Concurrency testing made easy

Having a multi tenant application under test, concurrency testing is the next step of the testing cycle. Testing using concurrent users takes a lot of time and usually ends up in defects not fully reproducible because of timing issues (synchronization) thus making automation of these tests a must. Automating concurrent tests using selenium / webdriver always brings up one of the most common question in automation testing; Do I need a new window...

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Stevia enhancements and documentation

Lately, we've been using Stevia a lot; we're also extending it as much as possible (no promises, but phantomjs is in our crosshairs lately). By talking to the community, it has come to our attention that people are having difficulty to start up a Stevia project. To that extend, we've created some content to give you a boost: Our SNAPSHOT javadoc is regularly published in Github Pages, We've setup Travis continuous integration and our...

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Page Objects are not enough

The Page Object design pattern is one of the most popular patterns in test automation just because it promotes test maintenance and unifies the way QA teams work. As the pattern dictates, a page object is the representation of an html page using objects. The objects contain the html element addresses (Xpath, Css or DOM) and the user actions on them as methods (press, input, select, etc.). Although the page objects pattern is widely accepted, our...

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Gray box testing is the way to adapt for automation testing

When we finished the design of our objects for setting up the preconditions of an automated test case we showed it to one of our developers and his first reaction was “it is the same with the app’s domain model”. This comment made me think that knowing the application internals would be extremely useful in developing correct test scripts.  Knowing this had me thinking that the gray box testing would be more appropriate in our automation tests than black box, thus a switch to that direction is worth considering. Why is gray box more appropriate...

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