.properties is a file extension for files mainly used in Java to store the configurable parameters of an application. the parameters are in terms of key | value pair, means we can use the key in the code to get the value stored in the .properties file. This basically helps to avoid going to the code for any change needed…
There are situations where you have the options enabled [Below screenshot], still not able to copy paste files from your current system / laptop to your remotely connected system/dsktop. Let’s see how to overcome this! Go to the Task Manager (Key press CTRL + SHIFT + ESC), Go to Processes tab and search for the…
We will be discussing some of the practices (may not be THE best practices) which makes code base easier in terms of readability and maintainability. Package names should be in all lower case package1 or com.gmail.webui Class names always begin with a capital letter. And if there are multiple…
Selenium Grid is used to run the selenium tests parallel across different platforms(Nodes) and browsers from one system (Hub)…. Steps for setting up the selenium grid: 1st thing 1st:Download the selenium standalone jar file from here,[see below screenshot] version may be different Place the stand alone jar file in your local drive, let’s…
In one of our previous post selenium locator strategies, we have learned how to identify elements based on HTML tags or attributes. In this post, mostly we will be talking about the key differences between XPATH & CSS Selector, their patterns to locate browser elements. Patterns are basically the syntaxes we will use to identify…
xpath is xml path language, and selenium uses xpath as one of the locator strategies to locate web element[s] from the DOM (document object model). DOM is nothing but the tree structure of the html / xml document. xpath normally provides the path to navigate to the required element from the tree structure. xpath types…
TestNG provides a way to get the data from external sources like from excel/textfile/arrays which helps to prepare data driven framework in automation. @Parameters – pass parameters from the testNG.xml @dataProvider – Pass the parameters as a 2D array. In this post, we will look into dataProvider @DataProvider This is another way of passing 2 dimensional array…
For the fundamentals of testNG framework and the testng.xml content, please refer to my prev blog post. selenium-testng (See all the available annotations) selenium testNGxml Let’s jump into a sample code to get more understanding on the annotations- These below 2 classes contains all the details of testNG annotations and the output shows sequence of execution…
To get started with testNG framework, refer testNG framework If we want to execute the testng class, we can do one by one in eclipse by clicking F5 or right click run as, what if we want to run multiple classes, then we can take use of testng.xml. tetng.xml helps to execute one or more testNG classes…