The document provides an overview of Selenium, including its components like IDE, RC, and Grid, as well as the functionalities of Sauce Labs. It discusses the advantages of cloud-hosted Selenium for speed and infrastructure management, and features a demo on avoiding 'Selenium poisoning' through specific actions. Additionally, it highlights features of Selenium 2, encouraging the use of short tests for easier management and maintenance.

1. Selenium and
Sauce Labs
Jason Huggins
twitter: @hugs
email: hugs@saucelabs.com

2. Agenda
• Overview of Selenium
• Selenium IDE, RC, Grid
• Sauce Labs and Sauce OnDemand
• Demo
• Selenium IDE, Sauce OnDemand
• Tips and Tricks
• Selenium 2
• Q&A

3. The Problem

4. Automated
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5. Ajax

6. Workflows

7. What is Selenium?

8. Selenium IDE for Firefox

9. “Selenese”

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11. Example Selenium RC Test - Java

12. Example Selenium RC Test - C#

13. Python, Ruby,
Java, C#, or Perl
Test Script
HTTP
Your Awesome
Web App
Selenium RC Server
HTTP HTTP
Selenium Remote Control

14. Time
Servers
Unit of Work

15. Time
Servers
Unit of Work

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Selenium Grid

17. Sauce Labs

18. What Sauce Labs Does
• Cloud-hosted Selenium for:
• Speed—run tests in parallel
• Pain-free infrastructure (test infrastructure is notoriously fussy, fiddly
due to accelerating Browser numbers and version pace, security
patches etc.)
• Higher availability, repeatability
• Value-added (enhanced, certified) distros:
• Sauce RC (Selenium RC (remote control))
• Sauce IDE (Selenium IDE)
• Commercial Support for Selenium

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Sauce OnDemand (just like Grid)

21. Demo!

22. How to Avoid
Selenium Poisoning

23. Intent Action

24. Action
• open 'www.example.com'
• clickAndWait 'link=Log in'
• type 'User Id', 'hugs@saucelabs.com'
• type 'password', '12345678'
• clickAndWait 'Log In'

25. Intent
• Log in
• Change password
• Modify profile
• Log out

26. 1.Write intent.
2. Map to actions.

27. Seek higher level
abstractions

28. Hudson
Ant/NAnt
xUnit
Selenium

29. Hudson
Ant/NAnt
xUnit
Business Specific Library
Selenium

30. Page Object Model

31. Google:“Selenium Page Objects”

33. Start small

34. It’ll get big anyway

35. What to start with?
• Smoke tests
• “Money path”
• New features

36. Benefits of Short Tests
• Easier to read
• Easier to write
• Easier to debug/maintain
• Easier to parallelize

37. Selenium 2?

38. • Native Keyboard & Mouse Events
• Same Origin Policy / XSS / HTTP(S)
• Pop-ups, dialogs
– Basic Authentication
– Self-signed certificates
– File upload/download
Better Control

40. • WebDriver Object
• WebElement Objects
Cleaner API

41. Python, Ruby,
Java, C#, or Perl
Test Script
HTTP
Your Awesome
Web App
Selenium RC Server
HTTP HTTP
Selenium Remote Control

42. Python, Ruby,
Java, C#, or Perl
Test Script
HTTP
Your Awesome
Web App
Selenium RC Server
HTTP HTTP
Selenium 2

43. Python, Ruby,
Java, C#, or Perl
Test Script
Your Awesome
Web App
HTTP HTTP

44. Python, Ruby,
Java, C#, or Perl
Test Script
Your Awesome
Web App
C/C++ HTTP

45. But... Java... Is... Still... In...There...
Python, Ruby,
Java, C#, or Perl
Test Script
HTTP
Your Awesome
Web App
Selenium Grid
HTTP HTTP

46. But... Java... Is... Still... In...There...
Python, Ruby,
Java, C#, or Perl
Test Script
HTTP
Selenium Remote
Server
HTTP HTTP
Ye Ol' Internet
(Sauce Labs)
... but now only when you need it.

47. Q&A