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    Automation Best Practices: Tips for Better Management and Maintenance of Test Cases

    by on June 5, 2012 in automation, Best Practices, Blog Series, code examples, screenshots, No Comments »

    Visit this post for an index for our Blog Series: Best Practices for Achieving Automated Regression Testing Within the Enterprise Manage: Tips for Better Management and Maintenance of Test Cases With maintenance on automated test cases taking up a good portion of our clients time we thought it would be a good idea to layout [...]

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    How to force Google Chrome to Open a New Window rather than a New Tab with Webdriver’s Chromedriver

    by on June 4, 2012 in automation, chrome, code examples, webdriver, No Comments »

    This post will show you how to force Google Chrome to open a new window rather than a new tab for the purposes of testing web applications using Webdriver’s fork for Chrome, Chromedriver. We hit this snag while building out some cross browser tests for one of our clients using webdriver’s chromedriver to run the [...]

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    Automation Best Practices: Building To Get the Job Done

    by on May 3, 2012 in Best Practices, Blog Series, code examples, No Comments »

    Visit this post for an index for our Blog Series – Best Practices for Achieving Automated Regression Testing Within the Enterprise Build: Building Automated Test Cases to Get the Job Done With maintenance on automated test cases taking up a good portion of our clients time we thought it would be a good idea to [...]

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    Automation Best Practices: Building To Stand the Test of Time

    by on April 25, 2012 in Best Practices, Blog Series, code examples, No Comments »

    With maintenance on automated test cases taking up a good portion of our clients time we thought it would be a good idea to layout some best practices for building out rock solid automation that will be both easy to understand at a glance and maintain with minimal effort. This section is a continuance of [...]

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    Automation Best Practices: Building From Scratch

    by on April 18, 2012 in Best Practices, Blog Series, code examples, No Comments »

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    Automation Best Practices: Achieving Automated Regression Testing Within the Enterprise

    by on April 12, 2012 in automation, Best Practices, code examples, No Comments »

    Awetest: Test Automation Implementation Best Practices 1. Introduction In the upcoming weeks we will be publishing a comprehensive blog series highlighting our professional experience and findings with the deployment of our test automation framework, Awetest, within a large enterprise implementation. This series will include our methodology for building out automation, code examples, best practices, and [...]

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    Best Practices for Watir and Selenium Locators – The Locator Tree of Life

    by on February 8, 2012 in automation, Best Practices, code examples, selenium, Self-Help and Leadership, watir, No Comments »

    When choosing which element locator to use in your automation tests it is important to know which locators are better to use than others. This will help you cut down on your script maintenance and strengthen your confidence that your tests are actually testing the element you intended to. We made up this fun little diagram to [...]

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    Substitute for Watir Attach Method, Better ‘Use’ Method for Webdriver

    by on January 27, 2012 in Awetest Methods, code examples, ruby, watir, No Comments »

    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 of [...]

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    Watir Method for waiting until Ajax elements have loaded completely or become enabled

    by on January 9, 2012 in automation, Awetest Methods, code examples, ruby, watir, No Comments »

    The 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 show [...]

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    Getting Watir Working Again Can Often Be A Simple Sleep Issue

    by on December 3, 2011 in automation, bug fixes, code examples, watir, No Comments »

    In 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 [...]