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Hello Everyone, In the first session on 'Security Testing', we had a discussion about following topics: 1. Web Security Testing 2. HTTP Protocol 3. Session ID & Cookies 4. OWASP 5. Live HTTP Header (Firefox Addon) We covered the basics of Web technology and discussed about how the web technology works as such. In the subsequent session, we shall concentrate on specific threats.

Hello everyone, This is Vasanth, one of the participants of Selenium Meet. Since the idea behind these meets is to share knowledge, I have scheduled next session on Security Testing. As most of you are aware of, Security testing has become one of the hot and emerging field in IT industry . Organizations give lot of emphasis to data security and take several measures to prevent various kinds of data breach. There are several tools available in the market that help us in identifying the security vulnerabilities. But these tools would provide us just with the result and will not be of much helpful in understanding the concept of underlying threats. Also, it is believed that the automated tools help us in identifying only the low hanging threats and only a seasoned professional could identify the threats that are hidden in the system. So, in the upcoming sessions, I would like to explain the concept behind the leading threats and would point you the various resources that we c...

Yesterday was the second session of Selenium Training meet. There were 109 registrations for meeting and 54 users participated in it. We discussed on - nth locator in CSS  Selenium IDE Firefox and Chrome Driver Using TestNG with Selenium You can access Selenium Training Video Recording here. I hope none of you encounters any issue with video recording this time. I have uploaded Selenium Java Project here, which we used during session. Don't hesitate to ask me any question about session or if you face any other issue with Selenium. Stay tuned for next session. As again a big thanks to AnyMetting for their wonderful resources.

Just finished first on line Selenium meeting. There were about 120 registration received and more than 60 users participated in meeting which does not seem bad for a meeting held on weekend. Meeting recordings can be watched here . Feel free to share in your contacts. A few of you complained about audio unavailability. If you are not able to hear audio then please reload/refresh the video URL. The meeting was largely focused on xPath and CSS locators. If you participated in meeting and have an opinion/suggestion then please post it here A few of you asked me to post questions I asked towards end of session. They are -

Note: If you are new to java and selenium then start with selenium java training videos .     There are times when you don't want a browser popping each time you execute the test. Or you just don't have privilege of having a browser display like in UNIX based system running your CI and not having any display. These are the times when you would find it right to execute your tests in headless browser mode. What we need - Xvfb: X virtual frame buffer is X11 server which does graphical operation in memory, hence no output is displayed. Wikipedia has more on it. Firefox: World famous open source browser A simple selenium test: As simple as launching Google in Firefox First we need to install Xvfb and FF on Ubantu as - sudo apt-get install Xvfb firefox Not you can start Xvfb as - Xvfb :1 -screen 0 1024x768x24 & From manual of Xvfb - -screen screennum WxHxD This option creates screen screennum and sets its width, height, and de...

Here are some of the latest Testing and IT news from our technical reporters - IT managers consortium has agreed that software testers would no longer be blamed for a production defects. Though they are yet to find some one who they could put blame on (Johny the developer is said to be already suffering from ProductionDefectoPhobia) Consortium has also agreed on having salary of software testers on par with software developer at least by 2020. There was an unanimous decision on increasing management salary by 23% from immediate effect Consortium has barred developed from using phrase "It works locally". Violation of this rule would attract 1 night out in office. Continuous violation would attract exponential salary deductions Speak and Automate - New era in automated testing. Voice Automation tool for web and windows application was released yesterday. This tool is capable of generating automation suites as you speak of application use cases.

I have seen many articles which compare Selenium (1 or 2) with QTP (or other commercial tools). But these articles miss very basic point that Selenium is a library available in variety of language while QTP has entire gamut of tools with it. So if you were to really compare QTP with Selenium then comparison should be based on the library of languages which is offered either of these tools, which in my opinion Selenium wins outright over QTP. My only intention of writing this post is not claim Selenium victory of QTP but to demonstrate how badly Selenium is compared with QTP at times. There might be things QTP would be good at doing (I left QTP long ago hence can not name any) but to disregard Selenium on the factors I listed herein is highly biased. Object spying - Sure, you have QTP recorder which does it for you but don't forget that you can test object locator using Selenium IDE and it is not limited to using only Selenium IDE. Firebug with Firefox can be used...