JCenter is the easiest way to add your Java artifacts as a part of this massive community. JCenter is a superset repository of maven central. The most amazing feature is that the sync of your java library inclusion is seamless and immediate after approval. In order to link a package…

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JFrog Bintray is a cloud platform that gives you full control over how you publish, store, promote, and distribute software. In this article, I will be creating a custom image installing node, chrome browser and Lighthouse CI with Ubuntu as the base image and uploading it to Bintray. If you…

Lighthouse is an open-source automated tool that audits for performance, accessibility, SEO, best practices, PWA and much more for the web application under test. Lighthouse CI (LHCI) is a layer of commands that enables us to run, assert, save and fetch LHCI results. In this article, I will go over…

One of the features that we all crave for is a recorded video of the tests we ran. It helps us in debugging as well as reporting of our bugs. There are definitely multiple ways to do it. For starters using ffmpeg with its video recording APIs, using zalenium, selenium-grid-extras…

One of the hidden features that Appium has is screen recording. It is inbuilt and unlike configuring things externally like how we do with Selenium, the APIs are available out of the box. START RECORDING SCREEN In order to start the recording, we just need to call the startRecordingScreen() method from the respective…

One important feature in my opinion that is missing in Cucumber JVM at the moment are global hooks (beforeAll and afterAll). To ensure we get the global hooks feature, we implement the Base Class with ConcurrentEventListener interface and define setEventPublisher method. After this is done, we add this class as a plugin. This has been tested with cucumber-4. This works even if the tests are running are in parallel.

Selenium Page Factory helps us to implement the Page Object Model design pattern. One of the limitations with the page factory however, is that we can’t read locators from an external resource like a property file or a JSON. …