Today, we’ll see how to do hybrid testing using selenium. Let’s discuss what’s hybrid testing first. Hybrid testing is a combination of Data Driven testing along with keyword. Here we’ll use some keywords as the driving parameters in data driven testing the data sheet. The keywords will be defined by the user, and let’s call them user defined keywords.Read More »
Month: May 2011
How to take full page screenshots in browsers other than Firefox using Selenium?
Here is a problem which very few people would face. The situation is you need to have a full page screenshot of whatever page you visit while testing a web application and you are not allowed to use any third party tool for the same for any reason (e.g security purposes).Read More »
How to run Firefox 4.0 and higher versions using Selenium RC?
I have been facing this problem for a quite long time. I was unable to run test using selenium RC 1.0.x. The problem behind this is: in the selenium server tha max version of firefox to be used is defined as 3.6. To overcome this problem, we need to override the value to the version number you want to use (in my case 4.0). Below are the step on how to do it:Read More »
How to get any attribute if no default method is defined for the same?
While analyzing selenium, I got a problem of retrieving a particular property as no default method was defined for retrieving the same in the Selenium API. The solution for the same was a little tricky. Let me explain the same with an expample.Read More »
How to Start IE 8 using Selenium RC in Win Vista or Win 7?
While using Selenium RC, this is a common experience that when the server is started in normal command prompt in Win Vista or Win 7, then IE fails to open the URL. A temporary file location is entered in the browser which leads to the failure of the first step of a test i.e opening the browser and entering the URL. Read More »
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