This September was quite productive, as i had 4 test automation related articles published, which i recommend reading: Creating an Architecture for Your Automated Tests Writing Automated Tests in Small Increments 4 Times Your Automation Passed While Bugs Were Present Now That You’ve Created Automated Tests, Run Them! Enjoy.
My blog posts on Tech buzzwords testers should at least know about have been published!
Checkout my series of two blog posts on Tech buzzwords testers should at least know about: https://blog.testproject.io/2021/07/08/tech-buzzwords-testers-should-at-least-know-about-part-1/ and https://blog.testproject.io/2021/07/29/tech-buzzwords-testers-should-at-least-know-about-2/. With lots of useful links for in-depth learning. Enjoy.
My series of Maven related articles is out now
If you haven’t seen, this week i released my series of 2 articles to help get you started with Maven. In the first one, i discuss how to setup Maven on your machine and how to create a brand new Maven project. I also explain key concepts that define what Maven and a Maven project… Read More
Logging Test Automation Information with Log4j
This week my newest article was released, this time on how to use Log4j to log relevant test automation information: https://blog.testproject.io/2021/05/05/logging-test-automation-information-with-log4j/. Check it out!
Using Retries in tests can hide the bugs
We are quite familiar with the concept of randomly failing automated tests. Those are the tests that even though there is no change in the feature they are testing, they either fail randomly at the same step, or they fail at random steps. Handling the results of such tests can be tricky, and some teams… Read More
The weird true story of Selenium, the StaleElementReferenceException, the iframe, the List and the WebElement
I write a lot of automated tests. Most of the times, it all goes nice and smooth, like a good song. But once in a while i run into an automation situation that leaves me completely baffled. Debugging does not reveal how to fix it, and it is not very obvious to me what is… Read More
About my JUnit 5 course
As you have probably seen, my new course on JUnit 5 is now available at Test Automation University. It’s an introduction to all the amazing features of this framework that you can use in your automated tests, with, of course, plenty of examples.
Have you seen my article on using Spring for managing test environments in automated tests?
Read all about how to configure your test environment specific data in property files with Spring, to help run your automated TestNG and JUnit tests on any test environment you need: https://blog.testproject.io/2021/02/09/using-spring-to-switch-environments-in-automated-tests/. Enjoy.
Read my new article on Selenium Actions
My latest article is now published, and it’s all about using Selenium Actions for more interesting and complex interactions, like mouse double clicking, mouse right clicking or mouse hovering. Read all of it and follow the examples i present right here: https://blog.testproject.io/2021/01/29/performing-page-interactions-with-selenium-actions/ . Enjoy!
Read my article on using WebDriverWaits as retries
Checkout this article i wrote on how to use WebDriverWaits as retries for more test automation success: https://blog.testproject.io/2021/01/13/using-selenium-webdriver-waits-as-retries-in-your-selenium-tests/. If you haven’t used Waits yet, or you have, but are still having issues with tests randomly failing, this is the right approach for your tests. Enjoy.
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