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Description

Balin is a browser automation library for Kotlin. It's basically a Selenium-WebDriver wrapper inspired by Geb which uses power of the Selenium-WebDriver API.

Support and updates

  • Balin has 69 stars, 14 forks.
  • It has 0 major releases in the past 6 months.
  • It has 0 commits and there are 0 open pull requests.
  • It has 0 open issues and 3 have been closed.

Code statistics

  • Balin has 6 packages.
  • Balin has 28 classes and 53 methods.

Blogs

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Desired Capabilities in Selenium Webdriver

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Putting Together a Testing Team

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License

Balin is lincensed under the Apache License 2.0

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Test case code snippets

Database testing - Check data truncation

Description:

Check if input data is not truncated while saving. The field length shown to the user on the page and in the database schema should be the same.

General webpage functionality - Verify font style and formatting

Description:

Font size, style, and color for headline, description text, labels, infield data, and grid info should be standard as specified in SRS.

API Testing - Check custom header response

Description:

Verify that the API returns a response with a custom HTTP header when a specific request header is sent.

Accessibility testing - Meaningful source order for content

Description:

Ensure that the source order presents content meaningfully. When the page is viewed without styles, all content on the page should still appear in a meaningful and logical order.

Downloads

Balin can be downloaded from it’s GitHub repository - https://github.com/EPadronU/balin

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