Exploratory Maintenance and Debugging Selenium Tests
What would you do if you ever have to maintain or debug tests that are unknown to you or you have forgotten? Sounds familiar? One obvious approach is to study the test scripts. But if pouring over...
View ArticleRunning Selenium RC With Firefox 4 Beta 6
Yeah!!! Managed to get a small test working on Firefox 4 beta 6 using Selenium RC v1.0.1 Here are the steps that I followed. Rename the selenium-server.jar to selenium-server.zip (as it is actually a...
View ArticleA Quick Introduction to CSS Locators in Selenium
While writing my recent posts on alternate locators, locator builders and Seleninum plugin API, I skipped over a truely basic question. What is a CSS locator in Selenium? It seems that some people are...
View ArticleTesting Evidence with Selenium IDE
Recently I ran into a fan. My fan! I still can’t contain my surprise! I never expected that I would have fans. (OK, just one so far :-)) He asked me if there was a way to save the test … Continue...
View ArticleImproving the Quality of Your Tests Through Page Coverage
Programmers often write tests and have a lot of powerful frameworks and tools at their disposal. One technique, Code coverage, provides you with the actual lines of code that are executed when the...
View ArticleManually Adding and Updating Element Locators – The Easy Way
Let me start with some quotes. “Change is inevitable.” “The only thing constant is change.” We have all heard these phrases and variations of these before. It is so very true when it comes to tests....
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