Three ways to resolve the “Element is not clickable” issue in Selenium. — A repost of my daughter’s article with permission. I added the refactoring part. You can find more Selenium examples like this one in my eBook: Selenium WebDriver Recipes in Ruby. This is also included in my “How to in Selenium WebDriver” series. “Element is not clickable” is a common error…

Deliberately confounding right and wrong — This article is one of the “Chinese Idiom Stories for Software Professionals” series. A True Story In Qin dynasty, there was a powerful and evil counsellor named Zhao Gao. Zhao Gao wanted to rebel, but he didn’t know how many people in the court would stand by his side. So he worked out…

I ‘witnessed’ the birth and death of Internet Explorer. It once played an important role in starting real web test automation. — On 2022–06–15, Internet Explorer died at the age of 27. I started web browsing using Netscape, and I have experienced the whole life span of IE. I have some reflections on this special date. Table of Contents: · IE’s OLE made real Web Test Automation Possible · Background of IE’s success and…

Simple yet every candidate I interviewed failed. — This article is one of the “Be aware of Fake Test Automation/DevOps Engineers” and the “IT Job Interview” series. After the four screening questions, I usually ask one scenario question during the interview (otherwise, too short, not respecting candidates). Personally, I don’t like brain-teasers or tricky questions. So, this only…

Where to look when automated tests suddenly don’t work on Chrome, but are fine on Firefox. — A repost of my daughter’s article with permission. I added the summary. All software has bugs, even from tech giants. I encountered one Google ChromeDriver issue with Chrome v103 last night. My father documented one issue with chromedriver v75 before: Lessons learned from test failures due to a new ChromeDriver…

Good to be around high-quality people. — This article is one of the “Chinese Idiom Stories for Software Professionals” series. Story Lu Sengzhen held a very high position in the imperial court of Liang Dynasty (approx. 500 A.D). Later he returned to his hometown as the prefecture governor. He did everything possible to keep a clean government and…

Raw Selenium WebDriver with Ruby Binding is much better. — This article is one of the “Bad Test Automation Frameworks/Tools” series. Table of Contents: · Cypress vs Selenium WebDriver (Ruby) · Comparative Analysis · Human Factors · FAQ I started this article 10 months ago, it was sitting in my drafts and just noticed it today. …

Choose cost-effective build machines for executing automated tests — A repost of my daughter’s article with permission and slight modification. I added it here for the convenience of my blog subscribers. Execution speed is an important factor in Automated Functional UI Testing, especially for a large regression suite (e.g. 200+ user story level tests, Level 3 of AgileWay CT…

Prevention is better than control which in turn is better than remedy after the event. Best software testers don’t raise formal defects. — This article is one of the “Chinese Idiom Stories for Software Professionals” series. Story Bianque was a famous doctor in ancient China. One day the King asked him, “You and your two brothers are all skilled in medicine, which of you is the best?” Bianque answered, “My eldest brother is the…