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What to do when Firefox crashes under test automation with Selenium

If you have the task to create automated tests for websites you will most likely make use of Selenium when it comes to testing UI interactions. To execute the tests for the various browsers out there each browser vendor offers a so called driver package  which has to be used by Selenium to run each of the commands. In case of Firefox this will be geckodriver. Within the last months we got a couple of issues reported for geckodriver that Firefox sometimes crashes while the tests are running. This feedbackContinue readingWhat to do when Firefox crashes under test automation with Selenium

Element interactability checks with geckodriver and Firefox 58

When you are using Selenium and geckodriver to automate your tests in Firefox you might see a behavior change with Firefox 58 when using the commands Element Click or Element Send Keys. For both commands we have enabled the interactability checks by default now. That means that if such an operation has to be performed for any kind of element it will be checked first, if a click on it or sending keys to it would work from a normal user perspective at all. If not a not-interactable error willContinue readingElement interactability checks with geckodriver and Firefox 58

Firefox Automation report – Q3 2015

It’s time for another Firefox Automation report! It’s incredible how fast a quarter passes by without that I have time to write reports more often. Hopefully it will change soon – news will be posted in a follow-up blog post. Ok, so what happened last quarter for our projects. Mozharness One of my deliverables in Q3 was to create mozharness scripts for our various tests in the firefox-ui-tests repository, so that our custom runner scripts can be replaced. This gives us a way more stable system and additional features likeContinue readingFirefox Automation report – Q3 2015

mozdownload 1.18 released

Today we have released mozdownload 1.18 to PyPI. The reason why I think it’s worth a blog post is that with this version we finally added support for a sane API. With it available using the mozdownload code in your own script is getting much easier. So there is no need to instantiate a specific scraper anymore but a factory scraper is doing all the work depending on the options it gets. Here some examples: If you are using mozdownload via its API you can also easily get the remoteContinue readingmozdownload 1.18 released

Mozmill 2.0 released!

Believe it or don’t believe it. But this announcement is for real! Really, you can trust me! If you still think it’s a joke I can say: even with the expected release of Mozmill 2.0 was like Duke Nukem Forever over the past 3 years, we finally finished all bits and got it released yesterday. Check it out yourself on pypi: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mozmill. So the whole process of working on a new release of Mozmill might have been started when we branched for the final 1.5 release, which was on AugContinue readingMozmill 2.0 released!

Mozdownload 1.9 released

Oh my! It happened again. And here it is. Another release of mozdownload with a couple of new features included. As a regular user please let us know if all is working well, or if you want to see some new features included. Below you can find an overview about the main features in mozdownload 1.9: Tinderbox builds can be downloaded by timestamp now For linux64 the 64-bit and not the 32-bit installer gets downloaded Support for the stub installer on Windows has been added Better error messages are displayedContinue readingMozdownload 1.9 released

Mozmill 1.5.22 and 2.0rc5 released

As of today we can announce a double release of Mozmill versions. While for Mozmill 1.5 it might hopefully be the last update, our final Mozmill 2.0 release is coming really close. The now released RC5 should be the last release candidate. Mozmill 1.5.22 Another update of Mozmill on our 1.5 branch was necessary given that the Thunderbird folks detected a memory leak (bug 876399) in our module loading code via a sandbox. This is now fixed and different tests no longer share global objects anymore. Beside that the followingContinue readingMozmill 1.5.22 and 2.0rc5 released

MozInstall 1.0 released

A crucial part of test automation is the fact that you can install and uninstall the application under test. While the installer part for Gecko based applications was already included in MozInstall we missed the uninstaller feature. I have added this feature now for the 1.0 release. On Windows it will first try to run the Firefox uninstaller in silent mode to remove any trace even from the registry. If files remain or if you are on another platform the specified folder will just be wiped out. This work isContinue readingMozInstall 1.0 released

Mozmill 1.5.12 released

Something we have learned over the weekend was: Never say never. After we have released the 1.5.11 release of Mozmill on April 19th, we were sure to not have to ship any other release off this branch. We want to concentrate our work on Mozmill 2.0 and get it out as soon as possible. But things can change, and sometimes faster as expected. So by last Friday (it was already late in the evening) Mike Conley contacted me on IRC and mentioned that Mozmill will be broken starting with tomorrowsContinue readingMozmill 1.5.12 released

MemChaser 0.3 is out

Late on Thursday we got our MemChaser 0.3 release out the door. Compared to the last releases this version comes with a ton of new features and bug fixes. Most of them have been requested by users and from the JS team so we put some extra focus on those. As you can see in the image new ui elements have been added. The memory and garbage collector related items are equivalent to the buttons in ‘about:memory‘ and help those users who want to trigger a memory clean-up more oftenContinue readingMemChaser 0.3 is out

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