Articles tagged with
selenium
05 Aug 2024
Are you, as a test automation engineer, tired of Selenium’s flakiness? Are you seeking a better tool to automate your end-to-end tests? Have you heard of
Playwright? Perhaps you’ve encountered opinions that it is only worth using within a Node.js environment. I have. And as a tester, I decided to verify if
this is true. If you’re interested in the results, I encourage you to read the following article.
24 Sep 2015
Today, in an age of great popularity of test automation, we can observe a growing number of different frameworks which
allow us to write scripts and programs that simulate human actions performed on the website under test. The most popular
solution is Selenium WebDriver framework, which is compatible with the majority of common languages.
Broad compatibility is a big advantage of Selenium especially in cases when we have to write some tests integrated to
our application project, because no matter in which language we write the application, Selenium probably has an API for
that language too. But there are also situations, like writing a standalone test suite, when we can decide which
technology we’d most like to use. Taking into consideration this case, let me introduce to you a short
comparison of three JDK-based technologies:
06 May 2015
One of the major goals of software development, apart from actually delivering the product, is to guarantee it is of proper quality and not prone to
errors. Big modern systems tend to consist of dozens of smaller pieces, often accompanied by some legacy core or part of legacy system.
Each of these, often very different pieces of software communicate with each other in some way, in synchronous or asynchronous way,
through REST endpoints, SOAP services or a variety of messaging systems.
This leads to new challenges. A failure or unexpected change in one place may lead to a misbehaviour in other parts of the system.
