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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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Testability, interfaces and unit tests for Dummies (and junior SDETs)

Testability, interfaces and unit tests for Dummies (and junior SDETs)

This entry is part 5 of 9 in the series Launching WebDrivers in .NET Core the easy way

Having got to version 2.0.0 of my WebDriverFactory with working system tests and CI builds it was time to extend things a little. This could be considered YAGNI (You Aren’t Gonna Need It) but I quite like to have a Manager class that deals with getting and closing down WebDriver instances. The idea is that the Manager knows the specifics of the driver that I want to use, and will return a given instance, or a new instance on request….

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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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A tree
Opinion: Writing automated system tests is a great way to test a website / webapp.

Opinion: Writing automated system tests is a great way to test a website / webapp.

A few weeks ago I wrote a post explaining how running automated tests does not perform the same function as (good) manual testing. In a recent project, I was reminded that although running the tests is not deep testing, writing them is. I am very fortunate that I work with developers who are hot on quality and focused on writing appropriate unit tests for all their code, but what is the most cost effective way to have confidence that the…

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