I'm automating this irctc site as hands on selenium webdriver.
It is asking me for captcha code along with username and password. Is there anyway to automate the captcha code?
You obviously failed to understand what CAPTCHA is; from WikiPedia:
A CAPTCHA (a backronym for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart") is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to determine whether or not the user is human.
As was already mentioned in other answers and comments, there are several possible attacks to defeat this. You can get links to several other options from the same WikiPedia page. But note that all of these are more of a proof-of-concept, rather than an out-of-the-box solution.
Since you tagged your question with Selenium, it is possible that you may be using this in an environment that you control, such as test environment at your work. In such a scenario, the easiest solution is to ask your developers to introduce a "test" flag for any non-production deployments. When this flag is active, a predefined phrase will always pass the CAPTCHA for testing purposes. However, you should still have a full-pass test, with everything turned on as if real production.
1.try import this javasc ocr lib or other ocr lib. https://github.com/antimatter15/ocrad.js
2.read the result and pick only upper case char
There is no proper way to automate captcha using Selenium WebDriver.
The only way to run an automated test script involving captcha is to have sufficient delay when the captcha appears so that a human can enter it on the field provided.
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Some websites have a "protected" by google recaptcha thing, and it will check the user before letting them use select features of the website. However where this thing fails, is that it won't allow you to fill out recaptcha to prove you are human. It will just deny you access whenever the google recaptcha is suspicious of you. I also noticed that if I go and find a google recaptcha to solve, with the selenium automation extension, it will be literally impossible to solve it, even if the answers are correct 100% of the time. It will give you the hardest level difficulty recaptcha to solve, and every time you solve one, it will just give you another one. I did ten in a row and it still did not let me solve the recaptcha. So how do I use selenium in a testing environment with recaptcha without having back end access to the website I am testing.
I know one person is going to say "CAPTCHA, an acronym for "Completely Automated Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart"." and you are dumb for asking this question, just give up. So if you are going to say that, please move on to the next question.
I want to be able to use Java to tell it to go to X url when X browser is open/running (my lingo is terrible). (Firefox/Chrome/IE is already up, and I want it to go from the default page to let's say Twitter.)
Most of the solutions are using java.awt.Desktop to launch native browser with a url in it, but that isn't useful if I want to change the url later on. (Already on Twitter-Home Page, but want to go to Twitter-Contact Us afterwards.)
The other solutions I've seen involve using Selenium WebDriver, but I also need to eventually learn how to basically force the Java to read a long list of URLs off an excel and simply verify that url isn't dead, and then do this on the Native Android browser, for example. So the Selenium might not be the right choice. Granted, you can also tell me this is an awesome choice for this too if it truly is. I haven't really been exploring Selenium.
Sorry for asking such a basic question. Company wants QA Automation without training/hiring an Automation QA. My end goal (aside not getting canned), is to see if I can get a bunch of urls to load on specific browsers. I can sort of (praying) be able to do stuff with it afterwards.
A simple trick would be to create an add-on( if you know javascript ) which will be quite similar in chrome and firefox (for IE I have no idea in my days it needed BHO) and send websocket commands from java to your addon. But this needs a java websocket server running where your addon will connect when the browser opens. Rest of communication can be carried upon the protocol lines of your requirements.
There are multiple parts to your question.
Read urls from excel.
Use Apache POI to do the same. Selenium code can use the same.
Check that the urls are not dead.
Use any java http client, (apache) to do that without even opening a browser. If the link is dead, it will be dead for all the browser.
Open the links in a multiple browsers.
Selenium is perfect for this. I am assuming that after the page is loaded you have way of validating that the page is correct. Selenium is very powerful here.
Target native android browser too.
I do not know of much difference between this and the previous question unless you are also testing site display based on browser size. The browser is more or less the same as chrome with webkit rendering engine.
I am aware a bunch of similar questions such as (Interact flash elements using WebDriver) have been asked in the past however it is still not clear how best to interact with a Flash Element on a page in association with Selenium's Java WebDriver.
By default I know it doesnt support Flash, so I use it to log onto the site which is fine. Now I need to interact with a flash element as seen on this page :
http://store.nike.com/us/en_us/product/free-tr-4-id/?piid=34979&pbid=517639039
I want to be able to pick a shoe size from the Flash on the left hand side of the page, and then click the add to cart button.
Can anybody who has achieved this please offer their guidance and opinion on the best way. I have tried https://code.google.com/p/flash-selenium/ however this appears to be old, or not compatible with the new Java WebDriver.
The answer to your question is: No, there is no way you can interact with Flash from/using Selenium WebDriver. Full stop.
I know there are heaps of developers out there need to automated Flash. But this has never been a part of the Selenium project and it will never be added into. You might want to have a wander around Selenium Users group.
For projects like flash-selenium and flex-ui-selenium, they are not part of the Selenium project but created by third party, which means they can easily be discontinued due to various reasons. If you have decided to use them, you might end up developing the project itself instead of using it. Furthermore, I'm not aware of such projects compatible with Selenium WebDriver anyway.
One other possible solution might be using Sikuli, which is not a Flash automation tool though. It should support automating Flash with its unique image comparison technology. But once again, this has nothing to do with Selenium in any way.
There is a massive misconception that webdriver cannot interact with flash elements.The answer is YES you can interact with flash elements embedded inside html if you can locate the xy coordinates you can interact using selenium ACTION class like so..
Actions Action = new Actions(driver);
WebElement e = driver.findElements(By.cssSelector("button"));
Action.moveToElement(e).clickAndHold().perform();
Action.release().perform();
I've had a whale of a time attempting to figure this out, considering the limited documentation that I can find outside of the API itself.
I have a liferay portlet that simply clicks on a button, pops up a form with a bunch of fields, and then submits that form.
I want to use Selenium (or really any automation tool that can do this with Liferay) to similuate 100-500 concurrent submissions.
Has anyone used Selenium with LifeRay in a similar manner?
Selenium is a good tool to test the correctness of you web system, NOT to test the permormace of this system. For Stress testing you should use another tool, like JMeter http://jmeter.apache.org/ . Or you can code test script with HtmlUnit http://htmlunit.sourceforge.net/
We need a tool to test a set of fairly complex Java applications. The applications are mostly independent client programs or applets communicating with a servlet or apache server at a remote site. Specs:
Runnable on Windows XP, Vista and 7
Parameterizable (Can specify in a script the sequence of buttons to click, text to type in JTextFields and browser address bar etc.)
Can quit or bail out or display a nasty message if the expected window or dialog box doesn't appear
Record the output on the Java Console of browser in a .txt file (IE is sufficient for now) when the application opens a browser window.
While running, I should be able to see it running with folded hands while it would run
for a few minutes
We were thinking of writing an AWTRobot based tool that reads a command file and does this - (don't know how to do #3 or #4 yet - will ask you folks some day how to detect a window on the desktop). Would you suggest an open source tool available to do this? We don't need anything fancy to capture video or screenshots. Thank you, - M.S.
For browser based automated testing you can use Selenuim or you can use WebDriver.
The selenium project is hosted here
If you don't need to test the way the pages are actually rendered by the browser, but instead need to work at the HTTP/HTTPS/etc request level then have a look at JMeter. It has parametrization, dataproviders, graphs, and a proxy component for recording http user sessions.
If you do need browser testing, then, as has already been mentioned, Selenium is probably the best freely available tool. For production I would recommend using Selenium Remote Control server which can be driven by scripts written in Java/Python/C#/Perl/PHP.
To see what tools people use in real production environments, and to do your own research on what is available I recommend www.sqaforums.com.
Have a look at Sikuli
The reason I suggest this is it sounds like you need to test both a Java applet and the content of a native browser (launched from Java, but not itself Java) -- so it's not "Java all the way".
I'm not sure what you mean by criteria 4, though. It is worth noting that as Sukuli works by image analysis, it won't be able to copy text to a text file.
This question is an invitation for sales pitch, don't you think. How about Mercury Quicktest professional ( I believe its HP Quick test now). I do not believe this will be cheap either ( and well its HP, it will probably only work in IE ;)).
Since you want an open source solution, I believe, the most popular option is selenium and yes its a pain to configure sometimes ( like for Flex for example). So you should try Watir.
There is a lot of good buzz around it and when I evaluated it, I loved what I see.Also it does not work for desktop applications, I suggest you try some other solution for that.
(The problem is open source GUI testing tools are not usually all inclusive. If you need one solution to handle all your gui testing needs, then you should check out the more commercial ones like QTP.
I have used IBM Rational Functional Tester. It has everything you need and it's quite easy to learn. The scripting language is either Java or VB.Net so you won't have to worry about learning a language for your tests.
I had some pretty good results with Squish from FrogLogic and didn't break the bank: http://www.froglogic.com/products/
Did you try Squsih - http://www.froglogic.com/products/index.php