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Selenium IDE Overview

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Selenium Overview Selenium IDE

Introduction

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What is Test Automation?

A process of writing a computer program to do testing that would otherwise need to be done manually

Use of software to control the execution of tests

Two types of test automation:Code-driven testingGraphical user interface testing

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Advantages of Automation Tests perform precisely the same operations each

time they are run, thereby eliminating human error.

Repeatable: You can test how the software reacts under repeated execution of the same operations.

Reusable :You can reuse tests on different versions of an application, even if the user interface changes.

SPEED :Run tests significantly faster than human users.

Cost Reduction :As the number of resources for regression test are reduced.

Better Quality software:Rapid feedback to developers during the development process as a result of frequent regression testing.


Disadvantages of Automation

Proficiency is required to write the automation test script.

Debugging the test script is major issue. If any error is present in the test script, sometimes it may lead to dadly consequences.

Test maintenance is costly in case of playback methods. Even though a minor changes occurs in the GUI, the test script has to be rewritten.

Maintenance of test data files is difficult, if the test script tests more screens or web-pages.

Short iteration or very tight deadline, there is not enough time to build test automation.

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What is Selenium?A set of tools that supports rapid development of

test automation for web-based applications.

Can be recorded and written as HTML

Support for a number of programming languages: Java, C#, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Cross browsers support: IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari and Google Chrome

Cross platform support: Windows, Linux, and Macintosh.


Selenium Components

Selenium IDE

Selenium RC

Selenium Grid

Selenium2 aka Webdriver

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< < Selenium Core

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Selenium IDE Selenium IDE (SIDE) is a complete Integrated

Development Environment (IDE) for building Selenium test case.

Firefox add-on that makes it easy to record, edit, and debug tests.

Provides an easy-to-use interface for developing and running individual test cases or entire test suites.

Can be used to generate code to run the tests with Selenium Remote Control (RC).


Selenium IDE Features Record, playback, edit

Intelligent component identification will use object IDs, names, or XPath as needed

Auto complete for all common Selenium commands

Walk through test cases and test suites.

Debug and set breakpoints

Save tests as HTML, or export as other supported programming languages

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Installing Selenium IDE


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Two step process:

Step 1. Check if Firefox is installed

1a. If Firefox is not installed on your machine

then Install Firefox

(There is NO IE Version of Selenium)

Step 2. Check if Selenium IDE is installed)

2a. If Selenium IDE is not installed on your

machine then Install Selenium IDE Plug In

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Is Firefox Installed? Check whether your machine already has a

version of Firefox installed. Go to Start Programs Mozilla Firefox


Check Firefox Version

Click on the Mozilla Firefox

Go to Help About as shown below:

Check the version name

What is your version?

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Must be Firefox version 3.6.x.x not

4.0.x.x

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Firefox Installation Open your IE browser (or any other browser) Navigate to Firefox 3.6 download link. Mozilla website will not have Firefox 3.6 download link.

The most current browser version will be presented.

(FF 4.0)


Firefox Installation


Firefox Installation Follow the steps and run the program (Saving into local machine then running is

recommended) If prompted with Security warning, press “Run”

button

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Save into your local machine. (C:\Downloads)

Run (double click Firefox Setup 3.6) from the location where you downloaded

Ignore Security warning and press “Run” button

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Firefox InstallationPress Next Check the “I Accept” then Press Next Select Standard, Remove check from “Use Firefox

as my default browser” Press Install button Press Finish button


Is Selenium IDE Installed? Open the Firefox browser window Go to Tools Check whether Selenium IDE

already exist there If you see “Selenium IDE” then you already

having Selenium IDE plug-in installed in Firefox browser.

If not installed then follow the instruction on the next slide

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Check whether Selenium IDE is

already installed

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When the Software Installation Window opens select “selenium-ide” (*1)Click Install Now button“Selenium IDE” add-on is installed (*2)Click on “Restart Firefox” button


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In the Firefox browser go to Tools and verify whether “Selenium IDE” is displayed.

Selenium IDE installation is completed.


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Recording and Running Selenium Tests

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Test Case : Login

Test-Case Objective:

Ensure Valid User Login

Expected Result:

1. That Particular index page is loaded

2. Correct username is displayed as part of the greeting.

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Steps :1. In the login textbox

type “lname”. 2. In the password

textbox type “password”.

3. Click “Submit” button

4. Verify that a correct user name is displayed

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Test Script : LoginTest Script Steps:

Login using :

Login Name: lname

Password: password

Click Login button

Highlight “Welcome Admin” text

Right-click and select VerifyTextPresent

Click logout link


Login TestMake sure Record button is ON!Go to the Browser windowLogin using :

Login Name:lnamePassword: password

Click Login button

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The Record button is ON by default

Login Name: lnamePassword: password

Then click Login button

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Login TestHighlight “Welcome Admin” text

Right-click and select VerifyTextPresent

Click logout link


Stop RecordingGo to Selenium IDE

Click the red button to STOP recording

All your actions are recorded and displayed sequentially under Command Table Tab

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Click here to Stop recording

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What did we accomplish?Test-Case Objective

Ensure Valid User Login

Steps In the login textbox type

admin. In the password textbox type

password. Click Submit button Verify that a correct user

name is displayed Logout


Running Selenium Automated Test

Make sure the Firefox browser is still open

Go to Selenium IDE and click “Play current test case” button


Debugging

Examine the result of the script.

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Time is needed to validate the login information…

The test must WAIT for the next web page to load before proceeding.

What went wrong?

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Debugging Tips

Open Selenium IDE through Tools menu, otherwise the IDE may freeze and act unpredictably.

Make sure you substitute click command with clickAndWait command wherever needed.


EditingEditing to add wait time to the script Click the 3rd to last row where ClickA

command is located Modify the command field

Replace “click” with “clickAndWait” command

Re-play the test…


Note:

One Firefox browser window must be open.

Multiple browser windows will confuse Selenium.

Play back every automated test to ensure

expected behavior.

Keep playback in slow mode when debugging.

Placing Browser window and Selenium IDE

windows side by side is a convenient way of

tracking test execution step by step.

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