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Top new questions this week:

Should a tester feel bad about finding too many defects/bugs in the product?

I work as a junior black box tester in a small software house. I work on a medical industry web application. I was assigned a module to test. I did a lot of research and risk analysis and logged at ...

manual-testing test-management bug-report defect-tracking test

asked by sunny44 49 votes answered by RomSteady 88 votes

Free tool to test mobile apps manually

I want to know if there is any free tool available to manually test the mobile apps and mobile websites. I dont want to use the real devices. Need to emulate the devices

manual-testing mobile

asked by Pri 4 votes answered by Bobby231 1 vote

Should we use javascript for UI test automation?

JavaScript based automation frameworks such as Protractor/WebDriverJS heavily depends on its features such as asynchronous execution, promises, callbacks, anonymous functions, etc which are inherently ...

automated-testing selenium javascript protractor

asked by Vishal Aggarwal 3 votes answered by Niels van Reijmersdal 0 votes

Endurance testing strategy needed for a LAMP Stack application

The AUT is built with LAMP* Stack and is the Intranet Home app and is going to be used by almost all employees of a large corporation. Application Performance Testing is carried out using HPE suite ...

performance load-testing loadrunner

asked by petwolfe 3 votes answered by Yu Zhang 3 votes

Selenium dynamic HTML file

Hello I'm having a slight issue. I'm using selenium to make a report through ExtentReport which saves a HTML file. I want to be able to save this file dynamically. This is the code im currently ...

selenium java

asked by Christian 3 votes answered by Dale Emery 5 votes

Selenium: getPageSource() returns previous pages' source

I'm logging into the page using this function: public static void login() { driver.get(url); driver.findElement(By.name("username")).clear(); ...

selenium selenium-webdriver webdriver java qa-developer

asked by Obi_Wan_Kenobi254 3 votes answered by the_coder 4 votes

What is the best way of separating tests from keywords using RobotFramework?

Our team wants to migrate the tests from QTP. We have the automation flows for UI, API and some database tests. After a long research, I found robotframework would be a nice tool.However as I started ...

selenium2 python robotframework

asked by Ranadheer 1 vote answered by Yu Zhang 2 votes

Greatest hits from previous weeks:

Can I use Selenium to do Desktop Application testing?

Is it possible to test desktop applications using selenium? Suppose we have a simple application like gtalk. A desktop application, can we automate that application with selenium.

selenium selenium2

asked by Ashwani Raj 6 votes answered by Twaldigas 4 votes

Looking for an excellent example of using a spreadsheet for test case management

It is an unfortunate reality of our industry that many testers are stuck using a spreadsheet to manage their test cases. I wanted to ask (in a community wiki), what are some good techniques and ...

test-management excel

asked by Bruce McLeod 14 votes answered by user246 5 votes

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Advice for a 22 year old manual tester working with Automation on a daily basis

I am manual QA engineer of 22 years. Automating a Web App in Cucumber/Ruby using Capybara libraries using Selenium to drive the browser (Firefox). Rspec for the test interface. Can anyone recommend a ...

automated-testing selenium qa-role cucumber capybara

asked by Doug M 1 vote

Embedded system - external memory change

I would like to ask this time your view on what aspects would you consider to tickle when a strategic component like memory is replaced (in embedded system). Basically, the main goal is to ensure ...

manual-testing functional embedded

asked by Nir 1 vote

keep test data of json format in pom patterm

Can you please tell me how to write test data in the page object pattern. Here I am using multiple packages. One is for locators identification, another is for page factory for initializing ...

selenium webdriver java pom

asked by Antony Naveen 1 vote