FFox, just: Selenium IDE Selenium IDE implicit wait Also: Firepath Firebug
Category: Selenium
Some commercial cloud based solutions popping up e.g. https://applitools.com/resources/ Open source: https://www.npmjs.com/package/protractor-image-comparison Image comparison in Automated Testing
Focus on screenplay pattern: ( Reminder on ‘SOLID’: http://butunclebob.com/ArticleS.UncleBob.PrinciplesOfOod https://scotch.io/bar-talk/s-o-l-i-d-the-first-five-principles-of-object-oriented-design The first five principles are principles of class design. They are: SRP The Single Responsibility Principle A class should have one, and only one, reason to change. OCP The Open Closed Principle You should be able to extend a classes behavior, without modifying it. LSP […]
Page model alternatives: “Journey” or “Screenplay’ pattern https://www.infoq.com/articles/Beyond-Page-Objects-Test-Automation-Serenity-Screenplay A weak Journey example: http://javing.blogspot.co.nz/2015/12/selenium-automation-design-pattern.html SOLID: https://ideas.riverglide.com/page-objects-refactored-12ec3541990#.ac0o42osj Perils of Page-Object Pattern from Anand Bagmar http://michaelpavlakcoding.blogspot.co.nz/2016/06/decomposing-page-objects.html https://confengine.com/selenium-conf-2014/proposal/348/design-patterns-beyond-the-page-object-an-investigation-into-the-design-patterns-used-while-building-page-objects State modeling: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2793039
https://www.npmjs.com/package/selenium-page-object-generator https://confengine.com/selenium-conf-2016/proposal/2513/selenium-page-object-code-generator https://github.com/naukri-engineering/SeleniumCodeGenerator https://github.com/rickypc/selenium-page-object-generator New as at 2016
Useful per: mestachs.wordpress.com/2012/08/13/selenium-best-practices/ Still mostly applies. Snapshotting here for my own benefit as that site is stale. Selenium Best Practices It’s a summary (and few extras) of test_design_considerations Use PageObjects pattern Be fluent with – return this, varargs, generics, – reuse your model and jodatime Be robust and portable – Prefered selector order : id […]
NEON can’t connect to Updates, nor install new Software, nor market place Getting proxy errors e.g. Check for updates: Some sites could not be found. See the error log for more detail. HTTP Proxy Authentication Required: http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/4.6/content.xml Proxy Authentication Required HTTP Proxy Authentication Required: http://www.testng.org/eclipse/content.xml Proxy Authentication Required HTTP Proxy Authentication Required: http://download.eclipse.org/releases/neon/content.xml Proxy Authentication […]
Java: best practices possibly: Selenium Best Practices Image matching: http://testautomation.applitools.com/post/109308544377/how-to-handle-visual-testing-false-positives-part False positives http://sauceio.com/index.php/2015/05/qa-reducing-false-positives-in-automated-testing/