Selenium Overview

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Selenium Origins Selenium What is it? Types of Selenium Selenium IDE

Selenese Test Cases and Test Suites

Selenium RC Selenium Core Element Locators

Selenium Origins
Selenium is a key mineral which protects the body from Mercury toxicity
Many of Selenium developers knew Mercury tools very well

What is Selenium
Selenium is a web test tool that runs in the browser
Selenium is implemented completely with Browser technology Javascript , DHTML , Frames

Works with virtually any Javascript-enabled

browser

Selenium supports

Browsers
Firefox IE Safari Opera Others Partially supported

Operating System
Windows Linux Solaris

Javascript
Selenium is written in Javascript Javascript is how AJAX applications are written, so Selenium can test them too

Types of Selenium
Selenium Core The main component of Selenium Selenium RC A scripting layer over Selenium Core Selenium IDE a Firefox extension with record / playback functionality Selenium Grid - distribute your tests on multiple machines so that you can run your tests in parallel

Selenium IDE
Selenium IDE adds a layer of Record / Playback to Selenium Is available for Firefox only

Selenium IDE

Selenese Test Case

Command
open type select clickAndWait clickAndWait

Target
/jobmining/ queryTitle ct_category Submit01 link=sqa

Value

qa label=Banking

Checkpoints
Of course, scripts wouldnt be tests if they didnt check something assert* tests fail the test immediately verify* tests keep track of results and continue the script regardless

verifyTextPresent

Job Description

dfgdg

asserTextPresent

Job Requirements

sdrfasf

Locators
Selenium identifies what a component is through the use of a locator link=name dom=document.images[56] xpath=//table[@id='table1']//tr[4]/td[2] css=a[href="#id3"]

Playback
Playback of a single script is handled through the IDE

Run Go as fast as the script can process

Walk Slows down the execution

Step Executes the next step

Test Suites
In order to run multiple scripts, you need to chain them together in a Test Suite Just another html table Runs inside Firefox, but not in S-IDE Saved in the same directory as the tests that are included in it

Test Suites
<table> <tr> <td>Job Search test suite</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a target="testFrame" href=selenium-ide-01.html">Job Search</a></td> </tr> </table>

Selenium RC
Selenium IDE is great for quick recording of tests, but it somewhat lacks for power Selenium RC gives you the ability to drive Selenium from a real programming language (Java, Perl, Python, Ruby,C# and PHP)

Why do you want a real language?

By using Selenium inside a full fledged language you can do the following Check the database Control external services Launch multiple windows Run multiple browsers in parallel

Selenium RC

Proxy
Because the commands for Selenium RC are embedded in a script, a proxy is needed to control the browser.

Same Origin
Prevents a document or script loaded from one origin from getting or setting properties of a document from a different origin Mozilla security documentation In other words, cannot work across server boundaries

Selenium Core
Selenium Core is used by both Selenium IDE and RC Runs test suites on the same server to avoid the Same Origin problem Dont have same flexibility as RC, but tests and code under test is in the same spot

Selenium Grid
Selenium Grid allows you to run multiple instances of Selenium Remote Control in parallel. It allows you to easily run multiple tests in parallel, on multiple machines in an heterogeneous environment.

Selenium Grid

Element Locators
id=id Select the element with the specified @id attribute.
name=name Select the first element with the specified @name attribute. identifier=id Select the element with the specified @id attribute If no match is found, select the first element whose @name attribute is id. dom=javascriptExpression Find an element using JavaScript traversal of the HTML Document Object Model. DOM locators must begin with "document." dom=document.forms['myForm'].myDropdown dom=document.images[56]

Element Locators
xpath=xpathExpression Locate an element using an XPath expression. XPath locators must begin with "//". xpath=//img[@alt='The image alt text'] xpath=//table[@id='table1']//tr[4]/td[2]

link=textPattern Select the link (anchor) element which contains text matching the specified pattern. link=The link text
css=cssSelectorSyntax Select the element using css selectors. css=a[href="#id3"] css=span#firstChild + span

Questions???