Testing. With Java, Selenium, TestNG, Maven, Spring, IntelliJ and friends.
Starting an automation effort for a project that has no automation whatsoever is always a fun and challenging experience. But you need to clearly understand what the goal and specifics of your project are, to achieve success in the automation effort. Before jumping into writing the first automated tests, you need to gather some information,… Read More
Writing automated tests means writing code. It means going through processes that regular code goes through. Like code review, and refactoring. I see a lot of hesitation when it comes to refactoring one’s own code, possibly because we feel that if our code needs correction, we did a crappy job writing it the first time.… Read More
Element text is something you will often check for when writing Selenium tests. Whether it equals a given String, or contains a given String. But you can extend your checks to whether: the element text equals/contains a String ignoring the case of the two, or whether the element text equals/contains a String ignoring any whitespace… Read More
In some tests it is not enough to just wait for a page to fully load, but instead you need to make sure that the URL corresponding to that page is the expected one. Maybe you clicked on a button and need to make sure an expected page/URL opened, or maybe you are opening a… Read More
One of the most common ways of interacting with a page displayed in a browser, in Selenium tests, is clicking on a WebElement. But many times, due to the timing when the click happens, it will fail, since the WebElement that needs to be clicked is not yet available. This might be because some Javascript… Read More
In this post i will discuss the methods you can find in thewaiter library, for waiting for a page to load completely. I will show the methods you can use from thewaiter that can help you with these waits, and some test examples for each, that you can also find in GitHub.
During my talk at the recent SauceCon conference, i described how you can write reliable Selenium tests by using WebDriverWait based methods to wait for page events to take place. I am now happy to announce that my little project, thewaiter library that i mentioned in the talk, is available to use from the Maven… Read More
Code review, although very important and frequent in the software development world, is not as frequent in the automation testing world. Normally, it would be part of the whole process: someone writes code, reviews it, makes it available to the rest of the team, they review it, and if changes are needed they will be… Read More
Whenever you need to write tests that check for a text in several languages, you don’t need to write one test for each language that you check for. Instead, you can use property files to store translations and just write one test that will check the text across all supported languages. Read below to see… Read More
Writing automated tests is no longer the biggest challenge in the testing community. Writing reliable automated tests is. So many times tests that were once written are sent to the garbage bin or thrown into oblivion. They are unreliable and people will just ignore them when they are running, simply because they have a history… Read More
