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Ways to handle file uploads in selenium
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Error opening eclipse.exe for 1st time
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Efficiently fetch appium capabilities appPackage, appActivity and bundleId
Mobile device has many applications, so we should let appium know on which application automated tests should run. For this…
Link to download pre configured VMs
Link to download different combination of OS and type of VMs : https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/windows/
Appium locator strategy : identify app elements [latest]
Like selenium WebDriver locators, we have locator strategies for AndroidDriver (for android) & IOSDriver (for iOS), both extending the AppiumDriver…
Appium locators tool : UIAutomatorViewer
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Setup android and launch simulator for Appium (latest)
In this post, we will see step by step guide to create and setup Android Virtual Device, an Android emulator…
Guide to configure Appium, Android & IOS simulators (updated)
In this article, we will see basic setup of Appium, where we can run appium tests on mobile handset or tablet…
Different ways to run testng.xml file
Basics of testng.xml is covered in last post, now let’s see different ways to run testng.xml Using code editor pane…
PageFactory in selenium
PageFactory is an extended support to POM (PageObjectModel), used to locate webelement in adifferent manner than mentioned here. Before we…
Guide on PageObjectModel and PageFactory in selenium
With time, increasing in the functionality of software products, test automation script also increases, so we tend to develop robust frameworks…
Small video that depicts API basic
watch this video to understand, basics of what exactly an API (Application programming Interface)
Read / write excel data based on column header using java poi [updated]
In our previous post, we have seen basic excel read & write operation in In this post, we will discuss…
Internet Explorer IE11 – F12 (debugging) not working
There is a situation where, you installed IE11 freshly and try to open the debugging window by clicking F12, but…
Download files in Chrome browser using selenium WebDriver
There are situations where we need to Download files from browser, Save in a specified folder on hard disk. We…
Execute JavaScript in selenium to perform operations on HTML elements
Now we know how to identify html elements using only selenium or execute javascript in selenium, Now let’s see how…
Run JavaScript locators using Selenium & Java
We have seen how to identify web elements using selenium locators…there are situations where selenium alone can’t able to identify…
Scroll on a page or list view in selenium using javaScript
There are some situations in which we want to scroll to a particular element or scroll up or down across…
All about JavaScriptExecutor in Selenium
As per the selenium official link on Selenium RC, core selenium is basically a javascript program (set of functions) which…
ways to drag n drop elements using selenium
There are several web applications that provides services for drag an element and drop on certain element on browser. Some…
JSON Intro – syntax – datatypes
JavaScript Object Notation Used as a lightweight data sharing format in between server and web application, and also…
which one to use? driver.close() / .quit()
There are different ways to close browser[s] using selenium after tests are run. Depending on scenarios, if single or multiple…
Agile development : manifesto
A group of developers together made a decission depending on their individual views and created the methodology called Agile. In…
Selenium v2.47.0 – features added
Selenium framework leaunched it’s updated version 2.47.0 Download link: http://www.seleniumhq.org/download/ and here is below some of the main features of…
Selenium with Autoit (no installation) for win UIs
As most of us know, Autoit is a tool to automate basic navigations for non browser / windows applications. There…
Selenium HTML result reporting using ExtentReports 2.X
While working with Selenium automation testing, we use different 3rd party frameworks (TestNG, Junit, MBunit, Nunit) in combination with Java…
Connect to DataBase in Java and Selenium Implementation
For initial understanding on database and SQL queries, refer MySQL Basics To automate database testing, we will use selenium with…
DataBase testing
Database testing: validate the front end data with the database. Let’s take an example of a e-commerce application, user booked…
Initial setup of MySQL database and it’s basic
MySQL is considered to be most popular open source database, For more information regarding versions and features, please refer http://dev.mysql.com/…
Firefox profile and preferences in selenium
Firefox profile is basically the personal settings of the firefox browser. Firefox profile contains information like your homepage, bookmarks, browser…
Automate dropdown / combobox using Selenium Java
In this post, we will see how to handle / automate drop down webelement in Selenium and Java. Use cases…
selenium implicit + Explicit + fluent waits
Every browser application has it’s own delay in loading the elements when we open a web application / navigate from…
TestNG @Test attributes – threadPoolSize, invocationCount, timeOut
InvocationCount OutPut: Thread ID: 1Thread ID: 1Thread ID: 1Thread ID: 1Thread ID: 1 Above method ran 5 times, a single…
TestNG @Test attributes – AlwaysRun
alwaysRun is a testNG attribute which makes a test method run always even if it’s dependent method is not run……
TestNG @Test attributes – dependOnMethods
There are situations when we want to run our tests depends on the prior test execution like if a particular…
TestNG @Test attributes – enabled property
There are situations where we need to skip one or more @Test method in testNG, for this TestNG provides enabled…
TestNG @Test attributes – run by priority (-ve & +ve)
As we know testNG test methods are executed in alphabetical order by default, but testNG provides priority keyword to prioritize…
TestNG @Test attributes – method description and grouping
TestNG description In framework, with growing number of automated test cases, it’s hard to have the test method names more…
Handling multiple browser windows/popups using selenium
There are situations in which we get browser popups or multiple browser windows, when we open an URL or click…
testNG @Test attributes
TestNG framework provides some more features with the @Test to customise execution of test methods To know basics about the…
Handling iframes in selenium
There are situations where web controls/elements reside inside an inline frame, the inline frame is another document or dom resides…
Handling RadioButtons in selenium
On a webpage, user can only selects one option from many of the limited group of options. In HTML we…
Get the css value of an web element using selenium
GUI testing is the basic validation we do mostly in browser applications… this may be the text font, text size,…
Take screenshots in failed scenarios
There are scenarios where our test case fails and we use mostly logs to see what actions performed and how…
Read/Write text file using selenium/java
There are certain scenarios where we need to read the content of a text file or write something to a…
Handling different types of alerts & user authentication in selenium
Alerts are basically popup box/window that takes the focus away from the current browser screen and forces you to read…
Handling web tables in selenium Java
A basic web table will have these below components:header, body and data / cells & footerHeader cells- th = Column…
Context menu / right click with selenium
There are certain scenarios where we want to perform operation on the right click menu options. let’s see the demo…
Manage browser windows [Resize and reposition] with selenium
We can change the browser window position on desktop and resize the windows using selenium commands. These functionalities helps to…
Handle textBoxes in selenium
TextBox is an element where we can enter/input alphanumeric text.To identify the textBoxes we need to look for the input…
Handling ListBoxes in selenium
ListBox is an element where user can select/deselect one or more items from it. To identify the ListBox on webpage,…
Handling CheckBoxes in selenium
Events for a checkbox can be check or uncheck, there can be one or more checkboxes (group wise) on a…
Handling button events in Selenium
Button is one of the web element/control on web application,In a webpage, to identify if a web element is button…
Collections framework in Java
Collection: Group of individual objects in one unit. It’s a root interface of collections framework, which defines most common methods…
testNg Assertions in Selenium – Hard & Soft assert
Assert is to compare the expected with actual. Assert is class exposed from org.testng.Assert; 2 types of Asserts – Soft…
Difference between Arrays and Collections
Arrays Collections Can hold only homogeneous elements. All elements should of same data type, either all are int or String…
Desired Capabilities in selenium
DesiredCapabilities describe a series of key/value pairs that encapsulate aspects of a browser, Basically this is used to set certain…
Selenium exceptions | when it occurs & how to handle
Exceptions are basically abnormal/unexpected conditions that may occur while running code/test.These exceptions may disrupt the execution, but we can handle…
Arrays in java
What is Array Arrays are used to store homogenous elements/values (of same data type) Can access the elements by the…
Exit from nested for loops in java
There are 2 nested for loops in your code and if we want to exit both the loops at a…
read and write key/value data using .properties file
.properties is a file extension for files mainly used in Java to store the configurable parameters of an application. the parameters are in…
Fixing copy paste issue from current system to remote system/desktop
There are situations where you have the options enabled [Below screenshot], still not able to copy paste files from your…
Selenium framework coding practices/standards
We will be discussing some of the practices (may not be THE best practices) which makes code base easier in…
Selenium grid – Run tests across platforms/browsers
Selenium Grid is used to run the selenium tests parallel across different platforms(Nodes) and browsers from one system (Hub)…. …
Xpath vs CSS Selector – key differences and patterns
In one of our previous post selenium locator strategies, we have learned how to identify elements based on HTML tags…
Selenium XPATH types: Absolute and Relative
xpath is xml path language, and selenium uses xpath as one of the locator strategies to locate web element[s] from…
TestNG Parametrisation – dataProvider
TestNG provides a way to get the data from external sources like from excel/textfile/arrays which helps to prepare data driven…
TestNG annotations
For the fundamentals of testNG framework and the testng.xml content, please refer to my prev blog post. selenium-testng (See all the…
Selenium testng.xml and emailable report in detail
To get started with testNG framework, refer testNG framework If we want to execute the testng class, we can do one by…
Selenium – All about testNG frameowrk
testNG is a unit testing framework for Java, helps to run our tests(methods) in a guided manner. testNG stands for…
Difference between driver.get() and driver.navigate()
driver.get(““) Will wait till the page loads completely with all controls in place. Used to get page source. driver.getPageSource(); …
Selenium webDriver to test AngularJS applications
AngularJS controls are becoming more popular these days due to it’s flexibility of use, less coding, allows single page applications…
Enhanced / advanced for loop in Java
————————————————————————————————————————- Enhanced for loop is applicable only for arrays, Arrays can be of int or string type… let’s see the…
First selenium test using Maven & testNG in Java
Let’s see how we can guide selenium to automate the user actions on a web application, As we come to…
Selenium: Excel Read and Write using java Apache POI library
We will see the use of apache POI open source library in java to read and write excel file. If…
Selenium: Excel Read and Write – using java jExcel(jxl)
According to http://jexcelapi.sourceforge.net/ – jexcel API is to read and write excel sheet data, Note: Excel should be of .xls format , if it…
set environment/system variables in windows OS
There are 2 ways to edit or set environmental or system variable on windows machines: Method 1 – In Windows…
Selenium result report + testNG + ANT build.xml
In this post, we will see how to convert testng report (index.html) to a more readable/emailable report by using ANT…
Run selenium tests across multiple browsers in parallel
Testing your web application across different browsers to make sure: Application performs similar manner for different browsers. Webelements should be…
Firefox addons to identify web elements for Selenium
To view the HTML content and spy on an webelement, there are different ways for different browsers, mostly people use…
Selenium locator strategies – how to identify browser elements
Selenium provides different type of locators to uniquely identify web elements on the browser. Any web application elements that render…
Eclipse setup for selenium – beginners
As mentioned in prevois post selenium webdriver setup, hope you downloaded the Eclipse IDE and all required jar files. NOTE: Place…
Basic setup / installation of Selenium Webdriver
Note: For the entire discussion of selenium topics on this blog, we will be using Java language. Basic setup of selenium webdriver…
Selenium IDE
For the setup of IDE and record/playback the user actions, you can get lot of resources in google. As selenium…
Selenium testing introduction for beginners
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Offline Installer – Skype for computer
For windows: offline installer http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-full For other platforms: https://www.skype.com/en/download-skype/skype-for-computer/
OfflineInstaller – Mozilla Firefox browser
Latest version : https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/ Earlier versions : https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/
Sticky Notes – How to backup/restore in windows OS
In windows OS –For Backup Start -> Run and type %AppData%MicrosoftStickyNotes to open the “Sticky Notes” folder. Copy the StickyNotes.snt…
Download defects from QC to Excel using QC OTA
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Reverse a string without using string functions – VBScript
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Arrays in VBScript
An Array variable can have different data type values like int, char, string, Boolean etc An Array variable values can…
How to find your application window/childwindow using TestStach.White
Try below code to find your application window/child windows by using TestStack.White framework – Lets take NotePad as our application…
Weblinks to know more about TestStack.White framework
We have seen how we can automate desktop applications using testStackWhite feamework. Some more useful links you can follow A…
Open source UI Automation testing using White framework
Most organizations encourage open source tools to implement automation testing of their products/softwares, and it indirectly encourages testers/programmers to expose…
Change the iPhone/iPod backup to another drive in windows OS
1. Move the “Backup” folder from the “C:UsersAppDataRoamingApple ComputerMobileSync” location and place to an external drive, let’s say to “D:itunes”.…
ActiveX component can’t create object – TDApiOle80.TDConnection
Some times we get error as “Windows7 64 bit – ActiveX component can’t create object TDApiOle80.TDConnection” while running Quality Center…
can’t save the mapping name while exporting data from excel to quality canter(windows 7 OS)
1. Ensure that User control accounts setting is disabled. in the Windows globe>search for program and files> type UAC click…
CTDServer error while exporting test cases from excel sheet to Quality Center
A) You need to uninstall QC Excel add-in first from Add/Remove Programs(only if it is installed on your machine). B)…
Check and Stop sharing folders or a drive
————————————————————————————————————————- To stop sharing a folder by using the Windows interface 1) Open Computer Management, To do so, click Start,…
Difference between Integration and System testing
System testing – 1) It is high level testing and always starts after Integration testing 2) For this testing, complete…
Solution – Folders displayed as shortcuts
————————————————————————————————————————- Sometimes due to virus in system, folders appear as shortcut files and when we try open nothing gets open,…
Software LifeCycle
Life Cycles of a software: SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE: CRS (Customer Requirement Specification) SRS (System Requirement Specification) Planning & Analysis…
Difference between Regression and Retesting
REGRESSION TESTING -Regression testing is repeated testing of an already tested program in each release or each build after modifications…
Static and Dynamic testing
Static testing: The Verification activities fall into the category of Static Testing. During static testing, you have a checklist to…
Software testing – V-Model in detail
Almost all organizations follow V-model due to its flexibility structure, it reduces the total duration of the project life cycle…
Bug tracking tool – for e.g – Bugzilla
Bugzilla is a very known bug tracking tool where testers normally raise or keep track of bugs in each release…
Difference between Smoke and Sanity testing
Smoke Testing: Normally we perform this to check the stability of the build to deploy in testing environment for further…
How to upgrade firmware from 2.2 to 2.3.4 gingerbread by using samsung kies
The official android 2.3.4 gingerbread is out for Samsung galaxy ace. This firmware upgrade includes OTA feature (update over the…
How to avoid scripts running recursively in QTP –
1) Check if any data present in Data Table? if yes, try clearing those values (delete or clear cells by…
New or change request status track for PAN card
https://tin.tin.nsdl.com/tan/StatusTrack.html
INDIA, USA and UK railway station codes
http://www.stationcodes.com/railway-station-codes.htm
ISD (International Subscriber Dialing) code search for all countries–
http://www.bsnl.co.in/isdsearch.php
How to create a facebook email id like username@facebook.com
Step 1 – Login to Facebook.com with your login Id and password. Now you need to have unique username to…
How to change microsoft office 2007 product key after installation
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How to get the creation date & time of a particular file
Set f1 = CreateObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”) Set f2 = f1.GetFile(“D:QTP_TESTtest.docx”) S = “File was Created on: “&f2.DateCreated Msgbox S
How to list name of subfolders of a folder
Let’s assume, we have D:PFolder where 3 subfolders present named as sun1, sun2 & sun3 We will use FileSystemObject as…
What is 2 way mirror – they can see you, but you can’t see them
Mirror illusion in Hotels or showrooms(Trial rooms) –HOW TO KNOW 2 WAY MIRROR OR NOT????What is 2 way mirror –…
Software Dev life cycle & software Testing life cycle…
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE: CRS (Customer Requirement Specification) SRS (System Requirement Specification) Planning & Analysis Design (High level (In brief)…
For INDIAN users – trace ur mobile numbers, vehicle registration details….
http://trace.bharatiyamobile.com/
Remove Windows Genuine Advantage check in windows OS…
Following three simple steps now you can get rid of the pesky and sometimes buggy Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) notifications:1.…
Useful exe commands for windows run…
————————————————————————————————————————- Character Map (charmap.exe) – Very useful for finding unusual characters. Disk Cleanup (cleanmgr.exe) – The usual Disc cleanup. Clipboard…
Download Youtube videos for free, No software required
I am going to tell you one of the fantastic way to download youtubevideos in .flv format without the use…
Internet Explorer Shortcuts…
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How to know ur system is of 32bit or 64bit processor…
————————————————————————————————————————- Windows Vista Method 1 Click Start, then click on Run or Start Search. Type msinfo32.exe and then press Enter…
Sample papers for ISTQB Exam…
get the docs from the below link…http://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B1RjrG8wwL_FYzc3NWEzMDktMDIzMC00YjY3LWEyOTgtNWEwZWYyZGU1MTdl&hl=en ALL THE BEST!!!!
Levels of testing
Unit testing: The primary goal of unit testing is to take the smallest piece of testable software in the application,…
Testing + Methods of testing + Techniques
TESTING: Execution of program with the intend of finding errors & to check the functionality of product, so as to…
Error, Bug, Defect
Simple Wikipedia definition of Bug is: “A computer bug is an error, flaw, mistake, failure, or fault in a computer…
Priority & Severity in testing
High Severity & Low Priority : For example an application which generates some banking related reports weekly, monthly, quarterly &…
To determine which service pack is currently installed on your computer, follow these steps:
————————————————————————————————————————- Click Start, and then click Run. Copy and paste, or type the following command and then click OK: winver…
To avoid the just in time exception error & unexpectedly closing of browser:
————————————————————————————————————————- Type in command prompt : drwtsn32 -i
How to Download Books from Google
I don’t know if Google would like this, but it is, definitely, not a hack. This is just teaching you…
Terms regarding OS
1.What is svchost.exe?One of the most common questions about system processes is what is svchost.exe and why are there so…
Windows tips n tricks
In this post, we will be looking into some of the tips and tricks which makes us easy to operate…