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Writing automated tests means writing code. It means going through processes that regular code goes through. Like code review, and...
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- Jul 11, 2018
- 3 min
A bug is still a bug
Do you know this situation, when you implemented some automated tests based on a requirement, but a test has been failing for ages...
- Mar 8, 2018
- 5 min
The tester and the code review
Code review, although very important and frequent in the software development world, is not as frequent in the automation testing world....
- Jan 30, 2018
- 6 min
Automated testing of translations by using property files
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...
- Jan 23, 2018
- 3 min
Write automated tests with repeatable results
Writing automated tests is no longer the biggest challenge in the testing community. Writing reliable automated tests is. So many times...
- Oct 30, 2017
- 2 min
Check that the value you think you typed into a field has actually been typed correctly
You are writing some automated tests with Selenium, that require you to fill in some text fields in a form. You are pretty confident you...
- Oct 26, 2017
- 3 min
Test design: write tests with proper console output to easily identify failure reasons
When automated test are running, they are either running on your own machine (when you write them or run them to check something), or in...
- Oct 10, 2017
- 3 min
The tester's daily dilemma: my automated tests fail because of the test environment. What can i do?
Automated tests. They are there, and they need to be run. On a test environment. By you. You wrote them in a way that they should be...
- Sep 19, 2017
- 4 min
Checking whether an image is broken with HttpClient
Let’s say you have a task to check whether a certain image is broken on your page. In case of a broken image, instead of it being...
- Aug 30, 2017
- 2 min
Identify the OS tests are running on with os.Name or SystemUtils
In order to make your tests OS agnostic, sometimes, you need to create some additional logic to handle OS specifics. For example, if you...
- Aug 22, 2017
- 5 min
Using Maven checkstyle in your project to help adhere to coding standards
Coding standards are something both automating testers and developers should adhere to. Pretty obvious right? Maybe not that obvious...
- Apr 24, 2017
- 5 min
Better Test Code Principles #5: Mind your try/catches
Using try/catches to handle exceptions has become quite fashionable when writing tests with Java. However, this approach is also a...
- Apr 18, 2017
- 5 min
A three-course menu for writing your Selenium tests before the feature is complete
How many times does this happen: you start a new iteration/sprint; you give estimates; you realize that the testing work will not be...
- Apr 10, 2017
- 4 min
Using Lists to get UI elements with nearly impossible selectors
Where does this approach apply? One of the following: if you have a list of elements with identical selectors. The element you are...
- Mar 21, 2017
- 2 min
Better Test Code Principles: #4 Keep your production tests separate from your dev environment ones
Automated tests are used to validate features in development environments but also in production. Whereas the classic approach of keeping...
- Mar 14, 2017
- 2 min
A false myth: automated tests don't uncover bugs
This is something i heard quite a few times: why bother writing automated tests, as they will not find any bugs anyway? Why do you write...
- Mar 8, 2017
- 2 min
Better Test Code Principles: #3 Use external libraries when available
Most of the testing tasks require some data processing, whether it is working with JSON objects, gathering data from a database,...
- Mar 1, 2017
- 6 min
@FindBy, Lists and using them to check for similar UI elements
This is going to be a rather complex post, that will show how to easily check for values of similar UI elements. By similar i mean...
- Feb 7, 2017
- 3 min
Better Test Code Principles: #2 Don't generate ALL your test data in @BeforeClass
A considerable amount of tests will need some test data to be generated previous to them running. Some people prefer to put all the data...
- Jan 25, 2017
- 6 min
Better Test Code Principles: #1 Don't copy/paste the code. Reuse it.
When starting to learn Java, one of the first things you are taught is that a class consists of several things, among which are the...
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