Tag Archives: automation

Never too early to start thinking about your tests

This post is spurned by taking a reflection on my journey as a tester and it’s amazing to see how much i have moved from designing large UI test suites to very small UI test suites. For emphasis, the largest … Continue reading

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Assign AutomationIds to DevExpress ComboxBoxEdit Control

For some time i have been trying to automate a desktop application which uses a lot of DevExpress controls. For someone coming from a web application environment; this was  a very difficult task for me as i had no experience … Continue reading

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type into a textfield with keypress event disabled

A colleague asked me how to automate a disabled text-box which has a calendar attached to it. The customer has specified that they want keyboard entries disabled for this text-field, hence every user of the website has to use the … Continue reading

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Watir-Webdriver: Website certificate does not come from a trusted source

A colleague came across this problem while executing our acceptance tests. The issue was related to the fact that the SSL certificate for the site was named differently from the domain on which the test were being executed on . … Continue reading

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Writing acceptance test before development or implementation starts

In my the few years, where i have pushed for testers developers to write acceptance test before development or implementation commences, I’ve had testers come up to me say its difficult to achieve this when you dont know what the … Continue reading

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test automation click might not completely simulate an actual human click

I have been working at this client where i am opportuned to use cucumber, watir-webdriver and i came across this problem today. The application i am testing is an e-commerce site and i am writing test for a page on … Continue reading

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