Questions tagged [automated-testing]
Use for questions involving problems with automated tests. Relevant for designing test automation, debugging test automation, automation tooling questions, and questions about when it is appropriate to automate. Questions regarding specific tools should tag those tools as well.
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How to share responsibility for pipeline tests across multiple teams
We have three teams working on the same product. Each follows the same sprint cadence but has their own scrum meetings.
Recently the API testing has shifted to developers mostly, including maintenance....
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Test automation within a waterfall project. What to consider?
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In my new project I am to set up an automation, waterfall based project for a client. Since I have completed test automation exclusively within Agile projects so far, and in Waterfall rather ...
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I want to select a checkbox, how to obtain a xpath for the picture below anyone?
Please help me with the xpath for the above picture to select a checkbox?
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Test Strategy Documentation for test automation
What are the main points that should be included in a test strategy test automation document for a particular project? I'm not looking at details but more of a high level overview.
I've found that ...
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Cypress - Identify when page is fully loaded
I am new to Cypress, but wanted to capture the time from visiting a page, up until the page is fully rendered and available to use.
I understand I can use the Window: load event to identify when the ...
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How to pass Selenium By in UIselector
I wrote script which is scrolling mobile app view and selects element by resourceId and text. Simple text select doesn't work for me.
public void tapOnElementById(String resourceId, String visibleText)...
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Is it must to learn RPA tools apart from web automation tools like Selenium?
I see many testers learning RPA tools like UI Path etc apart from Selenium, UFT etc.
Is it necessary for a Test Automation engineer to learn about process Automation tools? Or is just Automation of ...
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Is software unit testing with tools considered manual or automated?
I'm quite new to software testing.
I was studying about it and I've read testing can be either manual or automated.
So is unit testing with tools (e.g. unittest or pytest in python) considered manual ...
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How to find xpath of "BBB element in following example?
I am unable to find xpath of "BBB" in following span class example.
<span class="xyz"> "AAA" "BBB" "CCC" ==$0 </span>
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Selenium - How to remove   from my text value
I am trying to use this xpath to find the number of elements that have a value between X and Y. The problem I am facing is since there is   in the HTML, and the code doesn't detect the text ...
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Automated testing framework that can switch to an open desktop application
I have a desktop app I am testing that is launched through an API (using JavaScript). I am able to launch the app by making a few API calls, but I need something that can shift the context to the open ...
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How to execute multiple selenium java test-scripts with different parameter at one time?
Is there any solutions for executing multiple selenium webdriver java test-scripts having different parameters at one time and get results.
If parameter is URLs, then we can test multiple Urls on one ...
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Selenium - invalid selector ui-sref
I have the following link, and I wish to click it using Selenium,
<a data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="middle" title="Nuova Richiesta" ui-sref="showRda({...
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How can we automate social login scenarios in regression suite?
We have to automate an e-commerce portal that supports social login using various social providers like Google, Twitter, Linkedin, Apple, etc.
Most of these social login service providers either ask ...
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Using snapshot tool to simply the assertion - data snapshot testing
I started using a nice NuGet package for doing integration tests - https://github.com/VerifyTests/Verify and received feedback such as :
it's not entirely fair to use the system under test response ...
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Is formal verification just duplicating the same logic in two languages for equality?
I’m trying to wrap my head around why formal verification is useful.
I’ve read that it reduces vulnerabilities in code, but I’m puzzled by how it can do that.
My understanding is you write a ...
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Selenium - cannot click on radio button
I have tried all the possibilities but am unable to click the radio button Yes or No. It would be great if I get some help. I have observed that Need to take this attribute (<span radiogroup class=&...
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How to validate nested array from JSON response using Postman?
I am trying to validate GET method API response JSON using Postman. I have tried some of online suggestion but nothing worked for me.
In my testcase i am validating that List tag is showing or not.
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How to select li element using Selenium in Python
I am trying to automate something on shopify, and depending on what the variable (lets say x) is, I want it to go into that list.
For example, if x=2, then from that ul/li(list), how can I make it ...
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Cypress: cy.type() requires a valid time with the format with the format HH:mm, HH:mm:ss or HH:mm:ss.SSS
I am automating using cypress, there is a time input in the application. The html of it as follows:
<label>Time</label>
<input data-testid="time" type="time" name=&...
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Software development companies that apply tests automation vs usual approach success statistics
I search the web, but can't find any.
Are there any official statistics of the companies success depending on whether they use e2e, unit, integration tests and automation?
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Type mismatch: cannot convert from WebElement to WebDriver?
Type mismatch: cannot convert from WebElement to WebDriver
Getting this error in my code why?
package testcases;
import java.util.List;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium....
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Need some career advice here about level of experience and the software QA jobs I should apply to
I have a total of 7 years' experience as a software QA engineer. Out of which, I have 2-3 years' experience in automation testing(UFT, selenium, cypress) and the rest of the experience is manual ...
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Testing Stripe payment integration using Cypress
We've recently implemented Stripe for customers to checkout. However, using Cypress to automate our regression tests was incredibly painful as the fields are inside an iframe (and, for some reason, ...
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Can we Drag and Drop multiple desktop images at the same time to web page using selenium - Java through script ingestion
I found the below article for image upload using script ingestion. But this script is working for a single file at a time but I want to drag and drop multiple files at the same time.
My client doesn't ...
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Unable to capture the element using xpath
I'm trying to capture the dynamic code using xpath(Selenium+Java).
I want to get that code and store it in a variable, but it always returns no such element exception.
My xpath looks like below when ...
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Why do we need to initialize Page Object class again in every Step of Cucumber scenario?
User user1;
Given("Add a new User profile")
public void addUser(){
PageFactory.initElements(driver, User.class);
user1.enterName(...);
}
Then("Edit a existing User profile")
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How to accelerate the release process by rethinking test automation
Background: web security company which was acquired by a bigger one. It was a startup with only manual testing, test automation started after the acquisition with a contractor team with mostly UI ...
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Is it a good design to use a single Webdriver instance in Base Class and then each Page Object class inherits the driver instance in Cucumber Steps?
Im using Cucumber BDD framework with Selenium+Java. Now, I have made on BaseClass.Java in which i declare on public static WebDriver driver;
Now, in my .feature file i have many scenarios and in each ...
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Best tools to perform Performance testing on a web application?
While performing manual tests, I noticed that some features loading have taken longer to complete. I'm asking about any tools to use to track the performance of my web application (we work with Edge ...
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Is there a free API for spell and grammar check?
I'm a QA automation engineer looking for a free API or a website for grammar and spell check to automate checks for those errors in web app using Selenium and Java.
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How to run a Selenium+Java+Maven project that is hosted on Azure DevOps server directly with Jenkins?
I have made a Cucumber based BDD - Selenium, Java, Maven, TestNG Automation framework that has it's source code hosted on Azure DevOps (formally TFS).
Now, I have a corporate Jenkins server and I want ...
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Is it necessary to have a very complex Automation framework?
I have seen many QA teams in many organization creating very complex and huge test automation frameworks and use concepts like Java reflections, use a lot utility classes, use many many dependencies/...
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Selenium drag and drop keeps holding to previous element, resulting in ElementNotInteractableException
I'm trying to drag & drop two elements one after the other. The first element succeeds, but the second one fails with ElementNotInteractableException exception. This happens even when I flip the ...
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Selenium + Python: how can we close all opened tabs except the first tab/main tab?
This is my code,
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import time
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver import ActionChains
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
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Automate checking multiple emails
I'm trying to automate a job that is done everyday where someone checks multiple emails that is sent by various inhouse programs/scripts that people wrote. The person doing the checking has to see if ...
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Should you write tests that are basically for no-op to catch errors? (e.g. test a transition does NOT happen in a state machine)
When writing tests for a state machine, should you also test conditions that would not trigger transitions to make sure they don't?
E.g. for a software requirement
transition from A to B if x is ...
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Is automation testing Black Box testing or White Box testing?
I came across this question & couldn't find a proper explanation anywhere. Can anyone clear this to me?
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unknown error: session deleted because of page crash from tab crashed- [java+Selenium not docker]
I'm running selenium script frequently by connecting gitlab repo to AWS hosted jenkins. previously it runs without any issue. today i got below issue and failed the script.
org.openqa.selenium....
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How can we create our own Custom HTML report for Cucumber based Selenium Project?
I have a Cucumber based Selenium framework written in Java. Now, for reporting i use some common plugins/libraries like Extent report. That is fine.
However, i want to create my own custom HTML report,...
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How to switch to an already open Chrome window in Selenium Webdriver after logging out of another window?
I am using Cucumber to write Test Scenarios.
First, I login into a User account and do some stuff.
After, that I login into the ADMIN account and update some permissions/other stuff, while the other ...
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Test execution gets stopped after an assertion error using Pytest
For the data driven testing, if there are 10 data sets, and the assertion fails for 3rd data set, then the rest of the 7 data sets are not considered for execution and the program gets stopped at that ...
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Keep getting 403 error code when executing POST request via Jmeter
keep getting error code 403 when executing POST request to Upload file. The system is using oauth2 authorization. i'm able to execute login, navigate to page but keep failing and getting 403 when ...
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Can TDD be a tester task?
I'm working in a team developing a web application frontend (using Angular) and backend (using Java).
The manager and the team asked me to be in charge of doing TDD (since I am a test automation ...
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How to debug web-socket connection while running tests in Moon?
The problem is that:
Autotests fail when I run tests in Moon Chrome.
But the same tests pass when I run them locally in Chrome.
I guess this problem is somehow connected with websocket connection ...
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check video playback on Mobile App
I am working on a hybrid mobile app (React native) automated testing project using robot framework and Appium, i'm looking for a way to test videos streaming.
Is there a way to test if the video ...
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Should automation scripts made in Selenium always contain wait calls?
Should the automation scripts made in Selenium always contain wait calls like implicit, explicit and fluent, or could it be that waits are not needed?
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Is security testing the sole responsibility of testers or part of a mixed team?
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The well-known differences between API/GUI i.e. Functional Test are clearly defined. However, I ask myself the question: Does security testing belong in the focus of testers at all? Or ...
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Test Strategy for the Reverse Sync process by using KAFKA
How can I test (Test Strategy) for the Reverse Sync process implemented by using KAFKA? Any inputs on this?
Detailed Flow: The data from Database 2 will be published into the KAFKA topic via the ...
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Katalon Windows App / WinAppDriver error ‘Process is terminated due to StackOverflowException.’
I'm using Katalon Enterprise 8.0.5 and WinAppDriver 1.2.1.
I'm trying to automate this Microsoft application - 'Dynamics 365 (preview)' - despite the name it is supposedly the finished article: https:/...
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