With the widespread of JavaScript we more and more met with one of our favourite exception which is the StaleElementReferenceException. It can be tricky because it does not have to appear on the test development machine. This issue can hide in the test code and appear in unexpected situations. The exception happens when the dom […]
There is an interesting issue i have met the other day. When i tried to get the latest version of a file from a perforce repository the following error message appeared: Can’t clobber writable file In the end i found out that the read-only attribute is unchecked and all i had to do is to […]
Get up early, do some stuff at home, go to work, you get thousands of emails, files, conversations, go to the store to buy some stuff for everyday needs, get things done at home etc. and you’ll notice how much stuff have you forgotten to do. Every single of us is familiar with this. Now […]
In today’s web technologies a common defensive mechanism against csrf attacks is to use a synchronizer token. This token is unique for each request and thus it blocks us from using the recorded JMeter test session off the shelf. The solution is to identify and extract the token from the html form. Identification can be […]
When you are getting the following exception during firefoxdriver initialization: try to put this dependency into pom.xml: If you still getting the same exception you should try to experiment with the order of the imports. Sometimes small order changes can make the project work again, who knows which one depends on an old utility… Similar […]
If you see the code below, then you probably copied the wrong url to your browser, try to remove /wd/hub from its end. Eg.: instead of localhost:4444/wd/hub try just localhost:4444 Similar Posts from the author: Local test run – Maven – NoSuchMethodError during driver creation How to integrate a JUnit4 – Webdriver test into JMeter […]
Today I want to talk about a little tool which makes the life of us testers a bit easier. It is called Junit params. The following situation happened with me not so long ago: The dev team lead asked us a favor to make a set of quick and dirty smoke tests which tests different […]
Not so long ago we had to implement a test case where the user goes to a page with an “unknown” browser. I had to spend some time to find out the proper configuration and made a small post about it to avoid doing it again. All you have to do is to change the […]
We’re started using this service a long time ago, and I can say they improved a lot in the recent years. It became a reliable cloud system for running automated tests and for manual testing with a wast amount of virtual machine/browser combinations and what I love about them that almost everything is documented. It […]
The purpose of this article is to show how easy is to integrate webdriver with architectures on the cloud, in this case with Browserstack. For every new tool the first thing to do is to check out and examine the documentation. The basic steps are very well documented, the examples and the thorough explanations give […]
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