I would like to automate some tasks with selenium (but it can as well be Puppeteer or Playwright). The problem is, that I need to perform a couple tasks on a specific page (lets say example.com/page/complex). But to get to that page, it takes quite some time. So, ideally, when I have performed the first tasks (which takes me to an other page) I would like go back the that specific page, restore the state and start the next task. I cannot simple point selenium back to example.com/page/complex because it will not have the correct state (for example, a popup will not be active).
So, I can image if you could make a snapshot (memory dump for example) it would be possible to restore the page in the correct state. Is something like this possible with the automation tooling available?
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I have a selenium-based scraper. Occasionally one of its locators fails in a way that is seemingly undetectable to me, and it "finds" the wrong button. Usually this isn't a big deal, since I expected it won't succeed 100% of the time, but the problem is, that button is leading me to a different session, thereby ending that entire session of scraping.
I was wondering if there is a way to configure selenium to temporarily not load any new pages and stay on the current page only, such that misclicks like this won't have any effect.
(Of course the ideal and "real" solution is to find a way to fix or detect the locator's mistake, but I want to have this at least as a temporary solution, if it is possible),
I have multiple similar sites (same layout, just different data), and each of them has drop down menu on mouse over (and disappears on mouse out).
I am using Selenium 2 and WebDriver, and I have one selenium test case that basically do the mouse over and make sure each of the link in the drop down menu works.
I am using selenium grid, so I have a hub and few test machines.
Because I have many sites (few hundred) to test, so I am thinking of making each machine to run the test case against multiple sites in parallel.
My concern is because there can be only one active browser at a time, will it cause issue if web driver tries to perform Action.moveToElement() on multiple browsers at roughly the same time? Will only the active browser performs Action.moveToElement() properly and other browsers fail? If there will be an issue, is there any workaround?
I have tried it using JUnitCore.runClasses(ParallelComputer.classes(), SomeClass1.class, SomeClass2.class, SomeClass3.class);, it decreased the passed tests percentage from 100% to about 67% when running three tests on a machine. Not good =/.
The good part - firefox actually can do it in parallel. If the FF instances are delayed between each other so they don't do the same thing at the same time, it works better. Some of the failures happened during a Firefox bootup - so if you can minimize closing and opening windows, do it. But still, sometimes it just fails for no reason.
If you really would use the saved time, then go for it, log all failed tests and run them again after the first round - this time one at a time.
You could also solve this, depending on your ultimate goal of testing, by not using the Action class with the mouse-movement click, but instead use the WebDriver findBy-click method or Javascript executor method. It would probably be less contentious when running multiple windows at the same time. If the Action class, when defining a mouse movement, uses native calls at all, such as "move to Point", then one browser over the top of another, then I would guess it's possible that the movement point could be masked by another window. I am really not sure about this, just giving you another idea to try.
I need a simple tool to visualize the status of a series of processes (ETL processes, but that shouldn't matter). This process monitor need to be customizable with color coding for different status codes. The plan is to place the monitor on a big screen in the office making any faults instantly visible to everyone.
Today I can check the status of these processes by running an sql statement against the underlying tables in our oracle database. The output of these queries are the abovementioned status codes for each process. I'm imagining using these sql statements, run periodically (say, every minute or so), as an input to this monitor.
I've considered writing a simple web interface for doing this, but I'm thinking something like this should exist out there already. Anyone have any suggestions?
If just displaying on one workstation another option is SQL Developer Custom Reports. You would still have to fire up SQL Developer and start the report, but the custom reports have a setting so they can be refreshed at a specified interval (5-120 seconds). Depending on the 'richness' of the output you want you can either:
Create a simple Table report (style = Table)
Paste in one of the queries you already use as a starting point.
Create a PL/SQL Block that outputs HTML via DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE statements (Style = plsql-dbms_output)
Get creative as you like with formatting, colors, etc using HTML tags in the output. I have used this to create bar graphs to show progress of v$Long_Operations. A full description and screen shots are available here Creating a User Defined HTML Report
in SQL Developer.
If you just want to get some output moving you can forego SQL Developer, schedule a process to use your PL/SQL block to write HTML output to a file, and use a browser to display your generated output on your big screen. Alternately make the file available via a web server so others in your office can bring it up. Periodically regnerate the file and make sure to add a refresh meta tag to the page so browsers will periodically reload.
Oracle Application Express is probably the best tool for this.
I would say roll your own dashboard. Depends on your skillset, but I'd do a basic web app in Java (spring or some mvc framework, I'm not a web developer but I know enough to create a basic functional dashboard). Since you already know the SQL needed, it shouldn't be difficult to put together and you can modify as needed in future. Just keep it simple I would say (don't need a middleware or single sign-on or fancy views/charts).
I am new to software testing. Currently I need to test a middle-sized web application. We have just refactored our codebase and added many event logging logic to the existing code. The event logging code will write to both Windows Eventlog and a SQL database table as well.
The amount of the events is about 200. What approach should I take to test/verify this code refactoring effectivly and efficiently?
Thanks.
I would be tempted to implement unit tests for each of the events to make sure when an event occurs the correct information is passed into your event logging logic.
This would mean that you can trigger one event on the deployed site and verify the data is written to the database and event log. You can have an acceptable level of confidence that the remaining event will be recorded correctly.
If unit testing isn't an option then you will need to verify each event manually, I would alternate between checking the database and the event log as there should be little risk in this area failing. That would mean you would have 200 tests rather than 400 tests.
You could also partition the application into sensible sections and trigger a few events for each section to give you a reasonable level of confidence in the application.
The approach you take will really be determined by how long you have to test, what the cost of would be if an event didn't get logged, and how well developed the logging logic is.
Hope this helps
I would have added tests before you did the refactoring. you dont know where you have broken it already :).
you are saying that it logs into EventViewer and DB, I hope you have exposed logging feature as an interface so that you can:
Extend it to log to some other device if needed
Also makes mocking bit a lot easier
if you have 200 events to test, that's not going to be easy tbh. I dont think you can escape from creating eq number of tests for your 200 events.
I would do it this way:
i would search for all places where my logging interface is used and note all classes and
start with critical paths/ones first (that way you at least cover critical ones)
or you could start from the end, i.e. note down all possible combinations of logs you are getting, maybe point to stale data so that you know if the input is the same, output should be the same too. And every time, regression test your new binaries agaisnt this data and you should get similar number/level of logs.
This shouldn't be to difficult.
Pick a free automated web test tool like Watir (java) or WatiN (.net), (or VS UI Test if you have it.)
Create tests that cover the areas of the web application you expect/need to fire events. Examine the SQL Db after each test to see what events did fire.
If those event streams are correct for the test add a step into the test to verifiy that exactly that event stream was created in the Db.
This will give you a set of tests that will validate the eventing from any portion of your web site in a repeatable fashion.
The efficent & efective part of this approach is that it allows you to create only as many tests as you need to verify the app. Also you do not need to recreate a unit test approach with one test per event.
Automating the tests will allow you re-execute them without additonal effort, and this will really add up over the long haul.
This approach can also be taken with manual testing, but it will be tricky to get consistent & repeatable results. Also re-testing will take nearly as long as the testing uncovers defects that need to be fixed.
Note: while this will be the most effective & efficent way it will not be exhaustive. There will likely be edge case that get missed, but that can be said of nearly any test approach. Just add test cases until you get the coverage you need.
Hope this helps,
Chris
Every morning when I get into work I launch about a dozen apps and whatnot (FF, TB, VSx2-3, Eclipse, SSH, SVN update x2-3). Needles to say this does a good job of warming up my HDD for the day. I rather suspect that it would run a lot faster if they were launched sequentially (not to mention that I wouldn't need to click in 17 different places).
Is there a preexisting product that can kick off a sequence of tasks/apps/etc. where each task is only started after the last app is done hammering the HDD?
It would nerd to be able to kick apps like VS and firefox and also be able to trigger explorer context menu items like SVN update in TortoiseSVN.
Try SlickRun, it's free, I've used it for years, I use it constantly and I'd be lost without it.
Think of it like a configurable Start->Run command, it'll do what you want (you can configure n second pauses between multiple commands), and if you install it you'll use it for a thousand different things before the first week is out.
P.S. I have no stake in SlickRun, I just like it :)
Unfortunately, I don't know of any software that can do this for you automatically.
However, can't you trigger the updates through a console SVN task? If so, can't this be done by creating a batch file? It's low tech, and you might want to add a few pauses between each task, but it should do what you want.
As you mention TortoiseSVN, I'll assume your O/S is windows.
You could launch an Autohotkey script at startup. I don't think it can easily detect HDD activity, but you can at least wait until each window appears with the WinWaitActive command.
If each application has an average time they take to complete, you could simply use Windows' Scheduled Tasks application. Obviously you'll need to be running Windows but Scheduled Tasks can be found in the Control Panel.
Execute "Add Schedules Task", select the program, the frequency and then the specific time.