Questions tagged [web]
General questions related to all aspects of the world wide web. For specific portions, use the specific tag for it, such as [uri], [websites], [html] and [http].
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Which browsing mode is better for Web App Testing? Incognito mode or Normal mode?
I have a web app for testing. Can someone tell which browsing mode(Incognito/Normal) is better?
What are pros and cons of testing Web App in Incognito mode and Normal mode?
My mentor advises to use ...
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How to validate against texts overlapping each other using selenium?
I am writing automated test cases for a company. One interesting problem is that texts on a webpage overlap each other, is there anyway to validate against this?
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How to test search engine results?
I had an interview question:
You were told that a search engine result by target query does not satisfy a requirement by its position. How would you test it?
How would you test it?
I had some ...
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Open source web security testing tools
Are there any open source solutions for testing web security vulnerabilities? I am not looking to make my web application bullet proof since it'll be used internally at our organization. But I'd ...
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Want to switch from software development to testing domain
I have 4 years of experience in software development. But I did software manual testing more than software development. I am good in finding tough functionality related bugs.
I have passion for ...
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Behaviour Driven Development with JavaScript
Are there any approaches and tools for driving the development of JavaScript with BDD. I know that I can do this through the UI with tools like Selenium, but is there any tool that can allow this to ...
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Web Service Testing & Automation - Open Source Tools
I am looking for Web Service Functional Testing + Automation - Open Source Tool.
SOAP UI - Free for functional testing. If you want to extend it for Data Driven Testing you need to buy Pro Version
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Why should we test Web service when web test automation is done?
I'm new to testing. So let me know if I'm asking the question in a wrong way. I'm just curious about Web service and web automation testing.
Example : If there is a web service for calculating ...
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Best practices for developers to increase testability of web apps for QA?
I'm writing a document for a developer at my company who will be working on a web app. Here's the advice I have for him so far (below). Can any of you think of more that I can add? Not sure which tool ...
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Future of DOM based UI testing
I work with Selenium for quite a while now and was very happy with it for some time. However recently, I get more and more projects where I see extensive use of JavaScript. For example webpages ...
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SSO in Selemium web driver
I am trying to run selenium web driver(Firefox) test cases which will need a single sign on (web). Issue over here is i have to sign in manually with my OTP every time i tear down the test case. So i ...
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Is HTTP status code 500 acceptable to be shown to a user?
Are there any cases when error 500 is acceptable to be returned? Or should we always try to handle all server-side exceptions and return another code with a user-friendly informative error message?
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What are the different things to capture in a test case?
In our Project we have a test case based on Rational Test Manager (RUP Process).
This test case includes:
description,
preconditions,
steps
expected results for each step and finally a notes ...
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looking for a way to exercise Android web browser
To continue my monkey question
I am looking for a way to generate Web traffic on a device (not emulator) running Android.
The unit under test is not the browser but lower communication layers of the ...
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Upgrade SilkTest automation scripts to work with IE9
We use SilkTest 2010 Open Agent to perform Automated Web Testing. Our scripts currently work on IE6 - IE8 and on Firefox 3.X.
IE9 has changed modal boxes to unintrusive pop-ups at the bottom of ...
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Getting Started - Newbie Question
We are an IT company which provides Automated Vehicle Location (GPS Based) services. We provide dozens of web apps in our ecosystem, and none has ever been thoroughly passed an SQA process. Our ...
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Web application GUI automation best practices
Our team develops automation solutions for various web based products.
I'd like to compile a list of patterns and best practices from the GUI web automation space that have been used and proven as ...
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Free tool(s) to test both Windows desktop apps and Web apps, interconnected
I have found this question here on SQA. However I'd like to make my question more specific with hope that someone could point me to something relevant rather than just wasting hours on learning the ...
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How to stop test cases from being fragile in TestComplete
I have been using test Complete to build automated GUI tests. Whenever developers put in a fix, my tests break. They keep changing web elements IDs and / or attributes.
I know this is a broad ...
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What knowledge should i possess before testing a web application?
I have been testing a desktop application for two years.I want to test web application.So, what knowledge should i possess and what should i learn before testing a web application?
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How to verify and generate a report ADA compliance in a website
We have a requirement that a particular website need to be tested for ADA Compliance and we need to generate a report with non compliance and solution to fix that. Any help how to process this ...
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Xpath for sign out button
I am trying to find out XPath for this "Sign Out" button, can anyone help me?
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Tools for automating UI testing for web
Recently I got a task to find a tool that can be used to test web UI. I found Selenium IDE and also used to it. But the problem is that I have to test on Chrome and IE as well. I tried Selenium ...
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How to check if webpages are completely loaded?
I would like to automate the following process:
Create a sitemap of a certain domain.
Check all pages are up.
I don't come up with any good enough tool for the second step. I used to assertion if an ...
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Is my website test approach comprehensive enough? [closed]
I am working on a test automation project for a webpage portal.
What I want to achieve is:
Perform a HTML encoding conformance test; I have noticed that there are a number of missing tags, un-...
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Looking for meaningful review of Leapwork
So I am currently researching and comparing test automation tools that would automate tests on the web (as in, testing a web site), and are relatively cheap and simple.
One such tool I am looking at ...
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How to create unit tests for Web app with a database
I'm currently adding unit testing to my project and came across this question, How can I test my database insertion. For example, let's say I have a user table, I want to test if I can create a user, ...
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How do you think how to test this server?
I newbie junior QA.
Need your advice..
How do you think how to test this server?
Program description
The program is implemented as a multi-threaded server under Windows
for processing client ...
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How does one measure pixel width on mobile devices?
I have a question about running fit and finish testing on mobile devices. For checking designs, the test usually involves measuring the pixel width of on-screen elements for webpages or native apps on ...
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What is the best way to test for Full Unicode compliance?
We have a web app that needs to support major browsers, as well as major languages. English, Chinese, French etc., hence the full Unicode support. I am wondering how other test engineers go about this?...
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As a tester, what is the difference between a website developed in different technologies say, java vs php or java vs .net websites? How to test it?
Here is a link which I came across while looking for answers
how to develop your website
But here, only technologies have been mentioned. How could you discern between different technologies when ...
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php undercontrol replacement
Actually php undercontrol seems to consume a lot of memory so I'm looking for replacement, in order to test a php application.
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What is difference among performance testing on Mobile, Desktop and Web applications?
I need to know the difference in performance testing on web, mobile and desktop applications like what would be the use cases and test scenarios on these three different platforms?
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Google extension Check My Links returns different test results for the same webpage
I am using Check My Links to verify if a webpage has any deadlink, but interestingly, for the same given page, Check My Links returns a few different test results. One result is 183 while another one ...
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Performance requirements for web application
I would like to set performance requirements for web application. I am interested in performance from user experience view so I plan to measure time from request is sent until onLoad event is fired in ...
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Are the gains going from Selenium IDE to headless worth it on small projects
I am a web developer in a very small team(2 devs, one hardware), and I spend as much, if not more time testing applications(due to requirements issues) than the actual developing. To help with this, I'...
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java software quality in eclipse while developing
How can I increase the quality of code while developing itself. Is there nay tool available which will analyse my code and tell which part of code will create performance issue. I dont want different ...
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What advantages and disadvantages to do the major browsers have when automating web applications
I am having trouble choosing a good browser when automating a web application. Among the browsers I have considered are Firefox, Chrome, Safari, PhantomJS
I am particularly looking for comparisons ...
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What are alternatives to Device Anywhere for Mobile Web Testing?
I am looking for alternative tools to Device Anywhere that offer carrier access. This is for mobile web testing (NOT Web App).
My Question:
What are some alternative tools to Device Anywhere that ...
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Web application testing on Mobile browser
Currently we are working on one of the web app for Mobile (that will cover iOS and Android devices).
So my question here is what should be the strategy for testing web apps:
Is it necessary to check ...
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Should cross-browser and cross-platform be performed for testing network calls from a website?
My team is implementing Adobe Analytics on a web site.
We have three layers where it should be tested.
Adobe Data Layer.
The required variables and their values are added to an object handled by a ...
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Find Text without span Text - Python - Selenium
I want to get text that is stored on an element. Text is not a property instead when I expand Element (in chrome's inspection [DevTools]) it has two sub-properties, span and text. it looks something ...
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Find childs of element without sub-childs - Python - Selenium
I'm trying to create a bot. The functionality I need now is to find a way to get only childs of an element without sub-childs. Take this as example:
<Body>
<child1>Hi</child1>
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Web browser extension or software that acts like VSTS Microsoft Test Manager
My team is currently developing a web app and I would say it is currently 80% to what reach what we really want. We are in a continual process to add new features, improve the user experience and fix ...
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Is there a way to empty the browser appcache on mobile browsers? [closed]
On any mobile browser. Any info would be appreciated. I think I know how to do it on mobile safari, but I don't know about any of the others.
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How to select third tab on same class name by selenium python
I just jump into python programming. I couldn't solve this
I tried to several ways
This is target site
<div class="base-components__BaseElement-sc-150tvch-0 sc-VigVT bJRDeW">
<ul role="...
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Is there a way to save and reload browser appcache state?
On any browser, mobile or desktop. Just curious. Knowing how to do this or if this is possible would make my life way easier for testing.
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Issue with switching / clicking an iFrame jmeter selenium
As on the image I have to click on the highlighted iFrame and I'm on Jmeter Web Driver Sampler.
The issue is the bottom part of the iFrame id will get change time to time.
So can't exactly identify it ...
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How do I stress test a website?
How do I stress test a website by logging in 200+ accounts at the same time?
Basically I have my website deployed on AWS and I would like to make sure that it will be able to handle 200+ users load on ...
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Is there a free page to test website bots on? [closed]
I'm working on a markdown link replacer for npm and some my tests are failing at random because too many requests are being issued at the same time. Now I probably need to put some kind of limiter in ...
