Although there are many good website monitoring products available, oftentimes you can use Github’s actions and notifications to perform website change monitoring tasks and customize the results for your specific needs.
Behavior Driven Development (BDD) focuses on features from a user’s perspective. BDD is useful for involving all members of the team in designing features and tests. This can include your automated tests.
Do you ever have a test where you need to do something with an element on a page, but that element changes slightly in different situations? For example:– the element has … Read more
When writing tests, it’s useful to write them flexibly so that you can run tests against one or many websites. Here’s a TestCafe example that works well with multiple sites.
When running Nightwatch.js browser automated tests against Chrome, you will need to download and run Selenium Standalone Server and a matching version of ChromeDriver for your operating system. One way to do … Read more
Sometimes when working with Javascript objects, it is useful to print the objects out as JSON strings and take a look at their values. Take the following simple Javascript object: If you print … Read more
Full code and additional information can be found in my github repository: Selenium Tumblr Test code I created some Java classes to test a modern website use-case. For this case, I … Read more
(disclaimer: this worked for my corporate Outlook web email account. I don’t know if it will work for all. I’m posting this just in case it helps somebody else.) I recently … Read more
Rally Defect state tracking:The company I work for has many Scrum teams using Rally to track their sprint progress. Each team has it’s own project in Rally. For defects loaded as … Read more
Below is a basic example for querying and updating Rally objects using Rally’s “rally_api” Ruby API. Changes you will need to make:– set your Rally username & password– project name & … Read more
