I have been newly assigned on a project which has Excel applications. Has anyone worked on one before? Have you implemented any automation strategies for the same? I have been researching the possibilities of Selenium and APache poi to make this work . But just wondering if there is any other alternative open source frameworks available or is better to go with Selenium itself? Let me know if you have similar experience and how you tackled it ..read more

I have a requirement where I need to update a variable if a particular step is present in a scenario. I also need to something like this { "testCaseId/any unique identifier for a scenario" : "flag value" }. I couldn't find something similar offered by cucumber as of now. I have tried the following ways : Set up an environment before runCucumber and then reading it in the step and they try setting up the value, but I couldn't get into the step code itself. I found that we can override runTimeConfigurations and how dryRun works, but haven't been to find how we can do that ? The next option i am ..read more

I want to mock the behaviour of getFromDb so it does not get called while testing getUserBySex function Example Code to be tested return new Promise((resolve, reject) => { setTimeout(() => { resolve("foo"); }, 300); }); } /** function that return promise **/ exports.getUserBySex = function (sex) { exports.getFromDb().then(res=>console.log(res)); return } Test case it('should return null', async () => { sinon.stub(us, 'getFromDb').resolves("params") usersModel.getUserBySex().then((result) => { expect(result).to.equal("jhgjhg ..read more

Hi I have one problem with organizing robot keywords. I have some high level keywords which should be used directly in Test Cases and the I have lower level keywords which should not be used directly in Test Cases but only by some other specific keywords. I would need something similar to what is in Java with private and public methods. Is it good idea to use separate resource files for high level keywords and other resource files for lower level keywords? Thank you ..read more

I have been reading some threads/articles online but I would highly appreciate some feedback based on my particular case. The context: a complex sector, historically no QA, large and old legacy codebase + new code based on microservices. Not using Scrum in the intended way, only some of its notions/terms. I am the only newly hired QA per the team of 12 developers. The problem: while testing specific features in the scope of a current sprint I often find bugs in the legacy code. And nothing comes to mind (that I would like) to track these bugs. Our product backlog in JIRA is not used according ..read more

I joined a team as a QA tester for a business central application. On the product team, everyone performs tests but there is no Test plan or test cases. So, now I am responsible for implementing the test strategy and performing the tests. But, Business Central is a huge system with countless features. With that in mind: How do you perform tests? Is it possible to automate tests in BC applications? Which tool do you use to automate functional testing? Is it worth documenting tests in a tool like TestRail? Which nonfunctional test is obligatory for this application ..read more

I was running my selenium script on a hosted cloud server to simulate and increase the real user count. Unfortunately at the beginning of the day it shows a lot of user count at my web admin dashboard. But at the end of the day it all will reduce to a lesser number of user count. So what are the possible options I have to do to simulate real user traffic for a given web URL? This is how I start the webdriver: chromeOptions.addArguments("--disable-extensions"); //chromeOptions.addArguments("--disable-gpu"); chromeOptions.addArguments("--no-sandbox ..read more

As a developer I'm trying to work with my QA. We've been issued a mandate "your pipeline executions take too long, please optimize your testing strategies". I see one possible significant area where I feel our automation is over-testing. Broadly speaking, we have a few services that are separated into two discrete phases. For each service the first phase goes through a single logical flow, and each service has a distinct second logic flow. Our QA team is testing large sets of permutations on the first flow for every large set of permutations on the secondary flow; So (just random numbers) it's ..read more

In my project I have to select an item from the hidden bootstrap drop-down, however, I'm unable to select it. I have tried multiple ways but so far nothing works. I searched on YouTube and it was suggested to delete the "blur" option from Event Listener in the console however in Chrome I don't find any such option in the console. Any idea on how to select either item from drop-down will be appreciated. I have attached a video of the same dropdown. When any item is not selected then this path is visible: input name="machineCondition" type="hidden" xpath="1" However, once the user click on any m ..read more

I'm currently working on implementing a test automation framework using Selenium WebDriver and Java for a web application. While I've made some progress, I've encountered a few challenges that I could use some guidance on. Here are the specific issues I'm facing: Page Object Model: I'm having difficulty structuring my page object model effectively. I've created separate classes for each page, but I'm unsure about the best practices for organizing elements and methods within these classes. Dynamic Elements: The application I'm testing has dynamically generated elements, and I'm struggling to ha ..read more