Career in Software Testing for Non-IT Graduates


I am from non – IT background. Can I make my career in Software Testing industry? What is growth path in this field? Can I expect stable career in this sector? Being a non IT graduate I am not pretty good in programming. I don’t have sound knowledge of technologies as well. Will it be a good decision to switch into IT field (especially software testing)?

BDD and ATDD – Exploring the Differences


It is a good idea to explore Behavior Driven Development and Acceptance Test Driven Development methods. This post will help you understand how are these two development strategies different from TDD and each other.

Top 12 Tools for Web Services Testing


Thanks to the rising emergence of applications for social networking, online shopping, banking and many more which have triggered the requirement of web services.

Who Earns more, a Software Tester or a Developer?


Everyone remembers the day they joined their first company. Fresh out from college, all freshers are filled with energy and are pumped up to make their presence felt in the Software world. Eventually, the training starts and everyone gets acquainted with the IT terminologies, different roles in a Software firm, and how different the actual world is outside the textual confinement.

Mind-set Difference between Tester & Developer


Some IT professionals think that a tester’s role is redundant and that a developer alone can test the code that was written by him. Such notion is completely wrong. But can you guess why? A developer can definitely test his own code and also the code was written by other developers. But one thing that a developer would lack is the tester’s strategy, approach, and his mindset.

Selenium Common Exceptions


When you work with Selenium you willencounter many exceptions. Solving of those exceptions would be sometimes very tricky but If you read the exception the answer to solving is in the meaning of Exception name. We will be going through some most commonly used Exception in Selenium.
  • NoSuchAttributeException find_element_by_* can’t find the element.
  • NoSuchElementException find_element_by_* can’t find the element.
  • InvalidSelectorException Thrown when the selector which is used to find an element does not return a WebElement. Currently, this only happens when the selector is an XPath expression is used which is either syntactically invalid (i.e. it is not an XPath expression) or the expression does not select WebElements.
  • ElementNotVisibleException Thrown to indicate that although an element is present on the DOM, it is not visible, and so is not able to be interacted with.
  • RemoteDriverServerException
  • NoSuchWindowException
  • ElementNotSelectableException
  • NoSuchFrameException
  • WebDriverException
  • UnexpectedTagNameException Thrown when a support class did not get an expected web element
  • UnableToSetCookieException Thrown when a driver fails to set a cookie.
  • MoveTargetOutOfBoundsException Indicates that the target provided to the actions move() method is invalid.
  • InvalidSwitchToTargetException The frame or window target to be switched doesn’t exist.
  • InvalidElementStateException
  • InvalidCookieDomainException Thrown when attempting to add a cookie under a different domain than the current URL
  • ImeNotAvailableException Indicates that IME support is not available. This exception is thrown for every IME-related method call if IME support is not available on the machine.
  • ImeActivationFailedException Indicates that activating an IME engine has failed.
  • ErrorInResponseException An error has occurred on the server side.
  • TimeoutException Thrown when a command does not complete in enough time.
  • StaleElementReferenceException Indicates that a reference to an element is now “stale” — the element no longer appears on the DOM of the page.

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