Selenium

When it comes to automating front-end tests, choosing the ideal programming language becomes extremely crucial. Python is one such language that tops the list, owing to ease of use and extensive community support. Moreover, Python automation testing lets you harness the capabilities offered by popular libraries and frameworks like Selenium, pytest, and Robot, amongst others. Using Selenium with Python helps in making the most of Selenium’s powerful browser automation capabilities and Python’s simplicity and extensibility. Overall, Python automation testing is…

Choosing the right testing tool for your project can be a challenging task. Two of the most widely used options are Cypress and Selenium, and understanding their features can help you make an informed decision. Cypress is an end-to-end (E2E) testing framework designed for modern web applications and built on JavaScript. Its unique architecture allows for fast and reliable testing of web applications. Cypress integrates smoothly with tools and frameworks like Angular, Vue, React, and more. Cypress automatically waits for…

Are you looking to enhance your skills in automated web testing? We just published a comprehensive video course on the freeCodeCamp.org YouTube channel, designed to teach you how to use Selenium with Java using the Page Object Model. Created by Rex Jones II, this course is perfect for developers and testers who want to master the art of automated web testing and ensure the functionality of web applications with precision and efficiency. Course Overview This course is structured to guide…

Being a tester or a skilled web developer, you need to test your applications for bugs and performance in all the available browsers and operating systems. But with so many dependencies in hand, having not just different browsers, but different versions, too, it surely becomes a hefty task.  Most importantly, all these processes must be automated to the greatest extent because in major companies, individually creating test cases and pipelines would be expensive and the most obvious, the least preferable…

While working on an open source GitHub project that was created to showcase the working of Selenium WebDriver framework with Java, as the project grew, there was a need to create multiple testng.xml files for running different tests.  These multiple files were created to segregate the tests and place all the tests related to a respective website in a single testng.xml (I have used different demo websites to demo different actions that can be automated using Selenium WebDriver). I thought…

How Can I Implement This Approach? Implementing the data-testid approach in your front-end development process involves several steps, from setting up your project to best practices for using the attribute effectively. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to implement this approach. Adopt a Testing-First Mindset Plan for Testing Before diving into coding, ensure that testability is a key consideration in your UI component design. Discuss with your team how elements will be tested and where data-testid will be applied. Involve…

We all know that Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery are integral parts of DevOps, as they are used for integrating multiple stages of the methodology. There are many CI/CD tools in the market, but do you know that Jenkins, the Java-based open-source CI/CD tool, tops the popularity list? Jenkins for test automation is a popular choice among developers because of its ability to easily integrate with a variety of testing tools. It has always been the go-to option for DevOps…

There were times we used to create Jenkins jobs using UI alone. Later, the idea of pipeline as a code was mooted to address the rising complexity with build and deployment jobs. In Jenkins 2.0, the Jenkins team introduced Jenkinsfile to achieve pipeline as a code. If you want to create automated pull request based or branch-based Jenkins Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipeline, the Jenkins multibranch pipeline is a way to go. As Jenkins multi-branch pipeline is fully a…

During my early days as a Data Engineer (which dates back to 2016), I had the responsibility of scraping data from different websites. Web scraping is all about making use of tools that are automated to get vast amounts of data from the websites, usually from their HTML. I remember building around the application, digging into the HTML code, and trying to figure out the best solutions for scraping all the data. One of my main challenges was dealing with…