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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Playwright File layout
New to QA and Playwright.
Related to styling and file naming conventions:
Say you have complex software with multiple endpoints that you are writing automated tests for. How would you organize your ...
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How to open downloaded PDF file in Chrome and verify its content in Selenium?
When I click on the "Download PDF" link, the file is downloaded in Chrome. I need to open and verify the transaction data is correct in the file.
I use Selenium and Java.
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How to validate invalid date error message in Selenium Java project?
I have a "Date" field on my page I want to automate. Now, when I enter invalid value or invalid format, then its displays an error like:
"This is invalid value for "Date" ...
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How to automate clicking in modal?
Inside a modal I need to
click text "Show hidden fields" so additional fields are available
scroll down find field "Billable hours" and update text to 0h
then scroll down and ...
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How to connect with Mysql db using Cypress 12?
I want to connect to Mysql DB in the server to delete several records. I have tried using some of the tutorials and answers available. Since all of them are regarding older versions of Cypress, I can'...
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Design of shared Acceptance Tests steps for different test frameworks and languages
We have the following setup:
Multiple client applications containing UI E2E tests written in different programming languages (java, c#, swift ...).
All those client applications have basically same ...
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How to validate if .txt file format is correct as a part of File processing in Automation framework?
In my Selenium+Java automation framework, I need to open a .txt file or any other extension file and then see if the text is in a particular format. Now, I need to see if all lines are in this format ...
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How do I effectively measure the level of impact of test automation within a Safe Scrum environment?
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Currently we are within a Safe Scrum environment and have already automated much of manual testing. However, we would like to measure the effectiveness and coverage of test automation across ...
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What is the general structure of an automation framework built in Selenium Java Cucumber BDD?
I am a complete newbie in Selenium and test automation. What is a general structure of Java Automation Test, using a Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) framework in Cucumber.
Additionally, could you ...
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Facing Invalid Session ID issue in selenium Web driver Using TestNG frame work
package automation;
import java.time.Duration;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome....
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Selenium Locators are not working for this site?
public class LoginPage {
WebDriver driver;
@FindBy(xpath = "//input[contains(@class,'oxd-input') and @name='username']")
private WebElement userName;
@FindBy(xpath = "...
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How to include automation framework jar file dependency in my maven pom.xml?
I want to include one .jar file which has classes of my core automation framework. I created a "lib" folder in my selenium project and then gave its path in the pom.xml dependency. This Jar ...
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Is it a good approach to use a core automation framework(jar file) as opposed to creating all classes of framework yourself?
Some teams in an organization use existing core automation frameworks(made in Java). In my case, I converted it to a jar file artifact and then used it in their Selenium project as a local library/...
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Best way to test multiple scenarios that test same permissions or use similar users
The problem I have it's that I don't know what is the best way to test multiple scenarios that test different permissions on files by one or two users.
Those tests are automated by Selenium. And my ...
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Is it mandatory to return a PageObject instance in every Page Object save/submit method?
In the Page Object model, we separate page UI elements and Test methods. However, there is a concept of Page chaining, in which we return an object on the next Page Object in the previous page object ...
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Will Selenium Webdriver become less popular in coming years? [closed]
Lot of Automation engineers have shifted to new Web automation tools like Cypress, WebDriverIO, Pupeeter, Playwritght, Katalon Studio, AI tools like Testium, Functionize etc and i am still working on ...
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What aspects of javascript are relevant for Selenium Automation (with Java bindings)?
I use Java and Selenium for my automation framework. However, sometimes, as per need, I have to use JavaScriptExectutor in my script. But I have never studied JS and no nothing about it. If someone ...
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How to automate tests for sanitization of user input [closed]
I've checked what is sanitization of user inputs.
And now I stuck with idea hot to automate tests for the sanitization of user inputs?
I'm new about this topic.
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How to find an unnamed button belonging to a certain h2 entry XPath
(I am a bit of a StackOverflow newbie, so please forgive any beginner mistakes and let me know what to improve in the future)
I am trying to select the highlighted button in the appended picture.
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Selenium email automation
I'm trying to automate tests using Selenium and a Yahoo email address.
The problem is when I run my test in Azure DevOps I face the CAPTCHA privacy terms.
Any ideas on how to fix this problem?
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How to solve Mouse over error in Selenium IDE Script Recording
I'm new to Selenium. Currently, I'm trying to automate the testing process of a React Django-based app using Selenium script recording in Selenium IDE. I'm facing repeated issues with mouse click ...
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Is there any way to import postman collection into playwright?
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We have several thousand APIs in various postman collection. Our customer wants to have them customized accordingly, towards E-2-E testing. The customer would like to use Playwright for ...
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list the cyphers of a tls client
So, I have to test that client that connects to an HTTPS server, and ensure it offer the listed cyphersuites during the tls handshake.
But I'm finding no way to start a server and have it tell me what ...
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Verify that 4 products are shown with € symbol
I want to verify from this website: https://demo.nopcommerce.com/. There are 4 products shown with the Euro symbol by using for loop.
Code:
List <WebElement> productcurrency = driver....
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Want to identify most accurate and effective approach to raise only actual defects automatically in JIRA on test execution failure
Currently the requirement we have is to create defects automatically in JIRA when a test automation script fails.
However we are looking for approaches to avoid raising defects if it's an Environment ...
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Selenuim IDE choose from table
I'm new in selenium IDE, Is there a way that I can click the edit icon on my table that contain employee id = 18-35 and the inclusive start date January 10 2023, please refer on my table:
Employee id
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How do you handle CCPA Privacy Manager alert while running test cases in Selenium Webdriver/TestNG
When I run test cases in Selenium Webdriver or TestNG my test always fail.
The reason being, I'm not able to handle an alert-like pop-up exclusive to California residents. Those of you in California ...
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Which exception happens in Selenium when the wait isn't long enough?
When we give a wait of 15 seconds and the application response time is 20 seconds, selenium throws an errorr
Which is the exception that selenium throws?
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Should I write redundant unit tests for property setters/getters?
Given: I have a policy of writing thorough, automated unit tests for every externally visible element of an application/system.
Given: I have an API that includes accessors for a property.
The ...
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How would you prioritize these bugs, and why? [closed]
Here is a hypothetical scenario for a software quality assurance (QA) logical question:
You are a QA engineer testing a new feature for a web application. The feature allows users to upload and share ...
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How to handle the google adds Window which display over the page
Add Pop Up coming when run the test suite and other operations where failed I tried to click directly on close button with x-path but it not work
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Selenium Test cases for UI look
I have a test case, where I need to verify:
a user selects any of the options.
the text is not going out of the layout and displays complete
readability to the user.
As a result, the UI look and ...
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How can I disable sub sample request under a parent request which is unnecessary in jmeter?
I am trying to disable a sub-sample request embedded in jmeter parent request that follows a redirect of the main request.
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Cypress Error on chaining Cypress-If / Cypress-Drag-Drop commands with Cypress-iFrame commands
The application, which I have to automate, is completely inside an iframe.
To continue, I used cypress-iframe plugin.
However, when I am trying to chain the commands of cypress-drag-drop or cypress-if ...
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How to get link from web element without actual download using Selenium Python?
I have multiple link on webpage with button. I wanted to validate and ensure all link are working. Do not want to download each file and wait till gets finished. After successful download to check ...
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New SeleniumManager api in Selenium 4.6.0 - Error: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 102?
I am using new Selenium Manager functionality in the 4.6.0 version. However, it is downloading the Chromedriver.exe in the .cache folder, but its not compatible with the Chrome Browser.
Chrome Browser ...
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Is there a way to execute end-to-end testing one after the other (not multi-threaded)
We are setting up a new step on our build server to trigger E2E testing, as we did for UT.
Some E2E make changes to the test database, so we encounter problems because the tests are not executed one ...
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Does Test Complete (SmartBear) allows to write unnitest classes in script steps?
My query is if I can write scripts inside TestComplete using unittest? (Don`t get me wrong. Not import unittest/pytest test suite. WRITE tests in Scripts 'directory')
As per TC (TestComplete) ...
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How to pass dynamically JSON test data file to json spec.js file to get data in Cypress + Cucumber?
I want to run same test for the same web page for different combinations. Therefore I'm planning to created different scenarios in same feature file or different files. I have already tried passing ...
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Do I have to run all tests for each user group?
Let's say I want to test a "Change Password" page, and I have 3 user roles: admin, superadmin, and player. I use selenium + pytest, each test can be parameterized to run as many times as ...
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How do i select random future date from date picker every time in katalon studio
How do I select a random future date from the date picker every time in Katalon studio?
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destructive testing vs chaos testing
I was reading about these two kinds of testing and I'm not sure what's the difference between them. It seems like they both test by failing the system.
Are they actually the same? specifically when ...
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Run iPhone simulator with appiume but get xcodebuild failed with code 65 xcodebuild error message:
I'm using Appium to run an iPhone simulator and it's not working.
I got the following error message:
Failed to create session. An unknown server-side error occurred while processing the command. ...
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Error while testing android device using appium and selenium
I get this error and cannot start the device:
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
Unable to create a new remote session. Please check the server log for more details.
Original error: An ...
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Is it possible to use Cypress for data validation?
I'm writing some end-to-end automated tests for a CRM-alike web application. One of the development team leaders is asking me to do something that I've never done before.
The problem is that the data ...
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Some value from Postman test undefined
I need to create tests in Postman for running key values for the AI Conversation app.
I have created tests, where I have used the logic below, where I can see all of the values after a test run except ...
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How to contribute for the open source community as a Quality Assurance Engineer?
I want to contribute for open source projects. Personally I have used many tools and I believe it's time for me to do something in return.
I'm not sure where to begin with. Are there any software ...
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How to match the location of a file contained in the project locally with the location of that file in the azure devops pipeline?
I have created a pipeline in azure devops in order to run automation scripts using seleniun in c#.
My issue is the following:
I run the tests or automation scripts locally and when I need to read a ...
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How to test data retention policy and cron job for deleting old data?
There are some retention policies for the data that my company uses. For different types of data, we have different rules and these different types of data and files are used in different ...
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How to approach test automation of Graphs and Charts? i.e., elements made of <CANVAS> <SVG> tags
In my project, we have a module called Reporting which covers graphs and charts.
It's basically a dashboard on the homepage of the website with multiple graphs and charts (after inspecting them they ...
