How to use Selenium WebDriver to select and validate a Google Map address — A repost of my daughter’s article, I added a few notes. This is also included in my “How to in Selenium WebDriver” series. Integrating Google Maps to validate an address is a common feature on web pages. This article shows how to automate that in raw Selenium WebDriver. Table of…

It is interesting to analyse the reasoning behind it. By the way, Real Test Automation Engineers won’t believe ChatGPT will ever work for real test automation. — If you are a software professional who works on testing, you must have heard of ChatGPT and see the articles like the ones below:

Two methods for inspecting disappearing dynamic elements — A repost of my daughter’s article, I added a few notes. Dynamic elements are generated on the fly on a web page. This means they often do not exist in the static page source. This is a challenge for web test automation. The only practical way (I am aware of)…

Talk is cheap; Show them executions of real automated tests. — 2023–03–08, DHH, a software legend (creator of Ruby on Rails, co-founder of 37Signals and co-author of the best-selling ‘Rework’ book series), posted a short article titled “Actions beat arguments”. A very good read.

There has always been a “Simple and Correct” solution, but few want to take it. — This article is one of the “IT Terminology Clarified” series. Yesterday, I saw this post, by Pascal BORNET, the author of Intelligent Automation, in my LinkedIn feed.

Start learning Ruby today and be happy, especially for QA engineers. — On 2023–02–28, Hired, the leading hiring marketplace matching tech and sales talent with top companies, released its annual report, Big Transitions in the Tech Industry: Hired’s 2023 State of Software Engineers.

Avoid using record-n-playback tools. Hand-craft automated test scripts instead. — This article is one of the “IT Terminology Clarified” series. In Automated End-to-End Testing, many so-called ‘cool’ features (as below) are either counter-productive or unnecessary: Record-n-Playback Object Identification Utility Test execution recording, e.g. video/screenshots The Record/Playback approach to test automation has been controversial for decades. I recall from my experience…

Automate an iOS Tic Tac Toe app with Appium 2 (XCUITest) Part 2: Player vs Computer. — A repost of my daughter’s article, I added a few notes. This is also included in the “Courtney’s Appium Series”. In a previous article, I walked through using Appium 2 to play a TicTacToe game (on iOS). That was Player vs Player mode, i.e. we can plan the moves to…

At least before 2023! Headless Chrome is a separate implementation. — The title is not “clickbait”. A Chrome Developers article published on 2023–02-22 provides solid proof. Read on. Recently, one former mentee told me that she had one automated test that only failed when running in headless mode but was fine in normal mode. My advice: “Don’t run in headless mode”. …