What are your Selenium challenges?

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Permalink Reply by Ashish on July 25, 2009 at 9:34am

Dealing with IE. Often we observed that test used to pass smootly in firefox but it seems selenium does not like IE. Tried with IE6, 7 and 8 as well

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Permalink Reply by roshni prince on August 10, 2009 at 3:12pm

Which Selenium to use?

I work on a web application that supports only IE right nw. Couldnt decide on which Selenium to use?

Selenium Grid/IDE or RC?

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Permalink Reply by Yogesh Sharma on November 3, 2009 at 3:53pm

Hi Mark,
I'm having trouble while executing the script for dynamic content say for registration form containing unique user name, email address and dynamically changing the CPTCHA for adding two nos.
How should i change the values of target while executing the script.
If I change the code, I'm unable to execute the script again.

Yogesh

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Permalink Reply by G.Jeeva on March 15, 2010 at 2:24pm

hi,

normally record the test case and play it. If your captacode is 1 + 2 = 3 means, you plz wait for the next level of captacode 1 + 2 = 3 comes. U didnt need to change the code. just wait for ur turn to return

Jeeva

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Permalink Reply by Priyanka on March 26, 2010 at 12:48pm

Facing problem while testing "Silverlight projects"... How to test those applications?

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Permalink Reply by Sowjanya on March 26, 2010 at 4:12pm

@ priyanka

Also go through webaii tool from telerik for silver light applications.

Regards
sowjanya

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Permalink Reply by Indira Pai on March 29, 2010 at 12:00pm

Hi,

We use YUI components in our application, which creates dynamic ids for elements whenever there is a YUI alert or pop up. Note yet able to figure out how to identify the elements of that pop up, as they always get generated with dynamic ids (yui_gen_#, where #is a number which gets generated dynamically).Hence even if regular expressions are used, there no control over which element is identified and on which the action will be done.

Any suggestions/ approaches are most welcome...

Thanks in Advance.
Indira Pai

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Permalink Reply by Andrew Baldock on June 4, 2010 at 1:53am

Check here: http://www.testrepublic.com/forum/topics/handling-pop

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Permalink Reply by Gaurav Deore on June 4, 2010 at 11:26am

Tricky thing is that, tester must have good knowledge of any supporting language to use Selenium (like Java, Perl or Ruby etc). Beyond that when tester goes to create testing setup for Selenium RC, s/he have must have knowledge of Add-ins to obtain the test report (TestNG), other extension, jar, class files etc etc. Also have to know have to run the selenium server & how it gets interact with application. These overall activities are same as development phase, which is more time consuming. On other side, testing phase is very crucial at the end of the project so testers have to do there work in less/limited time period. For using the selenium RC/Grid/Trail, if “Thoughtwork” would provide ready made framework as a set up which can save number of testers time & it will be easier to create testing environment.

Other lots of things we can’t possible to do thru selenium rather with QTP. Like Assitive properties support or Object repository concept changing of properties of objects.

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Permalink Reply by Shweta Gahlout on June 4, 2010 at 12:40pm

Some of the problems often faced:

- Video/ Image/ context based testing
- Spurious behavior on browsers other than firefox (IE, safari)
- Need IDE for IE as well

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