Ever had that: after a simple change, suddenly 50+ tests are failing! Brittle tests that hinge on GUI specifics and result in the dreaded NoSuchElementException are a main headache when testing with Selenium.

The open source project recheck offers a simple and elegant solution. Not only is a virtual identifier unaffected by UI changes, you can define it for otherwise hard to specify elements, i.e. that would require complex xpath or CSS selector expressions. And on top of that, tests are easier to create and maintain and yet much more complete in what they check. This talk gives a practical introduction to the underlying approach and the tool, complete with a life coding session.

With frequent time boxed releases and flexible requirements in agile teams, test automation faces numerous challenges. The most frequent issues being too much to automate and never enough time, automation lagging behind, flaky scripts that need too much maintenance and lack of skill, time & resources. Haven’t we all asked what to automate and how to go about the daily tasks with the automation cloud looming over our heads. Here we’ll discuss answers to some of these questions and try to outline a number of approaches that agile teams can take in their selection of what to automate, how to go about their automation and whom to involve, and when to schedule these tasks so that the releases are debt free and of best quality.

What to Automate –> Regression averse approach | Selective approach | Sanity Automation | Max automation approach

When to Automate –> End-of-Release | Sprint n-1 approach | Continuous automation

How to Automate –> All hands approach | Shared Automation expert | Code-averse tool

Understanding these possibilities, you can pick the right combination to form your own test automation strategies. Let us have a look at an integration of these possibilities, the possible combinations and what may or may not work!

We’ll love browsing, it may be your blogs, visiting your pages, searching for a content and it may be an application you developed. So, have you ever observed issues like slowness in web-application while browsing, reduce in page performance over time, application quit unexpectedly, and devices stop working? And no wonder every new web technology in this era faces this issue and these applications are victim of memory leaks?

In a world of automated system, everything is automatically managed under browser hood for a web application. Asynchronous operations, Executing instructions, Automatic garbage collection etc. But even after effective management of operations in a complex program, there is a small amount of failures happens in disposing the memory used and those are difficult to debug because they are not the application features.

So, it is important for every web developer/tester sitting out there to understand/visualize the importance of memory leaks in an application, Because at the end we’re the one responsible to make the application to be alive