Dhanya Arumughom

An introduction to Test Automation Frameworks

What is an Automation Framework and why is it needed? Automation testing has been widely accepted for delivering faster and quality products. Test automation, as you know can be defined as a process of performing software testing activities utilizing the various testing tools available. The number of choices you have

ChroPath – A quick way to get and Verify Xpath and CSS selectors

ChroPath is a developer tool which comes very handy in getting Xpaths and CSS selectors for web elements of a web page. Being automation testers, we usually spend a lot of time trying to generate XPaths/CSS selectors in order to identify elements uniquely. Copy XPath option in the browsers

Use of Switch to commands for handling JavaScript pop ups and Pop up windows using Selenium WebDriver

While automating a web application we would encounter multiple windows, JavaScript pop up alerts, etc. This article is about how to deal with these while using Selenium WebDriver. Selenium commands by default gets executed on your parent window only always. During execution, if you encounter any pop up alerts or

An Introduction to Front End User Experience Monitoring and Performance testing

Importance of Front end user experience monitoring The number of web users has increased tremendously over the past few years and it has become a necessity for most of the businesses to have a rich and user friendly website. We are living in an age where people tend to use

Strategies to Handle Dynamic Web Elements in Selenium

Identifying the right web elements to perform the required operations are the first step in automating any test cases. This step gone wrong, the entire test fails. So using efficient strategies for web element identification is very critical. WebElemnet not found is the most common error you could get once

Launching Firefox, IE and Chrome Browsers in Selenium WebDriver

As you know, Selenium supports different browsers including Firefox, Chrome, IE, Safari, etc. To automate test cases, of a web application, the first thing you need to do is to open or launch a browser and then navigate to the web page you want to automate. In this article, we

Selenium WebDriver Commands

In Selenium WebDriver, to automate test cases, we need to identify the web element for the step and perform some actions on the web element. The web element may be any object on the web page like button, link, drop down, checkbox, radio button, image, textbox, some text on the

Finding Web Element Locators Using The Browser Inspector

In our article on ‘Locators used in Selenium for Object Identification’, we saw the different locators that can be used to identify web elements on a web page and the use of findElement() method for the locators. This article, we will be seeing how we get the locator values from

Locators Used In Selenium For Object Identification

While writing scripts for testing a web application using any automation tools, the tool should identify the web elements or web objects appropriately to perform the desired operation like click or enter text on the corresponding web element/object. This is called object identification. Every application is made of various

Automation Testing Explained

Automation is a very widely used word these days. Humans has been known to put in efforts to simplify all tasks and automate various tasks – be it in manufacturing industry, medical industry, accounting, or wherever possible. We always like the idea of getting things done easily without much human intervention