A reader of mine asked me how they should go about performance testing some front end performance. This is a good question, because tools such as JMeter are pretty good at getting performance metrics for load – but you must keep in mind that JMeter isn’t a browser and doesn’t Continue Reading
This subject is a repeat request I’ve had from various YouTube and website visitors. I’m often asked how to set up Selenium Grid to work with Watir and Cucumber. The process is really rather simple, it just takes a bit of getting used to. Audience This is an advanced subject Continue Reading
I had a real life request at work the other day. My boss had a goal of migrating some phone numbers to different POPs. In fact he had a large list – 4,000+ numbers. The carrier in question only had a web interface for this task (no API) and the Continue Reading
Why Selenium Server (aka Grid)? If one were to run their tests back to back it would take some time to deliver the final result of all tests. Say you had 100 browser automation tests. Let’s further say that each test takes on average 2min to complete. Back to back Continue Reading
A student of mine really impressed me with a recent question. I had tasked him with automating the front end of a music retailer website. My student, Exuar, showed me some of the UI automation. But he asked me about something he was trying to figure out. The music retailer Continue Reading
This is something different, at least for me. I wanted to build a prototype framework that made use of Sikuli with Ruby… which turned into a JRuby + Sikuli + Cucumber + Webdriver framework. One idea I had was to make automation tests that could validate spots in a video stream Continue Reading
In under 20min you can actually have a web automation framework built and running a simple test. I did a screencast video of this, and put it up on Youtube: I realize my voice isn’t the greatest, but hey, we all have our faults. [embedplusvideo height=”340″ width=”580″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/1ffYTCv” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/eYeesYy8mYo?fs=1″ vars=”ytid=eYeesYy8mYo&width=580&height=340&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=0&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=¬es=” Continue Reading
UPDATE: This is an outdated page. Please see my newer posts on Web Automation, such as the Golem ONE. I love using Watir-webdriver to automate and validate browser elements. When I got into a realm of having hundreds of automated browser tests synchronous tests would take too long. In some Continue Reading
I had a need at my job to test micro sites that are being spun up. These sites have hundreds of pages with hundreds of links between them. I’ve written a few different styles of scrapers. Some grab links to images, to verify each image is loading, other scripts load Continue Reading
In my last post, I commented on how brittle the Watir example was in the Watir documentation. But I since found that Watir does support all the normal ID’s and element Class’… here’s a list of some of it’s capabilties:http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Ways+Available+To+Identify+HTML+Element
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