Test different!
I was running Selenium WebDriver 3.5 on Windows 8.1 and using Internet Explorer 11. The test was just opening the google web page. Internet Explorer opened correctly and displayed the google page but then the test failed with the error: OpenQA.Selenium.NoSuchWindowException : Unable to get browser It turns out this is an issue with Internet…
I’ve just came across a new tool that you might find handy: https://regexr.com/ – a nice online tool for generating regular expressions 😉 Keep in mind while using this: While the core feature set of regular expressions is fairly consistent, different implementations (ex. Perl vs Java) may have different features or behaviors. RegExr uses your…
Firefox fans rejoice: Mozilla Quantum is set to be released on Nov 14th, featuring a faster browser engine and less RAM consumption. Download the BETA builds over here: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/quantum/ .. or just wait for the Production release on November 14th. Some performance tests the Mozilla conducted can be found on their official blog: https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/quantum-performance-test/ We…
Today’s fun post is about on how to Voice control Jenkins builds using Amazon’s Alexa You can check out a video in action over here: Please note that the software is still in beta / testing phase and it’s not available for the public yet :). The overall architecture looks like in the picture below.
Here is the code snipped of the day: if you want to do a basic Operating System detection in Java (for some specific Selenium routines, let’s say), you can use a simple class like the one below. public final class OSDetection { public static String OS = null; public static String getOsName() { if (OS…
I’ve recently came across an excellent list of command line tools from Jeroen Janssens blog. You can use them to sort / list / organize your test results in order to store them in almost any reporting tool. BigMLer crush-tools csv2sqlite csvquote data-tools repository feedgnuplot Grinder repository HDF5 Tools littler mallet RecordStream subsample xls2csv XMLStarlet…
Since AEM 6.0, Adobe introduced a test automation framework called Hobbes.JS that can provide functional automated tests for the AEM UI. The stock Hobbes.JS package from Adobe provides: A JavaScript API for creating tests. A Test panel in the touch-optimized UI for running tests. Initially, we started to develop for one of our clients an…
In the previous article, I’ve announced that Firebug is no longer supported in the latest versions of Firefox. It is possible however to make it work again, by disabling the e10s (electrolysis) architecture of the browser. If you’re ready to get rollin’, proceed below: Guide: 1. We need to change some config options first, so…
Since yesterday, Mozilla pushed in the official update channel of Firefox (now version 51) the latest version of Developer Tools. Why is this so important? Because right now, the Firebug extension is no longer supported. (*ding* to web developers and automation engineers) As per the official blog post, you are invited to update to the…
I recently came across a interesting topic that might be of interest to software developers or oven QA’s: Getting Things Done, which is a time management method that has multiple areas of application. The main focus is to plan your future workload in five easy steps: Capture Clarify Organize Reflect Engage If you may have…
