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By Zac Campbell If you’ve come here looking for the perfect, unbreakable locator, then I’m afraid to tell you that there is no perfect locator. That HTML changes and locators become incompatible are realities of writing automated UI tests. You’ll … Continue reading → Continue reading
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I was recently asked by a colleague for some advice on locators and I shared this cheat sheet with him. It contains just about everything you need to know for formulating locators for use with Selenium (and also Marionette), and includes synt… Continue reading
Dave Hunt
I’ve just released an update to FlynnID. The primary change is that I’ve reintroduced the command line arguments, meaning a single node can be registered without the need for a configuration file. I’ve also hopefully learned my lesson, and in … Continue reading → Continue reading
Dave Hunt
As all of the active Mozilla Web QA automation projects are now using WebDriver, there is no longer a need for BIDPOM (Browser ID Page Object Model) to support Selenium RC. I considered keeping this support purely for the community, … Continue reading → Continue reading
Dave Hunt
In Tron, Flynn’s identity disc is the master key to getting onto the Grid. In the far less exciting real world, FlynnID is the key to registering a Selenium node to Selenium Grid. Yesterday I released FlynnID 0.2, which changes … Continue reading → Continue reading
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(The following is a guest post by Bob Silverberg, one of our awesome contributors in Web QA.) PyCharm is a Python IDE, released by JetBrains. I quite enjoy using it and, as I’ve recently started contributing some tests to Mozilla’s … Continue reading → Continue reading
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On the Web QA team at Mozilla we have been using the py.test unit testing software for a while now and find it very useful. We can extend and customise it using plugins and have done so to great effect … Continue reading → Continue reading
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WebDriver has introduced implicit waits on functions like find_element. That means that when WebDriver cannot find an element, it will automatically wait for a defined amount of time for it to appear. 10 seconds is the default duration. This is … Continue reading → Continue reading
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As WebDriver moves more towards being more of an API and less of a testing tool, functions that contained the logic to wait for pages such as wait_for_page_to_load() are being removed. The reason for this is that it is difficult … Continue reading → Continue reading
Dave Hunt
Finally I can announce that I have released version 1.0 of the pytest plugin used by Mozilla’s Web QA team! It’s been in use for several months now, but I’ve paid off some long standing technical debt, and now consider … Continue reading → Continue reading