by Kevin Schroeder | 11:24 am

How to ensure there are no errors on a page

An easy way to check for errors is to open the browser console log. But that’s not so easy to automate, right? Actually it’s fairly easy. If you’re testing in Magium you can execute

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by Kevin Schroeder | 11:24 am

Validating that page assets are cached

It’s not just HTML elements that need to be tested, and sometimes not even testing that images or CSS files are being tested. Sometimes you need to test things like server configurations. Magium’s position

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by Kevin Schroeder | 8:08 pm

Drawing floating columns/bars in Flot

Let me say first of all, that I mostly like Flot as a charting application. It provides a lot of charting functionality and is reasonably good looking. But sometimes it is a bit of

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by Kevin Schroeder | 7:07 am

ChromeDriver hangs with Selenium Server and Xvfb

I have spent several hours working on an issue while running Selenium Server under Xvfb with ChromeDriver.  There would basically be a 30 second timeout when connecting to Selenium Server from WebDriver with this being the exception: 1)

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by Kevin Schroeder | 3:20 pm

Browser Testing Twitter OAuth Accounts

I added a Twitter OAuth integration in @magiumlib so you can easily do authentication automation. pic.twitter.com/NjHvvRDG9G — Kevin Schroeder (@kpschrade) April 6, 2016 This is a simple library to help browser tests perform OAuth

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by Kevin Schroeder | 3:19 pm

Logging in to the Magento Admin UI

Logging in to the admin UI is fairly simple, but there are a few things you need to do ahead of time. The actual functionality looks like this: class LoginTest extends MagiumMagentoAbstractMagentoTestCase { public

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by Kevin Schroeder | 3:19 pm

Recording for March 23, 2016 Webinar: Using the Magium Instruction Navigators

The micro-webinar “Using the Magium Instruction Navigators” is now live on YouTube Powered by WPeMatico

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by Kevin Schroeder | 3:26 pm

Excluding fields in the mongodb/mongodb library

I am using the mongodb/mongodb library for a project of mine.  The API seems fairly different from the old PECL library and it also came with some other, albeit unexpected, baggage. My understanding of the library

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by Kevin Schroeder | 12:56 pm

Micro-Webinar: Using the Instruction Navigator in Magium – March 23, 2016: 12:00 EDT

On Wednesday, March 23, 2016 I will be hosting a 15 minute micro-webinar on how to use the instruction navigator. The instruction navigator is used to navigate around your Magento site when you need

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by Kevin Schroeder | 12:56 pm
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