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AI Driven Testing (AI-DT) open source tools

There are several tools for the AI Driven Testing (AI-DT). here is the list of few tool they have some trial version period but not sure about the open source. Endtest Ghost Inspector Testim Tesabot ...
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How to further expand knowledge in Software QA?

There are many ways to expend the knowledge as a QA: Read QA blogs. Read Testing books. Hone your QA skills by teaching others. Go to Meet-Up & grow your network. Search & Read the Research ...
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Best guidelines to create images for bug reports in big testing team?

I think your suggestions are very good, it is always good to have clear guidelines. Though they should not be set in stone and should be used as a guideline and not as a rule. Full-screen In order ...
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AI Driven Testing (AI-DT) open source tools

First of all, I doubt that there is currently something like AI-driven testing. *-driven means that your entire development/testing process strongly relies on *. Working for retest myself, I'm ...
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Where tools for automated UI test like selenium or Coded UI fits in Dev Ops cycle

In this context, a goal you most likely want to achieve is one of Continuous Integration (CI). To that end, from the developer side, every check-in will trigger a build (to perform certain checks and ...
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Tools for testing iPhone apps

I can suggest you Appium is the best tool for Android & iOS mobile testing. I'm working on appium from last 6 months in my organization. The main advantages of using Appium is: cross-platform ...
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Typical software & tools short-list for *manual* QA specialist (tester) working environment

One more important thing people forget communication tools, a tester should always ask questions, so we need some communication tools like Hipchat, Skype, slack, whatsapp...etc or any client email ...
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Are there any non-selenium based tools for Automation testing?

I find MITM proxies and Mocks/Stubbing to be the most advanced pieces of Technology in Automated Checking. By using these, it makes it far easier to: Create repeatable, consistent checks Decrease ...
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How to further expand knowledge in Software QA?

Test open source software and report defects on Github. Maybe start with the top open source applications, you might already be using some. Try to answers questions here on SQA.SE. If you cannot ...
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Best guidelines to create images for bug reports in big testing team?

I will answer/go through your points one by one and will try to add some valuable information in addition to your useful & precised description. Color usage in images: Highlighting becomes ...
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Best guidelines to create images for bug reports in big testing team?

Images for bug reports should: contain all the information needed. So for browser screenshots use the whole browser window so people can see the browser, browser version and any toolbars that ...
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What test management tool to manage Cucumber tests?

I came across XRAY on Jira Cloud and i found its really usefull, I have started using in our company and replaced zephyr . Xray will give the opportunity to maintain both manual and automated test in ...
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Are there any non-selenium based tools for Automation testing?

The most recent developments that I have observed are: Running tests in the cloud. Companies like Sauce Labs and Browserstack are leaders here. There are many advantages to this, from the number of ...
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What are good tools for managing user acceptance testing?

Jira, like Trello, VSTS, Pivotal Tracker and others are story ticket management systems. I've used them all and prefer Jira the most due to its UI, usability and integrations with both other ...
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Success rate of "click" actions with Selenium? (Relatively)

First of all, we need to understand the root cause of the click failure. There can be several reasons for that: Element is not loaded into the DOM at the moment of click action Element is not ...
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Alternatives to Session Tester for recording exploratory test session results

I use following tool with my team: SBTM template for google spreadsheet from Altom (altom.ro)- https://drive.google.com/templates?q=SBTM+Session+Template&sort=hottest&view=public. It is ...
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Property transfer in SOAP UI using xpath

Here is how I would do it. Looks like you made a trivial mistake in the xpath. Here is how the test case is defined with following test step names. Soap Request Test step named as Test Request ...
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When a new testing tool is purchased, it should be first used by whom? ISTQB Foundation Level Examination sample question

Ofcourse the correct answer should be: Everyone who may eventually have some use for the tool If I would have a company and I would have evaluated and paid for a tool. Then I would not want to ...
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Are there additional tools outside of scripting that are used in the automated QA process?

Additional Quality Engineering tools and abilities that are used: seleniumIDE. A Firefox plugin gui tool that lets you test sites in the firefox browser by writing simple commands. The surround ...
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Getting Started - Newbie Question

There are alot of things to consider. First here are some tool links as there are tons. Mobile: http://www.testingtools.com/mobile-testing/ Various automation companies: http://www.capterra.com/...
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No programming skills and want to learn automation

To learn automation you need to learn programming. No way around it. Most programmers know more than one language, and use the one best fit for the job on hand. Learning multiple languages will also ...
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Where tools for automated UI test like selenium or Coded UI fits in Dev Ops cycle

Would it be developers job to create basic selenium ide test cases and then pass them to testers and if they find any new test case they would add it to test suite ideally without help from devs or ...
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Where tools for automated UI test like selenium or Coded UI fits in Dev Ops cycle

If you look at the continuous delivery principles this would be the "Automated acceptance tests" step. Your continuous integration server should run these tests on each commit and give feedback as ...
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Null pointer exception catching Tool

The cleanest way is to create an aspect before the Exception is thrown and deal with it: public aspect ExceptionLoggingAspect { before (NullPointerException e): handler(Exception+) && ...
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Success rate of "click" actions with Selenium? (Relatively)

My experience over the years has been pretty good with Selenium and clicks. Although IE has some quircks where a click focusses an element instead, but does not fire the click action. Double clicking ...
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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 ...
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How to create an HTML test report in Selenium automation framework?

You can create a custom HTML file using the FileWriter class of Java. You can add everything you want in the report into an array with each step execution. At the end of the test, you can write all ...
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Typical software & tools short-list for *manual* QA specialist (tester) working environment

2018 In the 5 years since it was asked I also seen the following useful tools gain prominence: Docker Even for manual testing, using docker, aws and containerization generally is a great way to set ...
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Capture screen during exploratory testing

This might to late to answer the op, but for others to land on the page with a similar question, Consider Adobe Presenter Video Express. You can easily load other applications while PVX is recording ...
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