or How to Learn Selenium WebDriver like a JEDI I like Star Wars movies. I still remember seeing the first episode, A New Hope, at the cinema, back in the 1980s. Since then, I watched it and the following 5 episodes, produced by LucasFilm, many, many times. The new ones, produced by Disney, are still good (much simpler though) especially Rogue One and The Last Jedi. There is an interesting difference between the old Star Wars movies and the recent ones. In The Last Jedi, Luke Skywalker agrees to teach Rey just 3 lessons about the force. She needs to learn how to be a JEDI to be able ..read more

This question took me by surprise. Risks of taking selenium? Are there any risks? Am I in danger? Am I sick from too much Selenium? Read along. Of course, there are risks. But first, a few words about benefits. Selenium is a mineral. It is taken into the body in water and foods. People use it for medicine. Selenium is used for diseases of the heart and blood vessels, including stroke and “hardening of the arteries” (atherosclerosis). It is also used for preventing various cancers including cancer of the prostate, stomach, lung, and skin. Some people use selenium for under-active thyro ..read more

Short ebook on TestNG benefits for Selenium test automation ..read more

Short ebook on how to get started on using Jenkins for test automation with Selenium ..read more

There are things that can be done before the hiring interview, during the interview and after. BEFORE THE INTERVIEW The tester gets a Java coding project from Codility.com to be done in 30 minutes. It does not have to be very difficult, even an easy one is good enough. Such as finding all characters from an array that are duplicated. Or checking if a sequence of ( and ) is well formed (each ( has a corresponding )). The solution for this project should show if the tester understands the basics of Java and can write “easy to understand” code for a simple task. If the solution is goo ..read more

from indeed.com The market demand for test automation is higher than ever but the number of automation jobs is lower. How can this be? One reason is the "test automation" name. Test automation is not a good name for this type of work. Automated checking or tool-assisted testing (James Bach) are describing better what actually happens. Automation does not automate or replace creative testing but just checks that simple and clear test cases work. Because test precedes automation in the name, companies and testers thought that test automation is a part of testing and it should ..read more

New article from seleniumjava.com: https://seleniumjava.com/2017/06/05/how-to-create-page-objects-with-selenium-webdriver ..read more

If you have been reading about test automation in magazines, blogs or books, you get the idea that automation is nice, easy, straightforward and beautiful. Because all these talk about theory, most of the time.  Theory is always like a finished, simple, beautiful, well designed, professionally-done building.  In theory, automation is about having  independent tests tests that create their own data and delete it after being executed  dedicated test automation environment  tests that run in parallel  tests that use simulated external dependencies ..read more

If you dont like Bugs Bunny, maybe you should not continue reading. What is the first thing that I do every morning at work? Check the results of the automation scripts executed in Jenkins over night. I want to know how many scripts passed or failed because of the work done in the previous day. Most days, some scripts pass and some fail. But recently, most scripts failed. This was very unusual so I looked into it right away. All failures followed the same pattern: the scripts failed on opening the site in the browser. Read more  on SeleniumJava.com ..read more

What does an automation engineer do? What skills does he need? How does a work day look like? What problems does he face? How are they solved? What else except writing code is involved in test automation? Are all automation jobs the same? Test automation jobs are as diverse as the manual testing ones. Many things can be different between 2 automation jobs: application type: web site, mobile app, windows application or a console utility programming language: automation is done mostly in Java and C# but also in Ruby, Python and JavaScript automation library: open source (example: Sel ..read more