One of the biggest problem in the
automation script development is the script maintenance. Even that
there are a lot of widely accepted development methods for improving
script maintenance, there are misconceptions that can easily direct
testers in writing unmaintainable scripts.
The most popular methods in
developing maintainable test code is the Page Objects pattern.
Although using the Page Objects pattern will lead in a more
maintainable code, the misuse of the pattern will only result in no
more than adding an abstraction layer between...
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Selenium WaitFor ...
Posted by Georgios Kogketsof
Posted on 11:59 PM
One of the most difficult problems to overcome when developing automated test scripts is time synchronization. Black box testing is based on expecting specific results upon a specific user actions irrespectively of time. Thus the big question that comes in mind is “when to expect the results?” are the ...
Saturday, September 24, 2011
TestNG vs Junit
Posted by Georgios Kogketsof
Posted on 3:54 PM
When
I start setting up the test environment for the functional tests I
decided to use Selenium RC. The development of the test scripts was
decided to be made in Java and the obvious choice for the testing
framework was the Junit. After couple of months in development it
came to my attention that there was another testing framework that
offered more choices than Junit was. The test framework was TestNG
and the decision for switching the framework was made after
considering two major factors. The first factor was the adaptation of
the existing...
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Selenium IDE vs Selenium RC
Posted by Georgios Kogketsof
Posted on 10:49 PM
Starting the road trip to the world of automation testing, the choices of testing tools are limitless. One of the most popular and widely used tools for web application testing is the Selenium Suite.
Couple of the options the Selenium suite offers for testing, is the Selenium IDE and the Selenium Resource Control (RC). Both options have pros and cons and it is up to one needs to decide which one to use.
One of the major disadvantages of the IDE is that only it works for Firefox, that is if you need to test for multiple browsers this...
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