DevOps tutorials | Test Automation tutorials
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 …
TestNG – List of tutorials Introduction & Setup (You are reading this) Annotations (coming soon) Running a simple TestNG test with Selenium (coming soon) Assertions (coming soon) Introduction to TestNG test suite, i.e. testng.xml (coming soon) Managing test execution through test suite (coming soon) Parameters (coming soon) Data Providers (coming soon) Test execution reports (coming …
In the Previous Tutorial, we learned how to run a test in the Selenium grid architecture. You must have realised that to use Selenium Grid, you need to maintain your own infrastructure for the nodes. There are some providers who provide a Selenium Grid as a service in the cloud – Sauce Labs, BrowserStack and …
Read moreSelenium Grid | Running tests on SauceLabs’ cloud machines
In the Previous Tutorial, you learned how to implement the Selenium Grid architecture. In this tutorial, I’ll write code to utilise that setup and run the test on a node. In the Selenium grid architecture, only the steps to setup test is different. Once you have launched the browser, rest of the WebDriver code is same …
Read moreSelenium Grid | RemoteWebDriver and DesiredCapabilities
In the Previous Tutorial, we learned some advanced user interactions like automating mouse and keyboard movements. In this tutorial, we’ll learn to distribute our tests on remote machines. What is Selenium Grid? Selenium Grid provides a mechanism where we can run tests in a distributed environment against multiple browsers and operating systems. It works as a …
Quick Reference for key-press automation In the Previous Tutorial, we learned to automate drag-drop operations. In this tutorial, we’ll learn ways to automate different keyboard press events. Automating a use case for keypress Go to Automation Practice (Beginner) page Press ‘SHIFT’ and then enter values in the input box to simulate typing in upper-case. Press Ctrl-a to …
Read moreAdvanced User Interactions | Automating Keyboard press events
Quick Reference to perform drag-drop In the Previous Tutorial, we covered the following – Introduction to Actions class Action interface Using moveToElement() method to move the mouse over an element Methods build() and perform() In this tutorial, we’ll learn to perform mouse drag-drop operations. Use dragAndDropBy() method to drag a slider from left to right by …
Read moreAdvanced User Interactions | Performing drag and drop operations
In the Previous Tutorial, we learned to execute a piece of Javascript through WebDriver. In this tutorial, we’ll learn some advanced user interactions. What is advanced user interactions? Sometimes we need to interact with our system’s mouse or keyboard to simulate user interaction. For instance, let’s say, in a web application, there is a menu bar. On …
Read moreAdvanced User Interactions | Introducing Actions and moving the mouse over an element
In the Previous Tutorial, we learned to take the screenshot of the page. In this tutorial, we’ll explore ways to execute a piece of Javascript through the WebDriver. What the heck is JavaScript? Well, JavaScript is a scripting language that runs on Client-side, i.e on the browser (those who are smarter please forget about node.js for a …
Read moreInteracting with the browser | Executing JavaScript through JavascriptExecutor
In the Previous Tutorial, we learned how to do cross-browser execution. In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to take the page screenshot. In real life Test Automation projects we are generally required to take page screenshot periodically, especially if a step fails. We can use the screenshot as steps to reproduce the failure. WebDriver code …
Read moreInteracting with the browser | Taking the screenshot of the page
In the Previous Tutorial, we learned to handle popup windows and alert dialogues. Some of our readers must be wondering, in all previous tutorials, we are running test in Chrome browser only. What if we want to execute the same script on different browsers like Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer etc? In …
Read moreInteracting with the browser | Running test on different browsers
In the Previous Tutorial, we learned how to handle the Alert window. In this tutorial, we will learn to handle popup windows. We’ll write code to switch over multiple browser windows and perform some actions on them. As we can see on Automation Practice page, there is a link Click Me to open New Window. If we click on …
Read moreHandling Alert dialog, Popup windows and Frames | Handling Popup windows
In the Previous Tutorial, we learned how to handle timeout issues in Selenium. In this tutorial, we will learn how to handle Alert windows. What is an Alert window? You must have noticed that on clicking some links/buttons, the page displays an alert window that asks the user to confirm if she or he wants to …
Read moreHandling Alert dialog, Popup windows and Frames | Handling Alert dialog
In the Previous Tutorial, we learned the following ways of handling synchronization issues – What are the timeout/wait issues in Test Automation? How to address it by waiting for the element before performing the action? Getting the list of elements with a matching locator Instructing code to wait for the predefined time – Hardcoded wait Issues …
In the Previous Tutorial, we learned to interact with the elements in the page. In this tutorial, we’ll learn to handle the timeout issues in the script. What are timeout or wait issues in the automation script? Let us say you wrote a script to automate this scenario: Go to myshopping.com Search for iPhone Click on Add …
In the Previous Tutorial, we wrote a script where we located all elements in Automation Practice page on which we wanted to perform some actions. We explored the following – Method to find an element Different WebDriver locators to pass as a parameter to find an element – linkText id className xpath cssSelector name partialLinkText tagName In this tutorial, …
Read moreInteracting with the Elements in the page | Performing actions like click, type, select etc
In the Previous Tutorial divided over 4 parts, we learned different ways to locate page elements – Part 1: Use basic attributes (id, class, name etc) Part 2: Introduction to XPath locators Part 3: XPath functions Part 4: CSS selectors In this tutorial, we will learn the WebDriver way to locate elements by using methods …
Read moreInteracting with the Elements in the page | WebDriver methods to find an element
In the Previous Tutorial, we took a deeper dive to the XPath ocean and learned to construct partial XPath by using the following XPath functions: contains() starts-with() text() wild-card * Indexing In this tutorial, we will learn to locate elements through CSS selectors. CSS Selectors are said to be faster than XPath and at times it …
In the Previous Tutorial, we learned the following – Introduction to the mighty XPath to locate elements on the page. Writing XPath query that starts searching the XML from root node by using single forward-slash ‘/’. Using double forward-slash ‘//’ at the start of the XPath query so that it could search the matching element anywhere in the XML. Look …
In the Previous Tutorial, we learned to locate elements on the page by using the following attributes – id class name We discussed some challenges in that tutorial where we are not able to uniquely identify an element by using its id, class or name attribute. Here comes XPath to our rescue. In this tutorial, we’ll learn about the …
Read moreIdentifying elements in the page | Introduction to XPath locators