QA folks need to do Regression Testing as part of their Job. Since doing Regression on daily/weekly basis is cumbersome, we automate the functional flows of our application and these are called FTs (Functional Tests). Apart from executing the FTs, we do manual testing mostly to validate the alignment, font size, colour etc. Since, manually verifying the colour of all controls/elements is a tedious and time-consuming job, we should automate it also. How? We can automate it by using Selenium Webdriver itself. For example, I am taking Java as a language of choice with Selenium... Read More

Long story short: Naukri.com recently participated & won the first prize in DSTC Test Automation Contest held by InStep Forum on 19th April 2016 in Radisson Blu, Dwarka. Read on for the full story… It all started when we got to know about a test automation contest being held in New Delhi. Eager to participate, we sent our nomination for the contest. A few days later we received a mail from DSTC informing that we need to fill in the details of the participants & put our opinions on the latest trends in Agile & Test Automation in order to shortlist the teams that would... Read More

Android Parallel Automation to increase Coverage Naukri has more than a lakh users using its Android application. These users are widely spread across multiple android devices with various combinations of android versions. We work hard to ensure that our application works well for our entire user base. Acknowledging that appium scripts are slow, it was a time taking task to execute a 10 hours long script on multiple devices, calculatedly taking around half a day in execution on single device and completely taking around two to three days on just 3 devices (in the best possible scenario). If... Read More

We all have heard the story of the Boy Who Cried Wolf, let’s just revisit it. “A shepherd-boy, who watched a flock of sheep near a village, brought out the villagers three or four times by crying out, "Wolf! Wolf!" and when his neighbours came to help him, laughed at them for their pains. The Wolf, however, did truly come at last. The Shepherd-boy, now really alarmed, shouted in an agony of terror: "Pray, do come and help me; the Wolf is killing the sheep"; but no one paid any heed to his cries, nor rendered any assistance. The Wolf, having no cause of fear, at his leisure lacerated or... Read More

Ever wondered what Crawling is all about, here, at Naukri? Why don't we just use any generic crawler or Why do we even crawl in the first place? We crawl jobs posted in the career sections of companies, to ease the pain of Recruiters. Instead of posting jobs manually, we help recruiters by pulling jobs  programmatically from their career sections. The crawler crawls jobs from websites based on client requests. Now, a bit about Crawling :- A Web crawler is a computer program that browses the World Wide Web in a methodical, automated manner or in an orderly fashion. We do not need to... Read More

The most common is to use the firefox addon User Agent Switcher, however, the browser window that opens has the same size as that of a desktop browser. If we simulate the size of a mobile phone browser our automation will be much more closer to an actual user interaction, moreover, the screenshots will capture the look of the web page on an actual mobile and would allow us to automate responsive design testing as well. Such an option is provided by the chrome screen emulator.   Emulators are pretty much exactly as their names suggest, they emulate how a browser would render a web page.... Read More

What is a wait and why it is used in automation scripts? Have you ever seen a traffic signal? What does the Red light in the Traffic signal indicate? The origin of wait comes from the traffic signal problem. As Red light in traffic signal asks the traffic to halt for some time, similarly wait is used to halt the execution of our automation script for a specified time. In other words wait asks our script to stop the execution for a specified time. Wait is mostly used by automation testers like us to debug our code or to avoid situations like Element not found Exception(s) by the webdriver.... Read More