A Test Automation Blog

I think every test automation engineer will come at a point where you need to look at improving/optimizing your test automation script so it will take less time to run. But doing so is always tricky. Your tests should run as reliable as possible, at some point speed also becomes a factor in the equation. So what can you do, what works and which trade-offs should you avoid? Core reason for your TA suite The most important thing to keep in mind is that you should never give in on the core reason why you implemented test automation. If you only have a set of tests that run locally and the results are for you to interpret anyway, speed might be more important and a test is allowed to fail once in a while. But when your test suite is connected to a CI cycle and the results are automatically interpreted, it is very important to have super reliable tests instead. Obviously you want to have fast and reliable tests all the time. But time can only be spend once and is limited in mos...

Are you on a company network that is using a proxy to connect to the internet? And do you want (or are you planning) to connect your tests to an external selenium-grid. Than stay tuned, before you get lost in a bunch of answers on the internet that don't resolve the issue you're facing. Source:  https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxyserver I'm on a new project and looking into Robotframework. But then I bumped into an issue with the POC I had to make which might result in me convincing the company to switch to Ruby. Anyway long story short. They use a proxy and although the internet has all the answers, you do need to know what specific question to ask to get the correct result. And since proxies are not used that much anymore, it's hard to find the skilled people to help you out and push you in the right direction for a solution. The setup To access the internet, I need a configuration on my computer that will tell Windows to connect to a proxy server. I...

Using a selenium-grid can have many advantages, especially on bigger projects. One such advantage is that you can run many tests in parallel. Another advantage is that you only need to run your tests to one point (the selenium-grid hub). The hub will sort out if it has a connected node that is matching your request and if so, it will serve your tests to that node. Selenium grid Assumptions/preconditions You know how to download and install Java (from java.com ) You know how to download the webdrivers (also previous post) You know how to add a PATH to the PATH variable of Windows (see  Google ) Make sure Java and the webdrivers are in the PATH variable Start the hub Download the Selenium Standalone Server  and run this in the commandline: java -jar <filedir\filename>.jar -role hub Allow the firewall setting if/when this pop's up. Start the node java -jar <filedir\filename>.jar -role node This will just register the node to the hub with so...