Selenium is open source automation testing tool for web applications across different browsers and platforms. It is licensed under Apache License 2.0. Selenium is a suite of tools that helps in automating only web applications.
These Selenium tutorials is designed for beginners as well as experienced users of Selenium. Here we are starting from Selenium basics you will learn advance scripting all with practical examples for your easy understanding. Read More
Selenium is a free (open source) and a portable automated software testing tool for testing web applications. It has capabilities to operate across different browsers and operating systems. It is quite similar to HP Quick Test Pro (QTP) only that Selenium focuses on automating web-based applications.
Selenium is not just a single tool but a set of tools that helps testers to automate web-based applications more efficiently. It has four components. Read More
The Selenium Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is an easy-to-use Firefox plug-in to develop Selenium test cases. It provides a Graphical User Interface for recording user actions using Firefox which is used to learn and use Selenium, but it can only be used with Firefox browser as other browsers are not supported.
Step 1– Launch Firefox browser and open URL http://seleniumhq.org/download/ to download selenium IDE from the SeleniumHQ download page. Read More
Now we will install Firefox add-on Firebug and FirePath.In Selenium, Firebug helps in inspecting UI elements and finding its associated properties and values.
Step 1 – To install Firebug add-ons, open Firefox browser, launch www.google.com and search for Firebug. Click on Firebug link. Read More
Step 1. To launch the selenium IDE, open Firefox browser and select Tools > Selenium IDE
Step 2. It opens with an empty script-editing window and a menu for loading or creating new test cases. Read More
The following steps are involved in recording, creating, saving and executing Selenium tests using IDE:
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Debugging is the process of finding and fixing errors in the test script. It is a common step in any script development. To make the process more robust, we can make use a plugin “Power Debugger” for Selenium IDE.
Step 1. To install Power Debugger add-ons, open Firefox browser, launch www.google.com and search for Power Debugger. Click on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/power-debugger-selenium-ide/ link . Read More
You can not only edit the steps inside the selenium IDE but you can also add new steps or change the sequence of steps inside the IDE itself.
To do that we need to understand the following –
Test Case Table Pane – Your script is displayed in the test case pane. It has two tabs, one for displaying the command and their parameters in a readable “table” format as shown below. Read More
We can extend Selenium IDE by adding customized actions, assertions and locator-strategies. It is done with the help of JavaScript by adding methods to the Selenium object prototype. On start-up, Selenium will automatically look through the methods on these prototypes, using name patterns to recognize which ones are actions, assertions, and locators.
Let us add a ‘while’ Loop in Selenium IDE with the help of JavaScript. Read More
In this topic we will understand test automation fundamentals of how a recorded script is replayed and how automation tools recognize objects on the application.
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