When you execute your tests in headless mode, it means your tests are being executed in the background, without launching the UI. These tests are more efficient to run because the UI does not need to be rendered. When automated tests are executed, headless test execution can improve the efficiency of the tests too. In this blog, we will see how we can use Selenium to execute your tests on chrome in headless mode.

In the testing community, generally, when we refer to “Selenium,” we are talking about the Selenium client API that helps write test cases. Sometimes, we may mean Selenium IDE, but with the advent of no-code solutions in cloud platforms, Selenium record-and-replay, which was a hit, has lost its charm. However, we forget that Selenium is not just API or record-and-replay. It is made up of four components, and one of the most important among them today is Selenium Grid.

In this continuation, Allen Loew, a Principal Quality Engineer and Sauce Labs advocate, explains how saucectl has transformed his team's test efficiency. We’re excited that Sauce Labs new fellowship program is in full swing. Over the next several weeks, we’d like to introduce you to the five fellows who are working hard to improve and open source Elemental Selenium.

Data has always been an important part of any business. A company’s data is its most valuable asset as it contains information about the procurement of resources to the customer relationship. With the rise of Big Data, more companies are trying to collect and store all information about their customers, products, employees, and other aspects of their operations to better understand them.

Selenium Sendkeys is a method used in Selenium WebDriver to simulate the typing of a keyboard key in a web application. With the help of this method, you can send data as input to a text field, text area, and other form elements. In this way, Selenium Sendkeys helps you automate the process of entering data into a web application, making it easier and faster to perform various testing tasks using Selenium.

Whether you’re formulating your startup’s first QA strategy or you’ve realized your existing strategy is undermining your otherwise-agile methodologies, this post is for you. In this piece, we focus on the practical frameworks and practices that’ll help you lay a strong foundation for quality assurance in your org. Among other things, you’ll learn: Before we get into it: any strategy needs support to succeed.

With operations in 70 countries, Allianz is a world leading insurance company and the preferred insurance brand. The company offers a large range of insurance policies for both corporates and individuals. Allianz has been present in France since the late 1950s and made a major acquisition there in 1998 with the purchase of the AGF company. 5 years ago, Allianz France decided to reorganize its IT to scale agile practices.

An emphasis on expedited time to market has made test automation an unavoidable necessity in an agile and fast-paced company environment. Automation testers are working hard to make sure that test cases match the features being added to the product as product development moves forward. For instance, even minor UI changes to the web application will cause the test automation scripts to alter if the tests are created without considering scalability and maintainability.

Are you looking to automate your cross browser tests using the Selenium web automation framework? If so, you must understand Web Elements and how to handle them in Selenium. Whether it’s locating Web Elements in Selenium or performing actions on them, interacting with Web Elements is a key part of any automated test script. In this article, we’ll discuss everything you need to know about Web Element handling in Selenium.

When it comes to WebRTC testing, there aren’t many feature-rich tools on the market. Loadero is one of those, testRTC is another widely known option, so we get questions about how those two compare frequently. To give a detailed answer to that question, we published this blog post in which we attempted to make a comprehensive comparison of the two tools.

In this continuation, Allen Loew, a Principal Quality Engineer and Sauce Labs advocate, explains how saucectl has transformed his team's test efficiency. We’re excited that Sauce Labs new fellowship program is in full swing. Over the next several weeks, we’d like to introduce you to the five fellows who are working hard to improve and open source Elemental Selenium. Learn about our new brand identity, migrating to Appium 2.0, our enhanced cross-browser testing experience, and more.

Load and performance testing remains a vital aspect of any software delivery process. Ensuring that your application supports the anticipated number of concurrent users prevents brand damage, system failures in production, and loss of revenue. There is a saying in engineering that the shape of the solution is dictated by the shape of the problem. Translating this to performance testing solutions, there are several common design elements that all load and performance testing solutions share.

As of k6 version 0.43.0, xk6-browser is now bundled in k6 as an experimental module! 🙌 Since announcing xk6-browser in November 2021 at Grafana ObservabilityCON, the team have been busy adding on new features to include browser automation in k6. The interest from the community has also increased, which shows that browser automation and frontend performance is as important as backend performance.

The performance and resilience of an application are used to measure the speed and scale of an organization. This is one of the key reasons businesses opt to modernize legacy applications using cloud-native technologies and platforms. According to a Gartner report, more than 95% of new digital efforts would be built on cloud-native platforms by 2025, up from less than 40% in 2021.

We are going to look at how JMeter outputs to both the log panel in GUI mode and the log file in non-GUI mode. We will look at the properties relating to the GUI log panel and the Appenders and Loggers that determine what data is output and at what level the logs are output at. JMeter uses log4j to provide its logging mechanism and from the log4j website: We will look at how Jmeter configures Appenders and Loggers separately but they work together to produce the logged output.

A Firefox Driver for Selenium is a web driver for the Firefox browser that allows you to programmatically interact with a web page in a Firefox browser using Selenium. It helps you automate various actions as if you were interacting with the website manually. This can be useful for tasks such as web scraping, automated testing, and automating repetitive tasks on a website.

In this continuation, Allen Loew, a Principal Quality Engineer and Sauce Labs advocate, explains how saucectl has transformed his team's test efficiency. We’re excited that Sauce Labs new fellowship program is in full swing. Over the next several weeks, we’d like to introduce you to the five fellows who are working hard to improve and open source Elemental Selenium.

Remember that time when you were browsing a website and got caught by a pop-up asking you to download a guide? Just because you could not find a button to escape that pop-up, you ended up leaving it! Imagine this happens to your application. You might end up losing potential users. As a website owner, this is the worst thing that could happen to you. Thus testing such alerts and popups is essential every time you make a release. A quicker way to do this is to automate your tests.

Selenium is a test automation tool for automating user actions on a web browser. In this guide, we will walk you through the process of using Selenium to click on different types of elements. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced user, this guide will provide you with the knowledge and skills to effectively use Selenium for clicking on various elements on web pages. So, let’s learn how to master the Selenium click function!

We are pleased to announce Tricentis Vera™ 23.1! This release further enhances the ability for life sciences organizations to streamline their approach to computer systems validation and more easily adopt computer software assurance programs. The new release is a result of a multi-product development effort that spanned Tricentis Vera, Tricentis qTest, and Tricentis Tosca. In Vera, users will be able to incorporate test automation more seamlessly into regulated software testing.

In this article, we will discover the process of sending custom metrics, provided to us through the xk6-browser, in order to gain a better understanding of our performance tests. Through the integration of these metrics, we will be able to create more tailored Slack messages that will help to manage our rule sets.

In this continuation, Allen Loew, a Principal Quality Engineer and Sauce Labs advocate, explains how saucectl has transformed his team's test efficiency. We’re excited that Sauce Labs new fellowship program is in full swing. Over the next several weeks, we’d like to introduce you to the five fellows who are working hard to improve and open source Elemental Selenium. Sauce Labs has a new brand identity, and it’s a BIG change. Learn more in this blog post.

Banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) as a sector plays a major role in the global market for software testing services, with a particular focus on the security aspect of software products and digital processes. In this article, we’ll take a closer look at how companies in banking and finance are approaching software testing, as well as how they’re using it to handle the growing pressure to embrace and succeed with digital transformation.

Imagine releasing a product or application with poor quality. The application is unfeasible to use and navigate from one menu to another. By the time we realize that the features are not generating value for intended customers, it may be too late to make any modifications, and it will be exorbitant to fix them. In such situations, Dogfooding testing helps prioritize features.

Imagine you open a shopping website, browse around and see some products of your liking. After placing them in the cart, you're all ready to check out, only to discover that your favorite items are nowhere to be found on the list. This is one of many examples of a software bug that could be caught using integration testing. There are multiple testing stages that software goes through before release, the two most popular being unit and integration testing.

Selenium stands apart from other testing tools by offering a variety of techniques to test applications, which has led to its widespread use in automating web applications. No matter how complicated the user interface (UI) is, Selenium offers several methods to automate web apps, decreasing or eliminating the need for manual labor. So, how can we automate online applications when using a mouse or keyboard to communicate with the browser?

Data governance and management is a term that has become more commonplace in recent years. However, many organizations are still struggling with how to implement effective data governance and management strategies. This lack of focus is becoming more and more apparent as the importance of data management continues to grow. Here are the four key pillars that will help you successfully implement your data governance strategy.

Midnight, December 31, 1999, marked the beginning of a millennium where aircrafts would not fall out of the sky and bank ATMs would not spew millions of dollars from their cash withdrawal slots. Preemptive software testing and remediation on a global scale provided the automated world with some assurance that the machines would continue to run as they had for decades.

Software testing is the process of checking the quality of a product before launching. It measures the software's completeness to the single functional (or non-functional) attributes and whether it has fulfilled the business logic or shown us the missing gaps in requirements that need immediate tackles. Software testing is an integral part of the software development life cycle. Over time, software testing activities have evolved to meet the ever-increasing complexity of applications.

Every software engineer dreams of the day when they can simply type English-language sentences into a development platform and out pops a new, production-ready app. The app will be free of bugs because the natural language processing (NLP) functionality of the platform will have automatically created the test cases, run the tests, and self-corrected for changes to the app features. AI researchers in software testing are heavily invested in making testing as autonomous and natural as possible.

We love our mobile phones. We take pictures, text friends, and sometimes even use them to make a phone call. For many of us, a mobile phone is about the apps. Apps help us stay connected, inform us, and make our work easier. Yet according to one study, users uninstall 49% of apps within the first 30 days of installation. Why? There are many reasons, including the app being too spammy, taking up too much storage space, or the user just didn’t need it anymore.

The idea behind this blog post originated when we updated our documentation after the release of our new UI. With more than 250 blog posts at the time I’m writing this one, you can see how this could prove challenging. And of course the twist is that we also took this opportunity to reorganize the documentation so it’s not as simple as a search and replace of the domain..

Selenium is an open-source automation testing framework used to automate web browsers. It supports multiple programming languages such as Java, C#, Python, and Ruby. Selenium allows testers to write test scripts that can automate the process of testing web applications, including filling out forms, clicking buttons, and navigating between pages. Selenium WebDriver is a component of the Selenium suite that allows users to control a web browser through a program.

Testing is an essential process of software development. There are many things that can go wrong if you do not test a software application. Therefore, double check on the developed software is a good practice to ensure it meets the quality demands. As you are aware, today’s IT world depends on the Automation Testing of an application. Why? It’s just because of the features, frameworks, performance, and quality test results.

We see a lot of teams working with automated testing, and many feel the need to take the next step in order to optimize and excel in their product release cycle. Prior to implementing DevOps, companies can experience a stall in releases and only make new ones every 6 months. This means that development efforts are not bringing value to users quickly enough. For companies that work in regulated industries, it’s also critical that they set up reporting and traceability into their DevOps pipeline.

There are many scenarios where we want Selenium to connect to and use an existing browser that was previously opened manually or by some other program.

In the last decade or so, data has become the most valuable resource in the world. The influence of data has become so prominent in our society and industry that experts have now coined the term “data economy” to emphasize it. Undoubtedly, data has also made a huge impact on how the software industry and businesses operate.

Test web apps and websites on the latest Windows desktop infrastructure for a faster, more efficient, and more reliable cross-browser testing experience. At Sauce Labs, we're dedicated to providing our customers with best-in-class device performance and system reliability.

By overcoming the established engineering disciplines and tackling each engineering issue, Digital Engineering intends to speed up the development of complex products, systems, and sub-systems. System engineering approaches applied to complex products like jet planes, spacecraft, navigation systems, and others slow down progress for several reasons. Digital Engineering changed that system process into a more fluid, consistent, and workable approach for complex systems.

Grafana Faro and xk6-browser are both new tools within the Grafana Labs open source ecosystem, but the pairing is already showing a lot of potential in terms of frontend monitoring and performance testing. Faro, which was announced last November, includes a highly configurable SDK that instruments web apps to capture observability signals that can then be correlated with backend and infrastructure data.

Log4j is a popular logging framework used for Java-based applications. We can use Log4j in Selenium to provide logging functionality and help in debugging the test scripts. By using Log4j, you can log messages at different levels (e.g. Debug, Info, Warn, Error, Fatal) and output them to various appenders (e.g. Console, File, Database). Integrating Log4j in Selenium can greatly enhance the debugging experience and improve the efficiency of the testing process.

Software tests are essential to prevent bugs and create robust user experiences. But building and managing these tests presents its own challenges that often fly under the radar. Fortunately, test management reports can provide visibility into test coverage and performance, making it easier to identify problem areas and ensure test suites run smoothly. This article will explore the different types of test management reports and how to make them valuable and actionable.

When you encounter 404/Page Not Found/Dead Hyperlinks on a website, what do you think of it? You would find it irritating to encounter broken links, so you should continuously concentrate on eliminating their presence in your web product (or website). The rankings of your web product on search engines (like Google) will also suffer if it contains numerous pages (or links) that lead to a 404 error (or page not found).

Exploratory testing is a software testing strategy that depends on the inventiveness of the tester. This testing method is flexible, creative, and simple and requires little documentation or training. Using exploratory testing strategies helps QA teams to prevent gaps in the software that’s left unnoticed with predefined testing. Exploratory testing helps QA teams in different ways, such as faster bug detection, improved team collaboration, and overall achieving better results.

Organizations can manage daily operations and automate back-office procedures using enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. Financials, accounting, purchasing, project management, risk management, supply chain management, enterprise performance management (EPM), adaptive intelligence, and analytics are some of the ERP capabilities.

Since Selenium is open source, it is widely used throughout the world. No matter how complicated the user interface (UI) is, Selenium offers several methods to automate it, decreasing or eliminating the need for manual work. Webdriver does not differentiate between windows and tabs. If you open any new tab or window, both can be handled using window handles. Each window or tab has a unique identifier which remains the same for a session.

The promise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in software testing is that an intelligent agent will one day replace humans. Instead of the struggle of manual labor involved in the endless unit and integrated proofing of software quality, machines will test computer systems without human intervention.

We are going to look at how performance testing can work hand in hand with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: As there are many Artificial Intelligence solutions to choose from and for the purposes of this post this is the easiest way to discuss the principles of Artificial Intelligence working with performance testing rather than discussing a particular framework.

In this blog, learn how to manage your mobile apps all in one place for a more connected and efficient testing experience with Sauce Labs' new App Management dashboard. Ensuring a seamless user experience for your mobile app requires an increasing amount of testing. With customer expectations also increasing, It’s never been more important for mobile development teams to have a highly scalable and reliable testing solution in their tech stack.

Automating an application can be performed in various ways with a variety of tools. Because it is free and simple to use, Selenium WebDriver is the most popular of those. Selenium WebDriver gives users a lot of flexibility to write their test in different programming language and allow the user to execute their test on different browser like Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Safari, etc Let’s understand why scrolling is important. Scrolling is one of the most important features of any application.

Flutter vs React Native has been one of the most talked about topics recently. They are both popular open-source frameworks for building mobile applications. React Native, created by Facebook, uses JavaScript and allows developers to build apps for both iOS and Android using the same codebase. Flutter, developed by Google, uses the Dart programming language and allows for cross-platform app development.

Imagine waking up one day and realizing that the world is nothing more than a computed simulation, and everything is connected to one configuration file. Let’s say you have the exact configuration file of that simulation in your hand. Out of curiosity, you add some text to the configuration file, and BOOM, your appearance change; you grow a bit taller, achieving that dream built of yours. Sounds magical, right? This is what DevOps Configuration Management is about.

The user interface of an application is the first thing a user sees when they hit enter on your web address. For people involved in developing and releasing the website, you just have 50ms to impress the users. Sometimes, it’s just 17ms. With so little time with us and considering that all that time goes into analyzing the UI of the app, it becomes our responsibility to release the website only after testing the UI and its components thoroughly.

Software testing has become increasingly complex thanks to the twin threat of growing complexity and higher user expectations. Fortunately, testing tools continue to evolve, becoming easier to use, more feature-full, and offering better test coverage. Cypress is a prime example of these improvements in end-to-end testing. Let's look at what end-to-end testing involves and how you can use Cypress and BitBar to streamline the process.

“Good software, like wine, takes time” – Avram Joel Spolsky But do we have that much time? The statement was perfect when SDLC still relied on the waterfall and agile methodologies. But the scenario has drastically changed since then. DevOps is ruling the SDLC world today, and tools supporting the process are everyone’s favorite. And CI/CD is the modern software development practice every DevOps engineer swears by.

While ‘Smoke Testing’, ‘Sanity Testing’, and ‘Regression Testing’ are widely practiced in the world of QA, there still exist some misinterpretations or misconceptions around these concepts. For your team to make the most optimal use of the 3 methods, this article will help you to understand and differentiate them from one another.

More than 70% of automation script failures are false and are caused by poor automation design practices. The False Failure Rate (FFR) is the percentage of tests that falsely fail when a test suite is run. It is calculated by dividing the number of false failures (failed tests that actually passed) by the total number of tests that were executed during a test run. Higher false failure rates increase testing and maintenance costs.

We are excited to announce the release of NeoLoad 9.2. This release delivers several important features, including enhancements to RealBrowser (see the NeoLoad 9.0 release blog for more information on RealBrowser) as well as integrations with opensource performance testing tools like JMeter and Gatling.

Agile methodologies are transforming and speeding up the development lifecycle of businesses, but operations are not being changed or speeded up in the same way. While the operations teams frequently struggle to keep up with this pace, it increases operational challenges in the application landscape. To make the whole IT operation more ‘agile’, it is critical to alter operations to par with how development processes are transformed.

“If you don’t care about quality, you can meet any other requirement” Gerald M. Weinberg Software testing has never been a walk in the park. It demands expertise in software development, users’ behavior, the software under test architecture, stakeholders’ requirements, and programming knowledge. Quality teams know firsthand how challenging it is to ensure software quality when its architecture is becoming more complex and teams are releasing at a pace faster than ever.

DevOps vs CI/CD has been one of the key debates in the recent few years. This is due to the fact that these two software development methodologies have gained popularity in recent years. The goal of DevOps is to improve the speed and quality of software development and deployment. It does so by breaking down silos between different teams and streamlining workflows. On the other hand, CI/CD is a set of practices and tools that enable continuous integration, testing, and deployment of code changes.

Selenium is one of the leading automation platforms in web application testing. Using Selenium, you can automate your testing process efficiently and deliver a bug-free product quickly. This article will guide you in building and executing Selenium projects in Java. According to reports, 67% of Selenium users prefer Java for writing test scripts. Before you learn to build Selenium projects, let’s get to know the basics of Selenium and why it is popular among developers. Table Of Contents.

This year, there are more commercial tools offering no-code and low-code test automation solutions, helping the testing community to worry less about the tech stack. As the testing industry evolves with many new principles and tools, testers should also continuously improve their skills in order to test their product more robustly.

Most software projects leverage synthetic tests to verify functionality early on, but physical devices are the ultimate form of quality assurance. While a few smartphones may suffice early on, a growing user base means quality assurance teams must ensure support for a broad range of devices, operating systems, and browsers with public or private device clouds. Device clouds make it easier to manage devices and run automated tests from anywhere.

It’s already 2023, and as we all know, software testing has advanced significantly. But it doesn’t imply we should ignore the fundamentals or the basics. The “7 Software Testing Principles” are such basics that we should always adhere to. You may have studied these concepts as part of your ISTQB certification training when you started your testing career. Did you just forget about them after reading the book, as you did with previous theoretical papers?

In 2022, we already saw the emergence of payment SaaS, the adoption of Blockchain Technology, and the evolution of Central Bank Digital Currency. We also saw new payment modes like Buy Now Pay Later, Biometric Authentication, and Biometric Payments and an increase in the use of AI and ML in fraud detection. Now, what should we look out for in 2023?

Say hello to the newest features of Tricentis Test Management for Jira (TTM for Jira)! Now, TTM for Jira improves productivity for QA, dev, and delivery teams by keeping test plans, test cases, and history inside Jira. The latest releases include new APIs, along with UX and performance improvements for faster teamwork.

APIs have become the center of software development, connecting and transferring data across systems and applications. Luckily, testing them can greatly improve the efficiency of your test strategy as a whole, helping you deliver software faster than ever. API testing is an essential part of the software development process, and it’s important to have a team that can work together to create accurate and efficient tests.

The first month of 2023 has already ended and we are excited to share the new updates and features that we implemented in Loadero over the past month and some of the fixes we made during that time. If you are using Loadero to test WebRTC solutions, make sure to read the section about updates for WebRTC metrics gathering, it also has information about important upcoming changes.