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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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Why isn’t Cypress referred to as “Cypress WebDriver” like “Selenium WebDriver”?

No, Cypress does not use WebDriver. It has its own implementation to 'drive' the browser. Does Cypress use Selenium / Webdriver? No. In fact Cypress' architecture is very different from Selenium in a …
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What are the best strategies on how to continously (every x seconds) test a website?

Most CI/CD tools support scheduled jobs, you could build a short pipeline that runs tests against the production environment on regular intervals (seconds, minutes, hours): Gitlab: https://docs.gitla …
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How do I effectively measure the level of impact of test automation within a Safe Scrum envi...

Start a community of practise, which is a standard practise of SaFE: Communities of Practice (CoPs) are organized groups of people who have a common interest in a specific technical or business domai …
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Software development companies that apply tests automation vs usual approach success statistics

The yearly State of DevOps report gives insights in the what successful companies do as quality and engineering practises. read the 2021 version here. According to the in 2019 published book Accelerat …
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Need some career advice here about level of experience and the software QA jobs I should app...

From an employer standpoint, I believe job requirements are like a wish list, and you never get what you really really want. With that in mind and with seven years of working experience I would sugges …
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How to verify the presence of a script on multiple web pages?

Most programming languages support list of items and loops, some pseudo code: Create a list of websites/urls to visit (e.g. array) Start WebDriver Foreach url in list (e.g. a loop to go over each ite …
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How to test a Java desktop application on Linux

I would first contact the supplier and ask how they automate the testing of their application. Probably they use a tool and setup to drive their application end-to-end. Maybe they can teach you. Test- …
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Selenium and Powershell drop down menu select

I think something like this might work: $SelectElement = [OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI.SelectElement]::new($langmenu) $SelectElement.SelectByVisibleText("en") Example from Powershell Selenium select a …
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Will AI based test automation tools make selenium webdriver obsolete in few years?

It is hard to predict the future. You might need new (AI) skills to work on new projects. Keep in mind old projects exist for a long time. Some programmers still program in Cobol and are paid very wel …
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Python + Selenium: Using and managing old web drivers

If you want to setup your own cross-browser testing environment you could look at using Selenium Grid, have look here: https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/selenium-grid-4-tutorial-for-distributed-testing/ …
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Can anyone suggest me some good tools to learn in free time?

Naming specific tools will not age very well as an aswer, also learning tools you might not use could be waste. I would study concepts and fundamentals, afterwards maybe find a popular tool to practis …
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Testing Rabbit MQ with OWASP ZAP

RabbitMQ is part of the web-application, I dont think ZAP is designed to be used as a security scan between parts of a web-application. It focuses on the traffic between the browser and the web-applic …
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Automation of Functional Testing across all browser

Tl;DR: I think with the right tools and practises you could create a situation where automaticaly testing cross-browser is not really needed. It depends on the risks, for most situations it probably …
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Flutter driver Test Explorer

The Flutter Dart tests are supported out-of-the-box by IntelliJ. Maybe reading this article helps: https://medium.com/flutter/running-unit-tests-as-part-of-your-everyday-flutter-workflow-979970570fd4 …
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Can Test Automation Engineers call themselves Software Developers or Programmers?

Yes, you can and maybe you should depending on the context. If you write code you are a developer, or programmer. Writing automated tests is coding in most cases. Look at this definition of programmer …
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