I just started my career as a Junior Tester

Step1: Requested XML Data using HTTP Request

    Path: /vitalhub/rest/patientlists
    ResponseData:
   
   
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    Test List
   
   
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    123
   
   
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    Random Patient List
   
   
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    Custom List
   
   

Step2: Added a XpathExtractor as

   Reference Name: listName
   Xpath Query:patientLists/patientList/name/text()

Step3: Added debugSampler and these were the results

   JMeterVariables:
   JMeterThread.last_sample_ok=true
   JMeterThread.pack=org.apache.jmeter.threads.SamplePackage@393d25f8
   START.HMS=134134
   START.MS=1447267294003
   START.YMD=20151111
   TESTSTART.MS=1447709583847
   applicationDomain=VitalHubChart
   bulkCiphers=NONE
   deviceId= dev1
   devicePassword=vitalhub123
   key=55fbcb5c-f71a-42ce-995e-72a7c44145b3
   key_1=55fbcb5c-f71a-42ce-995e-72a7c44145b3
   key_matchNr=1
   listName=Test List
   listName_1=Test List
   listName_2=123
   listName_3=Random Patient List
   listName_4=Custom List
   listName_matchNr=4
   password=testcp
   sessionId=f3e8a037-d6e6-4ed4-b5db-993c713417f0
   sessionId_1=f3e8a037-d6e6-4ed4-b5db-993c713417f0
   sessionId_matchNr=1
   user=testcp
   userName=testcp
   userPass= testcp

Step4: Added an other Http Request to get the results by using ListName

  Path: /vitalhub/rest/patientLists/name/${listName_1}

By using Step4 I can just get info of a single list. I have to change it to listName_2..4 to get different list results

How can I automate these requests?

I tried using foreach loop and RegularExpressionExtractor and tried using BeanShellPostProcessor, but was unable to solve it

I would be thankful if anyone can answer my question.

TL DR: Establish a baseline, tinker, and react.

In general developers should not worry too much about cross browser testing. Yes, it's a problem, and yes, they need to be aware of it, but I would keep it to a minimum. Let them focus on great functionality first, and not that developers shouldn't care about quality (because they totally should!) but in general they should defer that to the experts in it.

However, there are obvious cases where they should. If they're fixing a bug specific to a browser or browser version, clearly they need to test on that browser and version. Ideally they check the other browsers in this case too, since cross browser bugs are most likely to produce other cross browser bugs when you fix them.

Okay, so there's one side that says leave it all to the QA, and one that says obviously there's a little that devs have to do. Where is the happy medium? And the only answer to that depends greatly on your individual organization. You can learn this only through uncontrolled experimentation.

Start off with very little cross browser testing (and, in general, other types of unexpected developer testing). After gathering metrics for a few sprints or releases, identify the types of testing that would have caught these bugs faster. It might be cross browser testing. It might only be one or two browsers that often cause problems. It might be ones that interface with a certain other system. Modify the developer's test scripts they follow to include those specific kinds of tests. Then wait to see if your rates in those areas go down significantly. And the significantly part is important. If you've increased your developer testing time by 10% for a 10% drop in bugs in that area, I'd say that's a loss (because that developer time could have been spent on a dedicated QA person who would have probably caught more). If you drop by 50% in that area, suddenly it starts to pay off more. But what I think doesn't matter. It's about what's best for your organization that does.

Where the thresholds are will be determined by the costs incurred by your organization in terms of how much faster bugs get fixed, how many fewer bugs are reported, and more importantly how the schedule is impacted. (That's the goal, right? Reduce bugs so developers don't spend their time re-coding what they already did?)

Like so many things in SQA, you have to establish a baseline, tinker, and react.

Using .NET's C#:

I was thrilled to learn how to start a web driver session with your local cookie data here.

The browser now starts with my bookmarks and cookies loaded (I tested accessing sites that require authorization, to which I have already logged in in the past and saved the credentials).

However, for some reason, my web driver instance will not respond to a simple GoToUrl(). In fact, the command prompt is always reporting about the session timing out after 60 seconds.

What is interesting, nevertheless, is that the following code will work if I simply suppress the line that adds the cookie path argument. (I have done lots of stuff with ChromeDrive already).

    ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
    options.AddArgument(string.Format("user-data-dir={0}", "C:/Users/Me/AppData/Local/Google/Chrome/User Data"));
IWebDriver wd = new ChromeDriver(options);

wd.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://www.google.com");

I tried other ChromeDriver overloads, such as the one that uses a ChromeDriverService, to no avail.

My chromedriver.exe obviously exists in D:/ (otherwise I would get a different error message).

What's wrong ?

I just need to know the answer to "What are the Types of Validation Testing?"

I would say there is no concrete answer to this. Sure there are idealistic 'regression test everytime', but we are rarely afforded the luxury.

So it then comes down to risk management.

1. Is this module critical - ie worst case scenario what can it break. Ex:
   Is it a change in how a profile is being saved? Is the profile being used as part of the whole system or is it just a side page that doesn't have any critical parts?
2. How much time do you have?
3. Is this module known to be very complicated? or is it super straightforward?

These are sort of basic questions that come down to estimation of any type of testing but becomes more important in the 'just one change'. You want to make sure you cover the worst case scenario and know what can be the fallout from not having regression tested it. And make sure the team knows about the risks. It might be worth it to just test the code change itself, or you might be shooting yourself in the foot. It really depends on system and feature complexity (and in developer skill as well).

I am facing this 'Cannot insantiate class' error on running one of my test cases in Selenium webdriver using Java.

Below is the class of the functionality of the test,

package Pages;

import java.util.List;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedConditions;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.WebDriverWait;

import Lib.lib;

public class KnowledgeBase extends lib{

    By sortBylink = By.xpath("html/body/div[1]/featured-studies-grid/div[2]/featured-studies-toolbar/div/div[2]/div[2]/div/div");
    By featuredOption = By.xpath("html/body/div[1]/featured-studies-grid/div[2]/featured-studies-toolbar/div/div[2]/div[2]/div/ul/li[1]");
    By mostRcnt = By.xpath("html/body/div[1]/featured-studies-grid/div[2]/featured-studies-toolbar/div/div[2]/div[2]/div/ul/li[2]");

    String featOption = driver.findElement(By.xpath("html/body/div[1]/featured-studies-grid/div[2]/featured-studies-toolbar/div/div[2]/div[2]/div/ul/li[1]")).getText();

    String mostRecent = driver.findElement(By.xpath("html/body/div[1]/featured-studies-grid/div[2]/featured-studies-toolbar/div/div[2]/div[2]/div/ul/li[2]")).getText();

    public void initSBy() throws Exception
    {
        driver.findElement(sortBylink).click();
        Thread.sleep(1500);
    }

    public void selectfO() throws Exception
    {
        driver.findElement(featuredOption).click();
        Thread.sleep(5000);
    }

    public void selectMr() throws Exception
    {
        driver.findElement(mostRcnt).click();
        Thread.sleep(5000);
    }

    public void sortBy(String sProp) throws Exception
    {
        this.initSBy();

        if (sProp == "featOption") {

            this.selectfO();

        }

        else if (sProp == "mostRecent"){

            this.selectMr();
        }

        else {

            System.out.println("Incorrect option. Test failed.");
        }
    }


}

Below is my Test Case Class

package TestCases;

import org.testng.annotations.Test;

import Lib.lib;
import Pages.KnowledgeBase;
import Pages.LoginPage;

public class sortingTextKB extends lib {

    LoginPage uLogin = new LoginPage();
    KnowledgeBase sortObj = new KnowledgeBase();

    //Logging In
    @Test (priority = 1)
    public void loggingIn() throws Exception
    {
        uLogin.loginToKB("uzii@test.com", "uziiiii");
    }

    //Sorting
    @Test (priority = 2)
    public void sortIn() throws Exception
    {
        sortObj.sortBy("Most Recent");
    }

}

Below is my Lib class, that contains the chrome driver configuration

package Lib;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeOptions;
import org.testng.annotations.BeforeTest;
import org.testng.annotations.AfterTest;

public class lib {

    protected static WebDriver driver = null;

    @BeforeTest
    public void chrome_extension()
    {
        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "chromedriver.exe");
        ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
        options.addArguments("--start-maximized");
        driver = new ChromeDriver(options);
        driver.get("http://www.testsite.com");
    }


    @AfterTest
    public void quit()
    {
        driver.quit();
    }

}

When I run my test case class, I am getting the following error,

org.testng.TestNGException: 
Cannot instantiate class TestCases.sortingTextKB
    at org.testng.internal.ObjectFactoryImpl.newInstance(ObjectFactoryImpl.java:38)
    at org.testng.internal.ClassHelper.createInstance1(ClassHelper.java:387)
    at org.testng.internal.ClassHelper.createInstance(ClassHelper.java:299)
    at org.testng.internal.ClassImpl.getDefaultInstance(ClassImpl.java:110)
    at org.testng.internal.ClassImpl.getInstances(ClassImpl.java:186)
    at org.testng.internal.TestNGClassFinder.(TestNGClassFinder.java:120)
    at org.testng.TestRunner.initMethods(TestRunner.java:409)
    at org.testng.TestRunner.init(TestRunner.java:235)
    at org.testng.TestRunner.init(TestRunner.java:205)
    at org.testng.TestRunner.(TestRunner.java:160)
    at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG$1.newTestRunner(RemoteTestNG.java:141)
    at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG$DelegatingTestRunnerFactory.newTestRunner(RemoteTestNG.java:271)
    at org.testng.SuiteRunner$ProxyTestRunnerFactory.newTestRunner(SuiteRunner.java:561)
    at org.testng.SuiteRunner.init(SuiteRunner.java:157)
    at org.testng.SuiteRunner.(SuiteRunner.java:111)
    at org.testng.TestNG.createSuiteRunner(TestNG.java:1299)
    at org.testng.TestNG.createSuiteRunners(TestNG.java:1286)
    at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesLocally(TestNG.java:1140)
    at org.testng.TestNG.run(TestNG.java:1057)
    at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG.run(RemoteTestNG.java:111)
    at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG.initAndRun(RemoteTestNG.java:204)
    at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG.main(RemoteTestNG.java:175)
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)
    at org.testng.internal.ObjectFactoryImpl.newInstance(ObjectFactoryImpl.java:29)
    ... 21 more
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
    at Pages.KnowledgeBase.(KnowledgeBase.java:22)
    at TestCases.sortingTextKB.(sortingTextKB.java:12)
    ... 26 more

Following is line 22 of KnowledgeBase class,

String featOption = driver.findElement(By.xpath("html/body/div[1]/featured-studies-grid/div[2]/featured-studies-toolbar/div/div[2]/div[2]/div/ul/li[1]")).getText();

Please let me know why I am facing this 'cannot instantiate class' error. Thanks

I'm not sure why you would ever want to do that, but one way is to simply execute some javascript.

import org.openqa.selenium.JavascriptExecutor;    

((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("document.title = 'new title'");

EDIT

Changing text on a webpage (as per the comments) is achievable with pretty much the same method. just execute some javascript. so, inside the quotes instead of document.title = 'new title' use document.getElementById('firstHeading').innerHTML = 'new text' or for modern browsers use textContent instead of innerHTML.

Has anyone used these? I'm in the market for a simple issue tracking tool and all of our code bases are stored on GitLab (or they have been). We have a relatively small team and while I was looking for Issue tracking tools for our team I thought....well heck why not use GitLabs integrated Issue tracking tool?

(Since the users are there and it's "free" as in we've been using it so it wouldn't cost any additional money)...is there really any downside to this?

I mean for a Huge team it might not make sense, but our team is only like 4-5 devs and 1 qa (me)...it seems like a fine solution?

Anyone using it have any pro's/con's?

I've seen this kind of specifications in companies where their users are provided with specific devices, as for example, doctors inside a hospital to access to the patients clinical registers... because they know that the app (or web) will be used only for a reduced set of devices.

Another example, is when you are focusing on a specific market (China, US, etc.). Then, you'll probably know which are the most typical devices, but it's so dynamic (after one year there will be different set of most-used devices). As I see it, it doesn't make sense to specify this. It's probably better to let this job to the test team, adjusting the set of devices on each release... according to the current most-used set.

Hope it helps! Regards

Do we have to test on emulators or a real devices for testing mobile applications?