Software testing is one of the important processes for analyzing the quality of a software product. There are different types of testing that should be done on software development projects. Every kind of testing has its certain “objective” that underlines the correct objective the test is aiming at so that Read more…
A risk-based testing approach enables testing teams to utilize their resources well. It is a futuristic model of testing because it uses testing resources in a way where they can have the most impact, no matter constraints are because of budget, schedules, or any unexpected situation like COVID-19 Read more…
Selenium Grid is software from Selenium which allows us to run multiple tests across different browsers, operating systems, and machines in parallel.
This Grid follows the hub-node concept where we run the test on just one machine i.e. hub, but Read more…
What is Maven?
Maven is a powerful build tool for Java software projects. It is used to build and manage projects written in Java, C#, Ruby, Scala Read more…
For Gui testing aspects java.awt.Dimension and java.awt. Toolkit packages are used to get the screen resolutions whereas the Dimension object stores the result. Inbuilt methods of Dimension class are used to get different aspects Read more…
A broken link or dead link occurs when a user tries to reach a website page that couldn’t be found on the server. A standard “404 Not Found error” message displayed on the screen.
There are a number Read more…
Development, Test, QA and PRODUCTION – With Data Migration
Description: Common names for environments for Tableau development are development, test/QA, staging/pre-production, and production. There are typically Read more…
Amazon provides us a feature to test our custom skill before publishing it to production. By enabling the beta testing, we can test the skill on amazon devices and apps. Amazon facilitate us to invite other people of whom Read more…
Headless is a browser which does not have a GUI. A headless browser runs a testing script even though when there is no browser installed on our system such as we need the latest version of Firefox Browser to test Read more…
Chrome driver is used to perform the automation testing in chrome browser. Selenium requires this driver to run your test cases in chrome browser. You can download the latest version of Read more…
Selenium is an open source automation testing tool. It is used to test the web application. Selenium supports multiple languages to create an automation script such as Java, Python, PHP, C#, Ruby.
In case we want to test with Read more…
History of Selenium
Selenium was launched in 2004 by Jason Huggins (engineer at ThoughtWorks in Chicago) and he named it “Javascript TestRunner” but at that time it was stuck with the “same origin policy” issue. Paul Hammant (engineer Read more…
Before we download and install selenium webdriver and eclipse, we need java which is prerequisite that must be installed in our system.
Following activities need to be performed during configuration:
1.1. Go to the Read more…
What is Xpath?
Xpath is defined as XML path. If we are unable to find an element with id, class or name locator on web page then we can use XML path expression for finding the element on a webpage.
Syntax to write xpath is:
Xpath Read more…
When we test a website and face bugs we need screenshot of the output to suggest to the developer to fix the issue. Automated testing is usually evidenced by Screenshots and logs. But how to save screenshots with timestamp in the file name using Selenium?
In this example we Read more…
When we deploy an application from staging / testing server to live / production environment, tester needs to test the application again in production environment no matter if he has already tested the whole application in staging environment.
Why there is a need to do testing in production environment? Some reasons Read more…
Below is the shell script which can start Apache Tomcat server via cron job and send notification to defined email is:
#!/bin/sh
RESULT=`netstat -na | grep 8009 | awk ‘{print $7}’ | wc -l`
if [ “$RESULT” != 0 ]; then
echo “TOMCAT IS RUNNING”
elif [ “$RESULT” = 0 ]; then
/opt/lev8/tomcat/bin/startup Read more…
Problem: I was unable to launch the latest Firefox browser 54.0 with Selenium 3
Solution: Earlier I was using the Firefox version 43.0 and I was able to launch the Firefox properly with my selenium script. But recently I have updated my Firefox browser from 43 to latest Read more…
In software testing, we have various way to identify the bug/defect. Some of them are as given below:
1. Severity Wise:
* Major: When defect affects major functionality. Example: Suppose a Logo text is not Proper that will be affect the company work.
* Minor: When defect Read more…
While testing the Web applications, Software and Projects, sometimes we cannot perform the full test scenarios and bug fixes due to shortage of time or due to project running out of time. A lot of bugs and errors could be left behind due to shortage of time. In this case Read more…
