QA & Testing

While setting up a test environment today we decided to have the tests running on the same machine as the build radiator. A build radiator...

Talking to one of my colleagues today. He asked me about testing desktop applications. As someone who predates the Internet, testing desktop...

The WebDriver code waits for the page to load but today we have dynamic websites using things like angularjs and Ajax. WebDriver does not ...

I'm currently testing a project with two applications. The first is an administrator tool for updating/modifying the customer site and t...

In an older article I wrote about a method I created called waitForElement . After looking through some of the WebDriver code I found WebDri...

Sleeper Recently I have been exposed to classes in WebDriver that I did not know existed. I started with Selenium when it was beta and fou...

A number of times I have been on a website where clicking a link goes to a specific page with a specific element at the top of the page. For...

Someone recently commented on an article I wrote about generating a screen capture when an exception is thrown (see Generating a screen capt...

I've been processing files and data a lot lately which means I've been using Regular Expressions. Regular Expressions is a very p...

One thing I believe to be very important for any sort of software development (and test automation with Selenium is software development) is...

Recently needed Java code to get the contents of the clipboard. For your reading pleasure: public static String getStringFromClipboard()...

I've seen a few people posting Java code for Selenium automation where they have things like: FirefoxDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver...

There is a class in Selenium 2 called Platform. It is very helpful in those situations where you need to do something different for differen...

Recently, someone asked how to have Selenium 2 (WebDriver) create a screen capture if an exception is thrown. Here is how you do it... Let...

I've been looking at Selenium 2.0 and writing test cases using WebDriver. Looking at the APIs I see there is a class for Android, iPhone...

I've been to the dark side (HP Quick Test Professional) for the past year but I'm back to working with open source tools like Seleni...

I've seen a few people post questions about using the Selenium waitForCondition method. If you read the documentation for the waitForC...

In a previous entry I blogged about how to reduce code duplication. My solution is using libraries. Let's say I have a web applicatio...

If you are using Eclipse you can use different version of Java to run your applications. When you create a new Java project, one of the sett...

I you want to create a Selenium test case from scratch, i.e. not using the record method listed earlier in my blog, here is how you do it: ...