Artem Nagornyi's SDET recipes

SauceLabs does not annotate jobs by default, showing the question marks instead of statuses, and the name of a job is always set to "Unnamed job". Luckily we have all the powers of Sauce Labs REST API in our hands and can both set the name of a job and its final status to something more meaningful. This example demonstrates how it can be done in Node JS. Every Sauce Labs job has a unique ID. We get this ID from the Webdriver object. saucelabs.js main.js

I'm assuming you already created your project on Gitlab and got your personal access token . This is a simple synchronous function that reads a Gitlab pipeline variable in NodeJS using Gitlab REST API v3. It uses sync-request that is not recommended to use in a production environment, although it can be successfully used in automated testing and various scripts.

One-liner for increasing sound volume for recorded files on Linux (make sure ffmpeg is installed): for file in *.3gp; do ffmpeg -i "$file" -af "volume=15.0" ./conv/"${file%.3gp}".mp3; done The line above will increase sound 15X for all files with .3gp extension in the current directory and saves the resulting .mp3 files into ./conv subdirectory (make sure it exists).

Assuming we have a CSV Data Source with multiple rows and 10 values in every row. We are parsing and storing the values into a set of variables, named var1,var2,var3,var4,var5,var6,var7,var8,var9,var10 . Now we can use these variables in any step using ${varN} reference. But what if we want to select a variable from this list randomly? So that one iteration would use var3 , and another iteration would use var7 , selected randomly. I have used the following solution: Create additional user defined variable varTmp using "User Defined Variables" config element. Create "Random Variable" config element with variable name rnd , minimum value 1 and maximum value 10. Then use BeanShell PostProcessor that will store the value from randomly selected variable (var1-var10) into varTmp . We need to define two fields in the config element:  Parameters:  ${__V(var${rnd})} Script: vars.put("varTmp", bsh.args[0]); Now we can use ${varTmp} as a reference to the...

Sometimes you don't know when a server becomes reachable and you just need to wait, while continuously pinging it with a certain interval. This is a shell script that does everything for you (including a timeout if host is not available during a specified period of time). It accepts two parameters: hostname of your site and a timeout in seconds.

Normally you can only have single-character options when processing your arguments with a standard getopts utility in Linux or Mac OS X. You can use getopt for long options, but it is not included in the standard Mac OS X installation. So this is a trick that will allow you to simulate long options with a standard getopts, that will work on all *nix platforms without additional software installations. This function will also print a usage tip if you execute the script without parameters (or with -h parameter).

If you want to draw a box (a simple frame that is using only symbol characters |, = and /) around your text in a terminal output, you can use the following Bash function, that also allows you to use different colors: And in Windows Powershell you can use the following function: