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2016-03-23

Marionette, the next generation of FirefoxDriver

Marionette - Information and example

Starting with Firefox 46, it will no longer be possible to install unsigned extensions with Firefox. Since Selenium currently uses a Firefox extension to run WebDriver tests on Firefox, this will no longer work once Firefox 46 is released to the public.
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2016-02-17

Setting up and maintaining your own Selenium Grid

Intro

In this article we'll focus on setting up your own Selenium grid from scratch. A Selenium grid is a collection of browser nodes that are available for automated testing. We'll show you how to set up a Selenium Grid Master (or Hub, or Selenium Server, whichever you want to call it) and how to connect various Selenium Nodes to the grid.
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2016-01-29

Working on a real mobile device farm

We are working hard on providing a real mobile-device test lab to our customers. On May 1, 2016 we will make our device farm accessible for anyone using TestingBot.
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2015-12-30

Cloud testing with Sikuli and Selenium WebDriver

Sikuli is able to automate anything you see on your computer screen by using image recognition to identify components you want to interact with. This is very useful if you want to test things that are not easy to automate, for example native OS GUI components. Since Sikuli runs on Windows, Mac and Linux - it is extremely useful to use during your tests. TestingBot now supports Sikuli on all VMs: Windows (XP, VISTA, 8, 10), Linux (Ubuntu) and OS-X (Mavericks, Yosemite, El Capitan).
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2015-12-11

Uploading files with Selenium for testing

Since a lot of websites have upload functionality, it's important to know that this can be tested via Selenium.

Uploading a file during a test

With Selenium WebDriver it's possible to upload a file from your own computer.
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2015-11-13

TestingBot updates in Oktober/November

To keep up with the ever-changing world of software/development and testing, we keep on working to improve TestingBot and add new features. These last 2 months we've accomplished quite a few things:

add iOS 9.2 (currently beta) to our Selenium grid for automated/manual/screenshot testing

2015-10-05

PhantomJS Selenium testing in the cloud

Next to the +300 browser combinations we support we've now added support for PhantomJS. PhantomJS allows for headless testing of your websites. It is very fast compared to normal browsers, because it doesn't draw anything to the screen, does not require a desktop environment or any other slow components. Since it's so fast, it's perfect to use as a first test-run, before doing tests on real browsers.
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2015-09-28

TestingBot Breakpoints to debug your flakey Selenium tests

Today TestingBot has added a new feature that should help you debug issues you encounter when running automated tests. Suppose you're running a test and you notice something isn't quite working well (ajax request is failing, javascript errors, ...). When this happens, it'd be easy to simply pause the test, log in on the pristine virtual machine and start debugging with mouse and keyboard straight from your browser. You could fire up Developer Tools and inspect the javascript errors, or inspect the ajax requests for problems.
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2015-09-23

Selenium testing with Robot Framework

With Robot Framework you can build easy to read test cases, which can then be run via Selenium webdriver on our Selenium Grid. It allows using keyword driven, behavior driven approaches and provides reports in HTML format.

Setting up Robot Framework

2015-09-08

Chrome and Firefox beta/dev cross browser testing

This week we've been adding many more browser versions to our list of browsers you can pick from. You can now instantly launch a Chrome browser as old as version 35 on our website and use it with your mouse and keyboard. Or use it in your Selenium IDE/Selenium Builder/Webdriver test to automatically test your website. We've added Chrome versions 35 - 45 for all Mac (Yosemite/Mavericks), Linux and Windows (XP, 7, 8, 10) platforms.

Chrome and Firefox beta/dev versions

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