Rakuten Technology Conference 2014 "Introducing Selenium 2 WebDriver" Ryuji Tamagawa (Sky Co., Ltd.)

1. Introducing
Selenium 2 WebDriver
Ryuji Tamagawa @ Sky Co., Ltd.

2. Appreciations
• To Shiiba-san and everybody in Rakuten involved in this
great conference, for inviting me
• To Shinagawa atendees, for joining this session.
• To Singapore atendees, for joining this session lah.

3. Self introduction - Face1
• Ryuji Tamagawa
• FB: Ryuji Tamagawa
• Twitter: @tamagawa_ryuji
• Working for Sky. Co., Ltd.
• SKYSEA Client View development team
• Doing from architecture design to field maintenance - love them !

4. Self introduction - Face 2

5. Why translate and talk here ?
• for learning great technologies ( by having the deadline )
• for having interaction with great people
• for making my products better (if I could’t invent something
great, I can incorporate them)
• for making engineers happier by sharing great ideas !

6. Agenda
• Why introducing Selenium 2 WebDriver?
• What is Selenium 2 WebDriver?
• Selenium 2 WebDriver demonstration
• Not just for testing - A use case in our team

7. Why Introducing
Selenium 2 WebDriver?

8. Because learning it could be confusing
• Design of Selenium 1 and 2 are completely different
• The change has happened within a short period of time
• Information about both versions are on the internet
• Definitely you should go for ‘2’, but some may want to
use Selenium IDE, which is based on ‘1’s technology

9. What is
Selenium 2 WebDriver?

10. What is Selenium 2
• Today’s major browsers have automation
interface
• Selenium 2 WebDrivers are libraries in many
languages which make use of the interface
• With WebDrivers, you can drive the browsers
and get information of the pages loaded
• Selenium 2 is the collection of tools including
the WebDrivers and the selenium server
Web Apps to test
Browsers（Firefox, IE, Chrome…）
WebDriver
（Java, Python , Ruby…）
Your test code
Testing Frameworks (xUnit or others)

11. Remote WebDriver and Selenium Grid
• Selenium Grid
distributes test session
to nodes which
satisfies requested
capabilities (ex : type
of browser)
Grid Hub
Firefox Chrome IE
Grid node (Windows)
Firefox Chrome Safari
Grid node (Mac OS X)
Web Apps to test
RemoteWebDriver
Test code
RemoteWebDriver
Test code
RemoteWebDriver
Test code

12. Demonstration
(using iPython notebook)

13. Installation is easy
• In Python,
‘sudo pip install selenium’
and done!
• In Java, just download the jar

14. Not just for testing
- A use case in our team

15. Adding fulltext search to existing BTS
• Redmine’s search is not fast
Ticket repository, slow to search
• FESS - opensource enterprise
She can search tickets
search server, based on Apache
on FESS and access
Firefox
directly from their to
Solr
Redmine tickets.
• With Selenium, retrieve recently
updated tickets and save them
HTML
Files
as HTML files
• Selenium works as a scraper
script that use WebDriver
get updated tickets and save
them as HTML files.

16. Lessons learned from our case
• Selenium 2 WebDriver can be used as a web automation tool
as well. It works as ‘glue’ between systems in this case.
• Without tweaking existing web systems at all, you can read
from them and submit information to them
• Doesn’t work fast, but may helpful as quick & dirty tools in
your working environment

17. Final Notes
• Selenium 2 is still under heavy development
• You can write stable, maintainable test with Selenium 2, but you
have lots to learn
• Especially, dealing with JavaScript activity is still not easy
( You sends access information via JavaScript, without giving any
change to DOM in browsers, right? )
• But Selenium 2 is the best Web testing tool so far. Worth trying.

18. Questions?

19. Thanks for listening.