Tagged: selenium

Let's talk about the benefits of abstraction and some historical Selenium notes in the context of Selenium and Germanium.

Writing selectors shouldn't be always complicated. Here is a quick comparison between a few more popular selectors.

As usual Germanium gets a driver update, but this time, but here's the other goodies packaged in.

We all got tired at some point of finding element by XPath, since it's error prone and hard to maintain. A naive approach might be using string constants, but is there another way?

Version 2.0.1 and 2.0.2 list of changes.

Setting up the infrastructure is simpler with the Selenium Grid that is provisioned by Germanium, and available in Docker. All the regression tests are running against the grid now.

Version 1.10.0 offers now Edge support. In order to access it you just need to update Germanium (pip install -U germanium), and call open_browser('edge').

With the release of Germanium 1.9.0, not only the positional filtering was completely rewritten (keeping 100% backwards compatibility), but finding items positionally is incredibly simple now.

Finally there is no need in downloading drivers for WebDriver. With Germanium the drivers are tested and packed in.

With the new release of Firefox 47, the WebDriver support was left in limbo. On one hand, the old WebDriver API is not accessible anymore, on the other hand the new API (Marionette) explicitly doesn't supports it.