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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unable to select a value from drop down
I am unable to select a value from drop down while automating UI of a website
public void setTargetPortalDropdownOptionInModalPopUp(String visibleText)
{
Select select = new Select(...
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Writing test automation in Java, while the company domain uses C#/.NET
I´ve recently got a job as a automation tester in a company, that basically only have manual testers (except me). The short term plan is to come up with a good test strategy for identifying which of ...
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What's the difference between integration and contract testing of microservices?
Well, integration testing supposed to be the testing of integrated components.
Contract testing supposed to be testing of the way components interact with each other (API).
But what the main ...
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How to add elements in list from a dropdown using Selenium/Python
I want to add all the city names in a list, so that I can compare then in assert is not in unit test.
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How to resolve “Cannot find class in classpath: com.AES.Loginpage” error in Selenium?
I have created one java project and written a script for login to application using TestNG class. I got an error:
"Cannot find class in classpath: com.AES.Loginpage"
I have added jars and driver exe ...
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how to handle firefox download popup in selenium
Code:
case "firefox":
FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile();
profile.setPreference("browser.download.dir", "Downloads"); // folder
profile.setPreference("...
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How to connect Selenium to an existing browser that was opened manually in java?
I want to achieve some use cases in which:
I want to perform some tasks that require manual intervention before kicking in automation execution. For instance, I need to manually launch the browser, ...
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Why do many jobs describe automation but then require extensive manual testing?
The question somewhat stems from a frustration after seeing recent trends in software testing jobs -
In Job Description, automation skills are given utmost priority. All the interview rounds will be ...
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Click function is not triggering even after button is clicked using htmlunit driver
I am able to click submit button and submit button click is working fine but text entered to add comments is not showing (basically submit button click is working ,but submit button functionality is ...
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Are unit testing related only to software development?
I have searched Unit test on internet and I always find that it is a software development topic. If I am not writing code and instead I am designing, for example, a BI dashboard. Can I consider "Unit ...
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Is there a way to automate multiple tabs using cypress?
Is there a way to automate multiple tabs using cypress?
e.g. After login to my webpage, I get redirected to another tab.
So, I would like to automate login in 1st tab and then perform other testing ...
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Linking automated unit tests to Test cases
I'm working with a piece of software with over 4000 automated unit/security tests.
I've been tasked with bringing requirements into an ALM. What's confusing me, is the best way to handle Test Cases.
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How to analyse 'Element not Found' exceptions when working with Selenium
When you are writing Selenium/WebDriver automation scripts you will probably run into the exception NoSuchElementException. You think your selector is working, but somehow the element cannot be found.
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Is it possible to do Functional Testing w/ JMeter - Invalid input test and required field input test?
I need to know if it's possible to do functional testing (frontend or backend) with JMeter only - w/o 3rd party software. I need to be able to test required fields and bad data input in a form.
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Trying to use xpath in order to select a text on desktop web browser [duplicate]
This is the error I am getting below:
selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such
element: Unable to locate element:
{"method":"xpath","selector":"//*[@id="select-input-...
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Visual Studio 2017 Community Installation issue [closed]
I have installed Community edition 2017 , i cant locate Console Application under File-> New -> Project.
I can see below.
Under Windows Desktop -> WPF App (.NET Framework)
->...
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Waiting for spinner to disappear does not work
I'm using the code below, waiting for "Loading" spinner to disappear.
But I noticed that next test step does not wait until the spinner to disappear.
Example:
click on button_1 (after click, spinner ...
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2answers
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Nested explicit wait does not work in Appium
For example, I'm sending a message. While it's being sent to the recipient it has the resource-id "pending_indicator". When it is delivered, it has the resource-id "delivered_indicator".
So, I'm ...
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Automation Testing using selenium webDriver on a javaScript based application
I am having a JavaScript-based application to automate using Selenium WebDriver.
Can I automate a Javascript based application using Java with Selenium WebDriver OR do I have to use protractor (...
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How to automate functional regression tests through database data comparisons?
I have a Java batch job application that reads input data from an Oracle database, does a lots of calculations, handles many edge cases, and outputs results back into different database tables.
The ...
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1answer
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How to select a dropdown value in Selenium WebDriver using Java appium?
I am new to Selenium, currently am working on selenium webdriver. I want to select a value from the drop-down. But I am not able to do it because of some error. Also, I want to inform you that in my ...
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Is there any possible way to automatically update the locators when developer changes the locators
I am planning to build a self-heal tool to update the locators automatically when developer the changes the UI locators
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2answers
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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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Implement load and performance pipeline for Salesforce in Bamboo?
Details
In my current one I have several points which I have to supervise from different planning points. This is also part 1 of a longer request which I have to split.
Initial situation:
In this ...
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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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Decoding JWT and testing results in Postman
We are implementing a new service which requires Authorisation by the way of a JWT.
I already have the submission and returned body containing the "access_token"
My question is how do I set up a ...
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How do I click buttons on App which is installed on machine but not a Windows application. It opens a chrome instance (not default Chrome browser)
How do I navigate and click buttons on an already open Chrome instance/window. So the scenario is, that an application named "ApplicationNAME" is installed on my Windows machine, but its not a Windows ...
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1answer
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How to read Text in a Tradingview Alert with Python and Selenium
After a very useful help here to login on trading view, i cannot figure out how to access to the text of this following alert and close it selecting OK
here is the html code corresponding to that pop ...
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1answer
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How to find path to filtervalue
Can you help me how to find a path to desired "filtervalue", such as value "Search in active documents"?
As you can see in the picture, the class filtervalue is there multiple times.
Thank you in ...
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1answer
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Automating a desktop app based on Chromium Embedded Framework using Selenium
Background:
At work we are passing the --remote-debugging-port=9555 parameter to a CEF based desktop app and launching it using Runtime.getRuntime.exec("path to app"). Then, using selenium, we open an ...
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1answer
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Ignoring some test steps depending on variables
I'm using Cucumber + Java + Selenium to UI test an application.
I'm using the same set of tests whether my application is deployed in qualification (for tests) or in production.
However, when I'm ...
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Login to TradingView using Python and Selenium
I am new in Selenium and i don't understand how how to find the way to add my email and password to trading view. I have tried the example shown to connect to facebook and worked fine, but in ...
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2answers
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Check that an element does not exist *after* a button is clicked
With ruby, I'm doing some cucumber tests with capybara to test a Shiny application (shiny is a R package to do web applications). But I'm a newbie with ruby and cucumber (and this is my first post ...
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1answer
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Odd behavior noticed during UI tests with Selenium
I want to ask you about the odd behavior I noticed when running multiple tests, using Visual studio, Selenium web-driver and Chrome browser.
I have all the tests written as follows:
sign in to the ...
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Header isnt being sent when using faraday gem ruby
I am doing an Api automation in Ruby and I am using the Gem Faraday to automate a file upload in my API.
I have the follow problem:
My Header is not being sent. I just tried all the options and is ...
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AutomationElement of PropertyGrid item doesn't return ValuePattern while being set empty value
There is a WinForms application, the application is supposed to be covered by automated tests. I'm struggling with setting value to items of a PropertyGrid. I've successfully found an ...
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Count all elements with the specific resource ID on the scrollable view
Here is the question. How can I count all the elements with the resource ID body_bubble on a scrollable view ?
When I use the driver.findElements (By.id ("body_bubble")).size() method, it gets only ...
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Best approach for end to end testing for integration of web, hardware and desktop in Ci/CD?
I have a very unique application that involves a web portal, USB hardware dongle license and windows executable utility that configures the hardware
As a customer buy a USB dongle hardware in a web ...
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Cannot find an element with Xpath in Appium
I'm new to Appium. Sorry if the question is duplicated, but I did not find the solution.
I have a problem - I cannot locate an element using Xpath, but I have no problems locating it using the ID ...
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I am getting the error “Failed to load extension from” at the start of every run
I am using Serenity framework and getting the attached error at the start of every run. If I close or accept the box then my test successfully otherwise failed. I tried to handle this in serenity.conf ...
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MAC | Automated chrome instance disappear when robot class is used
I want to open a chrome browser and then want to press tab key by robot class, not by using selenium's sendKeys but only by Robot class. Below is my code.
public static void main(String[] args) ...
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How can I measure how effective my testing is? What metrics should I use?
I am working as SQA and mostly do smoke testing and regression testing manually. But I think it is consuming more time and I am not certain about if it's completely tested or not.
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Integrating Protractor to Octopus deployment (CI/CD Integration)
I have a batch file with below content:
%1 %2 --params.validFile=%3 --params.invalidFile=%4
I am starting it through power shell script:
$path= "<filePath>\start.bat"
$args= '"<filePath&...
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Selenium automation interview preperation question [closed]
What error does this line return when I pass a URL without HTTPS or HTTP
driver.get("www.google.com");
It was asked to a fresher in his interview.
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2answers
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Setup of Test automation framework from scratch using NUnit and Specflow and RestSharp and selenium with Visual Studio 2017 C#
We have so many API's(5 to 8 API calls - Mostly REST based and 1 or 2 in SOAP based) and Oracle DB. We do not have any WEB UI. No UI automation.Only middle tier and backend automation.
For automation ...
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How can I handle the chrome Http Authentication popup window in selenium without AutoIT?
I have tried https://{USERNAME}:{PASSWORD}@xyz.com pattern to authenticate URL but it doesn't work for me.
Can someone suggest me the best way to handle chrome HTTP authentication popup?
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How to combine exploratory testing with test automation creatively?
Background :There is an definite value in automated test execution of scripted tests to find regression defects.
On the other hand there is an tremendous value in exploratory testing and going beyond ...
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How to rerun failed test from where they instead of from beginning? (TestNG)
Is there any way to re run the failed testcase from the page where it got failed instead of running the testcase from beginning in Selenium Java ?
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PoM Design/Architecture questions
Apologies if this is an improper question, as it's actually a multi-part question (But it seems like unnecessary clogging of the site to make multiple posts).
Im writing my first PoM framework, it's ...
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How to test the difference between fastjson and gson in serialization and deserialization [closed]
The project uses Gson to replace Fastjson. These two packages have some differences in serialization and deserialization. As a software test engineer, how do I perform regression testing?
