QA & Testing

Been a while since I posted something here... Recently, someone on the WebDriver Google Group asked what the difference between NotFoundEx...

Recently someone asked about using the partial link text to find an anchor with an IMG tag in the middle of the text. The HTML snippet was:...

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...

My current project uses Ruby and has a web testing component to it. The obvious choice for testing a web application with Ruby would be Sele...

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 am constantly seeing people look for tools which will create locators. I think a lot of us starting by using Firebug to examine the DOM an...

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...

From time to time I see people trying to use Windows Server (2003 or 2008 R2) to run WebDriver scripts on Internet Explorer. They are postin...

If you go to a website and it has HTTP Basic Authentication turned on it will pop up a dialog asking you for username and password. You ca...

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...

From time to time I encounter a javascript feature which does not let me examine it. For example, auto-complete features on input boxes. W...

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...

I have occasionally seen people recommending running javascript using the JavascriptExecutor implementation. For example, I was working on a...

Sometimes it is hard to know which version of Selenium you should be using. There is no hard and fast rule of which Selenium works with whic...

I was recently pointed to a nice list of Selenium/WebDriver blogs. If you are looking for more information about Selenium/WebDriver you shou...

Recently I was asked if all the different implementations of WebDriver allow for screen captures. I had a look at the source code and see th...

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

Most automation tools depend on the concept of the page has finished loading. With AJAX and Web 2.0 this has become a grey area. META tags ...

When using Selenium 2.0 (WebDriver) you will sometimes find clicking a link opens a popup window. Before you can interact with the elements...