Test Automation in 2019: Glimpse of the Near Future From the Experts Who Shape It

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October 11, 2018By Addie Ben-YehudaNo Comments

Test Automation thought leaders gathered for a round-table discussion about the upcoming trends, best practices, tools, and ideas that will shape your Dev/Test environment in 2019.

Angie Jones, Dave Haeffner, Gil Tayar, and Joe Colantonio - Expert Panel, Oct 2018

Joe Colantonio hosted this all-star expert panel, including: Angie Jones, Dave Haeffner, and Gil Tayar – as they shared their thoughts and insights on the hottest topics in test automation and software quality, including:

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State of Selenium and Test Automation: 4 Leading Experts Share Their Vision of Things to Come

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May 25, 2017By Addie Ben-YehudaNo Comments
Selenium Expert Panel: Dave, Ashley, Karen, and Joe

Selenium Expert Panel: Dave, Ashley, Karen, and Joe

Interested in learning what are the key skills expected from software testing professionals? Want to hear first-hand where is Selenium going? Then you must listen to this on-demand session!

Four experts in Test Automation and free and open-source software shared with us their opinions on the state of testing, the hottest trends in test automation, and their vision on the future of Selenium. Read more…

The Future of Test Automation: Leading Experts Share their Vision for 2017

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December 19, 2016By Addie Ben-YehudaNo Comments

Listen to four of the world’s top Test Automation experts as they share their take on the hottest software testing trends coming your way in 2017.

Selenium Gurus Panel: Dave, Simon, Jim, and Brian

Selenium Gurus Panel: Dave, Simon, Jim, and Brian

Selenium gurus Simon Stewart, Jim Evans, Dave Haeffner, and Brian Jordan joined forces to discuss emerging trends, required skills, and best practices that will shape your testing environment during 2017, including key takeaways and highlights from the last Selenium conference, that took place in London during November 2016.

Interested in learning what are the key aspects and skills expected from software testing professionals in 2017? Listen to the full recording below: Read more…

Dave Haeffner’s Proven Method to Grading the Quality of Selenium Tests

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September 29, 2016By Addie Ben-YehudaNo Comments

Watch this advanced webinar with Test Automation expert Dave Haeffner, and learn how to accurately grade the quality of your Selenium tests.
So you’ve written your fair share of Selenium tests.

Perhaps you’ve dabbled with Page Objects, Wait Strategies (aka Implicit and/or Explicit Waits), and you feel confident about your locators. Your test code might be in pretty good shape — able to work reliably as time marches on and the application under test continues to evolve and your testing needs continue grow with it.

But how do you know? It’s not like there is a quantitative way to measure this.

Or is there? Read more…

Mastering Test Automation: How to Use Selenium Successfully – presented by Dave Haeffner

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March 31, 2016By Addie Ben-YehudaNo Comments

It was an awesome webinar – and now you can watch it on-demand, right here!

What is Selenium? Why should you use it? And how do you use it successfully?
In this webinar, Automation expert Dave Haeffner answered these questions as he steps through the why, how, and what of Selenium.

Dave also discussed how to start from nothing and build out a well factored, maintainable, resilient, fast and scalable set of tests.
These tests will not only work well, but across all of the browsers you care about, while exercising relevant functionality that matters to your business.

Watch this webinar, and learn how to: Read more…

24 Top Selenium Resources – assembled by Dave Haeffner

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December 22, 2015By Addie Ben-YehudaNo Comments

Sure, everything can be found online these days, but sometimes it’s difficult to sift through all the sheer volume of information, to find the good stuff.

Our friend Dave Haeffner (Test Automation expert extraordinaire and author of The Selenium Guidebook) has compiled the best Selenium resources into one comprehensive list, which covers: Read more…

Awesome Test Automation Made Simple – presented by Dave Haeffner

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November 24, 2015By Addie Ben-YehudaNo Comments
Jenkins and Selenium

Must-see webinar for test automation professionals, presented by Automation expert Dave Haeffner – now available online, on-demand!

Learn how to build simple and powerful automated cross-browser tests, covering visual testing and functional regressions, and configured to run automatically through the use of a Continuous Integration (CI) server.

Applitools, Sauce Labs, and Cloudbees

Watch this step-by-step webinar, presented by Test Automation expert Dave Haeffner (author of Elemental Selenium and The Selenium Guidebook), and learn how to: Read more…

Automating Your Test Runs with Continuous Integration — CI Series by Dave Haeffner: Part 3/3

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September 25, 2015By Dave HaeffnerNo Comments
This is the final post in a 3-part series on getting started off with automated web testing on the right foot. You can find the first two posts here and here.

Automating Your Test Runs with Continuous Integration 

You’ll probably get a lot of mileage out of your automated tests if you run things from your computer, look at the results, and tell people when there are issues in the application. But that only helps you solve part of the problem.

The real goal in test automation is to find issues reliably, quickly, and automatically – and ideally, in sync with the development workflow you’re a part of.

To do that we need to use a Continuous Integration server. Read more…

How To Get Started with Automated Web Testing — CI Series by Dave Haeffner : Part 1/3

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September 25, 2015By Dave HaeffnerNo Comments

In this 3-part series you will learn how to build simple and powerful automated web tests that will work on the browsers you care about and be configured to run automatically through the use of a continuous integration server (CI).

How To Get Started with Automated Web Testing 

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Selenium Tips and Tricks – Talk by Dave Haeffner

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June 16, 2015By Addie Ben-YehudaNo Comments

Selenium TLV Meetup GroupMust-see 2-part talk for test automation professionals! Learn how to use Selenium like a Pro!

Join Dave Haeffner, Selenium expert and author of The Selenium Guidebook, as he steps through the best and most useful tips & tricks from his weekly Selenium tip newsletter.

In this talk, Dave covers the following topics: Read more…

How to Add Visual Testing to Selenium – by Dave Haeffner

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May 21, 2015By Addie Ben-YehudaNo Comments
Selenium and Applitools - Perfect Together

If you are already using Selenium, and want to enhance your capabilities, increase coverage and optimize maintenance efforts – than automated visual testing could be exactly what you’re looking for.

In a webinar we co-hosted with our friends at Sauce Labs, Selenium expert Dave Haeffner shared awesome Selenium tips & tricks, especially helpful for test automation pros. Read more…

How To Do Cross-browser Visual Testing with Selenium

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April 28, 2015By Dave HaeffnerNo Comments

The Problem

It’s easy enough to get started doing visual testing with a single browser, and with Selenium you can quickly expand your efforts into different browsers. But its difficult to verify that your web application looks right on all of them (e.g., making sure the elements are not missing/mis-aligned/hidden, etc.).

Especially when there are small rendering inconsistencies between browsers that can easily cause your visual tests to fail. Things like how an image gets rendered. This poses a real challenge since you can’t use traditional visual testing techniques like pixel comparison. So standard workarounds like modifying the match tolerance won’t work. Read more…

How To Add Visual Testing To Your Existing Selenium Tests

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April 22, 2015By Addie Ben-YehudaNo Comments

In previous write-ups by Selenium expert Dave Haeffner (published here, on the Applitools blog), he covered the basics of automated visual testing and how to execute it. Following those posts, many of our readers requested more in-depth information on how automated visual testing fits into existing automated testing practices.

Some of the questions received were: Do you need to write and maintain a separate set of tests? What about your existing Selenium tests? What do you do if there isn’t a sufficient library for the programming language you’re currently using?

In response, Dave Haeffner wrote a post that will put your mind at ease: you can build automated visual testing checks into your existing Selenium tests. Read more…

Practical Tips and Tricks for Selenium Test Automation – with Dave Haeffner

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April 13, 2015By Addie Ben-YehudaNo Comments

Must-see webinar for test automation experts!

Last week, Applitools & Sauce Labs hosted a special webinar with Selenium expert Dave Haeffner, author of The Selenium Guidebook, where he shared Selenium Test Automation tips & tricks from his popular weekly Selenium newsletter.

In this webinar, Dave covered the following topics: Read more…

How To Add Visual Testing To Your BDD Tests

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March 10, 2015By Dave HaeffnerNo Comments

The Problem

If you’re new to Behavior Driven Development (BDD) tooling (e.g., Cucumber) it may not be obvious how scenarios you’ve specified (using the Gherkin syntax) translates into test automation. If that’s the case, then adding visual testing to the mix might be a challenge as well. Read more…

How To Handle Visual Testing False Positives – Part 2

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January 27, 2015By Dave HaeffnerNo Comments

The Problem

In the last write-up I covered common issues that can lead to false positives in your automated visual tests along with some workarounds for them.

While this was a good start, it was incomplete.

It provided enough information to add initial resiliency to your visual tests, but it glossed over other common scenarios that will cause false positives and create gaps in your test coverage. Not only that, the tactics I’ve demonstrated thus far won’t hold up when faced with these new scenarios. Read more…

How To Handle Visual Testing False Positives – Part 1

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January 5, 2015By Dave HaeffnerNo Comments

The Problem

One of the biggest hurdles to successful automated testing is making sure that when your tests fail, they’re legitimate failures. Getting false positives is a slippery slope that can easily lead to a death knell for any testing initiative.

This holds true in automated visual testing with common issues like elements being offset by a pixel, dynamic content, and making sure things work across different screen sizes.

If left unchecked, they can quickly erode any momentum you have with automated visual testing. Read more…

How to Do Visual Testing with Selenium

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December 17, 2014By Dave HaeffnerNo Comments

The Problem

There is a stark misconception in the industry when it comes to visual testing. Namely that it is hard to automate. Even noted automaters in the field share this misconception, which can be seen by this quote.

“Visual testing, something that is very difficult to automate.” – Richard Bradshaw (@FriendlyTester) [source]

As a result, people tend to turn a blind eye to it and miss out on a tremendous amount of value from something that is getting easier to implement every day. Read more…

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