The weird story of Selenium,the StaleElementReferenceException,the iframe,the List,the WebElement
I write a lot of automated tests. Most of the times, it all goes nice and smooth, like a good song. But once in a while i run into an...
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- Jan 29, 2021
- 1 min
Read my new article on Selenium Actions
My latest article is now published, and it’s all about using Selenium Actions for more interesting and complex interactions, like mouse...
- Jan 15, 2021
- 1 min
Read my article on using WebDriverWaits as retries
Checkout this article i wrote on how to use WebDriverWaits as retries for more test automation success: https://blog.testproject.io/2021/...
- Jun 10, 2020
- 11 min
Working with user prompts in Selenium
In your tests you might encounter specialized popups, which are generated via Javascript, and which are called ‘user prompts’. These are...
- May 21, 2020
- 10 min
Working with windows/tabs in Selenium
When testing requires you to work with multiple open windows or tabs, Selenium is here to help. A new window or tab usually opens when a...
- May 6, 2020
- 8 min
Iframes, switchTo() and default content with Selenium
So, now that you are an expert in writing CSS selectors to identify your WebElements (possible because of my older webinar on this...
- Mar 31, 2020
- 9 min
Browser unaware Selenium tests. STEP 3: Starting a browser based on a system property
By now, following the previous two posts in this series, you have setup the methods that initialize a Chrome and a Firefox browser. In...
- Mar 25, 2020
- 8 min
Browser unaware Selenium tests. STEP 2: Creating browser initialization methods for Chrome, Firefox
In this second post of the ‘browser unaware Selenium tests’ series, i will show what the methods that start Chrome and Firefox look like,...
- Mar 18, 2020
- 6 min
Browser unaware Selenium tests. STEP 1: Identify OSs to run tests + choose browsers to support
In this blog post series, i want to show how i normally set up my browsers and my Selenium code, in order to enable writing ‘cross-OS’,...
- Jun 28, 2019
- 1 min
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
- 6 min
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...
- Aug 14, 2018
- 4 min
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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 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...
- Jan 16, 2017
- 6 min
Selenium tests, the Object Oriented way - example 1 (with code)
This is going to be a follow-up post in regards to the approach i showed at my SeleniumConf talk, on doing Selenium tests by using an...
- May 11, 2016
- 3 min
Selenium: How to wait for an element to be displayed / not displayed
In my previous post i talked about how to check whether an element is displayed or not. There are times when tests where such an action...
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