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Selenium is a portable software testing framework for web applications. From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selenium_%28software%29

Selenium is a portable software testing framework for web applications. Selenium provides a record/playback tool for authoring tests without learning a test scripting language (Selenium IDE). It also provides a test domain-specific language (Selenese) to write tests in a number of popular programming languages, including Java, C#, Groovy, Perl, PHP, Python and Ruby. The tests can then be run against most modern web browsers. Selenium deploys on Windows, Linux, and Macintosh platforms.

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Automated Testing: Explaining its Business Value

To start I don't think this is a repeat of other questions on unit testing. What I'm looking for help with is articulating its value to a team of programmers, analysts, managers and testers. By automated tests, I don't think I need to make a…
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What problem does automated user interface testing solve?

We are currently investigating automated user interface testing (we currently do automated unit and integration testing). We've looked at Selenium and Telerik and have settled on the latter as the tool of choice due to its much more flexible…
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Unit Testing Competition

My employers runs a monthly unit testing day competition. One entire day is dedicated to writing unit tests -- obviously we do more testing throughout the month, but this is an entire day -- and the "winner" of the competition is given a prize. …
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Which stage of Agile (SCRUM) should we start creating automation tests?

A little background of me - I'm a manual tester for almost 2 years within an Agile environment using SCRUM (1-2 weeks sprints). So I'm wanting to introduce automation testing in my work using Selenium WebDriver (with Java). My question is during…
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How can you write tests for Selenium (or similar) which don't fail because of minor or cosmetic changes?

I've been spending the last week or so learning selenium and building a series of web tests for a website we're about to launch. it's been great to learn, and I've picked up some xpath and css location techniques. the problem for me though, is…
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Selenium and non technical team members

I work on a team developing a web site with a large number of pages. The QA guy on the team currently runs all of the tests manually. I am thinking of having him create a bunch of Selenium scripts. I don't think he can automate all of the tests, but…
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Have I mistakenly assumed that my routines are loosely coupled?

My Selenium test structures goes as - Data Object class - public class RegistrationData { String firstName = "test first name"; String lastName = "test last name"; // Getter Setter Here } Page Object class which carries out operations on a…
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Automated Tests on Dynamic Content

I'm doing SQA work for several Kendo-based sites that have many tables (some are hand-made by our devs). These tables have a lot of rows, columns, pages, and data filled in them- so I'm basically doing SQA on very dynamic content. I'm trying to…
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What is the best use case for selenium?

I've been trying to develop web applications while at the same time creating the testing. I understand unit testing, I can declare a test method and test specific methods in my application. But I don't see what is the best way to use selenium web…
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Should I have different automated Selenium tests for different screen resolutions?

A website I'm creating is going to have three breakpoints: desktop, tablet landscape, mobile. Should I write a test for each resolution?
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Any recommendations for setup/teardown of browser automation testing?

I have been doing some browser automation testing recently using Selenium (and Watin a bit too) and have reached a point where I am looking for recommendations on controlling the environment I'm testing. For example, if I have a test that registers…
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How to make a webdriver run reliably in Selenium?

I have been having quite a time getting this to work reliably for 100s of thousands of terms and potentially millions of pages per source and ETL the resulting data into a database in an automated fashion. I need to run the tasks in Mesos on a…
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BDD, Cucumber best practices

I'm trying to understand some best practices when it comes to BDD and Cucumber. I've only recently started to use it, and the first feature I have written a test for is testing a search feature, more specifically how a Repository layer integrates…
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Is TDD the best software development philosophy?

Question: Why not just use BDD-style acceptance tests and do away with unit tests, integration tests, functional tests and all other tests? I have been doing some research into the differences between different types of testing as well as different…
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Whose responsibility is it to create the interface and/or acceptance testing? Developer or QA?

I am a backend developer and always create tests for my applications. Recently I study and apply the interface tests (using selenium), but I doubted whether I who should create these tests, developer or QA? How can we decide if automated interface…
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