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Selenium IDE if element exists

December 21, 2018February 8, 2023Lance Cleveland

Did you know you can tell Selenium IDE to execute certain commands only if a specific element exists on the page? The if element exists trick makes your web app…Continue readingSelenium IDE if element exists

Technology Web App Testing

Cypress.IO WordPress Login Management

May 26, 2018Lance Cleveland

Keeping the WordPress login intact between Cypress.IO tests was a challenge. There are plenty of Cypress.IO articles about login management and just as many about “anti-pattern” which lean toward the…Continue readingCypress.IO WordPress Login Management

Quality Assurance Technology

Cypress.IO Shortcomings — Pattern or Die

April 9, 2018Lance Cleveland

Digging into Cypress.IO in a sprint to replace my almost-completely-useless stack of Selenium IDE tests for Store Locator Plus, I’ve run into some issues that seem to go beyond my lack…Continue readingCypress.IO Shortcomings — Pattern or Die

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CypressIO Simplifies Web App Testing

February 15, 2018Lance Cleveland

After discussing projects over the past week, one of the guys at Automattic brought up CypressIO. If you’ve been following the recent posts on Lance.Bio you know that the path…Continue readingCypressIO Simplifies Web App Testing

Programming Quality Assurance

Setting Up WebdriverIO For Automated Website Testing

February 13, 2018Lance Cleveland

I’ve been writing about Selenium IDE for years , telling anyone that would listen how it helps automate user experience testing. Recently , with the demise of Selenium IDE…Continue readingSetting Up WebdriverIO For Automated Website Testing

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Selenium on JavaScript : New WordPress Site Config Script

September 27, 2017Lance Cleveland

This article continues the journey into learning Selenium on JavaScript (SoJa). It builds on the lessons of the previous articles and adds some common library functions to make our tests…Continue readingSelenium on JavaScript : New WordPress Site Config Script

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A Simple Selenium Script Example Using JavaScript and Safari

September 22, 2017Lance Cleveland

In my previous articles I showed how to enable Safari for web automation (hint: developer menu Allow Remote Automation) and how to get your Node.js environment setup on MacOS to…Continue readingA Simple Selenium Script Example Using JavaScript and Safari

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Selenium IDE Rollups With Arguments

April 18, 2017Lance Cleveland

As I prepare another release of Store Locator Plus with some new features I’ve decided it is time to up my QA-fu with Selenium. I’ve been using Selenium IDE…Continue readingSelenium IDE Rollups With Arguments