GUI Automation Tweet

Unfortunately in my experience when you mention automation to people, they immediately think about GUI automation, perhaps it’s because that’s how they perceive their applications, or it’s the only entry point they use when testing. This is bad in my...

WebDriver Factory

One of the many benefits of WebDriver is that the major browsers are all supported with a version of a driver, some within the browsers and others via a service. This means that you should be able to run your...

What is QA?

This is something that is discussed a lot of Twitter, sometimes defended strongly and sometimes turned into humour. The situation still doesn’t appear to be changing though. In my opinion its very straight forward, Quality Assurance (QA) is not Testing...

Checking If An Element Is Present/Displayed With WebDriver

On several sites I have worked on in recent years there has always been a check scenario whereby I have wanted to check that something isn’t on the page, such as a error message or a field not required in...

2013 What a year to be in the Testing community!

So me and my girlfriend were sat having a drink in a popular coffee bar when we got onto the subject of what we have both been up to this year. I was quick to call upon job changes and...