Presentation from talk at Selenium Camp 2013

1. Selenium IDE and Beyond
Selenium Camp, Kiev
1st March 2013
Samit Badle

2. Samit Badle
@samitbadle
http://blog.reallysimplethoughts.com

3. Cats are Cool!
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1250/964877496_27357f5d8f_b.jpg

4. Cats are Cool!
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1350/563918358_bbf08bdcc7_b.jpg

5. Cats are Cool!

6. Dogs are Cool 2!
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/92/255472873_d2759ef3c6.jpg

7. Exercise Time
How many of you have heard about Selenium IDE?

8. Exercise Time
How many of you have NOT heard about Selenium IDE?

9. Exercise Time
How many of you use Selenium IDE?

10. Exercise Time
How many of you do NOT use Selenium IDE?

11. Selenium IDE

12. Selenium IDE
• A simple record and playback tool
• Works as an addon to Firefox
• Can be extended by Plugins

13. Why NOT?
• Maintenance gets harder as number of
tests grow
• Simple: Does not have conditionals, loops,
function creations

14. WHY?
• Its Simple – but you can still get a lot of
stuff done
• Does not require programming skills
• Finding locators in css or xpath for your
tests
• Efficient testing! Record and export!

15. Whats NEW?
• Webdriver playback

16. Webdriver playback
• Firefox

17. Webdriver playback
• Internet Explorer

18. Webdriver playback
• Safari

19. Webdriver playback
• Chrome

20. Webdriver playback
• iPhone

21. Webdriver playback
• iPad

22. Webdriver playback
• PhantomJS

23. What Coming Next?
• Live Export
• Support for more Webdriver features
• Better Code Generation for export
• Behavior Driven Development

24. Experiments

25. Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
• What does a test do?
• What are we testing?
• What do we expect?

26. Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
• Pay Raise
• Better Job Prospects

27. Behavior Driven Development (BDD)

28. Behavior Driven Development (BDD)

29. Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber/tree/master/examples/i18n/ru

30. BDD in Selenium IDE

31. BDD in Selenium IDE

32. Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
• Makes tests easy to understand
• Reuse test code
• Data driven

33. Selenium IDE Plugins

34. Where to find them?
• Selenium download page
http://seleniumhq.org/download/
• Firefox add-ons page
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/
• Other places on the Internet
Google 

35. https://addons.mozilla.org/

36. Remember Cats are Cool!
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1250/964877496_27357f5d8f_b.jpg

37. Thanks!
Questions welcome
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