WebDrivers with culture – Testing internationalisation
A look into testing your i18n (internationalization) support using Selenium WebDriver. Everything you need to know in one blog post.
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…
Launching Selenium WebDriver in .NET Core the easy way
In this post I am finally pleased to sum up the last of my experiences releasing Open Source libraries to help launching Selenium WebDriver instances in .NET Core projects. Whilst actually the last of the posts chronologically in this series I am placing it as post number 1, feel free to skip to the next one and read through before coming back if you want the story in the order that I wrote it. Writing the code of an Open…
Creating an internal WebDriverFactory
Last time I showed how to launch a WebDriver instance from .NET core so that we can test on any platform. When creating a framework however I like to have a factory to handle the driver creation and setup for me. I don’t wan’t to have to mess around setting things up in my Test class every time. My .NET core WebDriverFactory design criteria: It should have really simple syntax, especially for creating a ‘default’ webdriver. It should handle local…
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…