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1. WEB APPLICATIONS TEST AUTOMATION
USING SELENIUM
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2. AGENDA
 Selenium IDE
 Test Cases and Test Suites
 Selenium Commands
 Regular Expression
 Ajax Applications
 User Extensions and Flow Controls
 Cross Browser Testing
 Location Strategies
 Alerts, Popups and Multiple Windows
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3. SELENIUM IDE
 Installation
 Selenium IDE Features
 Understand Timeout
 Limitations of Selenium IDE
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5. HELLO SELENIUM
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6. FREQUENTLY USED COMMANDS
 open
 click / clickAndWait
 verifyTitle / assertTitle
 verifyTextPresent
 verifyElementPresent
 verifyText
 verifyTable
 waitForPageToLoad
 waitForElementPresent
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7. SELENIUM IDE : LOG PANE
 Useful for Debugging
 Automatically Selected When Tests are Executed
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8. SELENIUM IDE : REFERENCE PANE
 Display Reference of Current Command
 Default Pane
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9. SELENIUM IDE : MENU BAR
 Speed Control
 Run All Tests
 Run Currently Selected Test
 Pause/Resume
 Step
 Apply Roll-up Rules
 Recording
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10. SELENIUM IDE : TEST CASE PANE
 Use for Editing Commands
 Read Reference Documentation Before Giving
Parameters (e.g. Store Command)
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11. SELENIUM IDE : TEST CASE PANE
 Context Menu
 Stop in the Middle
 Start from the Middle
 Run Single Command
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12. TEST CASES AND TEST SUITES
 Create Test Cases
 Create Test Suites
 Naming Conventions
 Test Project Packaging and Best Practices
 Modifying Test Cases and Test Suites
 User of Variables in Test Cases
 Creating and Using Random Variables
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13. EDITING
 Adding New Commands
 Inset Comments
 Editing Test Cases
 Editing Test Suites
 Table View, Source View
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14. VARIABLES
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15. VERIFY PAGE ELEMENTS
 Element Present Somewhere in the Page
 Specific Text Present in Somewhere in the Page
 Specific Text Present at Specific Location
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16. ASSERT OR VERIFY?
 When to use assert commands
 When to use verify commands
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17. FEW USEFUL STORE COMMANDS
 store
 storeElementPresent
 storeHtmlSource
 storeEditable
 storeTitle
 storeSelectedLabel
 storeTable
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18. STORE COMMAND : EXAMPLE
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19. USE OF VARIABLES IN JAVASCRIPTS
storeEval command
storedVars['counter']=parseInt(storedVars['counter'])+1
Javascript{ ${variableName} + ‘Some Text’ }
Case Sensitivity
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20. MATCHING TEXT PATTERNS
Globbing Patterns
Regular Expression Patterns
Exact Pattern
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21. REGULAR EXPRESSIONS
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22. REGULAR EXPRESSION
<tr>
<td>verifyTitle</td>
<td>regexp:.*Simplicity into Software Testing</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>verifyTitle</td>
<td>regexpi:.*simplicity into software testing</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
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23. LOGS
 Setting Log Levels
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24. SELENIUM COMMANDS
 Selense
 Actions
 Assessors
 Assertions
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25. ACTIONS
 Commands that Manipulate the State
 Click this link, Select that Option
 Test Stops if Actions Fail or has an Error
 Commands with ‘AndWait’ Suffix
 Hands-on
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26. ACCESSORS
 Examine State and Store the Value in Variable
 Store Commands
 Test Stops if an Accessor has an Error
 Hands-on
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27. ASSERTIONS
 Like Accessors
 Verify and Confirm the State
 Asserts, Verify and WaitFor
 When Assert Fails Test is Aborted
 When Verify Fails Test Continue, Failure is Logged
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28. TESTING AJAX
 Understanding Ajax
 WaitFor Commands
 Hands-on
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29. LOCATION STRATEGIES
 Locating Elements in a Web Application
 Format LocatorType=Location
 Supported Strategies
 We Can Define Our Own Strategies
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30. LOCATION STRATEGIES : IDENTIFIER
 Default Strategy
 identifier=id
 Select the element with the specified @id attribute
 If no match is found,
select the first element whose @name attribute is
id
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31. LOCATION STRATEGIES : ID
 id=id
 Select the element with the specified @id attribute
 Hands-on
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32. LOCATION STRATEGIES : NAME
 name=name
 Select the first element with the specified @name attribute
 Optionally be Followed by One or More Element-filters
 Default Filter is Value
 name=company value=Allion
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33. LOCATION STRATEGIES : DOM
 dom=javascriptExpression
 Find an element by evaluating the specified string
 Traverse HTML Document Object Model using JavaScript
 dom=document.forms['myForm'].myDropdown
 dom=document.images[56]
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34. LOCATION STRATEGIES : XPATH
 xpath=xpathExpression
 Locate an element using an XPath expression.
 xpath=//img[@alt='The image alt text']
 xpath=//a[contains(@href,'#id1')]
 xpath=//input[@name='name2' and @value='yes']
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35. LOCATION STRATEGIES : LINK
 link=textPattern
 Select the link (anchor) element which contains text
matching the specified pattern
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36. LOCATION STRATEGIES : CSS
 css=cssSelectorSyntax
 Select the element using css selectors
 css=input[name="username"]
 css=input.required[type="text"]
 css=#loginForm input:nth-child(2)
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37. USER EXTENSIONS
 Helps to Add Additional Functionality
 Install a User Extension
 Flow Controls
 Selenium and PageBot Object Prototype
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38. USER EXTENSIONS
 Writing Your Own Action
 Wiring Your Own Assertion
 Writing Your Own Location Strategy
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39. CROSS BROWSER TESTING
 Installing RC
 Starting RC Server
 Running Tests
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40. CROSS BROWSER TESTING : RC
Java -jar selenium-server.jar
-userExtensions user-extensions.js
-htmlSuite "*firefox“ "http://www.google.com"
"c:absolutepathtomyHTMLSuite.html“
"c:absolutepathtomyresults.html"
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41. ALERTS
assertAlert(Pattern) : Throws error if pattern does not match
assertAlertPresent : Useful when we don’t know the message
assertAlertNotPresent : Throws error if alert is present
storeAlert(variable) : Stores the message to a variable
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42. CONFIRMATIONS
assertConfirmation(Pattern) : Simulates clicking OK
chooseCancelOnNextConfirmation
chooseOkOnNextConfirmation
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43. JAVASCRIPTS AND SELENSE PARAMETERS
Script Parameters
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44. JAVASCRIPTS AND SELENSE PARAMETERS
Non-Script Parameters
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45. DEBUGGING
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46. ECHO – PRINT COMMAND
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48. SELENIUM PLUGINS
File Logging
Highlight Elements
Log Search Bar
Page Coverage
Power Debugger
Screenshot on Fail
Selenium Expert
Stored Variables Viewer
Test Results
Test Suite Batch Converter
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