Automation Testing, Testing

Useful Functions for Automation Framework using Selenium Web Driver

While doing automation using selenium, there are certain repetetive tasks that we need to perform in order to handle page elements. So, the aim of this blog is to highlight some common operations that we need to handle every now and then. Some operations are: 1. Open URL in different browsers (Chrome, Firefox, IE) 2. Do mouse-hovers ...

by Sumit Gambhir
Tag: selenium
28-May-2015

Automation Testing, Grails

Handing Browser Alert Box Using Selenium Web Driver

Recently while working on selenium I have come across in a situation where browser dialog box are the show stopper to validate 'Login/Registration/Forgot Password etc.' modules, though we are considering such cases as design issues. However we need to deal with it to learn something new, fortunately I have got the solution to handle...

by Anurag Tiwari
Tag: selenium
26-May-2015

Grails, Technology

Customizing the Firefox Profile and using with Selenium Web Driver

What is Firefox Profile Firefox saves your browser information such as Bookmarks, Downloads and Browsing History, etc in a set of files called profile, which is stored in a specified location by Firefox in user file directory. You can have multiple Firefox profiles, each containing a separate set of user information. The Profile...

by Gaurav Gupta
Tag: selenium
12-Dec-2014

Grails, Technology

Selenium Web Driver: An Introduction

Selenium WebDriver is a clean, fast framework for automated testing of webapps. Selenium WebDriver, a popular and well established testing framework is a wonderful tool that provides a handy unified interface that works with a large number of browsers and allows you to write your tests in almost every language you can imagine from Java...

by Gaurav Gupta
Tag: selenium
07-Dec-2014

Technology

Web Testing using Selenium – fix for error “java.lang.NullPointerException: sessionId should not be null; has this session been started yet?”

I have a big fan of Selenium and have been using Selenium for quite some time for testing of web-applications. Recently, I upgraded my machine to Ubuntu Hardy Heron and the next day, I found that all the selenium tests started failling on my machine. On digging through the logs, I found the following information in the Selenium Server...

by Deepak
Tag: selenium
07-May-2008