Last week I did struggle finding out why a test was failing only on our Cruise box, only in the Cruise build.
I wanted to get a screenshot of each failing tests, and I think I found a clever solution: aop.
We already use PostSharp on our code base for logging, transaction demarcation and hibernate session support, [...]
Tag Archives: Selenium
AOP, NUnit and Selenium: clever screenshots of failures
Posted in General Stuff Also tagged .net, aop, c sharp, C#, functional tests, postsharp Leave a comment
Suffering of Selenese Flu? Try webdriver
I’ve been suffering of selenese flu for months, being on a .net project we were using selenium RC. The typical symptoms are flaky, slow tests and sometimes a lot of sleeps in your code to make it work.
Selenium has its age and it struggles to cope with the current web 2.0 asynchronous calls & rich javascript.
Fortunately [...]
Posted in General Stuff Also tagged acceptance tests, functional tests, javascript, web, webdriver Leave a comment
Tibco GI? No thanks
Recently we tried TIBCO GI, I’ve to say that I’ve not been particularly happy with it, here is my list of cons:
Not easy to test: impossible to test headless (is not supported by htmlunit), impossible to test with webdriver: Tibco provides a “Test Automation Kit”, however we had to write an extension of SeleniumServer in [...]
Tired of slow functional tests?
If you are a good QA or just a good agile developer I’m sure you’re already testing your web applications with tools such as Selenium.(*)
If you’re seeking for continuous improvement I’m sure that you complained at least once on the speed of those testing and on the maintainability.
You might wanna then have a look on the [...]