Selenium

by: tanvir afzal

selenium ooh so what is this?

in simple terms, selenium is a web testing framework that runs in any browser, suited for:

functional testing

browser compatibility testing

keep it simple, or dig deep

just want to try it

simplicity – easy to use the selenium IDE to create a single or a complete suite of tests.

want to know more about it

complete solution - go deep inside selenium to know selenium remote control & grid

using selenium

tests can be written as HTML markup.

test cases can be written in a number of popular programming languages (Java, .NET, Perl, Python and Ruby)

it can be run directly in most modern web browsers. selenium can be deployed on windows, linux, and mac.

selenium projects

selenium IDE

selenium core

selenium RC

selenium grid

selenium IDE

selenium IDE is a firefox add-on that makes it easy to record and playback tests in firefox.

selenium core

selenium core tests run directly in a browser , just as real users do .

need to copy selenium Core & tests directly into application web server

selenium RC

selenium remote control is a system that allows to simulate web browsers locally

using almost any programming language and testing framework

the way RC works http://selenium-rc.openqa.org/

selenium grid

selenium grid allows several selenium remote control servers to be accessed in parallel by selenium grid server.

this is the way how grid works? http://selenium-grid.openqa.org/

Which tool I’ll use ?? * = experimental support is available in Selenium RC ** = theoretically possible, but not currently implemented Selenium IDE Selenium Remote Control Selenium Core Browser support Firefox Only Many All requires remote Installation No No Yes supports HTTPS/SSL Yes Yes* Yes supports multiple domains Yes Yes* No requires java No Yes No saves test results to disk No** Yes No language support Selenese Only Many Selenese Only

demo

tell me how I can use selenium IDE?

install selenium as a firefox plug-in

http://selenium-ide.openqa.org/download.jsp

in firefox browser go to

tools > selenium IDE

new face of IDE 1.0 beta 2

tell me about regression selenium ide ant cruise control

projects in cruise control

Embedded result file from RC

references:

selenium main site

http://selenium.openqa.org

support browser, OS, programming language, testing frameworks can be found here

http://selenium.openqa.org/about/platforms.html#browsers

command to run RC

java -jar selenium-server.jar -htmlSuite "*firefox" "http://www.somewhereinads.net" "E:selenium-remote-control-1.0-beta-1ads egression-testswiad-live runksuite.html" "E:selenium-remote-control-1.0-beta-1ads esults.html"