A mouse hover is done on an element to fire an event on that element. If we hover on the menus of a webpage the submenus appears. Thus this event gets triggered on hovering on an element.It is evident from the above image that on hovering over the Packages menu ... Read More

We can find an element with a specific text visible on the screen in Selenium. This is achieved with the xpath locator. The xpath locator contains some in-built functions that help to create customized xpath.Let us consider a portion of the web page as given below −text() − It is ... Read More

Whenever we encounter a failure during testing, it is a common nature to capture the screenshots wherever there is a deviation from the expected result. Thus it is considered a mandatory step to attach a screenshot for creating a bug.While automating a bunch of test cases of a considerable number, ... Read More

Selenium can handle Windows based pop up. There may be scenarios where a web page opens more than one window after performing some actions on it. The child windows that get opened may be a pop up containing some information or advertisement.Selenium uses the getWindowHandles () and getWindowHandle () methods ... Read More

The differences between selenium IDE, RC & Webdriver are listed below :FunctionalitiesSelenium IDESelenium RCSelenium WebdriverRecord and playbackIt has the record and playback feature.It does not have a record and playback.It does not have a record and playback.ServerIt requires no server to start execution of test cases.It requires the server to ... Read More

Cypress supports most of the modern applications built on React, Angular and so on. Often Cypress is compared with automation tools like Selenium. There are a lot of debates on which is a better tool [Cypress and Selenium] with respect to automation.However both Cypress and Selenium both have a set ... Read More

Cypress Dashboard is an option that enables us to see the recorded tests and gives us detail on the events that took place during execution. It gives a visual display of the test execution, their reports and status of the runs. It is a useful tool while we are executing ... Read More

Cypress in its earlier versions was not capable of handling frames. However in its latest version, they have given us the solution to automate scenarios with frames. A frame is an html structure which resides inside another html structure.If we want to access an element which is inside a frame, ... Read More

Sometimes on clicking a link or button, it opens to another window often known as the child window. Cypress has a unique way of handling child windows unlike other automation tools like Selenium and Protractor. It basically keeps no information on the child window by shifting its focus from the ... Read More

The mouseover actions are very common in web pages where a list of elements becomes visible once we hover on it. Cypress does not support mouse over actions like other automation tools like Selenium as it considers it to be flaky.Cypress shall manipulate DOM elements to perform mouse over actions. ... Read More