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Released Selenide 7.16.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Hello!

Who’s up for a Friday release of Selenide 7.16.0?

A whole civilization of old-school manual test writers will perish tonight and will never come back. I don’t want that to happen, and I feel sorry for these slow guys, but it probably will. Sad!

Selenide MCP server

It’s happening, folks!

Released Selenide 7.15.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Good night!

We’ve got release Selenide 7.15.0!

Just minutes ago we launched Operation Java’s Roar.
A massive new release of our Java library.
Nobody builds Java libraries like we do. Nobody.
We fixed the bugs. We destroyed the slow code. Completely obliterated it.
And the performance? Tremendous performance. The best performance you’ve ever seen.

Download file without content

Selenide has method $.download() allowing to download a file from a test.
Usually it’s useful to verify the name and content of the downloaded file. Or at least its format (pdf/xls/csv/…).

Released Selenide 7.14.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Good evening!

We’ve got a release Selenide 7.14.0!

Well, we have a concept of a release.

I think it’s going to be a very good release for the Selenide also for you.

Fixed downloading files with space in name

Well, that’s a classic.

Released Selenide 7.13.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Hello, coldies!

We’ve got a new release Selenide 7.13.0, let’s start the unboxing!

Sped up downloading files from Selenium Grid

Selenide has method $.download() that downloads a file in the browser, and returns this file. It’s useful for testing all kinds of reports, Excel and PDF files etc.

Released Selenide 7.12.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Stay a while, oh moment!

The second release of Selenide 7.12.0 has been done in October. Don’t miss the update!

I can’t put into words the whole range of emotions…

When you spend every month hacking away at something, releasing it — and then suddenly see that people are actually reading the release notes and upgrading — isn’t that the best reward?

Screenshots with DevTools/BiDi

Selenide now uses a different method for taking screenshots than the standard webdriver method: either using DevTools (in Chromium) or BiDi (in Firefox).

Released Selenide 7.11.1

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Good morning!

Great news: we released Selenide 7.11.1.

You’re five weeks working on a release that should have taken a week, Are you a paper tiger?

Yes, the changes are more internal to technical. But they still can break something in your tests. ;)

Disable smooth scrolling

Sometimes tests may flake when they try to click a web element which is moving exactly at this moment. Sometimes it’s moving because of “smooth scrolling” used in web design.

Released Selenide 7.10.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Head õhtut!

On August 20, Estonia celebrates its second birthday – Independence Restoration Day.

In honor of the holiday we made a release Selenide 7.10.0.

Now it’s our video recorder’s second birthday too! (it’s been heavily redesigned)

Speed up the video recorder

In the first versions of the video recorder, we used the org.bytedeco:javacv library to merge all captured screenshots into a video file.

Released Selenide 7.9.4

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Hey there!

I get it — it’s July, it’s hot, work’s the last thing on your mind. But you do need to update to Selenide 7.9.4!

Updated Selenium from 4.33.0 to 4.34.0

And updated CDP from v137 to v138.
Also, updated Appium from 9.4.0 to 9.5.0

Released Selenide 7.9.3

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Tue, 27 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Hello!

Before the summer begins, it’s a good moment to upgrade to Selenide 7.9.3.

Updated Selenium from 4.32.0 to 4.33.0

And bumped CDP version from v136 to v137. It’s crazy how cool this is!

See PR 3034

Click holding left keys

Recently we implemented JS click while holding keys ALT, CTRL, SHIFT or META.

Released Selenide 7.9.2

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Thu, 08 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Hiiiee!

White smoke has emerged, signalling a new release has been made: Selenide 7.9.2.

Fixed colors on video

In November, we added video recorder to Selenide. This is an insanely useful feature for debugging tests, but turns out the generated videos had some color defects.

Before

On the left, there is the original web page. On the right - how it looked in videos:

Released Selenide 7.9.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Hello, quadrobers!

We have released Selenide 7.9.0.

You know, tariffs set to rise to at least 104% on features import in Selenide… ¯¯_(ツ)_/¯¯

Attach screenshots to Jenkins and GitLab

When you run tests, Selenide automatically takes screenshots.

The path to the screenshot is added to the error message. This is very convenient when running locally, but when the tests are run on Gitlab, GitHub Actions or Jenkins, you still need to somehow save these files (archive, download artifacts, etc.).

Released Selenide 7.8.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Mi amore, mi amore!

This evening, my outie released Selenide 7.8.0.

I am wondering if my innie will read this text tomorrow morning and get familiar with the new Selenide features?

New functions for Appium

For Appium users, we added three new functions:

activate an app,
terminate the app,
relaunch the app.

You can find all these methods in class SelenideAppium:

Released Selenide 7.7.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Happy New Year everyone!

We started the year with a release Selenide 7.7.0.

Added support for Moon

Once upon a time, the guys from Aerokube created Selenoid - it was like Selenium Grid on steroids. Selenoid could run browsers in Docker, shot videos and quickly became popular. Four years ago, we added support for Selenoid in Selenide.

Year summary

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Happy New Year!

Damn 2024 is finally over, time to take stock of the year.

Milestones

This year we have released 18 versions (from 7.0.5 to 7.6.1) and implemented several important features:

Elves

These guys have been working tirelessly all year and putting presents under the tree. This job is extremely important for the project, despite the fact that their names are often not even visible in press releases, because many of these changes are internal or too technical. Sometimes they don’t even get merged at all.

Released Selenide 7.6.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Good evening!
We released Selenide 7.6.0 with something tasty and interesting.
Yo-yo, rush to update!

Videos are a serious thing. If there are videos, then they reflect something.

What’s new:

Added video recorder

Finally!

Released Selenide 7.5.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Long time no see, cats!

I wrote the last release notes in April. Since then, we have made a few releases, the most significant was 7.4.0.

But now it’s time to upgrade to Selenide 7.5.0:

New configuration for every browser

Selenide has one nuance that might not be obvious to newcomers: all settings in Configuration class are static. When you change any setting in one test, it affects other tests as well. It may be especially important when running tests in parallel.

Released Selenide 7.3.1

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Good morning!

We released Selenide 7.3.1.

It’s a tiny release, so it will be easy to upgrade. Let’s start the unboxing:

Mock response with specific content type

As you know, Selenide allows to mock server response using its built-in proxy server:

Released Selenide 7.2.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Damn February.

To lift your spirits a bit, try to upgrade to Selenide 7.2.0:

Download files from Selenium Grid

Finally!
Now you can download using FOLDER method from Selenium Grid.
Until now, FOLDER only worked for local browsers and Selenoid.

Released Selenide 7.1.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Good evening! Happy New Year, happy new hopes!

Today we have a fresh shiny Selenide 7.1.0 one on the menu:

Download files with CDP

Less than three years have passed since CDP was introduced into Selenium, and we have already downloaded files using it! As you know, there are several ways to download files in Selenide: HTTPGET, FOLDER, PROXY. Now CDP has been added to them:

Released Selenide 7.0.1

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Yesterday we released Selenide 7.0.0. I expected complains about Java 17, but…

no. Nobody complained about Java 17. And that’s great!
But people asked to restore loops over collections.

Well, in today update Selenide 7.0.1 we restored a couple of things:

Restore loops over collections

Now you can use for loop again:

Released Selenide 7.0.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Happy birthday!

Today is October 25. Today, 12 years ago the first commit in the Selenide project was created.

For the holiday, we released a major release Selenide 7.0.0 with the update immediately to Java 17.

Updated to Java 17

Wow!
This day came!

Released Selenide 6.19.1

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Good morning!

The world is frozen in anticipation, big changes are coming! Selenide 7.0.0 will be coming soon with an update to Java 11.

The era of Java8 lambda cuckolds is passing

At last, we released the last version that can run on Java 8:

Selenide 6.19.1

Mostly there are dependency updates, primarily Appium 8.6.0:

bump Appium from 8.5.1 to 8.6.0 (#2494)
Bump BrowserUpProxy (#2510)
Bump Netty from 4.1.98.Final to 4.1.100.Final (#2484) (#2498)
Bump LittleProxy from 2.0.21 to 2.0.22 (#2491)
Bump Guava from 32.1.2-jre to 32.1.3-jre (#2499)
Bump Jackson from 2.15.2 to 2.15.3 (#2502) (#2503)
Bump commons-io from 2.13.0 to 2.14.0 (#2486)

Andrei Solntsev

Released Selenide 6.19.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Good Sunday!
At the end of September, we released Selenide 6.19.0.

New method `$.highlight()` for highlighting a web element

I feel like we’re opening another Pandora’s box, but what can we do?

Well, we’ve added a method to highlight an element.

Released Selenide 6.18.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Good night!

Good news.
We released Selenide 6.18.0.

Show actual texts in collections

In Selenide 6.16.0, we speed up collections checks.

$$(".troubles").shouldHave(texts(
 "Health", "Emptiness", 
 "Financial Crisis", "Career Pressure"));

One of the optimizations was: if collection size doesn’t match the number of expected texts, Selenide doesn’t even start loading texts of elements, but immediately throws an error:

Released Selenide 6.17.2

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Good evening!

Today is August, 24 - Ukraine Independence Day.
And in honor of this holiday - a small release Selenide 6.17.2.

Un-hanged the hanging webdriver. Again.

In the previous release, we fixed the problem with hanging webdriver for most users.
But the unfortunate ones remained, who are forced to open the tested sites in Chrome through BasicAuth. For these users, webdriver still hangs.

What was left for us? We had to revert CDP-based authentication until the webdriver issue gets fixed.

Released Selenide 6.17.1

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Good morning! Today is August, 20 - Restoration of Independence day in Estonia.

In honor of this holiday - a small release Selenide 6.17.1!

Un-hang hanging webdriver

In Selenide 6.16.0 (PR 2358), we occasionally introduced a bug that caused webdriver hanging in some situations. More exactly, if you call open(url, pageClass) twice, then webdriver hangs forever.

Released Selenide 6.17.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Good morning!

Don’t wait to upgrade to Selenide 6.17.0!

Upgraded to Selenium 4.11.0

We upgraded Selenium version from 4.10.0 to 4.11.0.

Read the full Selenium changelog here.

See PR 2393.

Replaced WebDriverManager by SeleniumManager

Starting from version 4.6.0, Selenium has built-in tool for downloading webdriver binaries - SeleniumManager. Afaik, it’s developed by the same Boni Garcia, who created WebDriverManager. But now it’s an official part of Selenium project.

Released Selenide 6.16.1

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Hello, people!

We released a small update Selenide 6.16.1.

Added conditions `allOf` and `anyOf`

Now you can check one of conditions (OR):

$("#president").shouldHave(anyOf(text("Lowlife"), text("Cowardly bum")));

(in fact, Selenide already had method Condition.or for the same purpose, but anyOf seems to be easier to use).

Also, you can check all conditions (AND):

$("#president").shouldHave(allOf(text("a catastrophic character"), text("another six years of this cowardly bum in power")));

(in fact, it’s the same as just $("#president").shouldHave(text(..), text(..)), but the result of allOf can be extracted to a variable or method and reused, thus creating your own DSL).

Released Selenide 6.16.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Good night!

I have an offer for you that you shouldn’t refuse.

Upgrade to Selenide 6.16.0!

Speed up collection checks

Here is the coolness!

One of basic Selenide features is collection checks. With just one line you can check a bunch of elements:

Released Selenide 6.15.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Mon, 29 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Good night!

We released Selenide 6.15.0 with quite serious internal changes.

Merged project `selenide-selenoid` into `selenide`

This allows us to easily change and release these projects. For you, the dependency declaration will change.

Released Selenide 6.14.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Mon, 08 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Good evening!

Good news: we have released Selenide 6.14.0.

It contains some changes that look minor, but might break something in your tests. That’s why I highly recommend to upgrade now

Speed up debugging

When you are debugging a test and stop at a breakpoint, sometimes IDE is rendering very slowly page object fields. In this state IDE can hang for quite a long time:

Released Selenide 6.13.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Good night!

Today we have a big major release Selenide 6.13.0.

Added method `$.cached()`

Sometimes you need to write quite complex code for finding an element.
And it might work slowly, especially if you find it from a long collection applying specific filtering.
Something like this:

Released Selenide 6.13.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Hi all!

Wow, today we released Selenide 6.13.0

Banners support

The problem

People often asked me: “What can I do if during a test execution, a banner can appear on the screen (or any other unexpected element)?”

Such a banner can cover other elements, can hide some important button - and your test might occasionally get broken.

I’ve always scolded these questions and insisted that you should control your testing environment. You should dictate when the banner should appear, and when it should not.

Released Selenide 6.12.4

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Good evening!

We released Selenide 6.12.4.

Workaround for Chromedriver

Reminder: if you still are looking for a solution for

Invalid Status code=403 text=Forbidden

then it was released in Selenide 6.12.2.

Added support for `jdk-http-client` as a replacement for `netty-client`

By default, Selenide still uses old good netty-client, but if you wish to
upgrade to jdk-http-client, now you can easily do that:

Released Selenide 6.12.2

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Hi all!

Urgently update to Selenide 6.12.2!

It has one important workaround for Chromedriver 111 issue:

Invalid Status code=403 text=Forbidden

What’s the problem?

Recently a new version of Chrome and Chromedriver was released: 111.

People who did upgrade their browser unexpectedly started getting test failures.
Test tried to open the browser. The browser window appeared, but webdriver received an exception, and could not do any following actions. In the end, test could not even close that browser!

Released Selenide 6.12.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Hello!

On this tragic and festive day, we released Selenide 6.12.0.

It doesn’t contain any new features, but it introduces new headless mode that might affect your tests.

New headless mode

In Chromium browsers, a “new headless” mode has been recently introduced. Read more details in their blog.

Shortly said, it’s a better headless mode that should fix all problems of the “old headless”.

Released Selenide 6.11.1

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Good jan!

We release a minor update Selenide 6.11.1.

Truncate only `WebDriverException` messages

In a very rare situation - if you

declare a custom command,
throw some assertion error from it,
and this error has multi-line message,

then Selenide truncates this error message, leaving only the first line.

Initially, our intention was only to truncate error message of WebDriverException because it contains multiline garbage:

Released Selenide 6.11.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Happy New Year, dear friends!

Santa Claus brought us a new release Selenide 6.11.0.

Added methods to copy and paste text

We added two methods:

Selenide.copy() for copying currently selected text to clipboard, and
$.paste() to paste clipboard content into input field.

open("https://best-propaganda-quotes.ru");
$("#solovjov").doubleClick(); // select the quote text
Selenide.copy();
$("[name=q]").paste();
$("[name=q]").shouldHave(text("Life is highly overrated"));

Known restrictions: these methods need a graphics environment. So they would not work on server linux. But simple running xvfb should help.

Released Selenide 6.10.2

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Good evening!

We got mini-release Selenide 6.10.2.

Added method `$.press()`

It’s essentially the same ss sendKeys(), but it’s not void. You can chain it with other methods:

$("#username")
 .press("x")
 .press(TAB, CONTROL, ALT, ENTER)
 .should(disappear);

Thanks to Amuthan Sakthivel for PR 2032.

Trigger `change` event by method `$.select*`

As you remember, in previous release we reworked working with selects using JavaScript. But we forgot to trigger focus, click and change events. Now we trigger them.

Released Selenide 6.10.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Evil evening!

We released Selenide 6.10.0.

Improved file download algorithm

Selenide contains several algorithms for downloading files: HTTPGET, PROXY and FOLDER. Let’s talk about FOLDER. To download a file, it clicks the button and waits for new files in downloads folder.

File racoons = $("#stolenRaccoonsReport").download(using(FOLDER));
assertThat(racoons).hasName("racoons.xls");

The problem is that it didn’t work well in Firefox in case of very slow download. We realized that Firefox creates immediately two files: “racoons.xls” and “racoons.xls.part” - both are empty. And only then starts filling “racoons.xls.part”.

Released Selenide 6.9.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Yo Seleniders!

Let me break your doomscrolling with some good news.

We released Selenide 6.9.0! Basically, they pumped proxies and updated selenium.

Now Selenide proxy can mock server response

As you know, Selenide can run its own embedded proxy server. It listens requests between browser and other world. We mostly used it in read-only mode (logging, downloading files). But now you can also change the traffic. Namely, you can replace server response. It may be useful to mock the response of some service.

Released Selenide 6.8.1

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Gooda!

Catch min-bugfix Selenide 6.8.1.

This only applies to those who directly call in their tests

new RemoteWebDriver(url, options)

and encountered NoClassDefFoundError after upgrading to Selenide 6.8.0.

Prehistory

What is OpenTelemetry? This is some kind of thing that was added to Selenium 4 for some reason, but nobody really knows why it’s needed and how to use it. :) In fact, no one cares, no one uses it. :)

In Selenide, we also removed it in PR 1763.

Released Selenide 6.8.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Sat, 24 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Bad morning!

While the world is going crazy, we are releasing Selenide 6.8.0.
Not so many features, rather dependency updates.

Recursive search in shadow dom

As you probably know, Selenide has methods to find elements inside shadow dom. And even in multiple embedded shadow doms:

$(shadowCss("#reportButton", 
 "#shadow-host", "#inner-shadow-host")).click();

But you still need to waste time to investigate these doms and find proper locators for all those shadow roots.

Released Selenide 6.7.4

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Hey there!

We did yet another nano-release Selenide 6.7.4.

Added setting `remoteReadTimeout`

I recently complained about too many settings in Selenide.

Nevertheless, we added yet another setting Configuration.remoteReadTimeout (a.k.a. -Dselenide.remoteReadTimeout).

It may be useful if you run browser on a remote server, but the number if browser is limited on that server, and your tests need to wait in a queue for a free browser. In this case the default timeout for 1.5 minutes might not be enough, and you need to increase the timeout.

Released Selenide 6.7.3

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Good saturday!

You are reading release notes for Selenide 6.7.3.

Added condition `partialValue`

Similarly to $.shouldHave(partialText("Good Co")), now you have $.shouldHave(partialValue("Cola")).

It’s needed if you set Configuration.textCheck = FULL_TEXT, but need to check a value of some input or textarea partially.

See issue 1923 and PR 1924.

Added condition `tagName`

You probably don’t need it often. Because we often find element by the tag, and only then verify some its attributes.

Anyway, now you can verify the tag name of an element:

Selenide puzzler

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Good night!

Do you love puzzlers? Did you miss puzzlers?

We recently published a new puzzler in Twitter:

Do these lines work equally? Or is there some difference?

1. $(".btn").shouldBe(visible, enabled);
2. $(".btn").shouldBe(visible).shouldBe(enabled);

Answer options

You gave us many answers:

both lines work equally (the most popular answer)
the first case is “logical or”, and the second is “logical and”
the second runs %timeout% seconds longer
the first runs with one timeout, the second run with two timeouts
the first fails if one of conditions is false, the second fails if the element is not visible, but is enabled.

Correct answer

In most cases both variants work equally.

Released Selenide 6.7.2

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Sun, 14 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Good Sunday!

We made a mini-release Selenide 6.7.2 fixing a few memory leaks.

But don’t worry, they are non-critical. It is unlikely that any of you even noticed them.

Fixed a memory leak with shutdown hooks in Selenide

If you open and close a browser multiple times in a test

for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
 open("about:blank");
 closeWebDriver();
}

then memory consumption starts growing:

Released Selenide 6.7.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Good day!

We’ve got a big release Selenide 6.7.0

Now `$.shouldHave(text)` can verify the whole text

From the very beginning, command $.shouldHave(text) verified the text partially, not the whole text:

 <div id="freedom-to">Britney Spears</div>

 $("#freedom-to").shouldHave(text("Brit")); // was OK

Initially, this seemed like a good idea, because a web page often contains all sorts of inconsiderable/invisible characters. (newlines, tab characters, non-portable spaces, multiple spaces, etc.).

But now it seems that it was still a bad idea, because beginners assume by default that the text is verified entirely, and snatch their portion of WTF moments when they discover that all their checks were checking a little wrong. :)

Released Selenide 6.6.6

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Good evening!

We made another release Selenide 6.6.6

Removed deprecated capabilities

Some webdriver options (which Selenide has been setting for years) were later marked as deprecated.
Starting from some release, Selenium started logging warnings about them.

Now Selenide doesn’t set them anymore: acceptSslCerts, handlesAlerts, javascriptEnabled, takesScreenshot.

We will not forget you, friends! You have served us faithfully for over 10 years.

See issue 1862, issue 1866 and PR 1870.

Fixed ClearWithShortcut

… when working with driver wrapped into listeners. It’s rare, don’t worry.

Released Selenide 6.6.4

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Gootas morningas!

We made another mini-released Selenide 6.6.4.

Added condition `exactTextsCaseSensitive` for collections

Selenide has several built-in checks for collections texts:

$$("li").shouldHave(texts("foo", "bar", "baz"));
$$("li").shouldHave(textsInAnyOrder("foo", "bar", "baz"));
$$("li").shouldHave(exactTexts("foo", "bar", "baz"));
// etc.

Now there is one more check available:

$$("li").shouldHave(exactTextsCaseSensitive("foo", "bar", "baz"));

Thanks to Ben Heap for PR 1861.

Made method `$.getSelectedOption()` lazy

By design, (almost) all Selenide methods should be lazy.

For example, call to $("#nope") does NOT fail even if the element doesn’t exist. It allows writing negative checks, e.g.

Released Selenide 6.6.3

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Good evening fellows!

We made a mini-release Selenide 6.6.3.

Improved timeout for `$.click()`

In version 6.6.0, we added an optional parameter timeout for method $.click().
But it appeared that it only partially solved the problem.

Now we improved it: method

$("#slow-link").click(usingDefaultMethod().timeout(ofSeconds(8)));

waits 8 seconds for both the element itself and the following page loading.

See issue 1572 and PR 1853.

Selenide 6.6.2

A day before, we released Selenide 6.6.2 with upgrade to Selenium 4.2.2

See PR 1851.

Released Selenide 6.6.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Good morning, friends!

We released Selenide 6.6.0.

Added new Selenide plugin `selenide-clear-with-shortcut`

In Selenide 6.5.0, we changed the implementation of $.clear() method from a standard WebDriver to a shortcut (“Select all” -> “Delete”).
Later we realized this shortcut didn’t work stably in all browsers, we had to rework it. It got more stable, but slower. And since it’s not really needed for all, we decided to return the old good WebElement.clear().

Released Selenide 6.5.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Tue, 17 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Good night!

We released Selenide 6.5.0.

Now you can mask passwords in reports

Sometimes you need to type passwords and other sensitive data into input fields. Sometimes people don’t want this data to be visible in test reports (e.g. Allure or TextReport). And ask to hide this sensitive data somehow.

I personally never understood why it’s a problem.
Why the password from test environment should be a problem?
You don’t use the same password in production, right?
You don’t run tests in production, right?

Released Selenide 6.4.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Good evening, friends!

We released Selenide 6.4.0.

Now we show both alias and locator on test failure

In Selenide, you can use method as to give web elements readable names.
It may be useful when the element has no good ID/class, and you have no choice but write long ugly unreadable xpath. It’s hard to read such selectors in reports.

Sample usage of as:

$x("/long/ugly/xpath/div[2]/span[3]/li[4]").as("Login button").click();

We always had a dilemma: should Selenide

Released Selenide 6.3.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Hello, people!

We released Selenide 6.3.0.

Let’s review what’s changed?

Added methods `switchTo().frame(timeout)` with custom timeout

Selenide has methods switchTo().frame(name) for switching between frames. As usually, with built-in waiting and other bonuses.
But what if the frame is being loaded longer than the default timeout (4 seconds)?

Now you can pass an additional parameter Duration - the timeout for switching into the frame:

 switchTo().frame("ifrm"); // waits up to default timeout (4 seconds)
 switchTo().frame("ifrm", Duration.ofSeconds(6)); // waits up to 6 seconds

Thanks to @donesvad for PR 1722.

Released Selenide 6.2.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Happy New Year, people!

We released Selenide 6.2.0.

Let’s look into this year’s first release.

Pour some tea and let’s go!

Added link “<Click to see difference>” for most of Selenide assertion errors

As you remember, in Selenide 5.25.0 we added Test4J support. As a result, Selenide assertion errors got a link “<Click to see difference>” in IDE which allows to easily compare expected and actual values in case of test failure.

Released Selenide 6.1.1

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000

TERE HOMMIKUST!

We released Selenide 6.1.1.

In this tiny release we fixed a bunch of problems with browser settings.
These problems arose after upgrading to Selenium 4 where ChromeOptions and other Capabilities were refactored.

Now we plunged into the topic and fixed all the problems at once.

Early conflict detection

If you try to open a Chrome with Firefox settings:

Configuration.browser = "chrome";
Configuration.browserCapabilities.setCapability(FIREFOX_OPTIONS, new FirefoxOptions());

then Selenide 5.x did show a clear error message, but Selenide 6.0.x didn’t.
Now we have restored the swearing, and you will see the old good

Released Selenide 6.1.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000

TERE!

We released Selenide 6.1.0.

Added support for `selenide.properties`

Now Selenide can read its settings from file selenide.properties if it’s found in classpath.

NB! I personally still don’t find it really useful. It’s easier to just set settings

right in code: Configuration.timeout = 8000;
or via system properties: -Dselenide.timeout=8000.

Please, don’t rush generating these files. Use selenide.properties only if you have a good reason, and not simply because it is now fashionable or “beautiful”.

Released Selenide 6.0.1

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Happy Birthday, Selenide!

Wow! It’s hard to believe, but today Selenide got … 10 years old!

This day 10 years ago was created the first commit to Selenide github repository.

Many thanks to everyone who participated in the project, committed, reported bugs, suggested ideas, answered questions in the forums, criticized and talked about selenide at conferences and meetups. And who just decided to use Selenide in their projects. You are all part of this movement.

Released Selenide 5.25.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Good evening!

We released Selenide 5.25.0.

I strongly recommend you to upgrade,
because there are even more changes coming with next releases, including the full release of Selenium 4.
If you don’t upgrade now, it will be much more difficult to clear the rubble later!

This is quite a big release with a bunch of changes, so grab some popcorn and make some tea. Let’s go!

Support for Selenium Webdriver 4.0.0 RC1

We released two builds of Selenide 5.25.0: regular and hipster one.
You can pick:

Released Selenide 5.24.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Sun, 29 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000

On August 29, 1997 a computer system Skynet became self-aware and launched nuclear missiles at Russia. So the war between humans and terminators began.

It happened .. oh, my god! - 24 years ago. We live in the Future, and we are still alive. And we still rule the machines.

I I celebrate this day every year, and today, in honor of the holiday, we released Selenide 5.24.0.

We added method `$.execute(Command, Duration)`

to run custom commands with a custom timeout.

Released Selenide 5.23.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Good summer day!

We released Selenide 5.23.0 on July, 16.

It introduces a fundamentally new feature in Selenide:

The new generation checks

Now Selenide has checks not only for web elements, but for some other elements too. You can apply those checks with built-in waitings, readable error messages, reports etc. Everything you like.

See issue 1442. Thanks to Dmitriy Budim for launching this whole epic in PR 1478.

Let’s look at these checks.

Released Selenide 5.22.3

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Good evening!

There was a press release here that might hurt the feelings of many of our users and committers. We regret that this has happened, and we consider this publication to be our mistake, a manifestation of the unprofessionalism of certain maintainers.

So just upgrade to Selenide 5.22.3 with the most fresh and delicious bugfixes.

5.22.3 (released 05.07.2021)

#1474 add workaround for NPE in RemoteWebElement.isDisplayed() – see PR #1498

5.22.2 (released 30.06.2021)

#1493 support uploading files from inside of JAR files – see PR #1494
fix command ./gradlew - now it installs jars to a local maven repo – see PR #1489
add support for okhttp 4.9.1 – see PR #1488

5.22.1 (released 18.06.2021)

Add mime type “binary/octet-stream” to download binary files in FireFox

Have a carefree summer!

Andrei Solntsev

Released Selenide 5.22.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Good morning!

For my birthday, we made an anniversary release Selenide 5.22.0.

Let’s unbox the gift!

Now you can close an alert to download a file

Selenide has method $.download() which works by a very simple principle:

Click
Wait for a new file in a downloads folder

The problem is that some websites show an alert or some other dialog, and you need to close it to start downloading the file. Generally, you might need to perform some action to start the download process.

Released Selenide 5.21.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Sat, 15 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Good evening!

We have released Selenide 5.21.0.

What’s new there?

We removed duplicate screenshots for chained locators

Most of Selenide methods are chainable (aka fluent), so that you can call multiple methods in a line. Thus way you can write concise tests.

Something like

 $("table#id").$("tbody", 2).$("tr.active").$("td", 5)
 .shouldHave(text("Foo"))
 .click();

But there has been a problem with chained calls. If such a check failed, Selenide took multiple screenshots and added multiple steps to the report (incl. Allure report). One screenshot for "table#id", another for "tbody" etc.
Though it’s essentially a single step.

Released Selenide 5.20.1

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Good night!

Joe Biden was asked if he thinks $$.as is a killer feature. «Mmm hmm, I do», — Biden answered.

This is a double release notes for Selenide 5.20.0 and Selenide 5.20.1.

We added operations with clipboard

Selenide.clipboard().setText("111");
assertEquals("Hello World", Selenide.clipboard().getText());

Note that clipboard doesn’t work on Linux without graphical environment.

Thanks to Dmitriy Budim for PR 1409.

NB!These methods are overridden in selenide-selenoid plugin to work correctly in Selenoid. We also released version 1.1.0 of the plugin.

Released Selenide 5.19.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Good morning!

You probably didn’t know, but today, February 24, is the main holiday in Estonia - Independence Day. Exactly 103 years ago, Estonia was proclaimed an independent democratic republic.

And 93 years later in Estonia, in the casemates of Codeborne company, Selenide library was born. Isn’t that a miracle?

So we dedicate our new release Selenide 5.19.0 to Independence Day.

We fixed drag’and’drop, finally!

Selenide has had method $.dragAndDropTo() for years, but de-factor it doesn’t work. Under the hood it uses Selenium mechanism Actions, and something was broken in it. It just doesn’t drag the element.

Released Selenide 5.18.1

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Hi all!

We have release a small update Selenide 5.18.1.

Let’s look at the changes:

Added method `Selenide.getSessionStorage()`

… similar to Selenide.getLocalStorage() added in 5.15.0.

They both have the same set of methods: getItem, setItem, removeItem, clear etc.

Sometimes it’s useful to set some flag to sessionStorage to localStorage to emulate some user action or toggle some features or settings.

Thanks to Dmitriy Budim for PR 1400.

P.S. FYI difference between localStorage and sessionStorage.

Released Selenide 5.18.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Sat, 23 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Good evening!

Today is January, 23.

Let’s meet the new update: Selenide 5.18.0.

Let me invite you to take a small virtual tour of the changes in 5.18.0.
Make yourself comfortable.

We disabled webdriver logs by default

Starting from version 5.13.0, Selenide wrote webdriver logs to files build/reports/tests/webdriver.uuid.log.
It seemed to be useful at that moment. But later we realized that these logs take quite a lot of disk space, and nobody really needs to read them in most cases. That’s why we decided to disable them by default.

Released Selenide 5.17.2

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Good morning!

The gnomes still cannot calm down. Tomorrow morning they will bring you the last present in your socks: release Selenide 5.17.2.

Make `Commands` return `SelenideElement` instead `WebElement`

It allows you chaining $.execute(Command) with other Selenide methods, thus making your tests even more concise and expressive:

$(".lupa").execute(new ScrollToCenter()).$(".pupa").click();

Thanks to Boris Osipov for PR 1355.

Fixed method `$.setValue(null)`

See issue 1356. Thanks to Dmitriy Zemlyanitsyn for PR 1357.

Enabled soft asserts in @BeforeAll and @AfterAll methods (in JUnit 5)

See issue 981, issue 1070 and PR 1359.

Released 5.17.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Sat, 26 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Good night!

I am passionate about Catholic Christmas. Because it was on Christmas that the terrorists took over the Nakatomi plaza and Bruce killed Hans Gruber. And then he blew up the plane with a lighter.

So catch the Christmas release Selenide 5.17.0.

Added method $.as(“name”)

We added method as, so that you can give elements readable names.

To feel the difference, let’s compare the following two lines in test:

 $(By.xpath("/long/ugly/xpath[1][2][3]")).shouldNot(exist);
 $(By.xpath("/long/ugly/xpath[1][2][3]")).as("Login button").shouldNot(exist);

The test result looks like this:

Released Selenide 5.16.2

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Good morning!

We released Selenide 5.16.2.

Please don’t think that recent release Selenide 5.16.0 had a lot of bugs.
Not at all.

This release 5.16.2 is a bunch of fixes for old small issues.

Briefly:

Release 5.16.2 (25.11.2020)

#1332 return old click(int, int) command logic – thanks to Petro Ovcharenko for PR #1333
make SoftAssertsExtension thread-safe – thanks to @dtuchs for PR #1334
#1258 fix soft asserts with ParameterizedTest in jUnit5 – see PR #1328
#1293 don’t report “Element not found” in case of other errors – see PR #1326
#1290 don’t show unused page object fields in report – see PR #1327
upgrade to littleproxy:2.0.1 – see PR #1325

Release 5.16.1 (23.11.2020)

Here we had two fixes to run Chrome with extensions.

Released Selenide 5.16.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Good night!

We released Selenide 5.16.0.

Plugin system

One of the major plans for this year in Selenide roadmap was to create a plugins system. It took time, but now

the day has come!

Currently there are two Selenide plugins available:

We will describe them in following posts.

Apparently, we are going to create next plugins for Allure, JUnit, TestNG, AShot.
Please share your ideas too!

See issue #1051 and PR #1264, PR 1317 and PR 1321.

Why proxy does not work in Selenoid?

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Good night!

Today we will finally reveal the secret of why proxy does not often work in Selenoid.

The goal: download a file

We run tests which open browsers in Selenoid containers (usually with Selenide, but it’s not important in this case).
We want to download a file during the test.
Default method $.download() doesn’t work (for example, because the download starts by submitting a form - there is no direct link to the file).
That’s why we want to download file via proxy.

Our plan

Create a project
Add BrowserUpProxy dependency as shown in Selenide documentation:

dependencies {
 testRuntimeOnly("com.browserup:browserup-proxy-core:2.1.1")
}

Copy-paste a typical boilerplate to run browsers in Selenoid:

Configuration.proxyHost = "192.168.0.10";
Configuration.remote = "http://localhost:4444/wd/hub";
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
capabilities.setBrowserName("chrome");
capabilities.setVersion("85.0");
capabilities.setCapability("enableVNC", true);
capabilities.setCapability("enableVideo", true);
capabilities.setCapability("enableLog", true);
Configuration.browserCapabilities = capabilities;
Configuration.fileDownload = FileDownloadMode.PROXY;
Configuration.proxyEnabled = true;

And write a test, something like this:

open("https://the-internet.herokuapp.com/download");
File file = $(byText("some-file.txt")).download();
assertThat(file.getName()).isEqualTo("some-file.txt");

The problem

And we get an error when opening a browser:

Released Selenide 5.15.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Sat, 26 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Hi all!

We released Selenide 5.15.0.

What’s new?

We added setting `Configuration.pageLoadTimeout`
(default value is 30 seconds)

Sometimes your browser hands trying to load some heavy page, or a huge image or something else.
You lose your time, your build lasts for a long; sessions get expired by timeout etc.

Released Selenide 5.14.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Good night!

We have released Selenide 5.14.0.

Stabilized new file downloading mode `FOLDER`

… which was introduced in Selenide 5.13.0.

What has been changed in 5.14.0:

Every time when Selenide opens a browser it creates a unique downloads folder for it.
It helps to avoid situation when parallel tests are downloading multiple files to the same folder at the same time. And it’s impossible to understand what file is downloaded by which test.

Released Selenide 5.13.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Good morning!

Good summer!

We released Selenide 5.13.0.

Be prepared: it might break your tests (if they were not accurate).

Method `$.shouldHave(text(""))` now throws an exception

Probably most popular Selenide method is $.shouldHave(text("something")). But if you even use it daily, you might not realize that it checks a substring, not the whole text.

Released Selenide 5.12.2

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Fri, 29 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Hi all!

We have published one more mini-release Selenide 5.12.2.

Fixed annotations @Nonnull

… for some of SelenideElement methods.

After upgrading to Selenide 5.12.0 some Kotlin users started getting compilation errors in their projects.
It’s because we marked all methods of SelenideElement with annotations @Nullable/@Nonnull, and Kotlin is sensible to them.

For the following methods we now changed @Nullable annotation to @Nonnull (because they never return null):

$.getText()
$.text()
$.innerText()
$.innerHtml()
$.getSelectedText()

Now you can again put results of those methods to non-nullable variables (though such constructs seem to me a bit strange in tests).

Released Selenide 5.12.1

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Mon, 25 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Good night!

This is a quickfix release Selenide 5.12.1 with a couple of minor fixes for Selenide 5.12.0

Fixed Concurrent modification exception during webdriver initialization

See issue 1170 and PR 1171.

Fixed merging of “excludeSwitches” settings of different types

It appeared that setting excludeSwitches can have either Array or List type:

 chromeOptions.setExperimentalOption("excludeSwitches", new String[]{"enable-automation", "load-extension"});
 chromeOptions.setExperimentalOption("excludeSwitches", asList("enable-automation", "load-extension"));

Selenide 5.12.0 crashed if both of types were used. Now we fixed it.

See issue 1169 and PR 1174.

Released Selenide 5.12.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Sat, 23 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Good day!

Yes! We released Selenide 5.12.0.

Most of the changes are about browser capabilities.

We fixed an old problem with `Configuration.browserCapabilities`

People had been complaining for years about ChromeOptions: some of these settings could be lost in some circumstances.
It was caused by an old bug in Selenium webdriver, which seems to be lost and forgotten.

But it seems that we have found a simple workaround for this problem.

If it helped you - please share you feedback.
If it didn’t help - please register a github issue. We will work out another hack. :)

See issue 676, issue 1097 and PR 1155.

Released Selenide 5.11.1

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Good evening!

It seems that Selenide 5.11.0 still broke too many rules, and we decided to slow down the horses.

If you are affected, you can upgrade to Selenide 5.11.1.

SLF4J

Some folks didn’t like the fact that Selenide 5.11.0 requires a valid slf4j dependency. Folks don’t want to bother with slf4j. Folks don’t want to read our logs. :)

It was unexpected for us, but well, we found a compromise.

Now Selenide doesn’t require slf4j always, but only when it’s needed for sure. Namely, when you use TextReport feature.

Released Selenide 5.11.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Good night!

We have released Selenide 5.11.0.
This is the second quarantine release of Selenide in which we made a couple of breaking changes.

Changed the behaviour of `shouldNot*` methods for unexisting elements

Just look at the table below to understand what changed.
Assuming element h1 does not exist on a page:

Check	Selenide 5.10-	Selenide 5.11+
`h1.shouldNot(exist)`	ok	ok
`h1.shouldNotBe(visible)`	ok	ok
`h1.shouldBe(hidden)`	ok	ok
`h1.shouldNotHave(text("foo"))`	ok	FAIL
`h1.shouldNotHave(attribute("bar"))`	ok	FAIL
`h1.find("h2").shouldNot(exist)`	ok	ok
`h1.find("h2").shouldNotHave(text("foo"))`	ok	FAIL

Previous logic

A long time ago it was decided in Selenide: the check h1.shouldNotHave(text("foo")) should not fail. If the element <h1> does not exist, then it doesn’t have text “foo”. So, the condition “should not have text” is true.

Released Selenide 5.10.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Good quarantine!

It was the third day of quarantine.

To make you feel not so lonely, we released Selenide 5.10.0 with a bunch of improvements. Some of them are even slightly backward incompatible. Well, so you do not get bored in your dens.

We added support for Shadow DOM

See examples in tests:

Released Selenide 5.9.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Buenos Marchos!

In Selenide, we strive to cure flaky tests all the time.

Today we released Selenide 5.9.0 with one feature that can help to overcome some of your flaky tests.

We added a filter for downloading files: `$.download(FileFilter)`

Problem

When downloading files via proxy, Selenide can sometimes download a wrong file.
This is how it works: Selenide clicks the “download” button and intercepts all responses from server to browser.

Exactly at this moment there could happen some unrelated requests between browser and server.
Say, chrome decides to check for updates at this moment. Or your AUT sends request to google analytics. Or just some background requests.
This creates fertile ground for emergence of flaky tests which work on your machine but sometimes fail on jenkins.

Released Selenide 5.8.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Buenos noches!

We have merged next pack of pull requests and released Selenide 5.8.0.

What updates will you see there?

Simplified creation of custom conditions using lambdas

In class Condition there is a new method match which allows you to create custom conditions without need to subclass Condition. You just need to pass it a lambda.

See examples in tests:

$("#multirowTable").should(match("border=1", el -> el.getAttribute("border").equals("1")));

We also added similar methods for collections anyMatch, allMatch and noneMatch. See examples in tests:

Released Selenide 5.7.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Buchahos!

Recently we got a lot of pull requests with lot of useful changes. This is the power of open source!

We have merged all those changes and released Selenide 5.7.0.

Added setting `Configuration.downloadsFolder`

Before now, Selenide downloaded files to folder build/reports - the same folder which contains generated test reports.
But sometimes people want to have reports and screenshots in separate folders.
For those people we added a dedicated setting Configuration.downloadsFolder - now Selenide will download files there.

Released Selenide 5.6.1

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Happy New Year for everyone!

New year - new release. Please welcome Selenide 5.6.1.

Added method `Selenide.executeAsyncScript()`

I guess all of you have used method Selenide.executeJavaScript(). JavaScript gives us a big power in test automation.

Now we added a method Selenide.executeAsyncScript(). It can be used for executing asynchronous functions (like setTimeout, $.get etc.)

Please note that it’s a little bit harder to use than executeJavaScript().
After calling asynchronous JS methods need to execute callback with a return value. You have to get callback from a last argument:

Released Selenide 5.6.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Thu, 26 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Good morning!

In the end of the year, we released Selenide 5.6.0 with one significant change.

We replaced (outdated) BrowserMobProxy by its fork BrowserUpProxy (current version 2.0.1).

See issue 1019.
Thanks to Aliaksandr Rasolka for PR 1020.

What good is there is `BrowserUpProxy`?

supports Brotli Compression (in addition to gzip)
supports HTTP/2
based on actively maintained fork LittleProxy
uses a better HAR reader
can filter HAR entries
supports versioned headers for JSON like Content-Type=application/something-v1+json
has built-in asserts for network and pages

Here is the full changelog of BrowserUpProxy (compared to BrowserMobProxy).

JavaScript tricks

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Tue, 24 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Good Christmas!

Today is December, 24. It’s Christmas. It’s the last day of our Selenide Advent Calendar.

In this last day, we will play JavaScript.

As a language, JavaScript is a disaster, but it gives a big power when used in automated tests.
It allows you doing things that are impossible with pure WebDriver.

Let me show few examples from real projects.

Pick a date

There is a lot of different “date pickers” out there. It’s always a headache to pick a date using them.

Defaŭlta lingvo

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Sun, 22 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Defaŭlta lingvo

The name of today’s topic is Esperanto and translates as “default language”.

You may have noticed that some web applications or sites change their language depending on either your browser language setting or on your location.

Problem

In case you have international developers in your team all writing and running some tests on different computer, you also may have noticed that the very same tests is failing or passing because the applications was displayed in different languages on different machines.

Big “wait” theory

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Big “wait” theory

The topic of “wait” mechanism is well-known and sometimes can be controversial.
The fact is that modern websites are problematic to be tested by test automation frameworks and generate many situations where standard Selenium methods are ineffective. If you have read Selenide documentation, you already know that classic explicit waits like:

element = (new WebDriverWait(driver, <timeOutForElement>))
 .until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(By.cssSelector(<cssSelector>)));

element = (new WebDriverWait(driver, <timeOutForElement>))
 .until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.cssSelector(<cssSelector>)));

have been replaced by Selenide with (way shorter) variants:

How to get network data with proxy

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Good night!

In two previous posts of our Selenide Advent Calendar, we tried to find a way to read requests/responses between browser and server.
They both were not ideal because they cannot read BODY of requests and responses.

Finally, we try a third way - using a Selenide built-in proxy server.

Before test

As you know, Selenide already has built-in proxy server. You only need to enable it:

Configuration.proxyEnabled = true;

Now you need to say the proxy to start tracking requests:

How to get network data with JavaScript

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Good night!

In the yesterday post, we tried to get browser logs with “goog:loggingPrefs” capability.

UPD: Later we added a method that works in both Firefox and Chromium browsers: Collecting browser logs using DevTools/BiDi

Now we will try to get browser network data with JavaScript.

It’s simple. We just need to call this JavaScript in the end of test:

String js = 
 "var performance = window.performance || window.mozPerformance" +
 " || window.msPerformance || window.webkitPerformance || {};" +
 " return performance.getEntries() || {};";
String netData = executeJavaScript(js).toString();
logger.info("Network traffic: {}", netData);

The result looks like this:

How to get browser logs

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Good evening!

We continue our Selenide Advent Calendar.
Today we will try to look into browser “developer tools”.
It may be useful if you want to know what errors happened during test run, or what requests your AUT sent.

UPD: Later we added a method that works in both Firefox and Chromium browsers: Collecting browser logs using DevTools/BiDi

Chromedriver suggests the following receipt.

1. Add a couple of lines before opening a browser:

LoggingPreferences logPrefs = new LoggingPreferences();
logPrefs.enable(LogType.BROWSER, Level.ALL);
logPrefs.enable(LogType.PERFORMANCE, Level.ALL);
capabilities.setCapability("goog:loggingPrefs", logPrefs);

This capability was named “loggingPrefs” until some version of Chrome, and then was renamed to “goog:loggingPrefs”.
Not sure about other browsers.

Drag and Drop

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Hi all!

Today is 15th day of our Selenide Advent Calendar.

Today we will watch a short funny video demonstrating how to drag-and-drop elements in Selenide.

Selenide can drag-and-drop web elements?

Yes, Selenide has method Drag’n’Drop. This is a boring description from Selenide blog:

 $("#from").dragAndDropTo("#to")

And this is a funny demonstration by Martin Škarbala:

That’s marvellous!

Andrei Solntsev

selenide.org

Actions

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Hi!

In today’s advent calendar article we will check how to perform special operations in Selenide.

Sometimes in our tests we encounter weird problems. It is 100% sure that all of us have experienced, or will experience some unusual problem that will make our work blocked. It happens quite often that for example we cannot click some element on the page, and standard selenium/selenide command like:

 element.click();

does not work. There can be many different reasons that will make our click operation ineffective but we cannot give up just like that, and we have to find some solution. In this case, in Selenium we had Actions class that helped us performing click operation in a bit different way:

How to download a file with Selenide

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Good evening!
Today is December - and in this Selenide Advent calendar article we will take a look at the file download options in Selenide.

UPD
This article describes only 2 methods for downloading a file: HTTPGET and PROXY. Later we added the third method FOLDER and the fourth method CDP. Probably you need one of these methods - if your link doesn’t have href attribute, and you cannot enable proxy for some reason.

Why we banned statics and then allowed again?

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Good evening!

Here is the 9th day of Selenide Advent Calendar, and
I’ll tell you what excites the public most of all.

Why statics were banned in Selenide 5.0.0, but allowed again in 5.4.0?

Short answer: we banned them occasionally. But it was good.

Let me explain it in detail :)

How Selenide holds WebDrivers

Selenide stores webdriver instances in ThreadLocal.
It allows you to run tests in parallel: different threads get different webdrivers. The code looks like this:

How to test CSRF protection

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Hi all!

Today is 7th day of our Selenide Advent Calendar.
Today we will talk about testing security.

What is CSRF?

CSRF is one of the most popular security attacks (Cross-Site Request Forgery).

To protect itself from CSRF attack, a web-application should add a special parameter to (almost) every POST request. Typically it’s called authenticityToken (though the name may vary).

A typical mistake is when web-application either doesn’t send authenticityToken to server with some POST request or doesn’t check it on server side.

How to visualize click

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Good evening!

Today is December 6th, you are reading the Selenide Advent calendar, and in today’s post I will show one simple technique how to catch some flaky tests.

What’s wring with clicks?

It’s an eternal problem: flaky tests. One of typical reasons of flaky tests: click doesn’t work.

As i described in this video on DelEx 2019 conference (sorry, the video is in Russian), click in selenium often doesn’t work if the element was moving or resizing at that moment. Or if it was covered by other element that suddenly appeared and got the click.

How to check size effectively?

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Hello!

Today is December 4th, it’s the Selenide Advent calendar, and in today’s post I will show how to check a collection size effectively.

How to effectively check a collection size?

Selenide has convenient methods for checking collections. For example, this is how you can check that a book list contains exactly 3 books:

@Test {
 $$("#books .book").shouldHave(size(3));
}

If this page implemented so that it contains much more books, and only some of them are visible, then you can filter the collection:

setWebDriver or WebDriverProvider?

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Good evening!

Today is December 3rd, you are reading the Selenide Advent calendar, and in today’s post I will answer one simple question.

Which one should I choose, `setWebDriver()` or `WebDriverProvider`?

As you know, Selenide opens a browser automatically and closes it at the right moment. You don’t need to care about the browser.

But sometimes you want to open a “custom” browser with some specific settings. Selenide has 2 methods for this. It happened so that I never wrote anywhere how to choose one of them.

How to abuse Selenide

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Mon, 02 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Good year!

It’s December, 02, and we continue with our Selenide Advent Calendar. This time will talk about invalid use of Selenide.

How to abuse Selenide

I often hear people complaining that the following code doesn’t catch the exception:

try {
 $(".banner").shouldBe(visible);
 $(".banner .close").click();
}
catch (Exception e) {
 // System.out.println("The element is not found - a banner hasn't appeared this time.");
}

The intention of this test is to check if a banner appeared. Not immediately, but wait for the banner a little bit: probably it will appear after some time. If the banner has appeared, the test needs to close it.

The Main Algorithm

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Sun, 01 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Good December!

The Advent has begun.

Children are unpacking their advent calendars, opening one small window with a chocolate every day. In Java world, we have a Java Advent Calendar, in which many authors write a new article every day. I also participated in it could of times (2017 and 2018).

I also decided to start Selenide Advent Calendar. Every new day a new post. From 1st to 25th December. I am starting, and you can continue - just give me a notice by any possible way.

Released Selenide 5.5.1

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Fri, 29 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Hi all!

At Black Friday, we released Selenide 5.5.1 with a couple of new features.

We added mobile browser emulation

Sometimes you want to run browser not on a usual Chrome, but on Chrome “like in mobile”.

Like you would open a browser in mobile phone or tablet.

(For example, site selenide.org looks ugly on mobile. :( We are working on it.)

Now it’s easy to do it by adding a System property before running tests:

Released Selenide 5.5.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Good evening!

How do you celebrate Halloween?

We released Selenide 5.5.0 with some backward incompatible changes.

ARE YOU SCARED?

Migrated from JUL to SLF4J

Sometimes Selenide needs to write down some diagnostic logs, like “I found browser binary in foo”, “I failed to save screenshot to bar” etc.

Until now, Selenide did write its logs using Java built-in mechanism java.util.logging (aka JUL). It has some known disadvantages, that’s why there is plenty of alternatives in the Java world: Log4J, Slf4j, Logback, JCL.

Released Selenide 5.4.1

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Good evening!

There is nothing in the World more boring than October. Let’s brighten it up with bright news!

Today we released Selenide 5.4.0 with a couple of noticeable changes which many of you have been asking for a while.

UPD There was a bug in 5.4.0, so please upgrade to 5.4.1

UPD 2 There is also a minor bug in 5.4.1: Configuration.holdBrowserOpen doesn’t work. Will fix it in next version. I hope you don’t use it often.

Released Selenide 5.3.1

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Sat, 07 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Hi all!

There was a sensation:

The presentation of the new iPhone went unnoticed!

Because we released Selenide 5.3.1. With improved shots as well. :)

We fixed only one problem in this version, but what problem is it!

Maven, where are my screenshots?

Recently we discovered that users of Maven and latest maven-surefire-plugin:2.22.2 were deprived of one of the most important selenide features: screenshot was not added to the error report.

Released Selenide 5.3.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Mon, 02 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000

We released Selenide 5.3.0. What’s new?

#968 Execute custom commands

Released Selenide 5.2.7

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Good summer everyone!

We recently released several minor Selenide updates: 5.2.5-5.2.7.

Let me speak from my heart why we needed them.

We fixed error messages when running Selenide+Appium

Appium is a webdriver for mobile applications (AndroidDriver, IOSDriver). At a first glance, it seems to be a great idea: use the well-known Selenium WebDriver protocol for testing mobile. But many things that were “standard” and “reasonable” in web, work differently in mobile. Or do not work at all.

Code simplicity

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Let’s talk about simplicity of code.
Probably all of you are agree that simple code is a good code. The problem is that we all understand “simplicity” differently.

Let me show an example from one of site comments. So we can compare two variants and decide which one is simple.

A goal

There is some “Gmail”-like list with checkboxes and titles. We need a page object allowing to find by title and click one or more checkboxes.

Released Selenide 5.2.4

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Good evening from the Summer!

While people are celebrating Midsummer Day and Victory Day in Estonia, we are releasing Selenide 5.2.4.

What’s new there?

We fixed proxy on localhost

As you know, Selenide can run its own embedded proxy server for some functions (file downloading, authorization, logging etc.). But last versions of popular browsers (Chrome72+ and Firefox 67+) started denying proxy to intercept requests to localhost (for some security reasons).

Released Selenide 5.2.3

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Tue, 07 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

On May, 7 we released Selenide 5.2.3 with small but backward incompatible changes.

Don’t be afraid. Here is goes:

Added method `SelenideLogger.beforeEvent()`

Sometimes we need to log something BEFORE doing an action. For example, to write a log before any click. Selenide has interface SelenideLogger, but it always had only one method onEvent() which works AFTER an action. Now we added method beforeEvent. And renamed onEvent to afterEvent to make api cleaner.

Released Selenide 5.2.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Good evening!

Now we are publishing press release of Selenide 5.2.0 which was released 19.02.2019.

Let’s quickly read what was changed there, and move on to the next versions.

Added aliases for Kotlin

Since symbols $ and $$ cannot be used as method name in Kotlin, using Selenide in Kotlin initially was not as pleasant as in Java. Here you can see some examples of how it could be solved.

Released Selenide 5.1.1

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Good night!

With a big lag and regret, we are publishing press release of Selenide 5.1.1 Let’s quickly read what was changed there, and move on to the next versions.

Selenide allows clicking on transparent elements

Until now, Selenide didn’t allow clicking elements with opacity: 0. It seemed reasonable because real user cannot click element which he cannot see. But we found that sometimes it’s useful - e.g. when there is a file upload field behind the transparent element.

Released Selenide 5.0.1

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Wed, 07 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Good morning! A month has passed since the release of Selenide 5.0.0. We haven’t got any bug reports. :)

So, we have released Selenide 5.0.1 with minor fixes for old issues.

Generate random file name for downloaded file

As you know, Selenide has a method for direct file download by link:

File image = Selenide.download("https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/pts/parking/citations/nlogon/images/6584836/");

It tries to get file name from http header or url. If neither is present (as in example above), it failed. Now it doesn’t fail anymore, but generates a random file name. Though I would consider it as the application bug.

Released Selenide 5.0.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Wed, 10 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000

It finally happened! We released a major Selenide version 5.0.0

The biggest change in Selenide 5.0.0 is a global refactoring. This is internal change. It should not (almost) affect you. For those who are interested - I am going to share refactoring details in a separate post.

What changes are waiting you in Selenide 5.0.0?

You can open two browsers in test

First of all: don’t use this feature!

In most cases, it’s a bad idea to open two or three browsers in a test.

Released Selenide 4.14.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

On August 29, 1997 a computer system Skynet became self-aware and launched nuclear missiles at Russia. So the war between humans and terminators began.

It happened .. oh, my god! - 21 years ago. And since we are still alive, we decided to release Selenide 4.14.0 at this historical day.

There is not so much changes, and they are mostly about Selenide proxy server.

We implemented BasicAuth through proxy

Test servers are often password-protected (so called BasicAuth). (I really don’t understand why it’s needed: they are in intranet anyway! But nothing to do, people do it.)

Released Selenide 4.13.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Mon, 20 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Hi all!

On August 20, Estonia marks a unique holiday - the Day of Restoration of Independence. 08/20/1991 Estonia regained its independence. Right now, outside the window, a many-thousands-strong choir sings patriotic songs and thunders salute.

And I am rolling out to the sounds of the salute … Selenide 4.13.0

There were more changes than it seemed to me. :)

Added method `$.lastChild()`

It finds the last child element of given element. Like $("table").lastChild().shouldHave(cssClass("lastRow"));

Released Selenide 4.12.3

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Good day! The championship is finally finished, and we can get back to our favorite open-source projects.

Today we released Selenide 4.12.3

Let’s look what’s inside!

Added support for JUnit 5

As you know, Selenide has special support for the most popular testing frameworks: JUnit4 and TestNG. It means special “@Rules” or “Listeners”, which can periodically restart a browser, make screenshots etc.

Now we added similar support for JUnit 5 too:

Released Selenide 4.12.2

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000

We released Selenide 4.12.2

Let’s see what was changed there.

We added method `because` for collections

As you know, Selenide has method because allowing test author to clarify why he expects this behaviour:

 $("#login").shouldBe(visible.because("After 3 wrong answers user should be logged out"));

Now we also have method because for collections:

 $$(".error").shouldHave(size(3).because("A separate error message per wrong answer"));

See issue 440 - thanks to Mikhail Sidelnikov for PR 749

Selenide will not try to open a browser

… if setting Configuration.reopenBrowserOnFail is false.

Released Selenide 4.12.1

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Sat, 02 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Good summer!

With some delay, we post the Selenide 4.12.1 release notes.

Fixed name of downloaded file

When you download a file with link containing ? and parameters (like /download/me/selenide-4.11.5.md?sessioncookie=12345), Selenide created a local file with name selenide-4.11.5.md?sessioncookie=12345.

Now Selenide will cut all characters from ?. In this case, it will create a file selenide-4.11.5.md.

See issue 735 - thanks to Aliaksandr Rasolka for PR 735

Changed implementation of method `Selenide.refresh()`

This method sometimes didn’t actually refresh the page.
We could not reproduce it, but blindly changed the implementation - now it just calls built-in selenium method
webdriver.navigate().refresh(). Seems that it fixed the problem.

Released Selenide 4.11.4

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Wed, 09 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

We made a mini release Selenide 4.11.4

Removed spam in logs from Firefox driver

See issue 673 - thanks to Aliaksandr Rasolka for PR 732

Upgraded dependencies

selenium 3.12.0
gson:2.8.4
guava:25.0

Andrei Solntsev

selenide.org

Released Selenide 4.11.3

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Tue, 08 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

We released Selenide 4.11.3. Let’s see what updates it contains:

You can now get access to proxy server

As you know, Selenide starts a built-in proxy server (BrowserMobProxy). But until now, you could not use it because it was private. Selenide used it only for downloading files.

Now we added a public method which allows you to get the BrowserMobProxy instance and use as you wish:

BrowserMobProxy bmp = WebDriverRunner.getSelenideProxy().getProxy();

Please tell us in comments how you are going to use it!

Released Selenide 4.11.2

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Dear friends, we released Selenide 4.11.2. Below you can find the notable changes of this release.

Now you can make screenshots inside `iframe`

You can find examples in ScreenshotInIframeTest:

SelenideElement iframe = $("#iframe_page");
SelenideElement element = $("#small_div");
File file = Screenshots.takeScreenShot(iframe, element);

Thanks to Andrejs Kalnačs for PR 705

We added method `atBottom()`

Now you can check if a page is scrolled to the bottom:

assertFalse(atBottom());
executeJavaScript("return window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollHeight);");
assertTrue(atBottom());

You can find examples in PageAtBottomTest

Released Selenide 4.11.1

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Dear friends, We recently moved to “Semantic versioning”. Now Selenide versions will be called 4.11.x and released more often.

In Selenide 4.11.1 we did only one fix:

Fixed a problem with hanging Chrome on Windows

Windows users complained that even after calling Selenide.close() process chrome.exe still hangs in task manager. Though it’s not a Selenide bug, we managed to tune webdriver settings, so that Chrome is properly closed now.

Thanks to Aliaksandr Rasolka for PR 711!

Released Selenide 4.11.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Good morning, my friends!

We released Selenide 4.11.0. What’s new there?

Upgraded to selenium 3.11.0

The main changes in selenium 3.11.0 are about Internet Explorer and Windows platform.

And also:

removed methods startClient and stopClient in class RemoteWebDriver
remove properties SafariOptions.cleanSession and SafariOptions.port

Added collection condition `textsInAnyOrder`

Now you can write more advanced check for collections:

Released Selenide 4.10

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Good night, Seleniders!

We recently got a chance to merge a lot of pull requests and released Selenide 4.10

So, what’s new there?

What you get when update to Selenide 4.10?

We added method `$.scrollIntoView()`

You can use it to scroll browser to the right place. For example, it can be useful to overcome issues of some browser which cannot click an element that is outside of visible window area.

Released Selenide 4.9

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Good night!

At the very last moment of year 2017, we released Selenide 4.9.

What’s new there?

Upgraded to selenium 3.8.1

There are backward-incompatible changes, be prepared. Selenium guys like to delete existing functionality :)

Thanks to Aleksandr Rasolka for pull request 638.

Now marionette is used by default

As you know, Selenide initially used Firefox as a default browser. The reason is simple: it was the only webdriver that didn’t require downloading a separate binary to drive the browser.

Released Selenide 4.8

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Sun, 08 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Good evening!

We released Selenide 4.8. It’s mainly a Selenium upgrade.

Upgraded to selenium 3.6

This version contains some backward incompatible changes, that’s why we decided to make a separate release.

Thanks to Ostap Oleksyn for pull request 611.

By the way, we also upgraded to guava 23.0 and org.apache.httpcomponents:httpcore:4.4.7.

Fix an error with soft asserts

Thanks to Ostap Oleksyn for fixing issue 614

That’s it. This time the upgrade should be easy.

Friendly reminder

Welcome to the Heisenbug conference in Moscow - 8-9.12.2017

Released Selenide 4.7

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Sat, 30 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Good evening!

We released Selenide 4.7 with the most wanted feature of the year. You’ll live the life now!

Embedded WebDriverManager

Now Selenide contains WebDriverManager - a library that can automatically download latest webdriver binary file. You don’t need to care about downloading geckodriver.exe or chromedriver.exe and adding it to PATH. Selenide will take care about it.

There is one nuance. WebDriverManager will only work if:

You use one of supported webdrivers: chrome, edge, internet explorer, opera, phantomjs, marionette or gecko.
Your code hasn’t set system property webdriver.chrome.driver, webdriver.edge.driver, webdriver.ie.driver, webdriver.opera.driver, phantomjs.binary.path or webdriver.gecko.driver.

If you use another webdriver (or a custom WebDriverProvider), WebDriverManager will not be used, and you will continue working as previously.

Released Selenide 4.6

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Sat, 09 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Good night!

We released Selenide 4.6

Method `$.shouldHave(exactValue(" foo "))` does not trim leading/trailing spaces anymore

As you probably know, method $.shouldHave(value(" foo ")) (which we all typically use) trims leading/trailing spaces in the given string. It’s convenient because web browsers also do so. But we recently found that method exactValue() also do it, and that’s not right.

Assuming that you have <textarea value="Regression test description "></textarea> on a page, the check $("textarea").shouldHave(exactValue("Regression test description ")); failed before this release. Not it will not.

Released Selenide 4.5

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Good evening!

We released Selenide 4.5! This release is mainly dedicated to performance improvements of Selenide itself.

Speed up method `$.setValue()`

Selenide had a cool feature… that nobody knew about. Method $.setValue() pretended to be smart so much it could set value not only to text inputs, but also to selects and radio buttons. The idea was that test should remain stable even if developers change element’s type (say, from <select> to <input type="radio">).

Released Selenide 4.3

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Hi all!

Good news: we released Selenide 4.3

Fix method `$$().find()`

More exactly, it always could find elements correctly, but it gave a misleading error message in case element could not be found.

Now it’s fixes and gives correct error message.

See. pull request 426

Thanks to Julia Iluhina for the fix!

Fixed page object fields `SelenideElement` without `@FindBy` annotation

Surprisingly, we found that Selenide could behave unexpectedly when you tried to use it unexpectedly. :)

Selenide 4.2.1 released

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Hi!

This is a bugfix and enhancements release following “4.2(Browsers)”

Fixed usage of boolean/integer capabilities as command line system properties.

Since this release capabilities values are automatically converted to boolean/integer if transferred in SystemProperties, so for example the following parameters will be working fine

-Dcapabilities.rotatable=true
-Dcapabilities.elementScrollBehavior=1

Firefox: support for FirefoxProfile preferences over command line

Good news for users who need to transfer FirefoxProfile preferences to the WebDriver. firefoxprofile.* are now automatically processed by Selenide and transferred to Firefox and Marionette drivers.

Selenide 4.2 released

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Hi!

With 4.x we’ve just started to add useful features for communication with the constantly changing environment, and in this version we made a great step forward in supporting browsers.

Support of legacy Firefox driver. #431

As you may know, Firefox, starting with Firefox 48, is not supported by built-in Selenium driver (let’s name it legacy driver). You must use new marionette/gecko driver, which also works with the older version of Firefox, but, it is not yet that stable in many cases. We experienced many projects with a large number of test switched to use Firefox 45 ESR, with the legacy driver, instead of the newest Firefox, because of high costs for analysis and changes for broken tests with the new driver. In 4.2 you may choose, which driver to use for Firefox version <=47

Released Selenide 4.1

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Achievement unlocked!

This day came. We releases Selenide 4.1 that contain only your changes. Made by you. Your pull requests.

#428 Improve byAttribute method for search via css selectors

Method byAttribute (or shorter by) got more powerful. Before now, you could use it to find elements by attribute value:

$(by("first-name", "john macclane").click();

Now you can use it to search element by substring in attribute:

$(by("first-name*", "hn maccl").click();

by a starting of attribute:

Selenide presentation on TopConf 2016

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Good evening!

I recently presented Selenide on TopConf conference in Tallinn.

Video:

And my presentation:

Andrei Solntsev

selenide.org

A wrapper or pure Selenium?

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Thu, 20 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000

There is a popular opinion that using Selenide is not serious for a “true” automation engineer.
A real engineer should use pure Selenium to understand how it works inside.

And that’s why it’s bad.

A story of true driver

Imagine: you are in a great hurry to get on the plane. Get in a taxi, say: “Urgently to the airport!” And the taxi driver tells you: now I will put the motor on the frame, fasten the wheels, fill up the fuel - and we will go!

Released Selenide 4.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Sat, 15 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Hi all!

It happened, finally!

After 3-years-length waiting, Selenium WebDriver 3.0 was released.

And we released Selenide 4.0.

What changed?

Actually nothing should change for you. They just cleared some legacy garbage from selenium (that was never used by Selenide).

What is actually important that Selenide now requires Java 8.

Hurrra!!! Now QA world will finally move to Java 8 and lambdas!

Can I get more details!

Sure. Here is a list of Selenium WebDriver 3.0.0 changes.

Released Selenide 3.11

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Fri, 14 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Good evening!

We released Selenide 3.11! This is the last release in 3.x series. The last working on Java 7 and Selenium WebDriver 2.x

The following is Selenide 4.x: Selenium WebDriver 3.x and Java 8.

So, what we have in Selenide 3.11:

Added condition `checked`

Now you can write readable test for checkbox:

 $("#i-agree").shouldBe(checked);

Before now, you had to write $.shouldBe(selected) which is not pretty clear.

Checkbox should be checked.

BDD with Selenide

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Hi!

People often ask if they can use BDD with Selenide.

Short answer: Yes, you can!

There is plenty of BDD tools in Java and Python. You can use any of them with Selenide. Some working examples: Selenide + Cucumber: https://github.com/selenide-examples/cucumber/tree/master/src/test/resources/org/selenide/examples/cucumber

Selenide + JBehave: https://gist.github.com/mp911de/009ea539271da0633c59

Selenide + GEB: https://github.com/selenide-examples/geb-maven-tutorial/blob/master/src/test/groovy/stepdefs/IndexStepDefs.groovy

Selenide + Gauge: https://github.com/selenide-examples/GaugeSelenideExample/blob/master/specs/example.spec You can find a whole book here full of examples with Selenide, JBehave and Cucumber: https://www.amazon.com/Test-Driven-Java-Development-Viktor-Farcic/dp/1783987421?tag=viglink12630-20

P.S. I personally don’t value BDD really much. I think it’s a nice idea, but it doesn’t really work. Business stakeholders do not really write executable specifications.

Released Selenide 3.10

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Hi!

We released Selenide 3.10!

Proxy server is disabled by default

It’s I am sad to say this, but it seems that the experiment with a proxy server has not yet succeeded.

There is a problem with the “new way” of downloading files using Selenide built-in proxy server. It works for all my projects, but some folks reported that it doesn’t work for them. I still don’t know exactly the problem and its causes. Probably those who use Selenium Grid experience this problem.

Released Selenide 3.9.2

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Sat, 03 Sep 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Good evening!

We released Selenide 3.9.2!

You can download files differently

As you know, we changed a way of downloading files in Selenide 3.9. We got quite different feedback: some folks reported that new way works for cases where old way didn’t work, while others reported that the new way doesn’t work for cases where the old way worked.

That’s why we decided to provide users a choice.

Released Selenide 3.9.1

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Sat, 27 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Hi all!

We released Selenide 3.9.1!

Killer feature! Selenide can now download any files. From anywhere.

We planned to do it for a long, and now it finally happened! Those endless problems with downloading files in Selenium are over. Now it’s easy. Just one simple method for all cases:

File report = $("input#submit").download();

Actually method download existed in Selenide for a long time. But it could only download files from links with href attribute: <a href.

Released Selenide 3.8

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Sat, 06 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Good night!

We released Selenide 3.8! It fixes some small issues and introduces small but useful features.

Fixed file uploading on remote browsers in Grid

Thanks to Alexei Vinogradov for fixing remote upload!

Now you can disable automatic creating of *.html files

When your test fails, Selenide automatically saves 2 files:

Screenshot - *.png file
Page source code - *.html file

But sometimes people don’t want to save *.html files. For example, in case of single page application the page source contains html code of all application pages. Thus it’s too big and useless.

Released Selenide 3.7

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Fri, 08 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Hi all!

We released Selenide 3.7!

Upgraded to Selenium 2.53.1

It should fix the problem with Firefox 47.

Added support for Marionette browser

To run your tests with Marionette browser, you can set parameter in command line (or build script):

-Dselenide.browser=marionette

or set browser directly in your tests:

 Configuration.browser = "marionette";

see. pull request #349

Thanks to Geroen Dierckx for this pull request!

Added support for non-web drivers

There are some “webdrivers” that do not actually drive web-browsers, but

Released Selenide 3.6

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Good day!

In the last day of spring, we released Selenide 3.6.

Reverted page loading strategy to `normal`

In Selenide 3.5 we set default page loading strategy to none. It made tests faster for some users, but other users complained that it broke their tests, so that they had to rollback to Selenide 3.4.

Now the default page loading strategy is again normal (it’s Selenium default). If you want to speed up your tests, just configure

Released Selenide 3.5

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Hi all!

We released Selenide 3.5 with flexible collection size checks.

We added flexible checks for collection size

Before now, we could only check the exact size of collection:

 $$(".man.angry").shouldHave(size(12));

Now we can use flexible checks: <, <=, >, >=, <>

Simple like this:

 $$(".man.angry").shouldHave(sizeLessThan(13));
 $$(".man.angry").shouldHave(sizeLessThanOrEqual(12));
 $$(".man.angry").shouldHave(sizeGreaterThan(11));
 $$(".man.angry").shouldHave(sizeGreaterThanOrEqual(12));
 $$(".man.angry").shouldHave(sizeNotEqual(42));

Thanks to vasilevichra for this pull request!

P.S. Actually I am still not sure that this is a good idea. I think that test must prepare required preconditions before running application. It means that test must always know exactly how many elements should be on the page at every moment. But we implemented it because users kindly asked for it.

Released Selenide 3.3

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Thu, 11 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Good evening!

We released Selenide 3.3 with support for collections.

Ajax support for collections

Now collection methods $$ can wait until collection elements get loaded. It can be useful for collections that are loaded asynchronously with Ajax.

See. issue #277

Added separate timeout for collections

We added two configuration parameters:

collectionsTimeout (default value 6 seconds)
collectionsPollingInterval (default value 0.2 seconds)

Typically collections are loaded longer than single elements (they contain more than one element). That’s why they need longer timeout.

Released Selenide 3.2

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Good morning!

We released Selenide 3.2

Now Selenide logs browser version

We added INFO log containing version of browser, Selenium and Selenide:

00:32:45 INFO BrowserName=chrome Version=48.0.2564.109 Platform=MAC
00:32:45 INFO Selenide v. 3.2
00:32:45 INFO Selenium WebDriver v. 2.51.0 build time: 2016-02-05 11:20:57

Better report

We renamed FAILED->FAIL, PASSED->PASS in selenide report. So they don’t mess with PASSED and FAILED that are typically written by Maven and other tools. Now it’s a little bit easier to analyze Selenide output in Jenkins.

Released Selenide 3.1

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Sun, 17 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Good evening!

Good new year news: we released Selenide 3.1.

Updated documentation

We fixed and updated documentation on site.

Thanks to Aleksei Vinogradov and Erik Khalimov for hard work!

Method `$().download()` does not allow invisible links

Before Selenide 3.1, method $().download() allowed to download files from invisible links. We fixed this bug. Thanks to @dimand58 for this pull request.

Methods `switchTo(...)` now can wait if needed

Methods switchTo(alert()), switchTo(frame()), switchTo(window()) got smarter. Now they can wait a little bit, if alert, frame or window is not loaded yet. As usually, default timeout is 4 seconds.

Changes in Selenide 2.25

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Good evening!

Today we released Selenide 2.25. It’s the last Selenide version in 2.* line. A big refactoring, clean-up of deprecated stuff and Selenide 3.0 follows soon.

Please review your tests and be sure you don’t use any @Deprecated methods. We are going to remove them in Selenide 3.0.

But now - Selenide 2.25 highlights:

We added “Selenide profiler” for TestNG

You probably know that Selenide suggests a profiler for your tests named PrettyReportCreator. It was only available for JUnit until now. Now we created the same profiler for TestNG.

Released Selenide 3.0

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Hello!

We released Selenide 3.0. Finally!

NB! Selenide 3.0 is a major upgrade, meaning that something can become broken.

Don’t be afraid: if you used only public API and didn’t used @Deprecated methods, then nothing changes for you. But if you did, read carefully.

Historical notes

The first version Selenide 1.0 was created in year 2011. We silently tested and tuned it for more than a year.

In March 2013 we went to SeleniumCamp conference in Kiev and released Selenide 2.0 there. In 2.0 we cleaned up all the legacy and left only the new API. Then was the first “public” version of Selenide 2.0 born. At that moment, SelenideElement has only a dozen of methods and was called ShouldableWebElement. :)

Selenide changes license to MIT

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Good evening!

We decided to change Selenide license from LGPL to MIT.

Shortly said, it means that you can do with Selenide whatever.

MIT is the most permissive license.

Here you can find illustration for differences between most common open-source licenses MIT, Apache and GPL.

Why not LGPL?

Actually we like LGPL. LGPL means that you must publish your code as open-source only if you include Selenide code into your product. But you use Selenide in tests, so you don’t include Selenide into code that is delivered to your customers. That’s why you don’t need to publish your source code.

Selenide presentation on Devoxx 2015

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Now in Europe!

I have presented Selenide on Devoxx - the biggest Java conference in Europe.

Here is video of my talk:

And slides:

Here you can find other Devoxx 2015 videos.

Andrei Solntsev

selenide.org

Changes in Selenide 2.24

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Sun, 08 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Good morning! We released Selenide 2.24. It’s a minor release.

Upgraded to selenium-java 2.48.2

changelog of selenium 2.48.2.

Add method `$.pressEscape()`

In addition to methods

$("input").pressEnter();
$("input").pressTab();

we have now new method:

$("input").pressEscape();

Fixed soft asserts for TestNG

As you probably know Selenide has soft asserts functionality. Some time ago it was broken if you run tests in TestNG. Now we fixed it.

Logic of webdriver creation extracted to a separate class WebDriverFactory

Before this release, class WebDriverRunner created browsers. But it grew to be too large: it also detects hanging browsers, closes and reopens browsers etc. That’s why we extracted logic of creating webdrivers to a separate class.

Introduction to Selenide on SeleniumConf 2015

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Finally!

I have got a change to introduce Selenide on SeleniumConf conference that took place in Portland this year.

Here is video of my talk:

And slides:

Here you can find other SeleniumConf videos.

Andrei Solntsev

selenide.org

Changes in Selenide 2.23

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Hi all!

In september we released Selenide 2.23. Let’s take a look on news.

New method `$.selectRadio()`

In order to select radio button, Selenide had a method

Selenide.selectRadio(By.name("gender"), "male");

Now we have new method that is more consistent with other Selenide methods:

$(By.name("gender")).selectRadio("male");

As other Selenide methods, it can wait if the radio button is not available yet.

Method `$.setValue()` can now handle radio buttons

We try to make Selenide as universal as possible, so that you would not need to think about low-level technical details of web elements. For instance, method $.setValue() detects what type of web element you are operating with: input, select or textarea - and behaves correspondingly.

Changes in Selenide 2.21 and 2.22

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Sat, 29 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Good saturday!

Recently we released Selenide 2.21 and 2.22. They contain few but important changes.

Upgrade to Java 7

Starting from version 2.21, Selenide only works on Java 7 and higher.

If you used Java 6, it’s time to upgrade.

Upgrade to Selenium 2.47.1

It requires Java 7.
It supports native events only for FireFox 31. For later FireFox versions only synthetic events are supported.
It adds experimental support for the new browser “Microsoft Edge”.

All changes in Selenium 2.47.1

Changes in Selenide 2.20

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Hi all!

We have released Selenide 2.20. Let me tell you what’s new there.

Protection against webdriver hanging

Sometimes we experience problems with webdriver: it hangs when trying to open or close browser. This thread just remains endlessly in the same state: “Forwarding newSession on session null to remote”. I guess it’s a bug in webdriver.

We added protection against this problem in Selenide 2.20.

Now Selenide runs opening/closing browser in a separate thread and limits its time. By default opening browser cannot take more than 15 seconds, and closing browser cannot take more than 5 seconds. In case of failure, Selenide re-tries (up to 3 times) and only then throws an exception.

Changes in Selenide 2.19

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Sun, 21 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Hi everybody!

We have released Selenide 2.19.

Several problems have been fixed, primarily with inner frames and self-signed certificates.

Working with inner frames

One of the most problematic objects for automated testing is frames.

Selenium Webdriver can switch to frame. But there are also inner frames in the field! Webdriver cannot switch into inner frame. Poor testers need to switch to parent frame, then to child frame, then to grandchild frame, etc.

Changes in Selenide 2.18

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Wed, 06 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Good evening!

In the end of April we released long-waited Selenide 2.18. It was hard. We have totally rewritten waiting algorithm, so now it catches all the StaleElementException.

Let me describe it in details.

Waiting algorithm

Selenide always fought against StaleElementException and other problems caused by Ajax and timeouts. But it was still possible to get StaleElementException in rare cases.

In Selenide 2.18 we reworked waiting mechanism.

The old algorithm was the following:

Changes in Selenide 2.16 and 2.17

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Tue, 05 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Hi Seleniders!

We haven’t written to blog for a while. There have been released 3 new versions of Selenide during this period.

Let me describe changes in versions 2.16 and 2.17

Soft asserts

We finally added SoftAsserts to Selenide. I am still not sure that it’s a good idea, but it was asked a lot. :)

In SoftAssert mode your tests do not fail immediately, but all the checks like $.shouldHave(text("xxx")) will collect errors and report all them at once in the end of test. It allows you to collect all the fails, fix them all and re-run test only once. It could be useful if cost of running tests is too big for you.

How to test GMail

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Sun, 28 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Hi all!

How would you test GMail if you were Google developer? It’s a great exercise, try it once!

Automated testing of GMail is not trivial. It heavily uses ajax, elements are loaded dynamically, loading may take more than few seconds, and there is no reasonable IDs/selectors. You would need to add “wait” for almost every operator!

Project “GMail test”

But it’s possible! In Selenide Examples series we present a github project for testing GMail. It checks inbox content and composes a new message. Then it clicks “Undo”, edits the message body and sends it again. And finally waits until the “Undo” button disappears.

How to allocate time for refactoring?

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000

One of the most common IT questions is: How to allocate time for refactoring?

It’s common for both developers and testers. Both get very quickly a heap of dirty unreadable code, a plenty of slow, unmaintainable, unreadable tests. It’s getting harder and harder to live with it. Development/testing is getting slower. Motivation decreases. Sometimes you happen to clean up some lines in the evening time, but… it seems to be something wrong with the evening-time work?..

The fast and the continuous @ SQA Days 16

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Sat, 13 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000

This is a video from my presentation “The fast and the continuous” on the last SQA Days 16 conference in Saint-Petersburg (Russia).

The video is in Russian.

The fast and the continuous from Vlad Orlikov on Vimeo.

Video of Andrei Solntsev presentation on SQA Days-16
November 14-15 2014, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
www.sqadays.com

You find wrong bugs

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000

When I was on the last SQA Days conference in Saint-Petersburg, there happened an incident. At that moment, I didn’t realize what happened. I just smiled. And only a few days later I got the idea.

So,

when I finished my speech about really effective automated testing, a man took a microphone and started asking criticizing questions. After a few answers of mine, he sat down discordant, saying:

You find wrong bugs.

Changes in Selenide 2.15

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Good evening!

Good news: we have released Selenide 2.15. This time we have a lot of new features.

Sizzle selectors (CSS3)

Now you can use CSS3 selectors in Selenide for searching web elements!

For example:

$(":contains('Tere Martin!')").shouldBe(visible);
$(":not(a#id)");
$$(":not(div,p)").shouldHave(size(3));
$("[value!='johnny']");
$("div:has(span)");
$(":input");
$(":text");
$(":checkbox");
$(":file");
$(":password");
$(":image");
$(":header");
$(":first");
$(":last");
$(":even");

To enable Sizzle selectors, add this line to your tests:

Configuration.selectorMode = Sizzle;

Feel free to share your experience with us. Did it work for you?

How to start writing UI tests in 10 minutes

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Hi!

People often ask: how to learn writing tests? How to start? How to write first test in Selenium?

Now we have an answer!

This video tutorial demonstrates how to create a project with Maven and write a test that opens a Google in browser, enters a word and checks for search results.

How to start writing UI tests in 10 minutes from Selenide on Vimeo.

Selenide tutorial

Please feel free to give your feedback!

Changes in 2.13 and 2.14

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Sun, 28 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Hi Seleniders!

In September we released two versions of Selenide: 2.13 and 2.14. There is not so much new functions, but there is one new function that I want to discuss with you. Let’s start with it.

Fast method $.setValue

In Codeborne we analyzed performance of tests in few real projects and discovered that the most slow part of tests is filling text fields (not XPath search as many of us think). In other words, method $.setValue (or WebElement.sendKeys) is the bottleneck. It’s because Selenium emulates keypress of every single key with all related events: keyDown, keyUp etc. - thus making method sendKeys quite slow.

Selenide usage simple notes: IE, TestNG, Bootstrap dropdown

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Hello!

My name is Sergey Shimkiv. Below you can find some notes about Selenide/Selenium usage.

IE notes

IE 11 x32/x64. In some cases after the actions with HTML elements (click() for example) you can receive an exception.
The cause of it could be synthetic events usage. The workaround is to use native events for IE:

capabilities.setCapability("nativeEvents", "true");

See https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/InternetExplorerDriver

One way to add Selenide screenshot into the TestNG HTML reporter

In some cases you might want to add Selenide’s screenshots of failed tests into your TestNG HTML reporter.

Shorten your code

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Hi all!

This is Prezi presentation about Selenide from Ashwin Dalvi.

Pros, Cons and Myths:

Selenide: Shorten your code!

Changes in Selenide 2.12

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Sat, 05 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Hello QA geeks!

Great news: we have released Selenide 2.12. Let’s see what’s coming with it.

Added function $.uploadFile(File)

The function allows you to upload a file.

 File cv = new File("src/test/resources/cv.pdf");
 $("#cvFileUpload").uploadFile(cv);

Selenide already had a similar function $.uploadFromClasspath(String fileName). It searched the file for uploading in classpath. We believe that holding test file together with test sources is a good practice (meaning that test files get to classpath during project compilation).

Changes in Selenide 2.11

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Fri, 23 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Hello!

We have released Selenide 2.11. It does contains no new features, but removes old unused features, that made our life complex and broke down the progress.

Please be so nice and run your tests with Selenide 2.11. Notify us if some tests got broken.

What we cleaned up

Removed dependency on jQuery

Methods $.selectOption() and $.selectOptionByValue() tried to trigger “change” event using jQuery. It was done a long time ago to fight against some odd test failures on Windows in IE. Now it’s actual anymore

Changes in Selenide 2.10

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Sun, 27 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Hi all!

Recently we released Selenide 2.10. Let me introduce you the news!

New functions

Working with windows/tabs

Selenium WebDriver does not support convenient API for working with windows and tabs. It only suggests method getWindowHandles() that returns set of strings - identifiers of opened windows. It’s not trivial to find the needed one from these handles.

As Selenide primary goal is to free developer’s head from browser technical details, we want to make working with windows/tabs easy and intuitive. We started this movement from a simple thing: we have added method

Changes in Selenide 2.9

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Sat, 15 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Good evening!

Today was released Selenide 2.9. Let me tell you about the changes in the new version.

New functionality

Added support for Safari browser

Indeed, Safari driver doesn’t seem to be stable yet. At least, some Selenide tests still fail on Safari.

Another problem with Safari is that it doesn’t support JS alerts and cannot open local files like file://c:/tmp.txt.

Please feel free to share your experience with Safari webdriver!

Selenide downloads: over 200 unique ips

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000

As you probably know, the Central Maven Repo publishes download statistics for different artifacts.

Today was published Selenide download statistics for February, 2014. The image below shows number of unique IPs that downloaded selenide.jar from the central maven repository.

It seems that we have great success! Yeah!

Selenide in five minutes by Glen Smith

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Wow!

Glen Smith presented Selenide at Canberra JUG. This is a really great 5-min live demo of Selenide. It took only 5 minutes to tell, write and run a full working test for google image service. You know, it’s not that easy: there is Ajax under the hood…

Please enjoy!

Original blog post: Selenide in Five Minutes: A lightning talk

Glen Smith is an Australian engineer, co-author of “Grails in Action” book.

Selenide T-shirt

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Hi seleniders!

You could have noticed that Selenide has got a new logo and design.

And even own T-shirts! Like real men!

We will share three of these T-shirts next week on the XP Days conference in Kiev.

Selenide Harlem Shake

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Good morning!

This is a video demonstrating how easy is to start writing automated tests with Selenide.

We wanted to make a screencast that would be short, funny and informative enough. By the way, this is a real-life project, not another “Hello World” application.

Watch with sound!

Selenide Harlem Shake from Selenide on Vimeo.

Can PhantomJS take screenshots?

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Many people think that PhantomJS (as a headless browser) cannot take screenshots.

This is not true!

According to PhantomJS documentation, it can take screenshots.

Let’s try to do that.

import static com.codeborne.selenide.Selenide.*;

public class TestPhantomScreenshot {
 public static void main(String[] args) {
 System.setProperty("browser", "phantomjs");
 open("http://google.com");
 screenshot("google-com-screenshot");
 close();
 }
}

It works!

Though, it does not work ideally. Well, screenshots of google.com, habrahabr.ru and skype.com look good, but screenshot of selenide.org is quite strange.

Video: Selenide on SeleniumCamp 2013

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

This is our talk about Selenide on SeleniumCamp 2013 conference in Kiev.

The talk is in Russian.

First part - introduction to Selenide:

Second part - live demonstration of Selenide:

pair programming
ping-pong programming
programming a real internet bank

What is Selenide

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Many of you have tried Selenium WebDriver - one of the most popular tools for UI Testing.

Writing UI Tests is not simple. There are a number of typical problems, including Ajax, dynamic pages and timeouts. The goal of Selenide is to resolve these problems.

What is Selenide

Selenide is a wrapper for Selenium WebDriver that allows you easier and faster writing of UI Tests. With Selenide you can concentrate on business logic instead of solving all these endless browser/ajax/timeouts problems.

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

> Selenium Grid

> TestContainers

> TestMu AI (ex. LambdaTest)

> BrowserStack

> Saucelabs

> Moon

> Selenoid

> Other cloud providers

The easiest, fastest and most reliable way is to launch a browser on the same machine with the test (the so-called “local” launch). Or maybe in a Docker container on the same machine.

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Page Objects - it’s simple!

In the QA world, there is a very popular pattern Page Objects. It means that for every page you create a separate class - Page Object. This class should implement logic of working with different page elements. It’s thought that Page Object helps to avoid duplication of locators in tests.

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

> YAGNI

> Text report

> Allure report

YAGNI

First of all, please think twice: probably you don’t need any specific reports.

Both Gradle and Maven already generate good enough test report which includes all the errors.
When a test fails, Selenide already generates a detailed error message (including screenshot and html of a page). Typically, it’s enough to understand why the test failed:

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Can Selenide take screenshots?

Yes, Selenide takes screenshots automatically on every test failure. This is very useful for error analysis.

By default Selenide puts screenshots to folder build/reports/tests.

Can I tell Selenide to put screenshots to a specific folder?

Yes. You can use property -Dselenide.reportsFolder=test-result/reports to set any directory to store screenshots to. For v4.x use -Dselenide.reports=test-result/reports

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Motivation

Selenium WebDriver is a great tool, but it’s not a tool for testing. It’s a tool for browser manipulation.

And Selenide is a tool for automated testing (build on top of Selenium WebDriver).

FAQ

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Motivation

Why Selenium webdriver is not enough?

Why yet another Selenium wrapper?

Briefly: shorter code, easier to read, no need to re-invent the wheels.

And lots of features for testing.
And automated screenshots and reports.
And video recording.
And tests for mobile apps.
And much, much more…

Find more detailed answer here

Page Objects

Can I use Page Objects with Selenide?

Yes! You can use Page Objects with Selenide.

Moreover, your page objects get concise and readable with Selenide. See more details here.

Feedback

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

javadoc

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Quick Start

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

How to write UI test in 10 minutes

For Maven users:

Add these lines to file pom.xml:

<dependency>
 <groupId>com.codeborne</groupId>
 <artifactId>selenide</artifactId>
 <version>7.16.0</version>
 <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>

For Gradle users:

Add these lines to file build.gradle:

dependencies {
 testImplementation 'com.codeborne:selenide:7.16.0'
}

Start writing test

So easy! No more boring routines, we can start.

Import required classes:

import static com.codeborne.selenide.Selenide.*;
import static com.codeborne.selenide.Condition.*;

and write test:

@Test
public void userCanLoginByUsername() {
 open("/login");
 $(By.name("user.name")).setValue("johny");
 $("#submit").click();
 $(".loading_progress").should(disappear); // Waits until element disappears
 $("#username").shouldHave(text("Hello, Johny!")); // Waits until element gets text
}

Ready!

Selenide blog

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Selenide users

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

We say THANKS to

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

What users say

andrei.solntsev@gmail.com (Andrei Solntsev) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

"I use Selenide for 4 years already and I can't stop praising it. It's much simpler and clearer, adds syntactic sugar, I don't need to reinvent the wheel and create custom methods. I'm very grateful to those who contribute to Selenide!"
Lana Petrenko
Senior Software Engineer In Test at Aledade, Inc.
[source]

"Selenide is an open-source library that can make a huge impact on and accelerate software delivery by introducing a concise API, shorter expressions, and many other capabilities. It is a wrapper around Selenium WebDriver and is designed to solve problems that Selenium cannot address."

Selenide: concise UI tests in Java on Selenide

Released Selenide 7.16.0

Selenide MCP server

Released Selenide 7.15.0

Download file without content

Released Selenide 7.14.0

Fixed downloading files with space in name

Released Selenide 7.13.0

Sped up downloading files from Selenium Grid

Released Selenide 7.12.0

Screenshots with DevTools/BiDi

Released Selenide 7.11.1

Disable smooth scrolling

Released Selenide 7.10.0

Speed up the video recorder

Released Selenide 7.9.4

Updated Selenium from 4.33.0 to 4.34.0

Released Selenide 7.9.3

Updated Selenium from 4.32.0 to 4.33.0

Click holding left keys

Released Selenide 7.9.2

Fixed colors on video

Before

Released Selenide 7.9.0

Attach screenshots to Jenkins and GitLab

Released Selenide 7.8.0

New functions for Appium

Released Selenide 7.7.0

Added support for Moon

Year summary

Milestones

Elves

Released Selenide 7.6.0

Added video recorder

Released Selenide 7.5.0

New configuration for every browser

Released Selenide 7.3.1

Mock response with specific content type

Released Selenide 7.2.0

Download files from Selenium Grid

Released Selenide 7.1.0

Download files with CDP

Released Selenide 7.0.1

Restore loops over collections

Released Selenide 7.0.0

Updated to Java 17

Released Selenide 6.19.1

Released Selenide 6.19.0

New method $.highlight() for highlighting a web element

Released Selenide 6.18.0

Show actual texts in collections

Released Selenide 6.17.2

Un-hanged the hanging webdriver. Again.

Released Selenide 6.17.1

Un-hang hanging webdriver

Released Selenide 6.17.0

Upgraded to Selenium 4.11.0

Replaced WebDriverManager by SeleniumManager

Released Selenide 6.16.1

Added conditions allOf and anyOf

Released Selenide 6.16.0

Speed up collection checks

Released Selenide 6.15.0

Merged project selenide-selenoid into selenide

Released Selenide 6.14.0

Speed up debugging

Released Selenide 6.13.0

Added method $.cached()

Released Selenide 6.13.0

Banners support

The problem

Released Selenide 6.12.4

Workaround for Chromedriver

Added support for jdk-http-client as a replacement for netty-client

Released Selenide 6.12.2

What’s the problem?

Released Selenide 6.12.0

New headless mode

Released Selenide 6.11.1

Truncate only WebDriverException messages

New method `$.highlight()` for highlighting a web element

Added conditions `allOf` and `anyOf`

Merged project `selenide-selenoid` into `selenide`

Added method `$.cached()`

Added support for `jdk-http-client` as a replacement for `netty-client`

Truncate only `WebDriverException` messages

Added method `$.press()`

Trigger `change` event by method `$.select*`

Added setting `remoteReadTimeout`

Added condition `partialValue`

Added condition `tagName`

Now `$.shouldHave(text)` can verify the whole text

Added condition `exactTextsCaseSensitive` for collections

Made method `$.getSelectedOption()` lazy

Improved timeout for `$.click()`

Added new Selenide plugin `selenide-clear-with-shortcut`

Added methods `switchTo().frame(timeout)` with custom timeout

Added support for `selenide.properties`