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Selenium 1.0 Testing Tools: Beginner's Guide

By : David Burns
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Selenium 1.0 Testing Tools: Beginner's Guide

By: David Burns

Overview of this book

<p>Selenium is a suite of tools to automate web application testing across many platforms. A strong understanding of using Selenium will get you developing tests to ensure the quality of your applications.</p> <p>This book helps you understand and use Selenium to create tests and make sure that what your user expects to do can be done. It will guide you to successfully implement Selenium tests to ensure the quality of your applications.</p> <p>The Selenium Testing Tools Beginner’s guide shows developers and testers how to create automated tests using a browser. You'll be able to create tests using Selenium IDE, Selenium Remote Control and Selenium 2 as well. A chapter is completely dedicated to Selenium 2. We will then see how our tests use element locators such as css, xpath, DOM to find elements on the page.</p> <p>Once all the tests have been created we will have a look at how we can speed up the execution of our tests using Selenium Grid.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Selenium 1.0 Testing Tools Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Important preliminary points


In this chapter we will be writing our tests in Java. This is down to the popularity of the language by people using Selenium as well as its support on multiple platforms. To do this, we will need to have an IDE to write the tests in. I recommend using IDEA Intellij, as that is my favorite. You can download it from http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/, and I recommend it since it will give you all the tools that you need to build your tests successfully. If you already have Eclipse installed then this is just as good, but note the directions in this book are for IDEA Intellij, so they may not be exactly the same steps in Eclipse.

You will also need to download jUnit from http://github.com/KentBeck/junit/downloads. This will allow us to drive the tests and allow us to do asserts during the tests.