Importance of Testing Frameworks
Software Testing

Appium and Selenium are great tools, which allows interaction with and manipulation of mobile devices. Both are cross-platform tools, meaning they work for automating across multiple devices; Appium for both iOS and Android and Selenium for multiple OS and browser combinations. Appium and Selenium are both built on top of WebDriver, similar to Protractor, and […]

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Keeping your Gherkin Language Consistent
Gherkin, the language that Cucumber uses to define tests in plain English

Work with my current client mostly consists of building an automated testing framework, one that utilizes Cucumber, an automated behavioral testing framework, and Gherkin, the language that Cucumber uses to define tests in plain English. The end goal is for the framework to reach a sufficient amount of coverage across the client’s application, so that […]

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Automating Desktop Applications with SikuliX

My current project supports a number of software applications for which we build and maintain automated tests. While most of these applications are web-based (for which we use Selenium WebDriver), we also support a few desktop/rich client applications.  This has exposed the need for a front-end automated test tool that doesn’t rely on DOM based attributes. Our […]

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Tools and Tests Your Pipeline Might Be Missing

Whatever process you use to deliver software, your ultimate goal is to determine if you have a viable candidate for production. Whether your process is completely automated, completely manual, or (most likely) somewhere in between, there are a lot of opportunities to add tools and tests to your process – your pipeline – to help you […]

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Getting Started with Selenified

Selenified is an open source testing framework optimized for automating front-end UI and API testing. With many improvements being made in the last few months, Selenified is now available on Maven Central to be dropped in to any project. Here’s a quick guide on how to get started writing and running tests with Selenified. The main […]

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How to Write Page Object Model Tests using Selenified
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In this previous post, my colleague discussed the benefits of using the Page Object Model Pattern to write your automated tests. In this video blog, I’ll show you some examples of how to write POM tests using the latest release of Selenified (3.0). Additional Thoughts Because Selenified supports parallel test execution, it’s important to ensure tests have […]

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Selenified and Web Services: Moving Beyond the Browser
Testing

Selenified was released with the idea to make browser testing easier. Selenified = Selenium Simplified. That said, not all testing is done within the browser. Not only can it not all be done there, but even if it could, it shouldn’t. For this reason, Selenified also allows for simple testing of other interfaces. Web Services […]

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