Blog Posts

TLDR; Learn with an end goal in mind. That will keep you focussed.

Following on from the ‘How do I learn ‘automation’?" question. We had to ask questions to see what they would do with this newly learned ability to automate. If it was to find a job, and they had a specific type of job in mind then I think we could probably answer the question.

Following on from the ‘How do I learn ‘automation’?" question. We had to ask questions to see what they would do with this newly learned ability to automate. And because they want to perform ongoing work and this is part of their learning plan we can answer.

TLDR; I automate tasks by using tools and writing code. Understand what they abstract to learn more.

TLDR; Don’t just ’learn automation’. Learn it for a reason.

TLDR; JavascriptExecutor requires us to learn JavaScript and use the Browser Console, and check your locator assumptions using FirePath

TLDR; split code across lines and breakpoint, and use browser dev tools to test the locators used.

TLDR; right click on a breakpoint and add code that returns a boolean to make it a conditional breakpoint

TLDR; Q: what is the best Page Object framework? A: I don’t know. I don’t use any

TLDR; We can use JUnit to execute code to support any type of testing.

Is it REST? Does it matter? We have to test it anyway.