Do you ever have a test where you need to do something with an element on a page, but that element changes slightly in different situations? For example:– the visible element has a different CSS selector in desktop, tablet, or … [read more]
When writing tests, it’s useful to write them flexibly so that you can: run all tests against one site run one test against all sites run any number of tests against any number of websites Note: this repo that contains … [read more]
When running Nightwatch.js browser automated tests against Chrome, you will need to download and run Selenium Standalone Server and a matching version of ChromeDriver for your operating system. One way to do this is to detect the operating system in the … [read more]
Sometimes when working with Javascript objects, it is useful to print the objects out as JSON strings and take a look at their values. Take the following simple Javascript object: If you print it out via console.log, it looks like this: This … [read more]
Full code and additional information can be found in my github repository: Selenium Tumblr Test code I created some Java classes to test a modern website use-case. For this case, I used Tumblr. Tumblr is a simple, but dynamically updated … [read more]
(disclaimer: this worked for my corporate Outlook web email account. I don’t know if it will work for all. I’m posting this just in case it helps somebody else.) I recently had a need to detect changes in one application … [read more]
Rally Defect state tracking:The company I work for has many Scrum teams using Rally to track their sprint progress. Each team has it’s own project in Rally. For defects loaded as part of a sprint, the ScheduleState field is useful … [read more]
Below is a basic example for querying and updating Rally objects using Rally’s “rally_api” Ruby API. Changes you will need to make:– set your Rally username & password– project name & IDs. Set them to names/IDs that match yours– defect … [read more]