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Instant Selenium Testing Tools Starter

By : Unmesh Gundecha
Book Image

Instant Selenium Testing Tools Starter

By: Unmesh Gundecha

Overview of this book

<p>Selenium is a software testing framework for automating web applications for testing purposes. It uses components such as Selenium IDE, Selenium Client API, and Selenium Webdriver to test web applications, which provides an easy-to-use platform and lets you test your applications more effectively and efficiently.<br /><br />"Instant Selenium Testing Tools Starter" was born out of the need for a short, yet all-encompassing book that would give you a solid foundation in creating and running tests with Selenium testing tools. This book will enable you to harness the power of Selenium and put it to good use throughout the testing process, quickly and efficiently.<br /><br />The "Instant Selenium Testing Tools Starter" can be used as an end-to-end guide or as a desk reference, with sections that deal with all the key aspects of automating tests for web applications. A step-by-step description of key features is provided with the help of simple and concise examples. Each chapter will help you understand the key features of Selenium with tips and tricks that will become the foundation of your knowledge in the future.</p>
Table of Contents (7 chapters)
Instant Selenium Testing Tools Starter
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
packtlib.packtpub.com

Installation


In three easy steps, you can install Selenium IDE and get it set up on your system.

Step 1 – What do I need?

Before you install Selenium IDE, you will need to check that you have all of the required elements, as listed:

Step 2 – Downloading Selenium IDE

The easiest way to download Selenium IDE as a Firefox add-on is from http://seleniumhq.org.

  1. Start the Firefox browser and navigate to the Selenium home page at http://seleniumhq.org and click on the Download tab as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. On the Download page, go to the Selenium IDE section and click on the version link as shown in the following screenshot. We suggest that you download the most current stable build and as of writing this book the most stable build is 1.10.0:

Step 3 – Installing Selenium IDE

Installing Selenium IDE is quick and easy, similar to installing any other add-on in Firefox. Selenium IDE Version 1.10.1 is supported on Firefox Version 19:

  1. After downloading, Firefox will request your permission to install the add-on. Click on the Allow button as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. Firefox will download the add-on and display the Software Installation dialog box as shown in the following screenshot. Click on the Install Now button:

  3. Firefox will install the Selenium IDE. Firefox will restart after the add-on is installed.

  4. To launch the Selenium IDE, click on Firefox | Web Developer | Selenium IDE as shown in the following screenshot. You might see a Firefox menu in some cases (on operating systems such as Linux, Ubuntu, and Mac OS X), where you can open the Selenium IDE by clicking on Tools | Selenium IDE from the Firefox main menu:

  5. Selenium IDE will be launched on top of the Firefox window as shown in the following screenshot:

And that's it!

By this point, you should have a working installation of Selenium IDE, and you should be free to play around and discover more about it. Installing Selenium IDE is as simple as installing any other add-on or extension for Firefox. In the next section, you will see the power Selenium IDE has and how useful it is for automating and testing web applications.