Simon Stewart – Selenium Project Lead and Creator of WebDriver

Selenium IDE got a new long overdue overhaul, and Simon Stewart, Selenium Project Lead and Creator of WebDriver, unveiled the new Selenium IDE in a special live session, including capabilities, features, and roadmap — now available on-demand.  Read more…

Watch this on-demand webinar, presented by automation expert Marcus Merrell, and learn how to provide real-time insights that matter to decision makers – with automated analytics testing.

Full recording and slide-deck are below. Read more…

Responsive web design has become the preferred approach for building sites and apps that provide an optimal viewing and interaction experience on any phone, tablet, desktop or wearable device.

However, automatically testing these responsive sites and apps can be quite a challenge, due to the need to cover all supported layouts, their respective navigation, and visible content.

Watch this advanced hands-on session, and learn how to: Read more…

Selenium is a wonderful library. It supports all major browsers, has all the features we will probably need and is currently the de-facto standard in browser tests today, and rightfully so.

(For those that don’t know, browser tests are tests that run a browser, automate the browser to interact with your frontend application, and test it that way.)

Selenium has bindings for lots of languages — Java, C#, Python, Ruby, and others. This is great — you can use your favorite language to write your tests in.

If you’re a frontend developer, which language would you choose? Well, the language that you are probably most comfortable in: JavaScript. But JavaScript’s asynchronous nature poses special challenges for Selenium. In this post, I will discuss those challenges, and how JavaScript (and Selenium) overcome these challenges.

But first, I want to discuss Asynchrony in JavaScript in general. Read more…

Automating accessibility testing is not only about making it easier for those with disabilities to access your site and app, but also optimizing your overall automated testing efforts, in order to support speedy product delivery without sacrificing software quality.

Watch this webinar to learn how to effectively automate accessibility testing, including: industry standards, challenges, available tools, and see – step by step – how to write a proper automated test. Read more…

Angie Jones

Listen to Sr. Automation Engineer Angie Jones as she goes over technical interview questions for test automation positions, and answers them, step-by-step. Read more…

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…

Watch Automation Expert Greg Sypolt, Sr. Engineer at Gannett | USA Today, as he takes a deep dive into implementing automated visual testing. Read more…

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 to grow with it.

But how do you know your test code is in good shape? It’s not like there is a quantitative way to measure this.

Or is there? Read more…

Watch Adam Carmi’s talk at SeConf India!

If you don’t know what automated visual testing is, or if you think that Sikuli is a visual test automation tool, or if you are already automating your visual tests and want to learn more on what else is out there, or if you are on your way to implementing Continuous Deployment or just interested in seeing how cool image processing algorithms can be – this talk is for you! Read more…

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

Watch this amazing Test Automation webinar on-demand, right here!

Watch Brian Jordan from Code.org as he takes you through the ins and outs of developing test automation for the world’s premiere computer-science education platform.

In this webinar, Brian – software engineer at Code.org since 2004 – presented Code.org automated testing suite, including: architecture, frameworks, tools, and best practices – and how those are designed to address complex QA issues, such as visual & functional testing, cross-browser & cross-device testing, and localization testing for over 40 supported languages. Read more…

With hundreds of OS/ device/ screen resolution combos, learn how you can release your next app version with confidence, knowing it looks and functions as you want – on the devices your customers care about.

Malfunctioning mobile apps result in user desertion and revenue loss. Unlike web apps, changes and updates to mobile apps are difficult to roll back once released to production. Combined with users’ high intolerance to UI/ UX bugs, it’s imperative to only release perfect apps.

Watch this webinar and learn how you can ensure flawless app functionality, while easily avoiding UI bugs and visual regressions across all mobile devices, including:  Read more…

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…

Great turnout at our last Selenium Meetup, which celebrated its 1 year anniversary yesterday!

We had 2 awesome sessions:

(1) Alon Heller from Alcatel-Lucent explained how Protractor makes life easier when it comes to testing AngularJS applications. 

(2) Adam Carmi from Applitools talked about visual test automation using Selenium.

Here’s a recap & slide-deck links, for anyone who missed our event: Read more…

The DevOps movement details a fundamental shift of who is responsible for software testing, and how testing is carried out. Functional testing has become not only the responsibility of the QA team but also the developers.

As the QA team now focuses on automation of tests, creating testing infrastructure, and empowering the organization to fast track bug repairs, developers, and especially front-end developers, are in charge of delivering the app to QA with quality gates in place.

This post details the 7 steps front-end developers should adopt to prepare themselves for functional testing. Read more…

Selenium has so many things going for it. It is open-source. It has a huge community, and it’s accessible in just about every language you can imagine.

However, if you are new to Selenium, stuck on specific ways to leverage the drivers, or on the hunt for tools to run your perfect scripts, it can be a challenge. Here are top 7 tutorials to make your life a little easier.

The first thing you need to do with Selenium is create your scripts (Test Cases). You can use Firefox IDE, or you can implement your scripts in the language of your choice, using the appropriate Selenium reference, and your favorite browsers driver.  Here are three posts to get you introduced to the platform: Read more…

Dear Friends!

Our next Meetup is coming soon and will take place on February 17th at the Google TLV campus.

In this meeting, we will focus on Appium – a rising open source test automation framework for iOS and Android mobile apps. Read more…

Last Thursday, we hosted the first Israeli Selenium Meetup at the Google TLV Campus.

The Meetup proved to be a huge success, with a packed room of more than 200 attendees. The audience had lots of great questions, and some interesting discussions were held.

First-ever Selenium TLV Meetup gathering at Google Campus in Tel-Aviv

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We have just released a new Java SDK that simplifies the integration of the Applitools Eyes cloud service with any Java based test framework (mobile, desktop or web).

You can now enjoy the full benefits of automated visual testing simply by providing the SDK with screenshots of your application. Read more…

Test automation folklore is full of horror stories of failed attempts to apply Record & Playback tools to perform GUI-based Functional Test Automation. In this post we will explore the main causes for these failures. In part 2 of this post we will show how Record & Playback tools can be effectively used for automating Visual Testing. Read more…

In our previous blog post we have discussed the importance of Visual Testing and highlighted the basic requirements from an effective Visual Test Automation tool. A common misconception is that Functional Test Automation tools with Image-based testing capabilities (such as Sikuli, Ranorex, eggPlant, SeeTest, and more) are suitable for automating Visual Testing. In this blog we are going to focus on the strengths and weaknesses of Image-based Functional Testing tools and show why they are inadequate for automating Visual Testing. Read more…