The Little Tester #144
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 choose to simply retry a test if it failed. But is that the best option? Here are my thoughts. Continue reading Using Retries in tests can hide the bugs
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The Little Tester #143
The Little Tester #142
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 going on. When do i realize what the issue was, i’m like ‘WOW i did not expect that’. These kind of stories are good to share, so that you know what to expect, should you encounter the same behavior. So, here is the peculiar, true story of Selenium, the StaleElementReferenceException, the iframe, the List and the WebElement. Continue reading The weird true story of Selenium, the StaleElementReferenceException, the iframe, the List and the WebElement
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The Little Tester #141
The Little Tester #140
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.
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