Testing web apps with Selenium
summary
Shows concrete fixes not philosophy: use webdriverwrapper to fill forms and handle styled checkboxes, avoid fragile time.sleep by waiting for elements, and recover from stale element reference exception by re-fetching nodes. Demonstrates running browsers headless with Xvfb or a selenium grid, automatic screenshots on failure, downloading link targets to check headers, and that reusing one browser instance cuts run time (examples claim tests speed up by seconds and the tools actually work).
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 6:27Exceptions
- 8:36Status Codes or Headers
- 16:27Searching Comments by Text
- 18:19How To Write Tests
- 21:42Error Messages
- 30:57Install Selenium Server
- 36:00Automatic Screenshot Comparisons
- 37:38Versions of Selenium
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