I wanted to create a demo of using Selenium within XPages development. So demo 1 would be to start using the Selenium IDE and the playback tool but I quickly ran into the problem that when I use a namespicker (bootstrap enabled) it could not playback the highlighted name in the namespicker.
So I am wondering, how useful is this Selenium IDE for XPages developers anyway?
Typically you end up writing Selenium scripts (in JavaScript, Java or Python). You might want to checkout UiLicious as an alternative. It is almost like writing English sentences.
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Does selenium web driver support Node.js and Vue.js ? or Do we need to use any plugins to support them?if yes,please name the plugins?
Selenium is a free (open source) automated testing suite for web applications across different browsers and platforms. Primarily it is used for automating web applications for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that.
Having said that, when using Selenium WebDriver you need not worry about the Application stack or the technologies involved as Selenium interacts with the elements within the DOM Tree.
So to conclude, irrespective of the AUT's underlying technology stack being built through Node.js or Vue.js, the main focus is how the WebElements are represented within the HTML DOM.
We are looking to replace our Selenium approach to automated web data collection and have been recommended Puppeteer or Chromeless.
One of the things I like is the ability to go headless with chrome running on AWS lambda. That reason was sold as the main reason for going with Chromeless or Puppeteer. However, I see posts online indicating that the same can be done with Selenium. If that is true, what over advantages do Chromeless and Puppeteer offer over Selenium ?
We are going to be using NodeJS
Having used both Selenium and Puppeteer, these would be my observations as to why it's currently being recommended so highly:
Puppeteer is really easy to configure and execute. No setting specific drivers required. Just write your test scripts, point node towards your scripts and watch it go. Everything even runs in parallel!
It's a zero setup framework in that it comes bundled with the version of Chromium which it runs best with.
Another benefit is speed. Puppeteer is really fast since it uses headless Chrome.
It integrates very nicely with other popular test frameworks such as jest and mocha.
Using Puppeteers API is really straightforward. Everything is simple to write, easy to understand and basically allows for simple user interactions to be automated using a single line of code.
It's really easy to debug your automation scripts. Simply set headless to false and turn slowMo up from 0 to, say, 250 and you can easily see what's going on and fix any problems you may have.
It's easy to pick up and use no matter what your previous experience levels: on the team I'm working on, everyone (even those with no real automation test script writing experience) has found working with Puppeteer a really nice and relaxed experience. Everyone is getting the grasp of it within a few minutes of basic research and getting scripts running quickly and with no hassle or stress.
It should be noted that Selenium does do everything that Puppeteer does (and vice versa) but that's not the point of Puppeteer. Puppeteer allows for a team to build a large library of automation scripts very quickly using an easy to use API and get tests running now rather than having to deal with building ultra-robust test frameworks which work cross browser and / or cross device.
If you really must have cross browser testing then Selenium or perhaps InternJS (a personal favourite of mine) are still the choices to make.
Puppeteer only supports executing tests on Chrome but, at the end of the day, it's much better to have a lot of tests running (even if it's just on Chrome) as opposed to having none.
Can we automate silverlight screens using watir? On the home page of watir, it's written that watir can automate any web application no matter what platform it is built on. But I read that it doesn't support applets or microsoft silverlight. Please help me regarding this. If we can automate silverlight screens, then please tell how?
No, watir can not automate anything inside browser plugin.
Content inside plugins such as Flash and Silverlight is not really exposed inside the DOM and so is difficult to test with Watir. However there are other tools you can use in combination with Watir such as Sikuli (use Jruby in that case to run watir, cucumber etc and use them in combination with Sikuli which is java based)
I am planning of using Specflow for .NET. I come from a RoR background, and I have used Cucumber and Capybara. From what I have heard, Specflow is similar to Cucumber; however, does it have features that Capybara provides?
Thanks!
Coypu is the answer, I think: https://github.com/featurist/coypu
I ended up using Watin engine to simulate browser. Watin runs mainly on IE.
In some occasions, I do not need the overhead of launching an entire browser to run my specflow tests. In those cases, I use SimpleBrowser (headless browser).
As I understand it Capybara is using Selenium as the web driver. You may want to check out an article on developers who are using Selenium with SpecFlow.
http://blog.jsolutions.co.uk/?p=112
Currently I am coding my google-chrome-extensions using a combination of notepad and the chrome console. I am 100% sure that there is a better way of programming these extensions. What environments are people using?
I'm using Notepad++ which works beautifully.
You might consider trying the crossrider beta to build cross-browser extensions. I've found the experience on Chrome superb so far.
Your preferred IDE (eg. NetBeans) and Google Chrome (you have to test on something, right?).
You might want to check:
NetBean 7.0 (They have a great version for web development that let you write HTML,CSS and JS with all the great code sniff/highlight/complete stuff)
Eclipse got some good version for web dev (PDT and others).
Notepad++ , UltraEdit, TextPad or any other good editor you like.
As for the debug, profile and test mode - you have the developers tool in Chrome that are excellent. You might want to check out this short video that give lots of useful tips:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOEw9iiopwI
Good luck!