Selenium is one of the most prominent choices when people need a test automation tool. Well, strictly speaking, Selenium is a browser automation tool. But more often than not, people end up using the automation power of Selenium to perform complex end-to-end testing. When doing such tests, you often need to use wait commands. This…
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Selenium is a tool for browser automation. It can perform actions like clicking on a button or a link, typing texts into an input field, and just about any operation a real user can do manually. Selenium is used for automated testing and so much more. What you do with Selenium is up to you…
Setting up a Selenium-Jenkins task comes with a lot of advantages for developers. Especially given how continuous integration / continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines need frequent tests. Achieving such a configuration is desirable as it automates even the automated tests themselves. This post will show interested developers how to set up and start running automated tests…
We’re back with another testing-related subject. Today’s topic is pretty straightforward: We’ll show you how to implement record and playback in Selenium. “Record and playback” refers to a specific approach to automated testing that allows people with no coding skills to create end-to-end or UI tests. Selenium is a popular browser automation tool that many…
Selenium bills itself as a tool to automate browsers. That kind of tool is critical for today’s continuous integration web development workflow. When you’re shipping code hours after a developer writes it, you need to be sure it works. The best way to do that is to automate tests that run against your application on…
For many organizations that work in the web app development space, Selenium is the tool of choice for automated testing. Well, there’s a reason for that: Selenium is indeed a powerful and useful tool, and there are plenty of good things we can say about it. Unfortunately, every rose has its thorn and Selenium is…
Checking element visibility might seem simple, “It’s just on the page!”. However, there are several issues with visibility checks in popular web frameworks. Why do we even need visibility checks? While it may seem trivial, let’s discuss why visibility checks are needed. You might want to check that something is visible or invisible before performing…
At Testim, a lot of what we do is build AI-based features on top of automation frameworks to add stability, accelerate test creation, and improve root-cause analysis. We evaluate a number of test automation frameworks to understand their strengths and weaknesses, feature differences, and non-functional attributes. As a new framework, Playwright reaches stable versions, it’s…
Finding elements on a web application is important for automated testing. You can’t assess the behavior of an element if you can’t perform actions on it. And you can’t perform actions on it if you can’t find it. To make sure all the elements on your application are working fine, you have to test each…
It’s frustrating, isn’t it? Customers want more features, and they want them yesterday. At the same time, everyone wants fewer bugs. You know what they say. Speed, quality, and money: pick any two, but not all three. At least your developers and testers appreciate what you’re dealing with. They understand the need to test what…