CosmoCode (Formerly TeachMeSelenium)
DevOps tutorials | Test Automation tutorials
We all come across scenarios where we need to interact with an element that is not in the visible area of the browser. That element may be in the. bottom of the page or top of the page if the page is already scrolled down. In general, WebDriver scrolls the element into view when we …
Read moreHow to scroll element to mid/center, top or bottom of the screen in Selenium?
Sometimes we need to resize the browser window in our Selenium tests. There could be various scenarios why we would want to do that. While debugging a failure on remote execution vs local execution there could be a case that the tests are running with a specific browser size when executed via CI/CD mechanism on …
Read moreHow to resize the browser window, zoom in or zoom out the page content in Selenium?
In one of my recent automation projects, I was writing code to click on a certain element on the webpage. It was a very simple element with an id avatar. To my surprise, Selenium failed to find that element and threw an exception NoSuchElementException . I inspected that element more carefully and found out that …
If you use Selenium and Firefox version 52 or higher for running the automated tests and your development site does not use SSL, you will get the following warning when entering passwords on your login page This connection is not secure. Logins entered here could be compromised Firefox will also open the URL https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/insecure-password-warning-firefox?as=u&utm_source=inproduct in a new …
Read moreHow to disable insecure password warning in Firefox for Selenium?
Sometimes we come across scenarios where we want Selenium to connect to and use an existing browser that was previously opened manually or by some other program. Why do we want Selenium to connect to a previously opened browser? Maybe you want to perform some tasks that require manual intervention before kicking in automation execution. …
Read moreHow to connect Selenium to an existing browser that was opened manually?
Every programmer has to deal with exceptions or errors. Often beginner programmers get dishearten if their code start throwing Exceptions and they have no clue how to deal with it. In this tutorial, we’ll dig deeper to Exceptions world and will try to make friends with them. If you want to be an efficient programmer you …
Sometimes we are required to automate a test that asks the user to validate email. e.g. on registering a new user, a welcome email is sent to the user’s registered email address. One simple way is to open the webmail in the browser and automate it like any other web application. However, it has some …