Tag Archives: Selenium

AOP, NUnit and Selenium: clever screenshots of failures

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, [...]

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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.
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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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