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SELENIUM POSTS
- 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 22
- 4 min
waiter2: Clicking on page elements
Clicking on a page element is easy to do, however sometimes this action might fail. This can be either because the element we want to...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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’,...
- 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 15, 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...
- May 5, 2016
- 3 min
Selenium: How to correctly test whether an element is displayed (or not)
One of the most frequent kind of interactions with the web page when testing with Selenium is checking whether a particular element is...
- Aug 13, 2015
- 3 min
Quick Tip: Running automated tests in parallel
The What I have a bunch of tests that i would like to run faster, by making them execute in parallel. In my tests: I am not using a...
- Aug 6, 2015
- 2 min
Quick Tip: Selenium - select / deselect a value from a dropdown
The What Having an HTML dropdown on a web page, i would like to select, via Selenium, an element from it, or deselect the selected one....
- Jul 27, 2015
- 7 min
Selenium tests, the Object Oriented Way
Some while ago i published an article in a local magazine on the topic of writing Selenium tests in an Object Oriented fashion. As i...
- Apr 8, 2015
- 1 min
Page navigation with Selenium
To refresh the current page: To go back to the previous page: To go to the next page (if the next page exists, for example if you go back...
- Apr 3, 2015
- 3 min
Working with cookies in Selenium
What are cookies Cookies are text files stored on your computer, that contain information sites need to remember of your visit on them,...
- Feb 27, 2014
- 2 min
Common Selenium exceptions
org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: this is probably the most common exception you will run into when creating Selenium tests....
- Feb 27, 2014
- 3 min
Waiting for UI events
Selenium has a mechanism of waiting for the page to load, for those situations when an action causes a page refresh. In this case, if the...
- Feb 27, 2014
- 4 min
Run tests on multiple browsers
Running tests on multiple browsers helps ensure that the behavior and look of your application is consistent for all your users. Selenium...
- Feb 25, 2014
- 5 min
Creating the page objects
What is a page object Simply put, a page object is an object that Selenium uses as a representation of an HTML element. Selenium tests...
- Feb 25, 2014
- 3 min
CSS Selectors
Identifying HTML elements in order to interact with them within you tests can be done by using CSS Selectors, which use pattern matching...
- Feb 25, 2014
- 1 min
XPATH selectors
Select a node by its name: nodename. Example: if the node is an h3 element, the selector is: h3. Select all the nodes that have a certain...
- Feb 25, 2014
- 4 min
HTML and Selenium. An introduction
HTML elements An HTML element has the following syntax: <element /> An HTML element in enclosed within a preceding '<' and a trailing...
- Feb 22, 2014
- 2 min
Setting up the Selenium bits
After the project is created, you need to setup the Selenium dependency, in order to use the library's functionality. Make sure you...
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