As a Beginner, i am performing Manual Testing very well.   But when it comes to automated testing, I have struggled somewhat. I have used Load Runner fairly well. i am trying to learn more about using Selenium which seems very popular.   how to be excellent in automated testing?    I tried selenium, but have had some difficulties in checking conditions.  How can i improve my abilities as an automation tester? Is there an easier tools or approach I could use?
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I've just started automating all the tests our team has (~5000). I'm using Telerik Test Studio for the Silverlight automation. I have some tests written, but I'm quickly realizing that with each test it's becoming harder to maintain. Here are some things I'm wondering:   In Telerik, each test seems to have its own Elements Page, even though they're testing the same Silverlight page. Can I not just reference another test's Elements Page? That would make copy/pasting steps a lot easier since then I wouldn't have to add the elements to each test's Element Page individually. Does automation allow for running tests on different computers? We have some tests that find folders through a SL directory browser dialog, but even though I'm navigating to tests through object name (not by point/click mouse movement) if I run these tests on another computer it won't properly navigate to that directory.  Are there any good books that can help a beginner learn best practices so I don't create 5k automated tests that aren't maintainable?
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Is there a way to get the tests inside of a TestCase to run in a certain order? For example, I want to separate the life cycle of an object from creation to use to destruction but I need to make sure that the object is set up first before I run the other tests.
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After reading the overwhelming responses to the question , I decided to ask the same question but for the Advanced Developer Certification!  I have more than one year of experience as a Salesforce Certified Developer. I am planning to study and pass the Advanced Developer Certification to hone my skills into an advanced developer. Again, exactly as mentioned in the aforementioned question/post, the official page has little information and the study guide gives too broad a description of the topics in the examination. Hence, if you can give us some information, resources, practice examinations, hints, tips, or advice, it will be of great help!  An added advantage is that I have access to online Salesforce Partner Premier Training. What online training topics should I go though?  Edit: And perhaps any topics which everybody would not be doing in their day to day work?
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I have thus far avoided the nightmare that is testing multi-threaded code since it just seems like too much of a minefield.  I'd like to ask how people have gone about testing code that relies on threads for successful execution, or just how people have gone about testing those kinds of issues that only show up when two threads interact in a given manner?  This seems like a really key problem for programmers today, it would be useful to pool our knowledge on this one imho.
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I have a question about Microsoft Certifications. What is the best Stack Exchange site to ask that question on?  The question was about MCTS, whether it is an accumulation of tests (like MCSD) or if each test is stand alone.
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Should I learn Python or Java to get into test automation?  I'm new to programming. Please share your thoughts or links to any useful information.
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SO has helped me so much in times of need. It is crazy - sometimes I am having a huge issue with a program I'm working on at school or work, and I post it on SO and the answers come quickly and easily. Lots of time it's a typo, while others it's a deep misunderstanding of mine. I wonder how I can fit in here at Stack Overflow. How I can contribute. In fact, I feel such a “beginner”, I don't even know where to look half the time. But I see there is now a place for /Programmers/ which leads me to wonder if there can be a site for beginners - and strictly beginners. Beginners post in Stack Overflow, and only beginners can post answers. Meaning, you must ask a question in the beginners forum in order to answer one. Or something, I'm not sure, I just want a place to connect with others who are just starting out how to learn about programming, and want to get the chance to answer other beginner questions so I can learn more (you learn 40% of what you do and 90% of what you teach). What do you all think about this?
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We have merely just had a kick off meeting for a new project that I am required to automate ASAP. The project is essentially a "mailbox project", if you will, and I have no idea as to where to start my test automation on this type of project as I am fairly new to selenium automation. Emails will however be sent/received via Gmail. I would really appreciate any help or advice on how/where to start my automation with regards to this project... if at all possible :).  The framework I am using is Eclipse, TestNG and of course selenium:). Language - Java
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I am fairly new to Force.com development (less than a year). I did not learn it from the ground up. So I think it will be good to study for the developer exam to strengthen my basics and improve my overall knowledge of Force.com + it will be great to have this certification.  Now it's surprising that there is not a lot of great information on the web about how to go about obtaining this certification. Most other major certifications have dedicated study guide books available but there are few for Force.com and I don't think any of them are official.   The official page has little information. The Study guide gives a broad description of the topics in the test.   I see a lot of the esteemed members are here certified developers. I think if you guys could give us a little information, hints/tips and some advice on how to prepare for this exam, it will really be of great help. Also is DEV401 required/helpful?  Also if we could get recommendations for great resources(books, online training etc) and practice tests it will be awesome.
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Simple question: how do you guys develop (write) a landing page and test it? Publishing and waiting for updating url and refreshing?  Isn't that a little bit "horrible"?  Any idea of developing and testing with cloudpages?  How can I see errors in my ampscript code when my landing url throws a 500 error?  Thank you!
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After reading so many answers and forums it makes me confused. Some people say: Selenium webdriver is a browser automation tool and it has nothing to do with the database. And some other showing JARs and code that how we can connect selenium to the database and we can test database using selenium webdriver. So I would really like to know if we can do database testing using selenium? If yes then which databases tool it supports like Mysql, SQL server, Oracle... And if selenium is not suitable for database testing then please recommend to me the best tool for database testing.
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Can anyone please let me know how the data-driven testing is done using the Postman?  I read some post in the online, it seems to be by using collection we need to run the collections at the time we can able to upload the CSV file and JSON for Data driver.  When I tried to upload the CSV the iteration count is not showing automatically  Can anyone show some simple example to perform this task? It will be helpful for automation testing for web services
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I have start learning Selenium WebDriver, but i am confused between Java and Python. Which language should i choose? I do have basic ideas of Core Java but haven't wrote a single piece of code with python.  So please suggest me which is the better language for Selenium WebDriver?
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I am a beginner in learning selenium Webdriver. I am not able to understand how page object and factory models works and how it can be beneficial?    Kindly help me explain it with detailed explanation.
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Which are the most advanced frameworks and tools there are available for python for practicing Behavior Driven Development? Especially finding similar tools as rspec and mocha for ruby would be great.
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I have some "corporative" systems I have to use at work. Some of them are terrible, with frames, pop-ups and such.  I was thinking about automating some stuff using curl or something like that. I need login, click on hyperlinks, set some data, and them do some post.  Is it possible to use curl? Or am I'm going to be better using something like Selenium?
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I am looking for most universal, up to date, open source, selenium framework for test automation. Or at least a number of frameworks for different languages. I am surprised as how every company and every test automation developer is building his own framework. It feels like  over and over again. Even Dave Haeffner  about how everyone wants to build their own. Yet in the links provided in the video by him, the framework collection seems poor (one framework per language) and, at least for java, out of date (2 years old), only with 6 contributors, and seems to be copyrighted. In test automation community so many things seem to be de facto standard. Why not pull it all together and have a repository, actvively maintained by test automation developers. As for this question to not seem too much opinion based: Please provide links for Java-Selenium-JUnit frameworks you know and use and believe in.