Now that you know the anatomy of a Data-Driven test, here’s a trick that simplifies the process of Data Driven testing using Cucumber. Cucumber inherently supports Data Driven testing by the use of the Scenario Outline and Examples section. It is with these keywords that Cucumber allows for easy Data Driven testing to be completed where no changes need to be made…
Read moreA Data-Driven testing framework refers to the repeating of the same test case scenario using different data sets – making the test case, data centric. As a result, a QA Engineer is able to test multiple scenarios using one single test case. This article will explain the anatomy of a Data-Driven test, followed by an…
Read moreAt 3Qi Labs we are constantly looking and recruiting for QE (Quality Engineers), and with all of the interviews we have conducted we have seen a huge range of answers to the simple question “What’s the difference between White Box and Black Box testing?”. This post is our attempt at breaking down the fundamental…
Read more“Frameworks” is an overused, yet necessary, part of any successful automation effort. Automation has been around for a long time (Mercury Systems which is part of HP since 2005 was founded in 1980!) and many of the approaches are the same as they were back then, but the underlying technologies and tools have evolved. So today,…
Read moreSafari’s native development tool is Safari Inspect Element. Unlike the other browsers, Safari Inspect Element is not activated by default, this article will be showing step by step instructions on how to activate it. Safari also offers a different feature from the other browsers where the user can view any webpage in a mobile device emulator. For mobile webpage…
Read moreTesting Internet Explorer is essential for Quality Assurance because it is the default browser shipped with Windows products. For testing IE the QA Analysts at 3Qi Labs use the Internet Explorer Inspect Element web developer tool, DOM Explorer. For Internet Explorer 6 and 7 it was introduced as a toolbar, whereas on Internet Explorer 8…
Read moreChrome Inspect Element is a native development tool pre-built into the Chrome browser making it very accessible, especially when it has shortcut command options. Below are the options for opening up the Inspect Element tool with keyboard shortcuts. Keyboard Shortcuts: Mac Cmd+Opt+I to open the Developer Tools Cmd+Opt+J to open the Developer Tools and bring focus to the…
Read moreChrome Inspect Element is a native development tool pre-built into the Chrome browser making it very accessible, especially when it has shortcut command options. Below are the options for opening up the Inspect Element tool with keyboard shortcuts. Keyboard Shortcuts: Mac Cmd+Opt+I to open the Developer Tools Cmd+Opt+J to open the Developer Tools and bring focus to the…
Read moreHere is a compiled list of the 4 most important browser developer tools that the QA Analysts at 3Qi Labs actively use. All of the main browsers have their own native developing tool built in, however in some cases we opt-out of choosing those tools to using plug-ins, and some can be tricky to implement,…
Read moreFirefox is the default browser for WebDriver and hence, tends to be the browser of choice for most Automation Analysts. Inspecting HTML, CSS Elements, and the DOM Structure in general constitute a quintessential part of the Automation Analysts’ job, and Firefox’s Firebug plug-in is our preferred tool to Inspect Elements in Firefox. Firebug can be used to…
Read moreWAVE (Web Accessibility Versatile Evaluator) is a free tool that was developed by WebAIM, which evaluates the accessibility of online content. Within the context of test automation, WAVE can be implemented by loading its’ Firefox plug-in and running the compliance report on any site rendered by the browser. This proof of concept leverages both the WAVE Firefox…
Read moreWAVE (Web Accessibility Versatile Evaluator) is a free tool that was developed by WebAIM, which evaluates the accessibility of online content. Within the context of test automation, WAVE can be implemented by loading its’ Firefox plug-in and running the compliance report on any site rendered by the browser. This proof of concept leverages both the WAVE Firefox…
Read moreAccessibility in context to online applications is bridging the gap between those individuals with physical disabilities and their ability to leverage the same online information that others use. Web Accessible Testing is used to assure that web content is accessible based on the guidelines set by governments and international organizations such as the W3C. The motivations to invest…
Read moreHow to Easily Disable Internet Explorer Auto Updates Having updates automatically installed on your computer can be a nuisance, especially when you didn’t want the update to begin with. We have simple step-by-step instructions for disabling this feature on multiple browsers. While Internet Explorer auto updates are only an issue on Windows operating systems, we…
Read moreHow to Easily Disable Google Chrome Auto Updates If you have a slow connection, or maybe don’t want the latest version of a browser then it can be frustrating to have the feature of Chrome auto updates enabled where updates are automatically installed. We also offer step-by-step instructions on how to turn off Internet Explorer…
Read moreEasily Disabling Firefox Auto Updates There are a handful of reasons why one might want to disable the pesky feature that comes set by default with all browsers, where updates are automatically downloaded and installed on your computer. You may have a poor or slow internet connection and simply don’t want the updates automatically installed,…
Read moreOne of the big challenges in Mobile & Cross-Platform testing is validating that the UI renders correctly across your target OS-Browser-Device Matrix. Awetest now addresses this by allowing the user to take desktop & mobile screenshots as part of their automated run (at pre-defined intervals) and display them in the Awetest reports. Another problem associated with executing…
Read moreOne of the big challenges in Mobile & Cross-Platform testing is validating that the UI renders correctly across your target OS-Browser-Device Matrix. Awetest now addresses this by allowing the user to take desktop & mobile screenshots as part of their automated run (at pre-defined intervals) and display them in the Awetest reports. Another problem associated with executing…
Read moreOne of the big features in the Awetest v2.3 release was the deeper integration with HP ALM using the ALM REST API. As we’ve mentioned in the past, HP ALM remains the cornerstone of many Awetest enterprise customers’ QA tracking and reporting needs, which is why we’ve continued to deepen our integration with HP ALM…
Read moreThe newest version of Awetest has revved up our existing integration and incorporated an even deeper integration with HP ALM to enhance the communication between Awetest and the ALM server even more. We’ve built atop the HP ALM REST API to continue to evolve our integration with ALM as Awetest has matured into a fully-featured cross-platform automation solution because HP…
Read moreWith our release of Awetest 2.3 we’ve revved up our existing integration using the HP ALM REST API and built deeper integration with the ALM Test Lab, Test Plan and Defects modules to further enhance the interoperability between Awetest and HP ALM.
Read moreThis uptick in Cucumber usage has been triggered by a variety of factors – increased Agile adoption, Cucumber’s easy to understand natural language syntax, support for TDD, BDD, etc. As the level of interest and Skepticism (The “This is too good to be true” crowd) rises, one of the many questions we’re constantly asked is “How does Cucumber Work”?
Read moreFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Awetest/HP ALM Integration Press release 3Qi Labs has joined with HP to integrate the Awetest with HP’s ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) software. Awetest is compatible within ALM on multiple levels, including ALM’s test plan, test lab, and defect modules. Examples include being able to load test defect data directly from Awetest into…
Read moreWhether you are an engineer yourself or just someone who uses a computer, you understand how important it is that software gets tested. While there are varying opinions on what types of testing are important, there are many fundamental tests that have to run no matter what type of software you are developing. Within the…
Read moreAs the volume of your Regression Test Automation assets grows it becomes imperative to build your automation in a way that is scalable and dependable. Sleep functions and explicit waits, wherein the script waits for a pre-defined period duration (e.g. 10 seconds) creates a slow running test, which is not ideal for a variety of reasons. Try scaling your automation with Watir WebDriver implicit waits.
Read moreThe most extreme benefit of using the Awetest Mobile Device Lab has been the amount of automated mobile device testing we are able to successfully perform in a short amount of time. We are able to conduct over 100 tests across 10 platforms under 4 hours, which is a +10x increase in test coverage over manual testing. The Awetest Device Lab provides users with speed, security, functionality, and accessibility.
Read moreWe’ve never been big fans of record & playback for a variety of reasons. But after numerous requests from customers, we’ve actually warmed up to the idea of building our own recorder for recording automated tests! Instead of being used as an end-to-end automation solution (as it has been used in a variety of different…
Read morePry is a powerful alternative to the standard IRB shell for Ruby, featuring syntax highlighting, a flexible plugin architecture, runtime invocation, and source and documentation browsing. Using Pry to Debug Watir Webdriver scripts is intrinsically the same as using IRB but one of the main advantages of Pry is the ability to invoke it in the middle of a running program.
Read moreThe Awetest Recorder makes recording automated tests in Cucumber, Watir WebDriver, Selenium and Awetestlib a breeze.
Read moreOur customers having been loving the ability to write and execute (simple English) cucumber Automated Testing Scripts for a while now. Here is a cheat sheet, a listing of all the Awetest Pre defined Cucumber steps that account for the bulk of the interactions in most web applications, making it easier for users to start writing simple Cucumber tests.
Read moreSimple steps and examples to show how IRB (interactive ruby shell) can be used to debug your Watir Webdriver automated testing scripts.
Read moreAs we find ourselves in an increasingly mobile-first environment, the need for ongoing mobile compatibility evaluation has increased and made a sound mobile testing strategy critical for application developers and site owners. With nearly every American owning a personal cell phone, the likelihood of having a poor cross-device user experience warrants extensive testing. However, many…
Read moreFor the past two decades, the people with the design and technical skills necessary to craft a visually appealing and effective website have had access to a rapidly-expanding field of clients that needed their abilities.Yet as soon as a market seemed to have coalesced and consolidated around desktop browser based application delivery, the sudden…
Read moreWebdriver doesn’t recognize element attributes not part of the HTML definitions. So aria-xxxx and dojo-xxx attributes are much slower to locate in the DOM. Whenever one of the standard attributes can carry a unique value on the page that describes a business object or function directly understandable to a business user, automation will be easier…
Read moreWebdriver doesn’t recognize element attributes not part of the HTML definitions. So aria-xxxx and dojo-xxx attributes are much slower to locate in the DOM. Whenever one of the standard attributes can carry a unique value on the page that describes a business object or function directly understandable to a business user, automation will be easier…
Read moreOnce a grid has been located, we usually want to see or do something to at least one of the rows in the grid. This is pretty straightforward in Dojo grids as it is in more or less standard html tables. The header row and the data rows in the Dojo grid are in separate…
Read moreThe HTML tag ‘label’ is very useful. The label can easily be located by its text and its referenced element by the value in its ‘for’ attribute. This makes automation of actions on the referenced element much easier and understandable to the less technical user/tester. Of course that means that the ‘for’ attribute has…
Read moreThe HTML tag ‘label’ is very useful. The label can easily be located by its text and its referenced element by the value in its ‘for’ attribute. This makes automation of actions on the referenced element much easier and understandable to the less technical user/tester. Of course that means that the ‘for’ attribute has…
Read moreThere will always be a need for manual testing. Certain types of interactions within an application are always too unique, too complex and too costly to develop automated test economically.
Read moreThere is a great deal of debate concerning the adoption of Cucumber for Test Automation Framework. Some love the simplicity and understandability of Cucumber’s natural (English!) language syntax, while others complain that it’s just another tool to learn that doesn’t scale to support the automation of really complex scenarios. Both points are valid to some extent,…
Read moreContrary to the “QTP Must Die” school of though, we believe that HP tools will continue to maintain their stronghold inside the Enterprise and we’ve taken our first steps to plug into this ecosystem. Last week we quietly launched our our first Awetest- HP ALM integration with the Defects Module in ALM (and we are working on adding support for more ALM modules in the coming months). We did it using the HP ALM Rest API.
Read moreOne of the major pain points of developing and maintaining automation scripts is debugging script failures. Often times, when I’m trying to fix an automation script I would make a webdriver code change, run my script, try another webdriver command, and run the script again. I would continue this process until the script is passing,…
Read moreThere are many occasions, using Watir or Watir-Webdriver, when we need to do some testing in one browser window, open another, possibly close it, and return to the first. Watir handles this a bit more transparently than Watir-Webdriver. With Watir you are dealing directly with IE through OLE and IE handles windows and tabs differently…
Read moreOne of our Mobile App customers had mentioned what a challenge it is to distribute iOS apps for Beta testing and as an going commitment to supporting iOS app testing we have come up with a simple solution to this problem. To understand this challenge you have to understand that today if an iOS app…
Read moreIf you have been looking for a firebug like application for inspecting an iOS mobile application DOM, let me introduce you to Symbiote from Pete Hodgson. We discovered this tool as we were adding support for the Frank Mobile Automation Testing into our Awetest Framework. Symbiote is an embedded web server that is added to…
Read moreAs the mobile application market evolves (and explodes) we have been working hard on expanding Awetest’s Mobile App Testing capabilities and that’s when we discovered Calabash. As documented on the Calabash Github page, Calabash is an automated testing technology for Android and iOS native and hybrid applications.
Read moreVisit 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…
Read moreThis 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…
Read moreThis 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…
Read moreBy 2016, the number of mobile apps downloads are estimated to reach 44 billion and the worldwide online app market is expected to grow from approximately $6.8 billion in 2010 to $25 billion by 2015. As we get ready to launch the Awetest Native App Testing Module, we have been working closely with our enterprise…
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