How to use an automated script to take screenshots and create an HTML user guide — This article shows how I use automation scripts to generate a user guide for a website. For this exercise, I will use the sign-up process on WhenWise as an example.

Stabilizing the tests and setting them up in a Continuous Testing server — In Part 1, we create five RESTful service tests in Ruby. They were working, however, but it is not enough. I hardcoded an ID value (e.g. 66670) to use in some tests, which run fine once only. The ID might already be taken (duplicate error for CREATE), or may not…

Try it with a GUI tool first, then proper and more flexible test scripting in Ruby. — RESTful web services are based on the Representational State Transfer (REST) architecture. In a RESTful service, payloads are in some uniform format (e.g. JSON, HTML, XML, etc), via HTTP.

How to use an automated script to grab only the text content off online study notes — For my high-school English book studies, occasionally I referred to online study notes, such as SparkNotes. SparkNotes (and others) provided the content free but split it into multiple small sections with commercial ads. I could live with it; just a lot of pages to click through. …

This article will provide four approaches to my father’s One Test Automation Scenario Interview Question that Most Candidates Failed. “Change a User’s Password” Be aware of Side-Effect of Test Execution Unlike Unit Testing, functional testing may have side effects, that is, changing the state of the application or certain data. This test case falls into that category. …

Three ways to resolve the “Element is not clickable” issue in Selenium. — “Element is not clickable” is a common error that Selenium test automation engineers often encounter. This might be applicable to other test automation frameworks, with different error messages. There are possible two causes: The element is not clickable, such as disabled or not allowed to click by nature (e.g. a…

Where to look when automated tests suddenly don’t work on Chrome, but are fine on Firefox. — 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 bug. A Simple Test Failed on Chrome I was practising test automation against one site and got one…

Choose a cost-effective build machine for executing automated tests — 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 Grading). …

How to read & write to databases to assist your automated end-to-end testing — In this tutorial, I’ll go over how to interact with a database in automated test scripts. There are three types of situations that would require writing to/reading from a database in test scripts. API testing As required. Verify data Sometimes in tests, there are changes that cannot be easily verified in…