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Testing Edge on MacOs
New tricks with Chromium Edge and msedgedriver.exe

New tricks with Chromium Edge and msedgedriver.exe

Since the release of Edge 81 last month, it has its own WebDriver exectuable: “msedgedriver.exe” I have been playing with it recently and thought I would share some new tricks that you couldn’t do with the old edgehtml based Edge browser and Selenium WebDriver. Chromium Edge is natively supported in the pre-release Selenium WebDriver version 4, but in this post I will look at what you can do using the current stable version 3.14.59. (Microsoft info here) The WebDriver Executable…

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The "new" Microsoft Edge browser
FAQ – “New Microsoft Edge” and test automation

FAQ – “New Microsoft Edge” and test automation

If you follow browser development at all you can’t have helped but noticed Microsoft making a huge song and dance about the latest version of the Edge browser. It does potentially cause some changes for those of us who are responsible for testing cross browser support, so I thought I would try to put together a list of questions and answers. It is brand new and I certainly don’t know everything, so if you have more questions, or want to…

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@AlexanderOnTest
Starting to build a (new) .net Core PageFactory

Starting to build a (new) .net Core PageFactory

This entry is part 2 of 9 in the series Launching WebDrivers in .NET Core the easy way

I am ridiculously excited to finally be getting back to writing code for this project. In fact I have spent far too long coding, and have left the blogging for a while so I have plenty to catch up on. Episode IV – A new beginning If you followed through my previous posts around building a Selenium WebDriver test framework in Java, you may remember that the last thing that I completed was to get it running cross platform. Anyone…

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ccelerating your SDET Career
Accelerating your SDET career.

Accelerating your SDET career.

This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series Building a career in test as a developer

Since changing from teaching into software development on my 45th birthday exactly three years ago today, I fell into test automation entirely by accident. It is something however that I really enjoy and apparently it is a great path for the ambitious software development professional. In just those three short years I am already earning more than I ever achieved in 20 years as a school teacher, and almost certainly more than I would be able to command had I…

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Success on Linux
Going multi-platform: Running the tests from MacOs and Linux

Going multi-platform: Running the tests from MacOs and Linux

Just a quickie tonight. Part of the reason for writing anything in Java is its ability to run on many devices. Before I move on from Java to dotnet and C# there are a couple of things to complete. In principle it should be no problem to call gradle to run my tests on both Linux and Macos. I’m going to cheat a little with Linux by running on Ubuntu on the Windows Subsystem for Linux. While we are at…

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