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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>

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Selenium 1.0 Testing Tools: Beginner's Guide
David Burns
Nov, 2010 | 232 pages
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Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Selenium 1.0 Testing Tools Beginner's Guide
Selenium 1.0 Testing Tools Beginner's Guide
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Getting Started with Selenium IDE
Getting Started with Selenium IDE
Important preliminary points
What is Selenium IDE
Time for action – installing Selenium IDE
Selenium IDE
Important note
Time for action – recording your first test with Selenium IDE
Updating a test to assert items are on the page
Time for action – updating a test to verify items on the page
Time for action – adding Selenium IDE comments
Multiple windows
Time for action – working with multiple windows
Time for action – switching between multiple windows
Selenium tests against AJAX applications
Time for action – working on pages with AJAX
Time for action – working with AJAX applications
Time for action – storing elements from the page
Time for action – debugging tests
Time for action – creating test suites
Saving tests
What you cannot record
Summary
2
Locators
Locators
Important preliminary points
Locating elements by ID
Time for action – finding IDs of elements on the page with Firebug
Time for action – finding elements by ID
Moving elements on the page
Time for action – finding elements by name
Adding filters to the name
Time for action – finding elements by link text
Time for action – finding elements by accessing the DOM through JavaScript
Time for action – finding elements by XPath
CSS selectors
Time for action – finding elements by CSS
Summary
3
Pattern Matching
Pattern Matching
Verifying exact text
Time for action – verifying text
Time for action – using exact: on links
Using globs in our tests
Time for action – using globs in tests
Time for action – using * to find a basic pattern
Time for action – using ? in a glob pattern
Time for action – using character classes in globbing
Using regular expressions
Time for action – using basic regular expressions to check the date
Time for action – using regular expression wildcards
Summary
4
Using JavaScript
Using JavaScript
Using JavaScript as our test language
Time for action – using JavaScript to enter text into a field
Time for action – using multiple statements in your JavaScript
Time for action – storing the result of JavaScript in a variable
Using Selenium variables with JavaScript
Time for action – using Selenium variables with JavaScript
Time for action – JavaScript within a verify or assert
Accessing the browser with JavaScript
Time for action – accessing the page with browserbot
Time for action – verifying a JavaScript evaluation with browserbot
Time for action – using waitForCondition
Firing events
Time for action – firing a mouseOver event
Time for action – firing an onBlur event in Selenium
Summary
5
User Extensions and Add-ons
User Extensions and Add-ons
Important preliminary points
User extensions
Time for action – installing a user extension
Time for action – using Selenium variables in extensions
Time for action – using locators in extensions
Time for action – using browserbot from within an extension
Time for action – creating new commands to verify or assert
Add-ons
Time for action – creating a basic add-on
Summary
6
First Steps with Selenium RC
First Steps with Selenium RC
Important preliminary points
What is Selenium Remote Control
Setting up Selenium Remote Control
Time for action – setting up Selenium Remote Control
Running Selenium IDE tests with Selenium Remote Control
Time for action – running Selenium IDE tests with Selenium Remote Control
Time for action – running our tests in Internet Explorer
Time for action – running Selenium IDE tests within Google Chrome
Time for action – running Selenium IDE tests with User Extensions
Selenium Remote Control arguments
Summary
7
Creating Selenium Remote Control Tests
Creating Selenium Remote Control Tests
Important preliminary points
Converting Selenium IDE tests to a programming language
Time for action – converting Selenium IDE tests to a language
Writing Selenium tests from scratch
Time for action – creating a Selenium instance with JUnit 3
Time for action – creating a Selenium instance with SeleneseTestCase setUp()
Time for action – creating a Selenium instance with JUnit 4
Time for action – creating a Selenium instance with TestNG
Time for action – creating a test from scratch
Selenium Remote Control best practises
Time for action – setting up the test
Time for action – moving Selenium steps into Private methods to make tests maintainable
Time for action – using the Page Object Pattern to design tests
Setting our tests up in a Continuous Integration server
Time for action – creating an Ant file
Summary
8
Advanced Selenium Techniques
Advanced Selenium Techniques
Important preliminary points
Time for action – getting a cookie off the page
Time for action – getting all cookies on the page
Time for action – deleting a cookie
Adding a new location strategy
Time for action – adding a new location strategy
Capturing network traffic
Time for action – capturing network traffic
Capturing screenshots
Time for action – capturing screenshots
Time for action – capturing a screenshot to string
Time for action – capturing the entire page as a screenshot
Time for action – capture entire page as a screenshot changing background colour
Time for action – capturing the entire page screenshot to a string
Capturing video
Time for action – setting up the environment to capture video
Time for action – recording a video in a test
Summary
9
Getting Started with Selenium Grid
Getting Started with Selenium Grid
Important preliminary points
Understanding Selenium Grid
Checking that we have the necessary items for Selenium Grid
Time for action – doing a sanity check on Selenium Grid
Selenium Grid Hub
Time for action – launching the hub
Adding instances to the hub
Time for action – adding a remote control with the defaults
Time for action – adding Selenium Remote Controls for different machines
Time for action – setting the Environment when starting Selenium Remote Control
Time for action – adding new items to the Grid Configuration
Running tests against the Grid
Time for action – writing tests against the grid
Summary
10
Running Selenium Tests in Parallel
Running Selenium Tests in Parallel
Important preliminary points
Setting up TestNG
Time for action – starting to create the test suite
Time for action – creating a test node in the TestNG configuration
Time for action – adding the parameters to our tests
Time for action – getting our tests running in parallel
Tips and tricks for running tests in parallel
Summary
11
Getting Started with Selenium 2
Getting Started with Selenium 2
Important preliminary points
Why Selenium and WebDriver are being merged
How will the browser interaction change?
Converting Selenium 1 tests to Selenium 2
Time for action – converting tests to Selenium 2 using WebDriverBackedSelenium
Starting a Selenium 2 browser instance
Time for action – instantiating new browsers and closing them
Accessing elements on the page and interacting with them
Time for action – finding a link and clicking it
Time for action – finding an element with XPath
Time for action – finding multiple elements on the page
Time for action – typing into a text box
Time for action – working with hidden elements throws errors
Working with JavaScript in Selenium 2
Time for action – using JavaScript in Selenium 2
Time for action – returning from executing JavaScript
Summary
Pop Quiz Answers
Pop Quiz Answers
Chapter 1 – Getting Started with Selenium IDE
Chapter 2 – Locators
Chapter 3 – Pattern Matching
Chapter 4 – Using JavaScript
Chapter 5 – User Extensions and Add-ons
Chapter 6 – First Steps with Selenium RC
Chapter 7 – Creating Selenium Remote Control Tests
Chapter 8 – Advanced Selenium Techniques
Chapter 9 – Getting Started with Selenium Grid
Chapter 10 – Running Selenium Tests in Parallel
Chapter 11 – Getting started with Selenium 2
Index
Index

Time for action – starting to create the test suite

TestNG requires that we have an XML configuration file that it can look at before the tests begin. This means that we can control how our tests are run when we need to run them.

  1. Create a new XML file in a text editor and call it testng.xml.

  2. Add the following to it:

    <!DOCTYPE suite SYSTEM "http://testng.org/testng-1.0.dtd">
<suite name="Parallel Tests" verbose="1">
</suite>

What just happened?

We have just created our first part of TestNG file. This creates our test suite and will give us the scaffolding that is required to make our tests run in parallel later. Now that we have this in place we need to set parameters in the file that will be used to drive the tests.

Parameters in the configuration file

Now that we have created a configuration file, we need to give it some parameters that our tests can then use to start up the browser. These parameters are nodes within the <test> node that we are going to be adding to our...

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