Awaitility VS Selenide

I’ve coded in Java since the first beta, even back then threads were at the top of my list of favorite features. Java was the first language to introduce thread support in the language itself, it was a controversial decision back then. In the past decade, every language raced to include async/await and even Java had some third-party support for that… But Java zigged instead of zagging and introduced the far superior virtual threads (project Loom). This post isn’t about that.

I hope everybody knows https://github.com/awaitility/awaitility by now.

And finally the tests, using Awaitility as we are testing asynchronous stuff:

awaitability: A tool to express expectations for asynchronous system in an easy and concise manner.

Awaitility with version 4.1.0 comes with fail fast feature (2m read) 🎉 https://github.com/awaitility/awaitility/wiki/Usage#fail-fast-conditions

Given our new functionality to update the membership list, we can create a new test case where two nodes join the cluster and expect that to be reflected in the local state of each node eventually. Thanks to the Awaitility DSL we can conveniently wait for the eventual update to happen.

Nota: para los que no la conozcáis, await es un operador de awaitility, muy útil para validación de resultados en procesos asíncronos.

TestUI combines 2 different paradigm test automation frameworks, i.e., mobile (Appium) and desktop (Selenide), into one neat framework. In our opinion, it’s a great framework that offers vast functionality with easy-to-learn syntax, not to mention full access to Selenide methods in case something tricky needs to be done.

Selenide – A wrapper for Selenium, Selenide consists of many other tools, including Selenium, WebdriverManager, and BrowserUp Proxy. Selenide is well-organized and comes with good documentation and a large community. It enables you to simplify complex tasks, for example: file download, autostart and autostop of the browser, using a proxy, etc. Though it officially supports only Java, there is also an unofficial port in Python called Selene.

I'd like to add to recommendations for Java with Selenium like stuff: https://selenide.org/ Selenide is a framework that sits on top of Selenium. It makes things so much easier. If you have the opportunity to use it, you can make your life much easier than straight Selenium.

Here it is: Contribute to the open-source Selenideium Element Inspector Chrome Extension, with which test automation teams can save hours daily by automatically generating all the relevant selectors for Selenide, Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Squish and TestCafe.

After a few weeks, István told me it would be great if I could write some articles. Being an introvert I did not really like the idea , but after 1-2 weeks I was sitting at home in front of my computer on a Sunday afternoon and I started to feel I want to write an article about Selenide, to share with the world how awesome it is.

I would highly recommend not using straight Selenium and instead go to https://selenide.org/. It's a wrapper for Selenium that more often than not prevents you from ever having to worry about writing or maintaining wrappers, and handles most all of the framework needs for you, while still allowing you to very easily dig into the Selenium specific stuff you may need. It's saved me so much time it's ridiculous to even consider using straight Selenium anymore, if you have Java as an option.

Guys you should REALLY PAY ATTENTION to this. This is a free project. I've done TA and it works like magic. No more stale element exceptions and waiters and browser hussle.

Is there a working framework that you use in your daily work? I've written my little framework (Java,TestNG). Simple singleton with a bunch of services (Actions, Robot, Waiters etc). And then I've found this and this. I've tried examples. Google search in both cases. Understood nothing. Read some docs. Didn't benefit. But these guys are right, selenium webdriver is just a webdriver. You have to write a decent amount of wrapper code. I mean. We have a lot of great frameworks almost in any given field, but when it comes to testing there is no "out of the box" running fw. Hell. You can get a fully-running web-site in a day using Laravel or Spring Boot.