I would like to adhere to the fail-fast methodology when writing automated end-to-end tests, but there's a problem I see with the methodology that I'm not sure how to get around. What happens when there are multiple unrelated points of failure in a test that are introduced at the same time? Your test will fail fast on the first one and not run to completion, so you won't know about the rest of them. You won't be able to even find out about the rest of them until the first point of failure is fixed. This can lead to a frustrating back-and-forth with developers as they fix one problem and you immediately bring them a new one.

The specific scenario I'm thinking of is entering data into a form on a webpage. If the DOM properties you use to access elements on the page have changed for some reason and your test can no longer find them, wouldn't you rather know about all of them at once, so you can bring a list of them to the developer?

Here I'm using LinkedIn for the learning purpose & want to perform the action on Edit profile=> Work experience=> Add position. Here "Add position" button comes under work experience which becomes visible on hovering to that specific area. Look at my code,

driver.findElement(By.id("login-email")).clear();
driver.findElement(By.id("login email")).sendKeys("email id");
driver.findElement(By.id("login-password")).clear();
driver.findElement(By.id("login-password")).sendKeys("password");
driver.findElement(By.name("submit")).click();
driver.findElement(By.linkText("Home")).click();
driver.findElement(By.linkText("Profile")).click();
Thread.sleep(3000);

/* To scroll the page down */

JavascriptExecutor jse = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
jse.executeScript("window.scrollBy(0,250)", "");

/* To hover mouse on required option*/

Actions hover=new Actions(driver);
hover.moveToElement(driver.findElement(By.xpath("id('background-experience')/div[1]/div/button[1]")));
driver.findElement(By.xpath("id('background-experience')/div[1]/div/button[1]")).click();
Thread.sleep(5000);

/* To Edit company name */

driver.findElement(By.xpath("id('companyName-positionCompany-position-editPositionForm')")).clear();
driver.findElement(By.xpath("id('companyName-positionCompany-position-editPositionForm')")).sendKeys("testing company");

This is continued to edit work details but when I execute, it stops the page at work experience & not able to click on add position button to edit work. It gives error on "edit company" code line. Can anyone help me perform the same?

Yes, you can use open source tool JMeter for load testing of this application and it will work perfectly fine. Regarding your issue of "Cross-site request forgery" (CSRF) token, you need to use Regex for the same. Actually, this CSRF token is generated at run time and can be used only once, so if you use its hard-coded value in your script (i.e. recorded value) then you will ran into trouble, because that is a used token and is no more valid for use.

I have done load testing of a eCommerce site in my organization which too used this CSRF token for authentication purpose. I too used JMeter and there I used Regular Expression Extractor for extracting and passing value of CSRF token to subsequent request.

In my case this CSRF token is generated at the very first hit/request to the application, so I added 'Regular Expression Extractor' as child of that request and passed it to next request(s) where it was being used.

In addition to it, use Cookie Manager too for maintaining the session (if your application have one), if not being used already.

Try the same and your issue will get resolved. Just to eliminate your feeling about 'use open source technology', I can tell you JMeter is a very good tool for performance testing of web applications.

After further research, come across the following links:

https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues/886

https://code.google.com/p/chromedriver/issues/detail?id=962

http://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/

https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/capabilities

Although I did not see any definitive conclusion, someone hinted that the problem occurs when there is another chrome instance already open. I then made sure this does not happen - and now my webdriver instance opens with the desired profile and works.

As far as I understand, seems this is a expected behavior - you cannot have two instances running the very same profile. You may ask, then, how come I can run multiple web driver instances with no problem ? Well, this happens because instantiating a webdriver object - without specifying a specific profile - creates a temporary one. So all instances one opens run on different profiles.

Here is an example would help you

getDatabank("demoCSV").getNextDatabankRecord();
    //get Record count
    int recordCount = getDatabank("demoCSV").getDatabankRecordCount();
    String count = Integer.toString(recordCount);
    info("Record Count = " + count );

    //get specific record 
    int recordCoun1 = getDatabank("demoCSV").getDatabankRecordCount();
    for (int i=1; i

Where demoCSV is a csv file with column empName

SQL have one field i.e. Date

My application's UI have three drop down

1. Day
2. Month
3. Year

I inserted its value using CONCAT

$c3date=  @trim(stripslashes($_POST['c3year']. '-' . $_POST['c3month'] . '-' . $_POST['c3day']));

and values are stored in Database.

How can I view the 'Day', 'Month' and 'Year'? I need separate values of 'Day', 'Month' and 'Year'.

The Scroll element in the page is actually a div with scroll bound to it. Here is the HTML snippet.

I have tried with the following code, but it didn't work out

WebElement scrollArea = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("div.slimScrollBar"));
JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor) driver; 
js.executeScript("arguments[0].scrollTop = arguments[1];",scrollArea, 250); 
Thread.sleep(1000); 

Help is appreciated!

you can easily do that using:
Robot rt = new Robot();
rt.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_F12);

You can try creating xpath with text() like these:

1. //span[contains(text(),'Users')]
2. //span[contains(text(),'Contents')]

My HTML code:

This is the WebDriver code I'm writing:

String repos =  new String("\keur\BVGO");
Select repo = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("selectrepo")));
repo.selectByVisibleText(repos);

and also

repo.selectByValue("\keur\BVGO");
repo.selectByVisibleText("\keur\BVGO");

How do I find this element?