Appium team has migrated the appium server to 2.x (currently in beta) which involves lot’s of changes in terms of usage but not impacting any of the automation behaviour. Highlights of appium changes – Install the latest appium server you can use below npm command (there is no GUI as we have for 1.x) sudo…
In our previous post, we have seen global waits and timeouts applicable for Page, script or test wise. WebdriverIO provides some more wait methods applicable to individual elements based on specific conditions and they are as follows – waitForClickable waitForExist waitForEnabled waitForDisplayed Note – all these above methods are applicable for the element level not…
We often get confused when fetching text or value entered from a textBox on HTML DOM. in this post we will see how we can get the text entered from textBox and then we will understand getText() vs getAttribute(“value”). How to fetch text from textBox For this we will consider the Full Name textbox from…
Cypress made some visible changes to project structure when you migrate the cypress version to v10. In this post, we will see step by step guide to migrate to v10 and understand the folder structure. Open your existing project in VScode. Open command prompt / terminal (CTRL + `) Type below command to upgrade cypress…
There might be a situation where our script fails or taking long time if the application doesn’t load properly. Other factors could be application response, network speed or the layers that webdriverIO uses to send requests which causes out of sync between script run and application actions. Example – Test is looking for welcome screen…
WebdriverIO is an advanced automation framework for web and mobile application. It’s basically a wrapper on top of selenium (WebDriver protocol with nodeJS) for web automation and wrapper on top of appium for mobile application. WebDriverIO is termed as wdio. TypeScript is termed as TS. Why WebDriverIO and TypeScript? It’s essential to understand why we…
ShadowDOM is used to separate certain HTML structure, JS and CSS from the actual application DOM. A DOM can have multiple shadowDOM elements. To understand more, please refer https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components/Using_shadow_DOM To understand which ShadowDOM elements we can automate or not, you can refer to this below video – As normal DOM elements, we can’t directly inspect…
To generate html report in your test automation framework, you are using ExtentReport library and getting error while running your tests – “java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: VERSION_2_3_30“ This error normally occurs when you use an incompatible version of freemaker java library in your pom.xml. You get error as “java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: VERSION_2_3_30” when running tests with extentreport, the reason is…
In selenium, we all know findElement() method finds the elements based on the locator matched criteria from the browser application. There are 2 ways we can use the findElement(), with WebDriver and also with WebElement In this post, we will see the syntax and outcome of each ways For this explanation, I will be using…