3 minutes readKey takeaways Tool sprawl fragments results so no single view is trustworthy. Consolidate on what integrates with your pipeline rather than what demos best. Every extra tool adds maintenance that nobody budgets for. In this new work from home era, a lot of companies have moved more and more towards online services and new tools… Read more »
8 minutes readKey takeaways Start weeks ahead. Finding a capacity problem in peak week leaves no time to fix it. Test the whole path including payment and third parties, since those fail first under load. Agree who is on call and what the rollback is before the traffic arrives. Well into the pandemic and with the E-commerce… Read more »
3 minutes readKey takeaways Hover needs the Actions class; a plain click will not trigger CSS or JS hover states. Move to the element, then perform, and add an explicit wait for whatever the hover reveals. Hover behaves differently on touch devices, so do not rely on it for mobile journeys. Hovering over a web element, or… Read more »
3 minutes readKey takeaways ID is fastest and most stable; CSS is the practical default when there is no ID. XPath is the slowest and the most brittle, especially when it depends on position. A locator that needs explaining is a sign the page needs a test attribute. When it comes to automated UI testing with Selenium… Read more »
2 minutes readKey takeaways UI steps let you script a real journey rather than checking a single URL. Build the scenario in the order a user would follow, then run it to confirm each step resolves. Keep scenarios short. A long chain fails often and tells you little about where. With Automated Website Testing Service from LoadFocus.com… Read more »
3 minutes readKey takeaways Header presets stop you re-entering auth and content-type headers on every test. Keep a preset per environment so a test cannot accidentally target the wrong one. Update the preset rather than individual tests when an API changes. We’ve implemented the Header Presets functionality in order to save time and reused same set of… Read more »
