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Does testing on Internet Explorer still make sense in 2021?
It depends on your user base. Either check your statistics or do market research. W3schools shows that IE11 is still 0.4% of their population Netmarketshare says 5.5%.
I once had a client that used an ...
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Does testing on Internet Explorer still make sense in 2021?
Older IE is still widely used in corporate networks since it has more integration with windows security and networking mechanisms as well as with ms office suite.
Big corporations often have large lag ...
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Is it necessary to test the same browser on different OS's?
It really depends.
Actually rendering elements in a webpage/application and the webpage/application itself depends a lot on the environment it is being accessed. The environment includes, the OS, ...
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Does testing on Internet Explorer still make sense in 2021?
IE is (unfortunately) still around. It is not unusual for large government companies to have a deal with their hardware/software vendor that specifically mentions Microsoft products, including IE. ...
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Does testing on Internet Explorer still make sense in 2021?
As shown in the other answers, it really depends on your user base.
If you are targeting developers and high-end users, you probably won't have many (or any) using IE.
If you are targeting corporate ...
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What are best practices for cross browser/platform testing?
Multi-device/browser testing strategy
Above all else:
Know your user population and the devices they use and the way they use them
Determine if your focus is manual or automation testing as they have ...
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Does testing on Internet Explorer still make sense in 2021?
Until a few weeks ago I would have said "maybe", because people who are still using Windows 7 and don't want to install a non-Microsoft browser (for whatever reason) were stuck with IE11, ...
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Is there any automated cross-browser screenshot capturing tool
You can use the Selenium Webdriver itself to do it.
See this answer.
Just do this procedure for each page you want to check.
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What are the disadvantages of using SaaS companies for Regression and Functional Testing?
One of the disadvantages of using SaaS for regression testing is that you need to allow outside organization access to your pre-production test environment. In most organizations, it has significant ...
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Differences between Android emulators / iOS simulator and real devices for mobile web testing
There will be differences between emulators/simulators and actual devices. Android emulators just emulate the screen size and pixel ratio and run a stock version of Android. Many of the major ...
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Cross platform and browser automation testing on linux
Docker is not a virtualization platform. It is a containerization platform. It just isolates applications from each other. It might event fail to run the image that is built for one version of Linux ...
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What are the top browsers to test on?
You can search around for browser statistics over the Internet. As an example here is the stats provided by w3schools.com based on over 45 million monthly visits.
NB! The table captions are ...
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Do we need to do cross browser testing for minor text changes in blackbox testing?
I think the general answer is "be reasonable". Just because you're doing blackbox testing doesn't mean you should do extra useless testing--in this type of situation, you're likely better off looking ...
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How do enterprises test their web apps across all browsers, browser versions, and operating systems?
The answer is that
They don't test on all of the combinations
They focus on the ones that are used the most
For example there are literally thousands of Android devices and sizes and OS versions. ...
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Does testing on Internet Explorer still make sense in 2021?
Microsoft bids farewell to Internet Explorer.
As per latest information from Microsoft, Microsoft To End Support For Its Ageing Browser Internet Explorer In 2021(News here).
But still most of the ...
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MSTest-Cross browser testing C# with Selenium?-how to run C# Selenium tests against multiple browsers
I think you can use a .RunSettings as described in the MSDN documentation.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<RunSettings>
<TestRunParameters>
<Parameter name="...
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How do enterprises test their web apps across all browsers, browser versions, and operating systems?
use BitBar or SauceLabs - companies specialized on providing hosting services for many devices/browsers/OS.
https://www.google.com/search?q=cross+browser+testing
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Does testing on Internet Explorer still make sense in 2021?
I believe the answer is to be found in this URL: XBAP Support in IE Edge:
As you can see, there are formats, supported by Internet Explorer, not being supported by Edge (Internet Explorer's ...
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Does testing on Internet Explorer still make sense in 2021?
Depends on your audience, but if you need stability, YES.
Real life example:
Last year(2019) I made a web application to be used by professors, I was later informed that they were unknowingly ...
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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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Is there any way to run test cases on different browser at once in robotframework using Ride
You could use Pabot: A parallel executor for Robot Framework tests.
From their GitHub page. You can find more advanced use-cases and documentations here.
Run same tests with two different ...
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Is there a tool to mirror input events on one device to multiple devices?
I'm not sure you can update sensor inputs in all other mobiles at same time by using one device, because each and every mobile has different sensors and you can invoke that sensors only from that ...
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Differences between Android emulators / iOS simulator and real devices for mobile web testing
Although this answer is two years ago, I try to share my lessons learned (it is not directly HTML5 but as you said any info would be useful). In our project we also thougth about the possibility just ...
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Testing for file download, when there is not a direct link
ElementalSelenium suggest to configure your browser instance to bypass the dialog box (by creating advanced profile).
Linked example is for Ruby, but creating the profile should be similar for Java ...
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How can i create virtual desktops for cross platform testing?
For cross platform testing, you have two options:
You create virtual machines (which any operating systems, including Windows, any Linux distributions (such as Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and so on) by ...
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How to implement cross-browser testing in Angular 2 app?
You'll want to use the various different selenium drivers that can be used to run against different browsers. You'll need either the browser or a similar 'browser driver' program, e.g. chromedriver ...
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Can we run selenium scripts in a specific version of a browsers. i.e. Run script on chrome 52 and 53?
On a single computer you can only install one version of each browser. So to run your Selenium tests against multiple version you will need multiple machines.
Easiest: Setup a virtual machine, ...
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Does SauceLabs or Browserstack support testing chinese browsers? If not what tool should I go for?
From what I see, BrowserStack does not support the browsers you've mentioned, here is a full table of supported systems and browsers.
Same goes for Sauce Labs, here is a full list of what the service ...
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How to Run same test on multiple browsers?
Use WebDriver.for, e.g.
require 'selenium-webdriver'
require 'rspec-expectations'
def setup(platform, browser_name, browser_version)
caps = Selenium::WebDriver::Remote::Capabilities.send(...
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How to Run same test on multiple browsers?
If I get your question correctly you want to run the same script in different browsers Then, write a method pass a browser name as a string, use a 'switch case' logic to determine which browser to ...
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