Tool for creating counterstrings
TL;DR In this post I am presenting web tool that creates counterstrings. Counterstrings are created by James Bach. They are self describing test data and because of that property, they are example of…
Category: testing tool
How to send shift and special characters in Selenium Webdriver with Ruby
cucumber, ruby, selenium-webdriver, testing tool
TL;DR In order to automate one browser scenario, I needed to send ampersand character. It seems that this is not an easy action in selenium webdriver. So, instead testing the web…
Simulating time in Ruby on Rails
TL;DR In this post I will provide an example why Ruby on Rails is great framework that has testability in its core design. Time is a measure in which events can…
Runing Firefox on AMI Linux instance using Jenkins
AMI Linux, Firefox, headless, testing tool
TL;DR In this post I will give step by step instructions for setting up Jenkins on AMI Linux host. Jenkins will run selenium webdriver tests on Firefox in headless mode. Install…
Selenium webdriver unable to connect issue
credit: seleniumhq.org TL;DR In this post I will explain the cause of selenium webdriver unable to connect issue and how to resolve this issue. In order to understand this issue,…
Running Firefox on AMI-Linux in headless mode
TL;DR If you need to run your webdriver tests in headless mode on AMI-Linux instance, you will first need to install Firefox on that instance. Xvfb server will do the…
Selenium RemoteWebDriver over http
security testing, testing tool
TLDR In this post I will explain how I connected knowledge from two testing domains, security and UI automation, in order to achieve proper UI automation stack configuration. In order…
Tester who did not understand if/elsif branching
credit: commons.wikimedia.org TLDR Logic is important tool of software developer and tester. In this post I will describe one logical error in if-then-elsif-else branching construct. Logic is important tool of…
Suppress phantomjs console log in watir webdriver
image credit: phantomjs.org TLDR In this short post I will describe how different environment could produce different result for the same tool. Phantomjs is full web stack that enables tester…
Where to put rspec expectation in Cucumber project?
credit: cukes.info TLDR In this post I will explain how to use rspec expectations in cucumber project that uses page object gem. In order to be able to use rspec…
