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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 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 auto …
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Is there any pros and cons of writing scripts in jmeter without using selenium?

JMeter can be used for load testing etc. Also, it's possible to do functional testing as well. I know selenium scripts can be run in JMeter. Why use selenium if most of the work can be do …
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Why element locators are not suggested in visual studio code for protractor?

I don't get suggestions for "element(by." element locators in visual studio code. Im using protractor. I have changed the settings file also. Settings.js { "editor.quickSuggestions": { " …
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Is performance testing needed to perform on User Interfaces?

Should we use performance testing on UI? Should we use End to End testing scenarios for performance testing?
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Is it a must to do all kinds of testing for a system?

There are different types of testing types. For an example : Functional testing types Smoke testing Regression testing etc... Non functional testing types Performance testing Security t …
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Is it a good/industry practice to create both UI and API testing projects in one project?

I'm planning on creating a project to begin test automation for software. For this task, I'm considering the following things: UI level testing (with Page Object Model) API testing Dat …
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Is it a best practice to use loops for a test case to run it multiple times?

When writing a test case is it a best practice to use loops for several test cases? For an example consider following two code segments Code 1 public class testing{ public void test …
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What are the documents maintained in software quality assurance?

What are documents(software quality assurance related only), a software quality assurance engineer,QA lead has to maintain/create while testing a software from the beginning to the end? Plea …
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Why driver.get() method is not recognized?

I have setup selenium in Intellij Idea. But when tried to create a simple instance it doesn't recognize "get" method. This is what I have done up to now. System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.dr …
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Should automation code be as complex as application code?

Software project are often created as modules (in separated project folders) and communicate using services and apis to communicate between modules in order to improve flexibility and scalability. …
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How to get the number of buttons within a div using webdriver?

I have trying to get the number of buttons(count) enabled in a web page using their class names. But I couldn't get it as I wanted. Always I get count as 0. int count = 0; try { …
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How to find method name and return types in API testing?

When creating a test for api testing how do I determine which method I should call(how to know method name) and and its return type(GET,POST,etc)? For example : Do I have to talk to developers and get …
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How to print a message after checking through TestNG's Assert.assertEquals method?

I'm getting a string value from a function. Now I want to print a message saying whether expected string and actual string are different or not. To compare these string I'm using TestNG's Assert …
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Is it necessary to write test cases for different test levels?

When creating test cases after unit testing(done by developers) QA team starts working on component testing. For component testing level there will be test cases written by the QA's When it …
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Why should a software QA engineer need to learn JavaScript?

I've seen in lot of job advertisements, companies asking for JavaScript knowledge for QA. So my questions are: What is the use of JavaScript for QA? If JavaScript is used for testing, what kind of t …
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