6. How to take screenshot on failure, success or skip? Selenium + testng (Java Maven project)

Create a new project. Add abstract class TestBase. In beforeTest you need to create driver and open tested web page. In afterTest you need to tear down your web driver.

For taking screenshots we need to use @AfterMethod annotation, because we need to create screenshot after each test method.

5. How to add testng with reportng to Java Maven project?

Create  a new maven project.

Add testng dependency:

<dependency>
<groupId>org.testng</groupId>
<artifactId>testng</artifactId>
<version>6.3.1</version>
</dependency>

4. How to add logger to Java Maven project? log4j library

Create a new project.

Add dependency to pom.xml file:

<dependency>
<groupId>log4j</groupId>
<artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
<version>1.2.17</version>
</dependency>

1. How to create Maven project?

Maven is Java based tool, so the very first requirement is to have JDK installed on your machine.

Step 1 – verify Java installation on your machine

Windows: java -version

How to test api using POSTMAN?

Postman is a great tool for prototyping APIs, and it also has some powerful testing features.

Useful methods and libraries for Automated Tester (all examples in Java language)

How to create unique id for testing? Just use current date or time.

Simple Date Format 

SimpleDateFormat is a concrete class for formatting and parsing dates in a locale-sensitive manner. It allows for formatting (date -> text), parsing (text -> date), and normalization.

Useful libraries for Automated Tester

Top libraries which I use during writing automated tests.

Selenium is widely used portable software testing framework for web applications. Selenium provides a record/playback tool for authoring tests without learning a test scripting language.

How to test server api (using REST)? Apache HttpClient Library for Java + Maven and TestNG.

As example, you don’t have access to any api, but at the same time you want to create backend tests. You need to create account at https://backendless.com/ web site and create your own project. Backendless is a universal server-side used by mobile and desktop developers to build applications. It is a backend-as-a-service platform.

 

How to get element’s index by xpath?

Have you ever wondered if there is a ways to use XPath, and to write some query were you  can get the index of the requested element within the list of elements.

I mean that we need to write xpath with text value User Name and we’ll get 3... 

 

7. Selenium: Implicit, Explicit, Fluent and Ajax Waits

Let’s see different types of waits which we can use while working with Selenium WebDriver. All examples would be on Java language.

Implicit Wait Command

Selenium can wait for a certain amount of time for finding element before throwing an exception (NoSuchElement exception as example).