This follows on from part 1 of our BDD with Ranorex 8 blog So far, we have done all the required set up in Visual Studio, now let's create our test framework! Base Test Class As all of our tests need to start and stop browsers and deal with the web page (DOM), lets just do [...]
BDD using Ranorex, NUnit, POM in Visual Studio 2017 In this example, we are going to work through creating a BDD project in Visual Studio using SpecFlow and Ranorex. This is to show that we can do BDD using Ranorex, but as a draw back we don’t have access to Object Repositories. This could create a [...]
How to use Maintenance Mode in Ranorex 8.0 Maintenance Mode is a handy new feature, added to Ranorex Studio in version 8.0. It allows for the ability to pause, catch and debug certain errors and then continue to run your tests, during test execution, therefore saving time and making the test script writing process, a whole [...]
Highlighting Web Elements with Selenium WebDriver C# Selenium WebDriver is a test automation tool used to drive web applications (hence the name) :D. It works at the user interface level, so it will click on buttons, enter text into text fields, perform validations for us etc. as well as a multitude of other functions. One issue, [...]
Continuous Integration with Ranorex Continuous Integration is a hot topic in the world of automated testing, and Ranorex provides some great integrations for this. It integrates directly with Git and GitHub through the Ranorex Studio IDE, Ranorex provide a Jenkins Plug-In for Test Execution, and as Ranorex is .NET, we can even automate the build [...]
Free Record & Replay Web Testing Tools Roundup Gartner reports that by 2020, Selenium WebDriver will have been adopted as the standard for all Web Testing. At Edgewords we provide training on developing WebDriver Tests programmatically, but what if we want to utilise simple Record & Replay Tools to get us up and running quickly? [...]
Ranorex and Appium Integration Ranorex 7.2 introduced the ability to test web applications in native web browsers in mobile devices. This means we can test Chrome, or Android's default Web Browsers on Android devices, or Safari on iOS devices! We can use emulators or physical devices, but our web tests can still be recorded simply [...]
In this Blog we take a look at some of the options provided with the ChromeDriver Server for starting Chrome with various options when using Selenium WebDriver. The examples are in C# so you may need to tailor for Java. Set Path to the ChromeDriver Server System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","C:\\Drivers\\chromedriver.exe") WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(); driver.get("http://www.google.com"); or you [...]
Headless Browser Testing - Selenium WebDriver Headless browser testing is simply testing a web pages functionality, without a GUI present. There are various different browsers we could use for this, including: Chrome Firefox PhantomJS HtmlUnit PhantomJS is the only driver that must be downloaded separately, the other three, come bundled in with their corresponding driver servers, [...]
The Ranorex Parallel Runner is a new feature in Ranorex Studio 7.2, it is a command-line tool that allows you to execute Web Tests against Selenium Server/Grid on remote machines, in parallel! This blog takes you through the set-up and process of using the Ranorex Parallel Runner, to execute our tests, remotely, in parallel. Requirements: Ranorex [...]