When tests don’t work…. One of those issues that I could very easily have missed. Over Christmas, in between working through CheckStyle hell I had a play around with adding Opera to the list of browsers available on my grid. I know its kind of pointless as being based on the same engine as Chrome, but it is one of my favourite browsers so I thought I’d give it a go. I’ve made a few incremental changes to my grid…
DI frameworks are painful! This was a tough week and I am afraid that I don’t have any working code for you this week. I still have emotional scars from my attempts to configure dependency injection with Spring at work. After a lot of pain we eventually decided to use Google Guice and with it set up and running I don’t have too many problems adding to my framework. When I do mess it up however I find it very…
So last week I got my code running on a home grid, but did not have time to explain what I did, so here goes… What is a grid and why would you use it? If you have pulled and run any of my tests, or tried building up something yourself, after the initial wow factor of watching a browser fire up and start doing things all by itself, you probably quite quickly got bored of having to stop pretty…
Pesky asserts! Testing tests. Of course if your tests are going to be informative, it is not enough that they pass when everything is right and fail when everything is wrong. It is vital that when a test does fail, it gives an informative error message to help identify the problem. Ideally, your well designed test will fail at an assert that gives a clear description of the problem. That requires some effort to find out what your test will…
There are plenty of good examples of how to fire up a Java WebDriver out there and one I often referenced is toolsqa.com. This, like many others, starts off by describing the processes using standard java main() methods. I want to write tests, not applications, so my goal here is to start straight away writing tests in a test framework so that I can view the results visually in an IDE. My hope is to achieve this using JUnit 5…