Selenium Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP) API: How Does It Work?
Angie Jones explains the architecture behind Selenium 4’s new Chrome DevTools API and how to use it to take your tests to the next level....
Angie Jones explains the arc...
Read More
Selenium for Games: Automating Tic Tac Toe
This recipe shows how to automate the playing of an online tic-tac-toe game using Selenium WebDriver and Java...
This recipe shows how to autom...
Read More
Using Apache POI to Read Excel Files
Here is a recipe for programmatically reading data from an Excel spreadsheet using Apache POI. Note that in this example, I'm using the spreadsheet to store test data. However, this is NOT an endorsement to manage your test data this way. This is just one practical...
Here is a recipe for programma...
Read More
How to Select Dates from Date Pickers
Here is the recipe for automating the task of selecting a date from a Date Picker component. I illustrate this recipe with Selenium WebDriver and Java, however, the recipe itself can be used with any automation tool and programming language. Recipe to Automate Date Picker Selection Ingredients ...
Here is the recipe for automat...
Read More
Tips for Healthy Page Object Classes
The most popular design pattern used in web UI test codebases is the Page Object Model (POM) design pattern. These tips should help you design healthy classes that implement the Page Object Model design pattern. The use of this pattern promotes separation of concerns (e.g....
The most popular design patter...
Read More
Selenium Conference Keynote
Fun fact: In addition to being an automation engineer, I am also a game designer. I created a competitive fashion game that has all of the elements that keep players coming back for years. In this talk, I share the key aspects to game design and...
Fun fact: In addition to being...
Read More
#SeConfAustin: The Build that Cried Broken
#SeConfAustin - The Build that Cried Broken ...
#SeConfAustin - The Build that...
Read More
How to Create a Test Automation Framework from Scratch
As quality initiatives shift left in an agile world, software testing teams realize that they must rely on the fast feedback of automated scenarios for continuous integration and deployment. But even when people understand test automation basics, most automation initiatives fail. There are many reasons why test automation initiatives fall short,...
As quality initiatives shift l...
Read More
#SeConf16 – How to Get Automation Included in Your Definition of Done
Selenium Conf 2016, London, UK ...
Selenium Conf 2016, London...
Read More
Upcoming Events
Angie speaks all over the world about emerging technologies and software development. Here are upcoming events where Angie will be speaking or teaching technical workshops....
Angie speaks all over the worl...
Read More
Firebug, You’re Fired
When interviewing candidates for UI automation openings, I like to give them typical automation 'problems' to solve. Most of the problems provide them with a picture of a UI and the corresponding HTML, and ask how they would automate something given a tricky DOM. I'm...
When interviewing candidates f...
Read More
A Day in the Life of an Automation Engineer
TL;DR: taught a workshop and it went great. planned as a Selenium workshop but morphed into a broader automation workshop. presents practical use of automation over simplistic unrealistic intro; raving reviews from attendees. As continuous integration is becoming more of a reality at the company that...
TL;DR: taught a workshop and i...
Read More