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Selenium 2 makes automation debugging easier

28.03.2011

One of the parts of Selenium 1.0 that I never enjoyed was debugging automation that didn’t work. I had to faff about creating custom Firefox profiles with Firebug installed and

Automated Acceptance Testing or FitNesse to Improve the Quality of Software

23.03.2011

The quality of the product is not in the least dependent on the actual documentation and thorough testing. I would like to highlight the issue of developing and testing software

Selenium Auto Accept Self Signed SSL Certificates and Basic Authentication

19.03.2011

One of my biggest annoyances and unresolved issues with Selenium is the self-signed SSL certificates. This was a huge issue for me on the last project when we had dozen

Test Automation Authoring Is Harder Than It sounds

07.03.2011

I’ve got a test automation engineer and a bunch of manual testers. The plan, of course, is to teach the manual testers to write automated tests were appropriate; a plan

Running Selenium Server Using Custom Firefox Profile

Let’s create custom firefox profile at first: 1. Close all running copies of firefox 2. Start => Run 3. Type firefox.exe -ProfileManager -no-remote, other often offer to run command firefox.exe

Interview Questions of Selenium

05.03.2011

1.    What is the difference between an assert and a verify with Selenium commands? 2.    What Selenese commands can be used to help debug a regexp? 3.    What is one

How automation testing can help your software development process

03.03.2011

There is no piece of software in the world that’s not tested before release for mass adoption. Yet we see many applications fail to reach the target audience. One of

Key Steps in Automated Testing

Even though every piece of software undergoes thorough testing, when it is delivered software almost always has defects. Test engineers strive to catch them before the product is released but

Manual Testing vs. Automated Testing: A Decision Point

01.03.2011

Choosing to implement automation in a test organization can be a somewhat controversial decision. Many automation efforts fail or do not yield the expected return on investment. In this tip,

E-mail Distribution of Test Results Obtained from Selenium + TestNG

24.02.2011

If you have to run a bunch of automated tests using Selenium + TestNG, the results of running the tests can be easily sent to all interested parties automatically. It

4 Best Add-ons to Identify Selenium Locators

Locators allow tester to find elements on a page that can be used in automated tests. And it is not trivial task to uniquely identify some locators. I offer 4