Selenium An Effective Weapon In

The Open Source Armory

Komal Joshi Director: Atlantis Software Limited Anand Ramdeo Head of Quality Assurance: GCAP Media

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Agenda
Introduction to Selenium Selenium IDE Lets play Limitations of Selenium IDE Selenium RC Play Again Ruby with Selenium RC Discussion / Questions

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What is Selenium?

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Selenium is
Test automation tool for web applications. Developed in Java Script. Can be used for most of the browser / platform combinations. Support many languages, including Ruby, Python, Java and so on. Free & Open Source !!!
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Effect of Open Source on Selenium

Selenium IDE Selenium Core Selenium Remote Control Selenium Grid
User / developer community solving problems for most of us and making us more productive.
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Why Learn Selenium?

To make this world a better place!!! How?? Well tested web applications will result in less frustration for the end-users and will make them happy!!!
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Learn Selenium Because..

Web is becoming important. Desktop applications are slowly becoming history. Most of the Rich Web and AJAXified Applications involve Java Script. Selenium is the best tool for testing Java Script and Java Script interactions.
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Lets Play

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Selenium IDE
Firefox plug-in Integrated Development Environment for Selenium Tests. Provides record and playback functionality. Provides the ability to debug test scripts. Auto complete common selenium commands. Export tests in different formats like HTML, Ruby, Python and so on. Supports user extensions.
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Install & Start

Download from http://www.openqa. org Access
Tools Selenium IDE

from Firefox browser toolbar.

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IDE Explained

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Exercise
Ensure that http://www.TestingGeek.com is the first link for Google search on Testing Geek Open http://www.google.co.uk in Firefox Open Selenium IDE, Tools Selenium IDE Ensure that Selenium IDE is in recording mode. Type Testing Geek in the Google search bar and click Search On the search results verify that Software Testing - Geek is present at the first place. Save the test case as google_ide Run the saved test case back again using the IDE. View the results back in the IDE
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Selenium IDE contd..

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Test Runner

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Limitations
Browser
Selenium IDE is only available for the Firefox. It can not be used for different browsers.

Language
Selenium IDE can execute scripts created in Selenese only.

Complexity
It is difficult to use Selenium IDE for checking complex test cases involving dynamic contents.

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What Next??

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Selenium Remote Control

A server, written in Java and so available on all the platforms. Acts as a proxy for web requests from them. Client libraries for many popular languages. Bundles Selenium Core and automatically loads into the browser
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How it works

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Install & Start

Ensure that JDK is present on the machine and is in the class path. Downloaded Selenium RC from http://www.openqa.org Unzip to any directory on your file system. Change directory to the Selenium Server on the command line or terminal. Start Selenium Server.
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Change Directory to Selenium Server

Start selenium Server

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Selenium client drivers

Enables communication with Selenium Remote Control Server. Functionality of Selenium is exposed via these drivers. Available in Ruby, Python, Java, C-Sharp and so on. Give access to the rich features and libraries of the language, including their unit testing framework. Makes it possible to develop automated scripts in the same language as product. Which one you should use? Whatever make sense in your context. For this exercise, we will use Ruby.

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What is Ruby???
It is object oriented scripting language Download from http://www.ruby-lang.org According to official Ruby Website, Ruby is the successful combination of: Smalltalk's conceptual elegance, Python's ease of use and learning, and Perl's pragmatism.
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Ruby Client Driver

Ruby driver is bundled with the product itself. Check content of the directory where Selenium was unzipped initially. Open a separate command prompt and change its directory to the Ruby Driver. Your automation script can live anywhere in the file system as long as path is set properly.
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Lets Start
Record a sample script in Selenium IDE, same as first exercise. Export this test case as ruby. Analyze the test script.
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Client Driver and ruby unit testing framework Setup is executed before every test case, gives selenium object and launches browser.

Browser

Tear down is executed after every test case and kills selenium and browser.

Test case, Steps

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Run it !!!

Loading/ Runnning a ruby test case with ruby command

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Selenium RC Benefits
Can be used for any Java Script enabled browser. Have access to the complete features / libraries of the high level language. Can be used to automate complex test cases. Makes it possible to create fast, robust and scalable automation.
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Interesting Stuff
Element Locators
Based on XPath, use XPather from
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Based on DOM

Element Filters
Based on Index Based on Value

Regular expression WaitForXXX , eval, screenshot and so on.

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What if I have Questions?

Well, Contact us
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Visit www.openqa.org for official documentation, troubleshooting and information on support. Selenium articles on http://www.TestingGeek.com

Thank You!!!
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QUESTIONS??

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