Automation can be intimidating at first. The analysis paralysis of being presented a resource with as vast of depth as test automation can leave many overwhelmed before they scratch the surface. However, after understanding a few fundamentals, automation becomes a logical solution to many problems QA testers face. First and foremost, the cost savings of automation…
Read moreSmartBear’s 2017 State of QA Testing report contains responses from over 3,400 employees in the QA industry, including software developers, manual/automation tester, consultants, etc. As always, seeing these types of reports provides an enlightening look into the direction of the QA industry, and allows us to examine our own methodologies and approach to testing. Lets analyze…
Read moreThere is no shortage of Op-Eds on why Open Source Software is one of the biggest disruptors of the $3.8 Trillion IT industry, when OSS came out it rewrote the rules for the software industry and really shook things up- and now, Open Source Software is used in 80% of enterprises. Along the same lines – Open Source QA Tools…
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 moreVisit 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…
Read moreWhen working with Watir and Watir-Webdriver there is a standard DOM property for an element such as name, class, id, index, scr, href etc, which is usually a straight forward way to locate an element on the page you need to get a handle of, such as select lists. But in certain cases, we come across…
Read moreWhen working with Watir and Watir-Webdriver there is a standard DOM property for an element such as name, class, id, index, scr, href etc, which is usually a straight forward way to locate an element on the page you need to get a handle of, such as select lists. But in certain cases, we come across…
Read moreWhen 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…
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 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…
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