waiter2: Useful methods for working with dropdowns and Select
When it comes to selecting values from a classic HTML dropdown, in Selenium you need to perform a few tasks: first, define a WebElement...
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- Mar 10
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Watch me talk about testing with Java, Junit5, Selenium and best practices
Here is a recent recording with some good advice on testing with Java, Junit5, Selenium and best practices: https://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Mar 7
- 1 min
Watch this Selenium all stars discussion that i am also a part of
Checkout the recording we made with Joe Colantonio for TestGuild, where we talked about Selenium and the upcoming Selenium Conference:...
- Feb 27
- 6 min
waiter2: Typing into fields
When it comes to typing, in the 'waiter2' library there are quite a few methods dedicated to this task. But there is a reason why there...
- Feb 20
- 4 min
waiter2: Opening a page and waiting for it to load
In this post I will describe what the get, wait for page load and wait for jquery to load methods from the 'waiter2' library do, and how...
- Feb 17
- 4 min
waiter2: My new Selenium wait based library
Some years ago, at a conference, I announced that I released a Selenium based library that contained useful wait-based methods for test...
- Apr 14, 2021
- 3 min
Using Retries in tests can hide the bugs
We are quite familiar with the concept of randomly failing automated tests. Those are the tests that even though there is no change in...
- Mar 31, 2021
- 3 min
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...
- Mar 17, 2021
- 2 min
About my JUnit 5 course
As you have probably seen, my new course on JUnit 5 is now available at Test Automation University. It’s an introduction to all the...
- Feb 12, 2021
- 1 min
Have you seen my article on using Spring for managing test environments in automated tests?
Read all about how to configure your test environment specific data in property files with Spring, to help run your automated TestNG and...
- 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/...
- Apr 1, 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’,...
- Nov 13, 2019
- 6 min
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...
- 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...
- Nov 1, 2018
- 4 min
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
- 4 min
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...
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