Dinesh Y S

@dineshys

Automating everything but my morning routine

BangaloreJoined April 2025

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Automation Engineer | Java + Selenium | Appium + Java | RestAssured | Sharing real-world automation tips

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My Selenium Test Automation Journeyselenium-java-testng.hashnode.dev10 posts

My Appium journeyandroiddriver-mobileelement-removed-appium.hashnode.dev3 posts

My rest Assured Journeymy-rest-assured-journey.hashnode.dev2 posts

How I Connected Java to AWS RDS (MySQL)how-i-connected-java-to-aws-rds-mysql.hashnode.dev1 post

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🧩 When Selenium's dragAndDrop() Executes... But Nothing Happens

We've all been there. Your tests runs. No exceptions. No red errors. But the UI? Nothing moved. Recently, I faced this exact issue while automating drag-and -drop on the demoqa page using Selenium wit

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🚀 Generating Dynamic Test Data in Selenium Using Ollama (Local LLM)

Maintaining test data is one of the most painful parts of automation. Static datasets get reused, edge cases are missed, and managing large test data files becomes messy over time. Recently, I experimented with using Ollama (local LLM) inside my Java...

Feb 72 min read

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🚀 Adding AI Failure Analysis to a Selenium + Cucumber Framework Using Ollama

Debugging automation failures is often the most time-consuming part of test automation. Logs are noisy, stack traces are long, and identifying the root cause sometimes takes longer than writing the test itself. So I decided to experiment with somethi...

Feb 62 min read

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Selenium Date Picker Automation: Why clear() Fails and how to fix It (React DatePicker Case)

while automating a date picker recently, I ran into an issue that looks simple but wastes a lot of debugging time: dateInputField.clear(); Instead of clearing the field, the calendar popup kept appearing, and sometimes the previous value came back a...

Feb 52 min read

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Switching Between Frames in Selenium Java - The Right Way

If you’ve worked with Selenium long enough, you will run into frames / iframes. And if you don’t handle them properly, Selenium will humble you real quick. In this blog, I’LL break down: What frames are Why Selenium struggles with them Different w...

Jan 252 min read

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🧩 When Selenium's dragAndDrop() Executes... But Nothing Happens

🚀 Generating Dynamic Test Data in Selenium Using Ollama (Local LLM)

🚀 Adding AI Failure Analysis to a Selenium + Cucumber Framework Using Ollama

Selenium Date Picker Automation: Why clear() Fails and how to fix It (React DatePicker Case)

Switching Between Frames in Selenium Java - The Right Way

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🧩 When Selenium's dragAndDrop() Executes... But Nothing Happens

🚀 Generating Dynamic Test Data in Selenium Using Ollama (Local LLM)

🚀 Adding AI Failure Analysis to a Selenium + Cucumber Framework Using Ollama

Selenium Date Picker Automation: Why clear() Fails and how to fix It (React DatePicker Case)

Switching Between Frames in Selenium Java - The Right Way