A strategic approach

If you cut a couple of hours and don't make other changes than next week more tests will be added... and the time will increase again.
So this is an excellent opportunity for a discussion on strategy.
Not to seek immediate answers (hence I'm not providing them), but to start the conversation for your given situation to see what will work for you.

Items worth discussing when focusing on value:

• How to know the value of testing a particular device / browser / version? 8 hours is already a subset of the hundreds of hours you could take to test more devices and browsers and versions.
  Don't spend $500 fixing a device that one user, revenue $3, uses. Always talk % of users, not IE version for 0.0001% of users when choosing browser support.
• How to choose unit vs. integration vs. UI testing? Time to talk test pyramid and agile testing quadrants
• How to choose happy vs sad paths? There are infinite number of sad paths. How do you decide which ones to test?
• How to set up parallel testing?
• What are the current bugs being reported when changes are made?
  Creating tests for real pain points can often add the most value
• What breaks the most when developers make changes, either for functionality or in the UI. Create automated tests for those breaks.
• How to 'stub' UI dependencies. This can be the 'big' slow down in calling network services (APIs etc). Set up mock data or a local proxy server with canned responses. This can be dramatic.
• Use production monitoring of dependent services availability without going through all the UI. Consider monitoring services and using Postman (for example) for checks for API endpoints. This way you'll still know if real production breaks but you can mock and stub dependencies for your tests. Test endpoint format to check breaking API changes.

However... this is what your manager themselves should be considering. If they are not... and you are... you can end up in a very awkward place. I've been there myself. In such a situation you should prepare a long list of questions that start to prompt your managers thinking to change. This change however has to come from them, You can only provide good leadership to them. Leadership is not always managment though we initially think it is.

In this light maybe try to gently start conversations about what is most important to test ('everything' is not a mature answer but bite your tongue if told this). People don't always behave logically (in the best interest of the company and customers that is) in 'management' situations where the style is authoritarian ('you must do x') as opposed to collegial 'How can we work together to meet this objective'.

Focus more on asking additional questions that will guide your work instead of focusing on statements such as 'technically cannot be reduced or removed', 'Technically is impossible'. When you use such absolutist terms to stress your argument you actually lose faith because programming in the real world is a pragmatic activity not an exercise in logic.
Save impossible for anti-gravity machines. At least for now

Short version:

• layout the factors affecting the choices to take (cost, coverage, people, etc).
• provide various alternatives with pros and cons for each
• let management pick the approach. Be sure you have covered the cons well.
• the options are essentially always: more computing power, more people power and reduced ('better targeted') scope.

Shorter version.

The factors to juggle and balance are money, people and time.

I've found a solution here: https://github.com/android/android-test/issues/911#issuecomment-849389068.

Basically, you download the newest swt.jar from Eclipse site and use it (under a different name, e.g. swt2.jar) when starting uiautomatorviewer, something like:

java -Xmx1600M -XstartOnFirstThread -Dcom.android.uiautomator.bindir="$ANDROID_HOME/tools" -Djava.ext.dirs=$ANDROID_HOME/tools/lib/x86_64:$ANDROID_HOME/tools/lib -cp "$ANDROID_HOME/tools/lib/x86_64/swt.jar":"$ANDROID_HOME/tools/lib/*" -jar $ANDROID_HOME/tools/lib/uiautomatorviewer-26.0.0-dev.jar

i need to identify the relative xpath for the 2nd button highlighted in the image

Can someone help me

//*contains(@class,'fa fa-clock-o')

I used this. It identifies the first button again.

I have a problem and I don't know how to solve that...

I have 5 exactly the same elements on the page (same div, same class, no id, same inner text). So I can build the XPath - where Selenium returns to me - the IList with IWebElements.

My Goal is to iterate thru this list and "somehow" get the IWebElement that I have clicked on...

I know, that I can use XPath like this: //div[2] for the second one, but this is the thing - How I can get information that I have clicked to the second WebElement from the list? Can I somehow compare the elements? (I have tried to compare GetHash() and compare the webelements - but both did not work)

I would like to have something like this:

- User clicks to the element
- My code determines, that there are many of them
- My code get the information that user clicked to the n-th element from the list
- My code will generate xpath -> //div[x] where x is the order of the element in the list

Any advice?

I have tried this but it does not work:

private int GetTheOrderOfTheElement(string xpath, IWebElement objID)
        {
            IList<IWebElement> el = driver.FindElements(By.XPath(xpath));
            int c = 0;
            foreach(IWebElement e in el)
            {
                if (e == objID) return c;
                c++;
            }


            return -1;
        }

You can make a call to TestRail's endpoint add_result_for_case. Example in Java:

Map data = new HashMap();
data.put("status_id", new Integer(1));
JSONObject r = (JSONObject) client.sendPost("add_result_for_case/1/1", data);

You can find the definition of the endpoint here.

You can find the complete documentation here and some extra examples of usage here.

My Code is:

bar = browser.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@id='ember26']/input")

But it changes every time I login. I can login with my codes but inside the LinkedIn, search bar XPath changes, like ;

//*[@id='ember16']/input or something else.

Any help is appreciated.

"Quality is value to someone (who matters)", Jerry Weinberg.

The three points talk about not delivering value to some of the people who matter. Thus you can say the application is of low quality to those people.

I don't think there's a special name for this particular situation. Nor do I think we should create one. I think we should try to keep things simple, rather than layer more artificial names of top of what we currently use.

We have established automated tests but it is not uncommon for them to fail against qa.

(we can fix them later, but different ones break from time to time)

I'd try to figure out why they fail and what I can do to repair them. This is key here in the whole situation. Having flaky tests (it seems so from the description, although it might be that the app is broken from time to time) not only because they don't really bring any value, but also because you keep spending a lot of time on them instead of on testing.

All in all, I'd keep stable tests in the suite and retire those flaky ones. Then I'd start working from this there.

I have problems: first, it did not send keys to the phone number, and the second when I select the value in a dropdown it shows me this error.

CONSOLE ERROR:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\LENOVO L540\PycharmProjects\pythonProject\EasyNeasy.py", line 49, in <module>
    area.select_by_visible_text('DHA')
  File "C:\Users\LENOVO L540\PycharmProjects\pythonProject\venv\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\support\select.py", line 140, in select_by_visible_text
    raise NoSuchElementException("Could not locate element with visible text: %s" % text)
selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: Could not locate element with visible text: DHA

PYTHON SCRIPT:

import time

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains
from selenium.webdriver.support.select import Select

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="C:\\chromedriver.exe")
driver.get("https://aujtravels.com/easyneasy/")
driver.maximize_window()
action = ActionChains(driver)
menu=driver.find_element_by_css_selector("li[class='list-inline-item cart-btn drop mr-0'] a[class='btn btn-link border-none']")
action.move_to_element(menu).perform()
childmenu =driver.find_element_by_xpath("//a[contains(text(),'Login')]")
action.move_to_element(childmenu).click().perform()
driver.find_element_by_id("email").send_keys("saniaaslam987@gmail.com")
driver.find_element_by_name("password").send_keys("123456")
driver.find_element_by_tag_name("button").click()
#print(driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@class='toast-message']").text)
time.sleep(3)
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@name='keyword']").send_keys("product")
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("[class*='search-form__submit form-btn form-btn--2']").click()
time.sleep(2)
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//h5[contains(text(),'Product Dummy 7')]").click()
driver.execute_script("window.scrollTo(0, 200)")
driver.find_element_by_class_name("checkmark").click()
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("button[class='btn btn-secondary btn-lg font-ubuntu']").click()
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//a[@href='https://aujtravels.com/easyneasy/cart']//img").click()
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//label[contains(@class,'checkbox-design m-auto p-0 d-inline-block m-checkbox')]//span[contains(@class,'checkmark')]").click()
time.sleep(1)
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("#plusButtonId5").click()
time.sleep(1)
print(driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[contains(text(),'Cart updated successfully')]").text)
time.sleep(3)
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("#proceed_btn").click()
time.sleep(1)
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//a[contains(text(),'+ Add New Address')]").click()
time.sleep(2)
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//a[contains(text(),'Add New Address')]").click()
time.sleep(2)
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("#name").send_keys("Arsal")
time.sleep(2)
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@id='phone']").send_keys("12345678901")
driver.find_element_by_id("address").send_keys("8")
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@id='street']").send_keys("ghang Road ")
cities =Select(driver.find_element_by_css_selector("#city_id"))
cities.select_by_visible_text('Karachi')
area=Select(driver.find_element_by_xpath("//select[@id='district_id']"))
time.sleep(2)
area.select_by_visible_text('DHA')
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("#zip_code").send_keys("39350")
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//label[@for='shipping_address']").click()
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("#add_address_btn").click()
driver.get_screenshot_as_file("screen.png")

picture:

WebElement Searchbox = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.xpath("//span[contains(text(),'Search')]/ancestor::button")));

Searchbox.click();

webdriver wait returns the element , so don't find it before using wait . ALso change normalize text to text() or string()