As DevOps continues to expand, understanding how each team’s function contributes to your end goal is imperative. When looking at QA, it is tempting to push for your testing to be 100% automation. After all, if automation means you’re hitting your test case completion goal faster, who’s complaining? The problem lies in the assumption that there…
Read moreSteps to Distribute an iOS App using a Website One of the challenges that exist in an iOS dev shop, is how to distribute your app to devices for Beta testing. The Ad-hoc process that Apple supplies for creating an app for distribution is well documented. But how do we actually get the app on…
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 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 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 moreSimple steps and examples to show how IRB (interactive ruby shell) can be used to debug your Watir Webdriver automated testing scripts.
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…
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