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Selenium

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Running Selenium Tests using Node.js

Browser automation is a great way to automate and test repeatable tasks in the browser. I've always been interested in browser automation and testing using tools such as Selenium. If you are looking for a way to ensure that your website runs as expected in many different browsers and devices,

Running multiple browsers in one test run with Selenium

The beauty of Selenium is that it allows you to test your UI against all of the common browsers out there at the moment. Writing the code to test for a test scenario is quick and easy and getting up and running with Selenium can be done in a matter

Selenium WebDriver - Using a Headless Browser in .Net

If you have ever run a large suite of automated tests using Selenium WebDriver, you will know that sometimes it can take ages to complete. This coupled with different versions of browsers can be a bit of a pain. This is where Headless Browsers come in. In the simplest of

Selenium Webdriver - Wait for an element to load

I am currently working on a project that uses a lot of AJAX and delayed loading of HTML elements. This means that when a page loads, the object that I am looking for might not necessarily have appeared yet. In many instances the element may only be added to the

Measuring Web Page Performance with Selenium 2 and the Web Timings API

I have always been interested in measuring web performance, and especially in measuring the improvements in performance. A while ago I attended a Selenium Meetup in London and heard an interesting presentation by one of the QA guys working at Mozilla. He talked about measuring the performance of a web

Selenium 2 - Get Number of Rows in a Table

I was recently browsing through some of the questions on StackOverflow and came across this question. The question was around how you would count the number of rows in a table using Selenium 2 and Python. If you need a bit of a background to Selenium 2, I have written

Capturing Web Page Screenshots with Selenium 2

There have been many times when I have run a Unit Test that has failed and afterwards I wondered where it went wrong. The ability to see what occurred on the page or how it looked at the time would be a great benefit. I've been writing a few automated

Automated Testing with Selenium WebDriver and NUnit

I have recently been looking into an awesome tool called Selenium. What is Selenium? Well, it's a suite of tools that you can use to automate web application testing across many platforms. I recently attended a Selenium Users Group at the Google London Head Offices where they discussed the many