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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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I am going to start automated QA

I wrote something down a while ago: Test Automation – Here are our Thoughts on it Today’s article can be seen as a survey reflecting our thoughts on web test automation in general. It basically lists …
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What to do when waiting for an element to appear isn't enough?

The thing that helped me sometimes in such cases is to evaluate the state of JQUery: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20414729/webdriver-wait-for-jquery-to-finish But of course if you use another …
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Automation and bypassing Google No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA

If this has to be the same copy you ship and you cannot modify it, you cannot test beyond the captcha. That is the reason of having captchas - to avoid automation. So the only option is to build in s …
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Performance testing - a way in?

You should not focus on the concurrency rate, rather try to get traffic statistics, such as visits, amount of activity, and so on. If you already have a site running, you can analyze the server logs o …
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Should load test validate functionality?

This is a very strong "yes". You might want to limit yourself a little in the overall validation, but checking response codes only is a strong fail in my opinion. Additionally just checking the result …
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