Why using branches is good for your tests
Branches are beautiful, on trees. Branches in the code are not what many testers like to work with. The whole branching process appears...
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- Jan 17, 2020
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- Dec 4, 2019
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Bugs and reproducing them
Whenever a new bug is found, the tester will need to create a defect in the defect tracking system they work with. This defect needs to...
- Nov 27, 2019
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Java naming conventions revisited
Let's go way back to basics for a second: Java naming conventions. I wrote a post a while back regarding how to compose the name for...
- Nov 13, 2019
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Using HashMaps in automated tests
HashMaps are one of those Java concepts that can be very useful in automation testing, but are not widely used, because they seem to be...
- Oct 31, 2019
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Removing duplicates from a List
When working with lists, sometimes you only want them to contain distinct elements. There are two options to create lists without...
- Oct 24, 2019
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- Oct 9, 2019
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Useful type conversions
Some of our test data needs to be transformed from its original type to something else. For example, we might need to convert a String to...
- Jun 28, 2019
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The recording of my CSS selectors webinar is now available online
Go to https://applitools.com/blog/css-selectors to see: the recording of the webinar i made together with Applitools, the slides...
- Nov 22, 2018
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thewaiter: wait for WebElement attribute. To equal, contain a String, with variations.
An attribute of an HTML tag (or WebElement as you might know it from Selenium) stores valuable information about the state of that...
- Nov 15, 2018
- 4 min
How WebDriverWait works differently for WebElements defined by driver.findElement versus PageFactory
When it comes to using WebDriverWait to wait for WebElement properties,like text or attributes, when sending WebElements as properties...
- Nov 8, 2018
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Find files inside a folder in your automated test
Context: you have a folder containing some files. You need to find all the files whose name contains some expected value in this folder...
- Nov 1, 2018
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Better Test Code Principles: Use proper naming, for everything
Naming is one of those underrated things when it comes to test automation code. Many times, when you look at variable or even test method...
- Oct 25, 2018
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The Automated Regression Suite. Part 3 of 3. How to run the suite
Once you have a regression suite set up, you will need to run it. When you have a smaller number of tests that need to be run on a...
- Oct 18, 2018
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The Automated Regression Suite. Part 2 of 3. When to run the tests.
Once you have your automated regression suite in place, you can create a scheduler to run them periodically, without any manual...
- Oct 11, 2018
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The Automated Regression Suite. Part 1 of 3. When to create the tests for regression
What do I mean by “automated regression testing”? I am not one for debating for hours what this means, so let me give you my...
- Aug 15, 2018
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Use waits as assertions for your Selenium tests
Selenium tests tend to make a lot of use of assertions, to check that some actions have been performed on the front-end or that some...
- Aug 9, 2018
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Easily compare a list of Strings with the contents of a file
Context: you need to check that the values you have in a List of Strings are the same as the contents of a file. An element in the List...
- Aug 2, 2018
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Better Test Code Principles: #6 Don't create a new variable for a value you will only use once
If you are an automation tester, you will need to write a lot of code to cover the required test scenarios and test cases. Your code base...
- Jul 26, 2018
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Create a Proof of Concept before going full throttle with your automation
Starting an automation effort for a project that has no automation whatsoever is always a fun and challenging experience. But you need to...
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