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Have you thought whether it’s easy to automate tests, simulating key pressing?  How is this handled in a browser-oriented tool like Selenium? Fortunately Selenium provides API for keyDown/Up and keyPress as well as a command to fire any event, which triggers correspondingly “on”-handler (of course - “fireEvent”). On the other hand the “type” command just sets the value of an input field, so that one can set new value of the input element without the need to fire any event. What if we need to see how a control behaves in case of some specific user input, though? An input ...

As started in my previous post Selenium supports XPath expressions, which is actually one of the most commonly used DOM element location strategies. Unfortunately people complain about slower tests in IE (the problem is explained in details and discussed here) because of the XPath as well as of some failing tests in IE, created for example with Selenium IDE in Firefox. These are due to the fact that Selenium includes external library in order to support XPath in IE too and Firefox supports it internally. So in other words, Selenium XPath support definitely differs in IE ...

How do you, guys, use Selenium to test your RadControls? That question is really my favorite! It has been asked by our customers and I would like to answer it with this post. Actually I've been closely watching Selenium forums for the past several months. People often think using Selenium is difficult but I would disagree. This reference explains the basics of writing Selenium tests. It seems people identify easily which command to use. However, most people experience difficulties getting a proper locator. Should the respective element contain an ID its locating is trivial, but what should we ...

It looks like Microsoft is investing in Second Life and soon several events will take place on the Visual Studio island they're building.This news isn't sensational but I like the idea.A...

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