Articles Tagged 'selenium'

When you are recording/running a test via Selenium browser profiles in Rapise - by default a new user profile is created when new instance of a browser is launched. It means that new browser instance starts with empty cache, no cookies, etc. Sometimes it complicates testing. If you are testing a Web application that requires SMS/Email code to authorize a browser then you will have to do it every time. Automation of  input of SMS/Email codes may be really hard. It is much easier to authorize a browser manually once and then run tests for long period of time. To make it work you will need to configure a permanent user profile for the browser used for testing. Learn how to do it for Chrome/Edge from this article.

To ensure that web tests always run on a browser window of a specific size you may use different techniques.

Since version 126.0.6465.0 ChromeDriver behaves according to W3C standard. Specifically:

Whenever active sessions is a list containing exactly one item, and that item is a HTTP session, but is not a BiDi session, then in the steps to fire beforeunload, implementations must act as if showing an unload prompt is likely to be annoying, deceptive, or pointless. This means that beforeunload prompts are never shown when there's an active HTTP-only session.

This is the mirror of  https://googlechromelabs.github.io/chrome-for-testing/known-good-versions-with-downloads.json

Using links from this JSON file you may download specific versions of Chrome that do not auto-update.

If you run Rapise tests via Selenium WeDriver you may need to manipulate browser cookies. Learn how from this post.

Sauce Labs allows users to run tests in the cloud on different combinations of browser and OS versions as well as mobile devices and emulators. Learn how to configure Selenium and Mobile profiles in Rapise to enable connection to Sauce Labs services.

Requires Rapise 5.3+

If you receive the following error message when performing Mobile device testing with Rapise, this article provides the necessary solution:

Method not found:
'OpenQA.Selenium.RemoteCommandInfoRepository
OpenQA.Selenium.RemoteCommandInfoRepository.get_Instance()'.

Note: related to Appium DLL version  1.3.0.1 and  Selenium WebDriver v2.48.0.

Bitbar is a browser and device farm that enables it's clients to run cross-browser and mobile tests remotely.

When you run a test with Selenium - Chrome profile the browser is launched with a warning message below the address bar. It can be disabled.

BrowserStack enables testing of your website for cross browser compatibility on real browsers. Instant access to multiple desktop and mobile browsers.  Learn how to configure Selenium  profiles in Rapise to enable connection to BrowserStack services.

Requires Rapise 5.3+

If your Web testing scenario includes file downloading you may configure `Selenium - Chrome` profile and specify which folder to use to store downloaded files. 

If you need specific browser extensions for running web tests you may specify them in Selenium profile.

Though Rapise can execute it's native recorded tests via WebDriver - some users prefer to write their tests in pure Selenium API. In this post we describe how to perform complex mouse and keyboard sequences via Selenium API in Rapise tests.

If your scripting is style is writing JavaScript and using Native Selenium API and you wish to dig inside Shadow DOM - read this short article. Requires Rapise 7.3+

Learn how to configure Rapise to run cross-browser tests on AWS Device Farm.

Requires Rapise 6.7+

From this article you will learn how to pass additional parameters to Selenium or Appium target, even if they can not be specified in a profile.  This recipe can be also used to override parameters of a profile right from a test code.

Requires Rapise 5.3+

Let's assume you have a cross-browser test which was created on desktop and can be successfully executed on any desktop browser (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari). You want to execute this test on your mobile devices or emulators. Learn how from this article.

Requires Rapise 5.3+