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Selenium- Training

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Agenda

• Introduction

• Begin with Selenium IDE

• Getting started

• Features of Selenium IDE

• Scripts – recording & running

• Formatters available in Selenium IDE.


INTRODUCTIONHistory of Selenium

• Jason Huggins from Thoughworks

• Developed to test internal app

• Birth of Selenium Remote Control

About Selenium IDE

• Shinya Kasatani from Japan started working

• Firefox plugin to develop test cases


Begin with Selenium IDEINSTALLATION

• A Firefox add-on• Can download from official website• Available at – Tools -> Selenium IDE.


Getting Started


About Selenium IDE Selenium IDE (Integrated Development Environment) is a

prototyping tool for building test scripts. It is a Firefox plugin and provides an easy-to-use interface for

developing automated tests.

Selenium IDE has a recording feature, which records user actions as they are performed and then exports them as a reusable script in one of many programming languages that can be later executed.


Features of Selenium IDE Record and playback

Intelligent field selection will use IDs, names, CSS or X-Path as needed

Auto complete for all common Selenium commands

Walk through test cases and test suites.

Debug and set breakpoints

Save tests as HTML, Java or other formats


Controls available on IDE• Toolbar controls:

• Speed Control

• Run All

• Run

• Pause/Resume

• Step

• Record. click to Record Now Recording


Building and Running scriptsRecording

• Automatically inset commands into test pane• By default record button is ON

Selenium commands • Actions - e.g. “click this link” and “select that option”.

If an Action fails, or has an error, the execution of the current test is stopped.• Accessors - Examine the state of the application and store the results

in variables, e.g. “storeTitle”.• Asserts - To check the web properties. E.g. “make sure the page title is

X” and “verify that this checkbox is checked”.


Building and Running scripts• Edit using

• Table view • Source view

• Execution of the script as • Single test case• Test Suite.


Additional features• Toggle Breakpoint:

• Use to stop the script execution as define• Useful for debugging the script

• Set/Clear Start point:• Use for executing script from define line• Useful for running scripts from middle


Script Format• By default recorded as HTML format

• User can change it to required languages

• JAVA, C#, Python are few of them


Commands• Open: opens a page using a URL.

• click/clickAndWait : performs a click operation, and optionally waits for a new page to load.

• verifyTitle/assertTitle : verifies an expected page title.

• verifyTextPresent : verifies expected text is somewhere on the page.

• verifyElementPresent : verifies an expected UI element, as defined by its HTML tag, is present on the page.


Commands• verifyText : verifies expected text and its corresponding HTML tag are

present on the page.

• verifyTable : verifies a table’s expected contents.

• waitForPageToLoad : pauses execution until an expected new page loads. Called automatically when clickAndWait is used.

• waitForElementPresent : pauses execution until an expected UI element, as defined by its HTML tag, is present on the page.


Exporting Test case and Test Suite


Advantages of IDE• Easy to learn & understand

• Support various language formatter

• User friendly UI and controls

• Has functionalities which are needed regularly

• Can exported easily for further execution.


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