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A few Selenium CDP examples in Ruby language
Selenium WebDriver 4 supports Chrome DevTools Protocol(CDP), enabling a debugger inside Chromium-based browsers. By the way, Cypress and Puppeteer are based on CDP. CDP has some issues and limitations, not surprisingly, it is a debugging protocol after all.
In this article, I will show some DevTools examples with the new…
A metaphor provides a full picture that explains why most software projects failed test automation.
According to the IDT automated software testing survey in 2007, “although 72% stated that automation is useful and management agrees, they either had not implemented it at all or had had only limited success.” …
Quick solution guide to Selenium WebDriver 4.
Selenium WebDriver 4 was released last week (October 13, 2021). This major release (five years since v3) introduces many new features:
- Relative Locators
- Support for CDP (Selenium DevTools)
- Re-implemented Selenium Grid
I have been updating the Selenium WebDriver Recipes in Ruby book since the first Selenium v4 Beta release (Feb…
The drawbacks of DDT outweigh its benefits for most testing needs.
Data-Driven Testing (DDT) is one type of functional test automation that loads test data stored in a table or spreadsheet format. Over a decade ago, DDT was often a highlighted feature in commercial test automation tools. Though it is still the case for some, I see it less now. Why…
Explain Design Pattern in easy-to-understand example
(I know the majority of this blog’s readers are testers or automation/DevOps engineers. This one is about software design.)
Design Patterns are good practices of Object-Oriented (OO) Software Design. Applying appropriate design patterns will help to design your software better. However, design patterns are not easy to master, it was…
Strategy and practical advice on successful automated regression testing to enable daily production releases.
In “Regression Testing Clarified”, I shared my thoughts and experience on Whats and Whys on automated regression testing. In this article, I will show Hows.
Table of Contents· Strategy: Run all E2E Tests daily· Discipline: Fixing broken builds is the highest priority · How to Start?· 100%…
Regression testing needs to be automated and run in a Continuous Testing server multiple times a day.
Between 2010–2013, I spoke at a few international software testing conferences. Quite commonly, there were pre-attendance surveys on the attendants’ interested topics. From my memory, the top three (the order might vary) were the same.
- Test Automation (End-to-End)
- Regression Testing
- Web App Testing
However, topics on regression testing were rare…
Simple and yet powerful scripting is the way to succeed test automation.
Occasionally at talks, I got questions like the below:
- You build a testing IDE (TestWise) from scratch, why not an Eclipse plugin?
- Besides Ruby, what’s your view of test scripts in other languages, such as Java or C#?
The first question is easy to answer: automated testers don’t need the…
Wise software teams spend time on activities that really matter: Test Automation and Continuous Testing
My article “Estimating Test Automation Story Points is a Total Waste of Time” featured in Software Testing Weekly has received positive feedback. One of the common questions from the readers is: “how about estimating user story points?” My answer: “It is a waste of Time mostly. …
