Two methods for inspecting disappearing dynamic elements — 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) is to get it by Inspecting the dynamic element directly. However…

Automate an iOS Tic Tac Toe app with Appium 2 (XCUITest) Part 2: Player vs Computer. — 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 get desired output. I will add a more dynamic twist in this article by choosing Player vs Computer mode. …

How to use Appium 2 to automate playing Tic Tac Toe — In this article, I’ll show you how to automate Nathan Fallet and Group MINASTE’s Tic Tac Toe iOS app with Appium 2. Table of Contents: · Setup ∘ Install Appium 2 and the XCUITest Driver ∘ Build the Tic Tac Toe app · Get Started ∘ How to Play Tic Tac Toe…

To verify my father’s claim that he was the “most featured author in the leading software testing newsletters”. — In a recent article, my father made a guess that he was “probably the most featured author in the leading software testing newsletters”. …

Drive Windows UWP apps with Appium 2. — In a previous article, I went through how to automate iOS apps with Appium. In this article, we will drive a Windows app with Appium 2 (currently in beta). The sample app for today is the Windows Calculator, a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app.

How to increase reliability in an automated test for a file download — This article will show you how to verify a file download completes successfully in Selenium WebDriver. The test site for this article is http://zhimin.com/books/pwta. There is a sample PDF download that I will use for the tests.

How to use Mechanize for a website’s performance and load testing — Mechanize is a library for automating interactions with websites, without a browser involved. Mechanize is implemented in many scripting languages, such as Perl (WWW::Mechanize), Python (mechanize) and Ruby. In this exercise, I will use it for performance/load testing in Ruby. If you are new to Ruby, don’t need to worry…

Cleaner and more readable locators in Selenium tests with Locator Chaining — Locator Chaining is a way to find an element relative to another one. I will illustrate how to use locator chaining with a real example in this article. · One Selenium Test Failed · Analyse · The Problem — Multiple Elements · The Solution — Locator Chaining ∘ 1. Find all matching elements…

Selenium WebDriver is slightly faster than Playwright. — Update 2023–01–09: Annotated version by my father. In the previous article, I compared the test syntax of Playwright and Selenium WebDriver. One feedback I have heard is that “Selenium is slower”. Both are fast in terms of test execution from my experience. Today, I did a benchmark to verify the…