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Q1-What is Automation Testing

Answer- When you talk about Software testing or Quality assurance of any product it means we have to deliver our application bug free it means no defect in our application. In order to achieve quality we perform testing in our application it means we perform several test case it can be functional test cases and nonfunctional test cases also.

In order to save our time and resource we can automate manual test cases, which save human effort and time as well.

Scenario – If we need to test same scenario 100 times manually and each time we are checking the same result then better to automate this test case and run it number of times and verify the result.

We have different tools available in the market, which gives us the liberty to automate our application

 

Q2- When Automation testing should be performed?

Answer- We can perform automation testing in our day to day testing activities it means when we have to execute some test case on regular basics then better to automate that test cases

Majorly we perform automation testing for regression testing, smoke testing and sanity testing as well.

Scenario- If you have 50 scenario that you have to execute on daily basis and you will be testing the same scenario for next couple of releases as well then manually running these test cases will be tedious task so here you can adopt automation testing.

 

Q3-Which test case cannot be automated?

Answer-

1-This is very important and interesting question as well that which test cases cannot be automated, my answer is you should avoid test cases which is changes very frequently it means even if you will automate that test case next time it will fail because application feature will change so better to choose test case which is stable.

2- We should not automate test cases which has manual interaction like enter authorization code, capcha code etc.

Selenium introduction
Answer- Selenium is Open source Web Automation tool which was designed by ThoughtWorks in 2004, It started by Selenium IDE then Selenium RC which is also known as Selenium 1 then Selenium Webdriver which is also known as Selenium 2

Selenium is very popular now days because of many reasons

  • It is open source tool, which means we do not have to purchase any license for this. We can download from their officially website and we can use.

 

  • It support many languages like Java, Java Script, C#, Python, Ruby etc.

 

  • We can perform cross browser testing as well. Selenium Webdriver support almost all browser which their latest version like Firefox, Chrome, IE, Safari, Opera etc.

 

  • It support the entire platform like Windows, UNIX, Linux, Apple etc.

 

  • Recently Selenium has introduced mobile testing as well, now we can automate Android testing using Selendroid, IPhone testing using appium and many more.

 

  • Selenium having compatibility with many tools well some example are AutoIT, Jenkins, Sikuli, Testng, Junit etc.

 

 

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    • Mukesh Otwani says

      Hi Rajeswari,

      It depends on which kind of control web developer has used. If you are able to see select tag then you should be able to see all values with option tag or if it is select2 or any other type of control which contains ul, li, div tags then it is difficult to get those options.

      Reply

  2. Rajendra says

    Hi mukesh, I am using data driven framework locators and data are reading from excelsheet. If I want to click share link it gives four icons like facebook, linked in, Google plus and Twitter I want to share image with all four social media how to write code. If I click facebook it I’ll open new tab then I want perform operation and share data it comes back share page.same for linked in and twitter and googleplus

    Reply

    • Mukesh Otwani says

      Hi Rajendra,

      If you are dealing with Selenium which only works with Web UI then you what you can do manually same can be achieved through Selenium also because it fully depends on UI. But if you don’t want to use Selenium Ui then you have to deal with API of corresponding application.

      Reply

  3. Vinotj says

    Hi I need check the 50 url at a time and share the active and inactive url to the mail can you help to how to proceed

    Reply

  4. Ritesh says

    Hi Mukesh,
    Need your help.
    I want to do click operation on image link and here is the HTML Code. Want to do using Selenium Webdriver in python. Please suggest:-
     

    Reply

  5. sagar says

    Hi,
    First a big thanks to you for such amazing conceptual videos.
    I have one problem,
    I am working on dataDriven F/w and accessing test inputs from exelSheet , after each entry it will quit my browser but i am not able o continue my browser after test passed.
    how can i continue with same page after test passed

    Reply

  6. deepak says

    Hi Mukesh,
    I am getting error while opening the chrome.
    Invalid port. Exiting…
    ?????? ??, ???? ?:??:?? ????????? org.openqa.selenium.os.OsProcess checkForError
    SEVERE: org.apache.commons.exec.ExecuteException: Process exited with an error: 1 (Exit value: 1)
    Exception in thread “main” org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Timed out waiting for driver server to start.
    Build info: version: ‘3.9.1’, revision: ’63f7b50′, time: ‘2018-02-07T22:42:22.379Z’
    System info: host: ‘HP’, ip: ‘192.168.1.9’, os.name: ‘Windows 10’, os.arch: ‘amd64’, os.version: ‘10.0’, java.version: ‘1.8.0_121’
    Driver info: driver.version: ChromeDriver
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService.waitUntilAvailable(DriverService.java:192)

    Reply

  7. sreehari says

    this is error how to solve this

    Exception in thread “main” java.lang.IllegalStateException: The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.gecko.driver system property; for more information, see https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver. The latest version can be downloaded from https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases
    at com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkState(Preconditions.java:754)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService.findExecutable(DriverService.java:124)
    at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.GeckoDriverService.access$100(GeckoDriverService.java:41)
    at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.GeckoDriverService$Builder.findDefaultExecutable(GeckoDriverService.java:141)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService$Builder.build(DriverService.java:339)
    at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.toExecutor(FirefoxDriver.java:158)
    at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.(FirefoxDriver.java:120)
    at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.(FirefoxDriver.java:98)
    at sr.ha.main(ha.java:9)

    error

    this wer driver fire

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  8. swaraj says

    Hello,
    If i have 2 autosuggestion boxes of same name, after using that for ‘from’ field, not able to use the same and select from auto suggestion for ‘To’ Filed. site is redbus.com. Can you please help me?

    Reply

  9. Shantanu Devkar says

    Hi..Mukesh Othwani Sir,

    Selenium support to all latest browser, this is advantage of selenium. But i have tried, it is not supported. I have used 2.53 version of selenium jar in my project and ran on 56.0 latest firefox Browser. But it is not supported….so, what should I do…How to resolve this issue.

    Reply

    • Mukesh Otwani says

      Hi shantanu,

      Use FF 46.0 with Selenium 2.53.1. In order to work with latest FF, you need to migrate to Selenium 3.6.0 version which uses gecko driver. Latest chrome with latest chromedriver works anyway.

      Reply

  10. Kumar says

    I have one scenarios
    there is submit button on registration page . you on that button. while you navigate to the next page take a longer time to load, as site is heavily loaded with request . you need to handle this loading and validate the text in screen “You have successfully registered”.

    Reply

  11. Mandar says

    How we can find our case is failed due to your’s 5 things like network failure…….in testng or selenium. Also hot to handle these type of cases

    Reply

  12. hema says

    hi,
    I Have One scenario To Capture image from webcam.
    manually i didnt get any browser popup but while running script when i clicked on webcam button browser popup coming for “share Selectedlocation” .how to handle this .please help me.

    Reply

  13. Parthasarathi Tripathy says

    Really your videos and explanation is helpful for learning Selenium. Thanks for your effort and presentation which helps me a lot to learn Selenium Automation as i am new to this.

    Reply

  14. hema says

    Hi ,
    Can u give clear explnation about wait commands .
    And in which case we need to use those commands.

    Reply

  16. shailendra says

    Hi Mukesh Otwani,
    How we execute the java program in Jenkins on mac ?
    Please tell me the step by step configuration step

    Reply

  17. Gangadhar Wali says

    Hi Mukesh,
    Thanks for your wonderful work.

    My web application is in remote desktop, please assist me how to connect to remote desktop using selenium,

    Regards
    Wali

    Reply

    • Mukesh Otwani says

      Hi Wali,

      If your jenkins server is possible to get connect to that remote then make it as Slave/Node and execute through Jenkins or else go for Selenium Grid.

      Reply

  18. udit says

    sir i don’t know about selenium plz suggest me step by step video from the basic selenium topic wise.

    Reply

  19. Ashwary says

    Hi Mukesh,
    Please help me …exactly at this point i m stucking from long tym…..plz help ….why this “Element not found” exception always comes.
    My Mail-id:-tehiboy6@gmail.com

    org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: Unable to locate element: {“method”:”xpath”,”selector”:”html/body/div[1]/aside/section/ul/li[4]/a”}
    Command duration or timeout: 85 milliseconds

    Reply

  20. sonali pradhan says

    Hi Mukesh I am not getting the code for broken links in your website that is learn-automation.com. where I can find that. Can you suggest me how to detect unreachable pages in selenium webdriver

    Reply

  21. kalpesh Patil says

    Hi Mukesh,
    How can I use single login script, if I pass ID of webElement or Xpath of webElement ??

    Reply

    • Mukesh Otwani says

      Hi Kalpesh,

      Create a separate class for login. Provide parameters from testng xml file or pass these parameters from your main test method.
      There are lot of other ways too.

      Reply

  22. Leo Lowranse says

    Hi Mukesh,
    Your videos and posts are really helping me a lot to pace up with Selenium Automation.
    Keep up the good work dude. 🙂

    Regards,
    Leo Lowranse

    Reply

  24. Ash says

    Hi sir,
    please guide me,how to start with frame work.I am working for social networking site,just like facebook.Its a big project.

    Reply

  26. Sneha says

    Hi mukesh will u please send me any link like registration page using TestNG. i am selenium beginner . I learn lot much things from your videos thanks mukesh . you are best.

    Reply

  27. Vinoth says

    Hi Mukesh,
    I need to clarify one doubt, how can upload the image using robot for mac users but there is no text box??

    Reply

  28. Prashant says

    Hi Mukesh
    I have one question
    How to count how many number of rows and columns in our web page in selenium webDriver?

    Reply

  29. Dipesh Raul says

    Hi Mukesh,
    Happy to say that Your videos are very Helpful to learn automation testing using selenium.
    Could you please post the videos on contineous integration(CI) and contineous Deployment(CD) using jenkins or any using any other tools?

    Reply

  31. shardha sharma says

    Hi Mukeash,
    M facing an issue while running the script.
    Exception in thread “main” org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: unknown error: cannot get automation extension
    from unknown error: page could not be found: chrome-extension://aapnijgdinlhnhlmodcfapnahmbfebeb/_generated_background_page.html
    (Session info: chrome=57.0.2987.133)

    Reply

  33. piyush says

    Hi Mukesh,

    I would like to Know, as an automation engineer should we decide , that this application is best for automation testing not manual testing? Say, when the client really doesn’t have much clear idea about requirements and if there is a sprint release after every 2 weeks?

    Reply

    • Mukesh Otwani says

      Hi Piyush,

      It is quite tough to explain these kind of circumstances. Automating any application not only depends of coding knowledge, it also requires functional knowledge of an application. Again it includes the way UI has been designed. Usually automation of an application is carried out for regression testing not for application which is still under development. Here functionality also matters a lot because if functionality is too big then scripting also takes lot of time. Finally the selection of framework and reporting. In my opinion, you should consult any senior member of your organization who should have know how of development.

      Reply

  34. Ajay says

    Hi mukesh..!
    Your site is providing good knowledge for freshers and also kindly update the tutorial about Testng,maven,Pom,Modular driven Frameworks pleaw

    Reply

  37. Mohinni says

    Hats off to your hard work Sir.You have explained each and every topic in detail.It’s helping me learning selenium.

    Reply

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    Reply

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