QA & Testing

Occasionally I find I need to reboot a remote computer. In my current situation the remote computer is Windows XP and accessed via VNC. Howe...

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...

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...

Every once in a while someone is looking for a file of a specific size. Occasionally, it must be real data. If you are transmitting the file...

When I set up a Selenium Server it only works when someone is logged in. In a previous article I wrote how to make a user automatically log ...

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 ...

I'm a hacker. Not the breaking into systems and doing damage hacker. To me a hacker is someone who learns things by trial and error. I w...

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

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...

If you have Ajax calls or javascript which updates the page after the page has finished loading, you may have to wait for that code to finis...

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...

After years of software testing I have found one constant... there is never enough time to test everything. So how do I pick what I'm ...

Being able to view the source code to a page is helpful when trying to use Selenium. Many of the methods in Selenium require you to locate t...

Joining a new company is always difficult at first. You spend a lot of time learning what you don't know about the company and the cultu...

I've started a new job and I'm working with my staff to see how things are done. One of the problems I see in many organizations is ...

It has been a while since I have posted something to the blog. Life has been keeping me busy with things other than software testing. I...

One of the most important things on a team is communication. I have worked on teams were everything was put into a document. Unfortunately, ...

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