Typically i find the best way to organize elements in a selenium based test is to use the page object pattern: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/PageObject.html (there is a bunch of literature out there this is just one example)

The way it works is you define a class for each page of your application and fill that class with all of the elements and functions of that page for example:

I don't know the syntax 100% so I am just going to use sudo code in my example

class LoginPage{
    // username box element
    // password box element
    // signIn Button element

    public void login(String username, String password){
        //in here you would interacte with the above elements to hopefully log in
    }

then from your test script you simply need to call LoginPage.login("myUsername", "MyPassword")

I am Using IntelliJ Idea 2016.3.4 and JDK 1.8. It has an inspection that claims the following:

java: non-static method sendKeys(java.lang.CharSequence...) cannot be referenced from a static context

@Test(priority = 4)
public void requestSearchedISIN() {
    driver.get(CTACustomerRFQ.CustomerLanding_URL);
    customerRFQPage.typesearchedISIN(CTACustomerRFQ.ISIN);
    WebElement.sendKeys(Keys.DOWN);
    WebElement.sendKeys(Keys.RETURN);

I already tried below steps, but it didn't work

File-->Project Structure-->ProjectSettings-->Project In "Project Language level" field select "7-Diamonds, ARM, Multi-catch etc"

How should I resolve this?

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If an application is written in a certain language, e.g. Python, Ruby, Clojure, etc. should Quality Engineers use the same language to write the tests?

Should this be a decision that we can apply to multiple applications written in different languages?

What factors should be considered and what are the advantages / disadvantages of using the same vs different language? How does this relate to white box / black box testing ?

Your example feature does not use the browser, but your code does:

context.browser = webdriver.Chrome()

The error you are getting is from Chrome, not from your test. For some reason the hardware acceleration is giving issues.

I would try the following things:

• Remove the webdriver code as your example does not need it.
• Update Chrome, the chromedriver and your operating system to the latest versions.
• Add the --use-gl=desktop as an argument for starting Chrome to disable hardware-acceleration. Read this for how-to do that with python.

Now I am typing this I am wondering if you system has a GPU. You are not working on a virtual machine without hardware 3d-acceleration, are you? Probably you are.

I'm new to Selenium WebDriver. I'm trying to automate a search function on a particular page.

There are a search input box and a search button (actually, it is a search icon) next to it. I'm able to identify the search box & enter (search) data into the box. But the problem is in identifying the search icon. Inspecting with Firebug shows it has 3 matching nodes. I see all 3 of them have identical attributes & values. The tag name indicates the search icon is an image file.

 <img id="search-icon" style="width:auto; height:23px" onerror="this.onerror=null; this.src='/sites/all/themes/hjknewstheme/images/searchicon.png'" src="/sites/all/themes/hjknewstheme/images/gray_search.svg"/>

How can I get Selenium identify the locator for this element? I tried using ID & also customized XPath. Neither one is working. Any help in handling this issue would be greatly appreciated.

Here's the Xpath I used:

driver.findElementByXPath("//img[@src='/sites/all/themes/hjknewstheme/images/gray_search.svg']").click();

I also used id as a locator. That didn't work either. Here's a snippet of the search icon.

The search icon image is at the beginning of my post.

In my test, I need to wait for text until it will be loaded.

I have a list of countries and cities. After I choice country I must wait until cities will be loaded. How I can wait without time.sleep()?

time.sleep(2)

select_country = Select(self.browser.css("#country_id"))
select_country.select_by_visible_text("Russia")

time.sleep(2)

select_city = Select(self.browser.css("#city_id"))
select_city.select_by_visible_text("Moscow") 

I'd start with the seleniumIDE, a firefox plugin

If you outgrow that use selenium with a language binding - ruby, python, c#, javascript, java, etc.
Check here

Selenium is what the browser vendors agree to support and maintain so it is the best choice and underlies most web UI automation frameworks.

Image based processes should be avoided if possible as they are fragile and require more maintenance

I determine applications that are valid candidates for UI Regression/Automation Testing by using the following factors:

• Revenue and profit
• Amount of functionality
• Expected product lifetime
• Business domain complexity
• Length of time to manually test
• Unit and integration test coverage
• Ratio of manual testers to the devs
• Complexity of the functionality to test
• History of missing bugs by manual testing
• Experience and availability of manual testers
• Cost of manual testers compared to automation
• Number of devices, browsers and versions to test on
• Workflow and whether manual testing holds things up

After some more research I think I can comfortably answer this myself, I think a good approach is to target the STLC and talk about each step.

• Test Requirement Analysis: Look at the requirements, work out if there is any test automation feasibility here, which types of testing are also feasible. Deliverables: A Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).

• Test Planning: Consider various factors of the greater project, like risks, scope, entry/exit criteria etc and contribute to estimations. Deliverables: An estimation document, A test plan or test strategy document.

• Test Creation: Creating the test cases, mapping them effectively in the RTM. Reviewing and tweaking the test cases with peers. Creating test data and automation scripts where applicable. Deliverables: Updated RTM.

• Test Environment Setup: Preparing the test environment in anticipation for the first build, tweaking any configurations such as xml configs, IIS configurations etc. Creating a database instance and having it ready for the build, its likely we have an existing version already, maybe we added a new database and need a connection string etc.

• Test Execution: Executing the test cases, logging any defects and following them through to closure, re-testing any fix implementations. RTM is updated and completed during this phase, test case status is updated with progress.

• Test Cycle Closure: The testing team will meet and create a retrospective to help them improve in future, thinking of new processes that can or should be implemented and refining the existing ones. Here a test cycle report is generated, containing information about the number of defects discovered and their priority/severity, cost and test time etc, aswell as some other test metrics documentation.

Providing understanding of the above, coupled with thorough test cases for the scenario at hand, would in my opinion be a very solid answer to the question