Groovy up your test scripts

After one and a half year of developing test scripts using java a colleague in Persado convinced me to give a shot to groovy. Playing around for couple of weeks and there you are; I was convinced that groovy would be the new exciting thing in my testing life. Taming my excitement I decided to strategically replace blocks of java code with groovy. The plan was not to replace code in page objects neither test scripts but rather code in the supporting...

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Adding the Sizzle CSS Selector library in Webdriver

Selenium Webdriver has a weird opinion on Sizzle. Although (correct me if wrong) in the older Selenium-RC Sizzle was extensively used, in Webdriver it is only injected if the browser does not support native css selectors (see here). This is a pain if you've learned to love Sizzle's ability to "extend"  the normal CSS selector lingo with more advanced spices, and you're mainly working with Firefox, for which Webdriver uses native css. History Some...

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Missing Page Factories in Selenium RC ? Autowire

One of the new features introduced in selenium 2 was the usage of the page factories to easily instantiate a page object. For those who still use selenium and want to have a feature as the aforementioned one the solution is to use the spring source autowire functionality. Although spring is a powerful framework for java enterprise development, testers that are usually not familiar with the dependency injection model seem to avoid...

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