I want to test login using Katalon, but I use CAPTCHA. The number in CAPTCHA is always changed. Can Katalon read that while running a test?
I don't think you can do that.
CAPTCHA means "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart".
So, the whole point of CAPTCHA is it cannot (or shouldn't) be automated.
You can either talk to the developers and try to remove it for testing purposes. Or you can use a service like Death by CAPTCHA.
The primary purpose of CAPTCHA is that it should not be automated. If that is not the case, then the whole purpose of having a CAPTCHA is defeated at first place. I don't think Katalon or any other automation tool should be able (and would be able) to automate CAPTCHA.
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I'm writing a nightwatch test for a Backbone View that includes Google's "recaptcha" human check. Obviously, the test is a bot, and so it can't pass the test. So I'm trying to figure out a way to bypass the human check in the test. Can anyone suggest a way to do this that is elegant?
At the moment, the only possibility I can see is setting a query parameter on the url that nightwatch uses to load the page, and then checking for that query parameter within the logic of the Backbone view, but this seems bad. I don't want to have to include logic about testing in the code itself. It's just messy.
Thoughts?
I see Raymond's comment above has the same answer, but I still think to add an answer here should be more visible.
Google has the document for how to bypass reCAPTCHA in test environment, check this:
https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/faq#id-like-to-run-automated-tests-with-recaptcha.-what-should-i-do
For production, I think it's not possible unless you have some smart OCR tools like endtest offers: https://endtest.io/guides/docs/dealing-with-recaptcha/
I am interested in automating repetitive data entry in some forms for a website I frequent. So far the tools I've looked up that would provide support for this in a headless fashion could be Selenium WebDriver and Mechanize.
My question is, is there a fundamental technical difference in using once versus the other? Selenium is mostly used for testing. I've also noticed some folks use it for doing exactly what I'm looking for, and that's automating data entry. Testing becomes a second benefit in that case.
Is there reasons to not use Selenium for what I want to do over Mechanize? Does it not matter and both of these tools will work?
I'm not asking which is better, I'm asking which is the right tool for the job. Perhaps I'm not understanding the premise behind the purpose of each tool.
These are completely different tools that somewhat "cross" in the web-scraping, web automation, automated data extraction scope.
mechanize is a mature and widely-used tool for programmatic web-browsing with a lot of built-in features, like cookie handing, browser history, form submissions. The key thing to understand here is that mechanize.Browser is not a real browser, it cannot execute and understand javascript, it cannot send asynchronous requests often needed to form a web page.
This is where selenium comes into play - it is a browser automation tool which is also widely used in web-scraping. selenium usually becomes a "fall-back" tool - when someone cannot web-scrape a site with mechanize or RoboBrowser or MechanicalSoup (note - another alternatives) because of, for instance, it's javascript "heaviness", the choice is usually selenium. With selenium you can also go headless, automating PhantomJS browser, or having a virtual display. As a commonly mentioned drawback, performance is often mentioned - with selenium you are working with a target site as a real user in a web browser, which is loading additional files needed to form a page, making XHR requests, rendering etc.
And this itself does not mean you should use selenium everywhere - choose the tool wisely, choose it because it fits the problem better, not because you are more familiar with an instrument.
Also note that you should, first, consider using an API (if provided by the target website) instead of going down to web-scraping. And, if it comes to it, be a good web-scraping citizen:
How to be a good citizen when crawling web sites?
Web scraping etiquette
I'm doing Advertising Quality Assurance for a big website, basically in testing terms we are in Medieval times over here.
I'd like to add some kind of automated testing to the table and tried Selenium IDE as a start. Thing is, been playing with it and it doesn't record any of the interactions I need to test with the creatives we have, like expandables, push downs, billboards, you know all that stuff we all hate.
Is this happening because the ads are mainly built in Flash?
Is there any kind of automated testing or any kind of thing you could think in order to avoid manual testing for rich ads?
Thanks for your time!
I would recommend trying Sikuli for this. It works on image recognition and should do anything you want to do except possibly animations...but then most automation tools can't do those either.
http://www.sikuli.org/
Could someone explain what an automation test is and why I would use it. I read from the wiki page that a tester would create a automation script? What kind of scripting language can be used to do this?
Automation tests are carried out to check the behavior of an application against expected behavior. Normally used in regression testing where you validate that a newer version of the application doesn't hinder any of the previous version's features. These might also be carried along with manual testing.
Coming to the scripting language part, this might help you:- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/19292/best-language-or-tool-for-automating-tedious-manual-tasks
In simple words, If you are doing regression test or testing same piece of code over and over you can automate that manual process. That's called automation testing.
You can use several different scripting languages to achieve this and it's depends on which tool you are using. Some popular automation tools are Selenium, QTP, Loadrunner, Jmeter, SOAP UI etc.
You want to check your login with more than 1000 of users how much time you will spend to run this test case ?
In the same way you want to test you mobile API's before it used by developer how will you test?
There are lots of thing for that you have to go for automation In small application, sites you can work as an tester after that when those app's sites will grow will large data than those product owner will move for automated test cases
My duty is to pick up and continue developing PHP website for a small sized business client. Project has no testing code. I want to quickly establish at least very basic regression testing for the backend of the site.
I need to test the full contents of the web page char to char. Must see the diff of failed tests.
I need to be able to set up cookies and GET/POST data.
Once every few days I am updating the local database from production database. I would like to then have an overview of failed tests and very quickly update my test suits so that everything is passing again.
Is using WatiN or Selenium a good idea? My local environment is Linux.
About Selenium (and only Selenium as I don't know WatiN) - it can only do what you can do in your broswer. It can click, type in fields, submit forms, take screenshots (that's a very good one), set up cookies (so yes to this one). You can always set up GET data through the URL. But I am not aware of any technique in Selenium that would allow you to set up POST data in any other way than navigating in a browser. Also, because the tests are in your browser, they are not particularly fast. E.g, on our product, a single thorough test with ~250 steps takes about 10 minutes on my computer to complete. Of course, you can always divide that between many computers using Selenium Grid. It's just more work.
To conclude it - I'd say yes, Selenium is good for your needs as there are so many ways to write a good test in it that everyone finds his style. It is good for quick checks, functionality affirmations, but also for full-scale tests etc. But if you want to do some really advanced stuff, then that's a job for a long time. Selenium offers so much functionality in so many different ways that it is definitely a full-time job to understand them and know how to use them.
Try Selenium-IDE for 20 minutes. It is just an addon for Firefox that can record your actions and then replay them. If you like what you see, go for it. If no, hire someone who will.
I'm not sure if I am too late here, but in regards to WatiN it is only IE based, so if you plan to use any other browser you are better off with Selenium WebDriver (though WatiN has some Firefox support). From what I have found (I have used both WatiN and Selenium) Selenium can achieve more low level interactions (also see Selenium Grid), but really I think it is dependant on what you are looking to achieve and personal preference. If you have time to write your own wrapper to interact with WatiN/Selenium you will find the tests themselves are rather quick to run. Also, the beauty of Automation is that once these tests are written you can run them and walk away while they complete.