver
Our Web app is using ExtJS framework for rendering UI.
However, ExtJS-rendered UI is hard to test automatically because:
For most clickable elements, ExtJS uses generated ids like "ext-gen-345" ...
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Test automation role: challenges beyond automated tests and frameworks?
Before asking the actual question, let me describe the current situation.
The IT department consists of a few Scrum-like teams, with one or two software testers per team.
Furthermore there are two ...
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Cloud Based Automation Testing with Selenium WebDriver - Java
I am beginner in selenium webdriver (java), and wanted to know whether selenium webdriver can be used in cloud based application testing or not, if yes how to setup it (Searched over the net but didn'...
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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 -
assertTrue(...
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Switching from JavaScript to TypeScript for Protractor e2e tests
Not very long time ago, Protractor itself migrated to TypeScript internally. I've also heard and seen several Protractor test projects moving to TypeScript.
We have a rather big and growing test ...
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WebDriver API: 'Failed to send keys because cannot focus element' -- better workaround than using Firefox instead of Chrome?
There's a bug in the chromedriver.exe Chrome driver for Selenium's WebDriver API. You can't use send_keys for certain types of inputs, like for the jQuery plugin "EZPZ Hint". It works okay on simple ...
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New to QA - how should my automated tests differ from my manual one?
I understand the concept of creating scripts to perform tasks, but I've read re-creating my manual tests as scripts isn't the direction I should be headed.
What is the difference and what types of ...
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org.openqa.selenium.StaleElementReferenceException: stale: either the element is no longer attached to the DOM or the page has been refreshed
Code:
List<WebElement> d=driver.findElements(By.className("store-name"));
System.out.println(d.size());
for(WebElement d1:d) {
System.out.println(d1.getText());
d1.click();
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Canonical way to define page objects/locators in big enterprise level automation projects?
Background: As automation testers in selenium world, we have to work on multiple languages/frameworks(wrappers over selenium) in different projects however there is an one thing which remains common ...
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Cannot get a STRING value from a NUMERIC cell. How can I resolve this issue in selenium webdriver using POI?
I am trying to read data from an excel sheet and write on my application.But shows an error while trying to pass a numeric value using string. Please suggest me how can I resolve the issue. Please see ...
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What to ask programmers before automating with Selenium
What points should I discuss with frontend programmers when preparing a product on which, as a tester, I will use Selenium to automate?
I am referring to things like no dynamic ids for elements etc. ...
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How to locate an element which is inside the iframe?
I'm new to automation testing (I'm using TestNG framework and Java language) I'm having trouble in locating an element which is inside iframe.
WebElement iframeSwitch= driver.findElement(By.id("...
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Chrome argument "--disable-infobars" does not work with Chrome 65
When I start Chrome by Chromedriver with Selenium, Infobar is not hiddened.
Because chrome has updated version 65.x.x.x.
Here is my code:
[VB.NET]
Dim driverService = ChromeDriverService....
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What kind of experience do I need to become an automation QA engineer/ SDET?
I have a degree in an unrelated science from a great school. I didn't have enough interest to go on for my PHD, and I really enjoyed the CS electives I took, so I went into QA. I've been doing this ...
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Generate test data in which format
What is the best approach to make test data configurable ? Through XML file or properties file or any other way. But must not be hard coded.
What approach should be taken to run the same Test Suit ...
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What kind of test cases can we not automate in selenium webdriver - java [closed]
I want to know what kind of test cases we cannot automate using selenium webdriver.
I do not want to use any 3rd party tool (Autoit, etc..)
What are the limitations of Selenium WebDriver?
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Is there any way to continue selenium web driver script after assert fails?
I have some script which is written with selenium webdriver.
Actually, I have put some assert statement in between script.
When an assert statement fails my script stops execution.
Is there any way ...
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Code coverage for Selenium Tests
Is there any tool available to determine the code coverage for my selenium tests?
My tests are written in Java having use of selenium WebDriver with BDD-Cucumber implementation in it.
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How to automate testing of received emails?
I'm testing an Email system where I would test a set of received emails to see if the received emails actually displayed as expected.
This is done for each release of the system. So basically I want ...
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What to do when waiting for an element to appear isn't enough?
I am writing selenium tests, and following the convention of using Webdriver Waits to have the webdriver poll for an object before it tries to interact with it.
I am frequently finding my tests are ...