Let’s not kid ourselves, closing popups with Watir, Selenium, and even Webdriver has always been a pain. Even if the built in methods work 95% of the time, that remaining 5% can take sometimes days to sort out a duck tape fix to that specific popup problem. We have definitely had our fair share…
Read moreLet’s not kid ourselves, closing popups with Watir, Selenium, and even Webdriver has always been a pain. Even if the built in methods work 95% of the time, that remaining 5% can take sometimes days to sort out a duck tape fix to that specific popup problem. We have definitely had our fair share of…
Read moreThe Watir problem with waiting for Ajax elements… When testing a webpage that contain elements like Javascript or ajax which, after an event fire, reload page elements without reloading the whole page can become difficult to script for using plain Watir or Selenium. For example, Watir’s wait_until method will wait for an element to…
Read moreWhen working with Selenium, sometimes you will find yourself stuck trying to access a particular element of the page and unable to script any further (this can often be a problem when working with a page that has iframes or links that trigger JavaScript events). A fix for this is to call Sikuli from within…
Read moreAs useful as Sikuli appeared at first glance, I quickly found it to be a real handful to implement and maintain. In both cases, implementation and maintenance, I’m not referring to difficulty in the actual scripting component itself, but in making sure that you are scripting with images that are usable by Sikuli for the…
Read moreIn one of our clients current projects, there is a module of scripts that require each script to log in as multiple user/roles to complete certain parts of the work flow. The application is also a little quirky. It has no log out button! So in order for our script to log out of one…
Read moreOne of the number one things our customers tell us they love about our test automation product Awetest is the expansive reporting module that includes not only high level data capturing and exporting but also how actionable the module becomes with the ability to drill down into the script level at any point and provide…
Read moreOne of the number one things our customers tell us they love about our test automation product Awetest is the expansive reporting module that includes not only high level data capturing and exporting but also how actionable the module becomes with the ability to drill down into the script level at any point and provide…
Read moreDepending on when you read this post will ultimately determine how long you have before the end of your beloved Windows XP operating system. That’s right! With the Windows 7 entering puberty, according to Microsoft, its time to put that old work horse XP out to pasture. At the time of writing this post there…
Read moreData management has been one of big trials we faced while deploying our test automation framework Awetest. The challenge was creating modular automated tests that can be reused across multiple script versions, multiple environments, and with different databases. Our answer was to integrate the concept of “Assets” into our test automation framework to address the…
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