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… was what I was going to write about. I’ve been meaning to come up with a solution where I could do a combination of regular HTTP requests combined with Web Sockets combined with Redis to send messages easily back and forth between the backend and the frontend. My thought was that I might be ableContinue Reading “Browser Communication with Nginx and WebSockets…”
Magium tests are designed to be as cross browser compatible as possible. For that reason the Remote WebDriver component is used in all circumstances. However, there might be some times when you need to test browser specific configurations. One example is setting the browser language. Each browser has different ways of doing it. So givenContinue Reading “How to change browser settings in a Selenium test”
When I say that this is an experimental blog post I mean it. I’m thinking out loud here. Those who know me know that I am somewhat critical of some modern advancements in software design. It’s not that I’m a Luddite or anything but the root of my discontent is that software and real life oftenContinue Reading “Metaphysics and Software Design”
Out of the box Magium will select the first shipping method on the screen. But there might be some times when you need to validate a particular shipping method, or force an error to be thrown if a shipping method does not exist. ’tis now easy to do. use MagiumMagentoAbstractMagentoTestCase; class ShippingTest extends AbstractMagentoTestCase {Continue Reading “Validating Individual Shipping Methods”
A few days ago in response to an email newsletter I sent out one individual responded back asking about testing Terms and Conditions in Magento. When building out Magium, and its many components, I focus first on the things that I find important. If I haven’t used a feature then it won’t be very highContinue Reading “Testing Terms and Conditions in Magento”
Validating SLAs (Service Level Agreements) is often part of executing browser tests. With Magium you can now include page timings as part of your test. Say, for example, that part of your SLA is that a page must be rendered in less than 5 seconds. This is done by using the TTFBLoadedLessThan, DOMPageLoadedLessThan or DOMContentLoadedLessThanContinue Reading “Asserting page load times in Magento with Magium”
An easy way to check for errors is to open the browser console log. But that’s not so easy to automate, right? Actually it’s fairly easy. If you’re testing in Magium you can execute an assertion to validate that the browser log is empty, indicating that there are no errors on the page. It’s reallyContinue Reading “How to ensure there are no errors on a page”
It’s not just HTML elements that need to be tested, and sometimes not even testing that images or CSS files are being tested. Sometimes you need to test things like server configurations. Magium’s position is that there are a wealth of different areas where browser testing can benefit your organization. Validating browser testing configurations isContinue Reading “Validating that page assets are cached”
Let me say first of all, that I mostly like Flot as a charting application. It provides a lot of charting functionality and is reasonably good looking. But sometimes it is a bit of a pain to deal with. Case in point; I wanted to create a chart that had floating columns (Flot, in myContinue Reading “Drawing floating columns/bars in Flot”
I have spent several hours working on an issue while running Selenium Server under Xvfb with ChromeDriver. There would basically be a 30 second timeout when connecting to Selenium Server from WebDriver with this being the exception: 1) Tests\Magium\AbstractTestCase\CoreAssertionTest::testElementDisplayed Facebook\WebDriver\Exception\WebDriverCurlException: Curl error thrown for http POST to /session with params: {“desiredCapabilities”:{“browserName”:”chrome”,”platform”:”ANY”}} Operation timed out after 30001 milliseconds with 0Continue Reading “ChromeDriver hangs with Selenium Server and Xvfb”