Overview: One of the challenges in software testing is to come up with test data to more or less look like real data. Often test automation engineers overlook the importance of test data in their test script. For example, They tend to write scripts like entering firstname1, lastname1 etc for the first name and last name fields. […]
Overview: What do we normally do to reduce the overall test execution time once you have hundreds of automated tests in our regression suite? Mostly we all go for spinning up multiple VMs to run our automated tests in parallel or we would increase thread count for parallel execution in a single VM. Don’t we?
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Overview: Running automated regression on a daily basis as part of daily build is inevitable nowadays! It is cool to find & report the issues as soon as they are introduced. But it is very painful to maintain hundreds of automated tests & remote parallel execution! Once you have a huge automated regression test suite in place,
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Overview: As a software engineer, We all face some errors/exceptions while writing code! So what do we do when we face such a problem? If we are not sure, We google for solutions immediately. Don’t we? We google because we know that we would not be alone and someone would have already found the solution, for
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Overview: In this article, Lets see how we could handle random popups / alerts / ads / some unexpected conditions & how we could recover from that. Udemy – Java 8 and Beyond for Testers: TestAutomationGuru has released a brand new course in Udemy on Java 8 and Beyond for Testers. 12 hours course with java latest features, lambda, stream,
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Overview: As an automation test engineer, you might have noticed that some of our test steps get repeated very often in multiple tests. In such cases, designing the tests in a such a way that it could be reused in multiple workflow is very important. Re-usability allows us to be more efficient & to write
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Overview: If you are an experienced automation engineer, you would know better that maintaining an automated test framework/project is NOT an easy task! You could easily create a page object and a test which works just fine / get things done. But what happens once you have thousands of tests? How long does it take
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Overview: As an automation engineer, you would have understood that creating an automated test for an application is not very difficult. Instead the difficult part is maintaining the existing tests!! That too, When you have thousands of automated tests. Oh Wait..on top of that, You have got Junior team members to maintain those thousands of
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Overview: Load testing, implemented properly and performed throughout the development cycle, can significantly reduce the number of failures experienced by an application. Performance related issues in production affect the revenue the application generates and it is also very expensive to fix! Performance testing is not just done to measure overall the response time of the application and
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Overview: I have been running thousands of automated test cases as part of our nightly regression testing. One of the challenges in running this is analyzing the test results next day morning – Particularly when you have large set of regression test cases. Even though I have tried to keep the test flakiness as low
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