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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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What are anti-patterns in test automation?

Not testing in Isolation Anti-Pattern In order to run a test in isolation you often have to bootstrap one or multiple systems, configure these systems, setup test data, archive test artefacts and des …
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How is Selenium RC different from Selenium Web driver and some good pointers for a naive beg...

Personally I learn pretty good from books, this looks like decent getting started book for Selenium other wise maybe try this online video course. Selenium RC is the older version, I think its obsole …
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Automating visual web site comparison

I have pretty good experience with the open source T-Plan VNC Robot or their commercial T-Plan Robot Enterprise version. VNC Robot allow you to automate any computer system that has a VNC server inst …
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What is the best code coverage tool for a java based Web application

I think you should be able to use JaCoCo to gather coverage of the backend, but there are more coverage tools for Java see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Code_Coverage_Tools Process looks somethi …
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Who should do the automation test?

I think we have two types of testers: Manual Testers (Write test cases, run manual test-suites, Processes, etc) Software Test Engineers (Developers who only write automated test suites) Personally …
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WINCE Automation Tools, Looking for Learnings from Implementation?

Maybe not the best or the most beautiful solution, but it works. You can install a VNC server on the device and then drive a test with a VNC-robot. WinCE VNC server: http://www.smartlab.at/mobilevn …
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I am little confused about automated testing

Software suites like QTP give a very broad tooling and or development framework to create, manage and drive tests. I would compare suites like this as a text editor vs a full fletched IDE, both can b …
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I am going to start automated QA

Google and read articles :) This might be a start: http://www.automatedtestinginstitute.com/home/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1093:how-do-i-get-started-with-test-automation&catid=54:fa …
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What is DOM (document object model) testing?

From what I understand they compare the DOM of different build versions. If you expect the DOM to be same this could be a very fast way to verify you didn't change anything. Also see this page that ex …
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automate comparison of source records to Records in destination after migration

I have successfully used ExcelCompare from https://github.com/na-ka-na/ExcelCompare Its a command-line tool which you can give two excel files/sheets and it will compare everything and print out diff …
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Identifying and sending an e-mail in outlook using Geb-Groovy framework

With web-automation frameworks you cannot test beyond the browser. Tools like Sikuli or Auto-IT can be triggered (with Process.Start() or Exec()) from the test to do an action that needs input from …
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Is retrying failed tests good strategy to handle flaky tests?

Researching flaky tests is very time consuming. So coming up with a strategy to make it easier and faster seems like a very good idea. From experience I think re-running test three times is the magi …
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Automated tests orchestrator

I think you are looking for a Build server. A typical build flow looks like this: Get code from TFS Build Code Run unit-tests Spawn nodes for integration tests Run integration and or Selenium tests …
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I want to Comment and UnComment the test steps in excel, need help

If I understand you correctly you want sometimes to not execute the 3rd step. In such a way that choose. You cannot comment in Excel, what you can do is instead of putting the 3rd value in Excel let …
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Sending and Verifying emails(all types) with selenium webDriver

No, you cannot use Selenium for email testing. Unless you also want to login into a web-based email provider with Selenium. You could send emails to something like mailtrap and check the mail with the …
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