QA & Testing

I've been working on a project recently which required testing on a mobile device. The project started in April this year and was focuse...

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:...

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

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...

When writing test scripts for testing an installer, on Windows, one of the challenges is when the installer requires a reboot. To handle thi...

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

When dealing with iframes and WebDriver things can quickly get confusing. Especially if you add popup windows to the mix. When you have an...

  One thing you might not realize if you have been trying to get command line help from the Selenium Server jar file is that there are two ...

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

Around this time last year I wrote an article about using Safari with WebDriver. You can find this article at  http://darrellgrainger.blogsp...

From time to time I will see an automation tool with image compare. The idea is to get a screen capture, save it as a baseline then when the...

When you are using WebDriver for test automation a test case really boils down to: Find an element Perform an action Confirm the expected...

One of the things I see people getting into automation doing is selecting what to automate or how to test an application based on what the a...

From time to time I see people asking questions about how to use an automation tool to do something the tool was never meant to do. For exam...

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