SELENIUM

Speakers

Aaron Tinio
• atinio@g2ix.com
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Bernard Lago
• blago@g2ix.com

Goals
• To be able to consider implementation of automated testing
• To jumpstart Selenium usage

Pre-requisites
• HTML
• Javascript
• Ruby or other scripting/programming language

Selenium 101
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Selenium Introduction
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Selenium IDE Basics
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Selenium RC Basics
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Selenium GRID Demo

SELENIUM INTRODUCTION

Selenium Introduction
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Why choose Selenium?
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Types of Functional Test Tools for Web Apps
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“Flavors” of Selenium
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Selenium IDE Basics

Why choose Selenium?
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Open source
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Backed by Industry Players
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Stable and Well Tested
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Platform-independent
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Uses a real browser
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Allows you to use your favorite programming language

Types of Functional Test Tools
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Use of a simulated browser: HttpUnit, HtmlUnit & WebTest
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Use of a real browser: Selenium, Watir (and FireWatir and
SafariWatir)

Flavors of Selenium
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Selenium Core
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Selenium IDE
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Selenium RC (and Selenium Grid)

SELENIUM IDE

Selenium IDE
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Installation, overview and usage
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Locators
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Actions, Accessors, Assertions
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Patterns

Locators
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id
• id=gbar
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name
• name=q
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dom
• dom=document.links[0]
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xpath
• xpath=//html/body/center/form/table/tbody/tr/td[2]/input[2]
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link
• link=English

Actions

open(url)
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click(locator)
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type(locator, value)
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select(locator, optionLocator)

Accessors
• storeText(locator, variableName)
• from getText(locator) command
• storeLocation(variableName)
• from getLocation() command

Assertions
• assertText(locator, pattern)
• from getText(locator) command
• assertLocation(pattern)
• from getLocation() command
OTHER ASSERTIONS:
• verifyText
• waitForText
• verifyLocation
• waitForLocation

Patterns
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exact
• exact:Google.com in English
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glob
• glob:*in English
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regexp
• regexp:Go+gle\\.com in English
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regexpi
• regexpi:go+gle\\.com in english

SELENIUM REMOTE CONTROL

Selenium Remote Control
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Selenium RC Architecture
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Selenium RC Server
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Selenium RC Ruby Client Driver
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Testing Frameworks for Ruby
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Prototyping tests in IRB
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Writing tests (Ruby / Test::Unit)

Selenium RC Architecture

Selenium Server: Interactive Mode
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is a way of rapidly prototyping tests.
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requires no coding whatsoever.
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allows you to immediately see the results.
Starting the server in interactive mode:
java -jar selenium-server.jar -interactive [otherOptions]

Selenium RC (Ruby Client Driver)
• requires ruby
• requires rubygems
• requires selenium-client gem
• gem install selenium-client

Testing Frameworks (Ruby)
• Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Test::Unit
• Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
• Rspec
• TDD + BDD
• Shoulda
• test/spec

Interactive Ruby Shell
• is a shell for programming in the Ruby language
• allows the programmer to experiment with codes

Writing tests (Ruby / Test::Unit)
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Require the following in the test script
• 'rubygems'
• 'selenium/client'
• 'test/unit'
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Create a class that subclasses Test::Unit::TestCase.
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Define “setup” method to set up the common test fixture.
• create a new Selenium::Client::Driver object
• run the “start” method on the selenium driver object
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Add a method that begins with \"test\" to the class.
• make assertions in the test method.
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Define “teardown” method to tear down the test fixture.
• run to “stop” method on the selenium driver object

Writing tests (Example)

SELENIUM GRID

Selenium Grid
• Selenium Grid Architecture
• Selenium Grid Demo

Selenium Grid Architecture

Selenium Grid Demo
• Running scripts on multiple machines using different
browsers
• Sample Environment Configurations
• Firefox on Linux
• Internet Explorer on Windows
• Firefox on Windows

QUESTIONS ???

REFERENCES

References
• http://seleniumhq.org/projects/ide/
• http://seleniumhq.org/projects/core/
• http://seleniumhq.org/projects/remote-control/
• http://selenium-client.rubyforge.org/
• http://selenium-grid.seleniumhq.org/

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