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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

Converting Selenium IDE tests to a programming language


In the previous chapters we learnt how to create tests using Selenium IDE. This has been quite useful but we have not been able to take advantage of the best parts of testing frameworks such as setUp and tearDown.