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Selenium Web Test Tool Training

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Kangeyan Passoubady (Kangs)

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Selenese Commands

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Variable Substitution

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You can store any value into a variable using selenium accessors. Variable substitution provides a simple way to include a previously stored variable in a command parameter If you give the variable name as intAmount. To use the variable anywhere else use ${intAmount}. This will substitute the actual value in the place of ${intAmount}. Use echo ${intAmount} to display the values in the Log. Any of the selenium accessors can be used to store a value. Some of the key accessors are storeText, storeValue, storeCookie, storeAlert and storeEval

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Variable Substitution
1. Open the HelloWorld.html in Firefox 2. Create a test case by opening FirefoxToolsSelenium IDE (by default it is in Recording mode) 3. Update the base URL of Selenium IDE with the URL in the Firefox address 4. Click on the link Click here to enter your name, when prompter for your name, enter your name. 5. Your name will be displayed in next line.

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6. Highlight your name Right click and select the assertText, then Stop the recording in Selenium IDE.
7. Rerun the test case in Selenium IDE

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Variable Substitution
1. Your test case will look like in Selenium IDE as shown in the figure right side 2. Try to run multiple time and make sure your test case is passed without any failures.

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3. Now save the test case as Recorded_TestCase_HelloWorld.html

4. Double click and open the Recorded_TestCase_HelloWorld.html either in IE or Firefox. 5. You can see all the commands in an HTML table.

Your answerOnNextPrompt should be before than the click command. Make sure it precedes otherwise your test case will fail.

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Variable Substitution

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1. Now well try to do the same exercise using variable substitution 2. In the Selenium IDE, select answerOnNextPrompt, Right Click and Select a new command 3. Select the command store 4. Target Kangeyan 5. Value vName 6. Store | Kangeyan | vName 7. Underneath insert a new command and provide the below values 8. echo | ${vName} 9. Right click and copy the echo command, and paste before the assertText command line
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Variable Substitution

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Your recorded test case will look something similar to this one

Change something similar to this one

See how the ${vName} is used in multiple places

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Variable Substitution
echo shows the variable values in the Log

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See the usage of ${vName} in answerOnNextPrompt and assertText echo prints the variable values in the third column of the command in Test Runner

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storedVars

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All the variables are internally stored in a map named storedVars. storedVars allows you to access the ${varName} using the varName key within the map. Using storedVars you can reference the values within Javascript Evaluation code. What is a Map? Maps provide a more general way of storing elements. An object that maps keys to values. A map cannot contain duplicate keys (duplicate variable names); The Map collection type allows to store pairs of elements, termed "keys" and "values", where each key maps to one value. Here Keys refers Selenium variable Names and values refers to their values.
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storedVars

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1.Open URL: http://mail.yahoo.com

2.Type username: <username> 3.Type password:<passwd> 4.Press Sign In button 5.AssertTextPresent <username> 6.Press SignOut 7.waitForTextNotPresent <username>
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storedVars

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Your recorded test case will look something similar to this one

Change something similar to this one

See how the storedVars is used in multiple places

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JavaScript Evaluation

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JavaScript evaluation allows full power of JavaScript code in constructing the Command Parameter JavaScript snippet can be given using the following syntax. Javascript { <code snippet goes here> } Javascript keyword is optional The code given is treated as a JavaScript code and executed. storedVars Map can be used to access the previously stored variables Variable substitution should be handled carefully within the JavaScript code.
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JavaScript Evaluation #2 1. You can use any of the following Eval commands assertEval, assertNotEval, VerifyEval, verifyNotEval, waitForEval, waitForNotEval, storeEval 2. You can use any of the following Expression commands assertExpression, assertNotExpression,verifyExpression, verifyNotExpression, waitForExpression, waitForNotExpression, storeExpression, store and WaitForCondition
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Barnes and Nobles Problem

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Open a specific URL (http://www.barnesandnoble.com/) Search for a specific text (Javascript) in #1 page Sort by Prizev How do you check Online Price: $$$ is in sorted order?

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Answer #4 In this case I have decided to check the first two Amounts displayed on that page are in the ascending order. The first value is A, the second value is B If A <= B then we assume the first two listed prices are in ascending order. Now get the third value C If B <= C then we assume that A, B and C are in ascending order. (i.e., A <= B <=C )
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Answer

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Answer
Xpath for first amount storeText in a variable T1

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Echo Prints the values in the Log

Number converts the string type into a Number type

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Substr(1) Removes $ and only takes the numeric value.

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Answer
1. Now we can store true in T6 and compare with value with T5 2. If that comparison yields true then it is Ascending Order

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Store T6 with true

Check whether T5 and T6 both contains true

Now echo Sorted or Not Sorted

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Alert
storeAlert(seleniumVariableName)

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Checks for JavaScript Alert, stores the alert message. If no alert generated then throws an exception. Getting an alert has the same effect as manually clicking OK. If an alert is generated but you do not get/verify it, then the next Selenium action will fail. JavaScript alerts will NOT pop up a visible alert dialog. Selenium does NOT support JavaScript alerts that are generated in a page's onload() event handler. In this case a visible dialog WILL be generated and Selenium will hang until someone manually clicks OK.

Returns:
The message of the most recent JavaScript alert. Other Alert commands are: assertAlert ( pattern ), assertNotAlert ( pattern ), verifyAlert ( pattern ) verifyNotAlert ( pattern ),waitForAlert ( pattern ),waitForNotAlert (pattern)
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AlertPresent
This command never throws an exception

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verifyAlertPresent() The best way to check the alerts are using this command

Returns:
True or False. Other AlertPresent Commands are: storeAlertPresent ( seleniumVariableName ) assertAlertPresent ( ) assertAlertNotPresent ( ) verifyAlertNotPresent ( ) waitForAlertPresent ( ) waitForAlertNotPresent ( )

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Alert Download the ClickAlert.html under the Alert section Record a test Are you able to test it?
(This is do-able)

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Download the OnLoadAlert.html Are you able to test it?

(This should be challenging)

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Alert
On load Alert will not be sensed by Selenium. You need to manually press Ok to continue the test.

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Selenium able to intercept the button Click Alert.

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goBack

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goBack and goBackAndWait are the two commands simulates a user clicking on the back button of the browser. Download the SelectAWebSite.html under Exercises.

Record the test as listed below:

Select Google, after going to Google assertTitle then go back Select Portnov, after going to PortNov assertTitle then go back Select Microsoft, after going to MicroSoft assertTitle then go back Select Yahoo, after going to MicroSoft assertTitle then go back

Run the test Why it fails? How do you fix it?

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goBackAndWait

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Try goBack, and goBackAndWait, which one works well?

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Add goBackAndWait, see the results

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waitForPopup

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waitForPopUp ( windowID,timeout ) and selectWindow ( windowID ) are the two commands allows you to test the Popup Windows. selectWindow selects a specific Popup, use null to select Parent window. Download Ex1.html to Ex3.html under wait for Popup, Open CreatePopUps.html in Firefox browser.

Record the test as listed below:

Click Create Windows button Select win1, click the button Click and get the Welcome Message, minimize win1 Select win3, select any option, press Submit button Go back to the parent window, press close button

Run the test

Is it fails? How do you fix it?
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waitForPopup

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Fix the code something similar to shown here

To select Parent Window use null

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Navigator Properties
To get Browser information, you can use navigator object The common properties of navigator object is like
appName appCodeName appEnabled JavaEnabled language cookieEnabled navigator.userAgent navigator.plugins navigator.platform navigator.mimeTypes

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ArrayTypes: has multiple values

The common properties of browserVersion object is like

browserVersion.name browserVersion.browser browserVersion.isFirefox Not all the browsers support these properties

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Navigator Properties

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Download Test Case Navigator Properties.html from the Exercises Section Run the Test Case Look at the Selenium IDE Log You can See all the Navigator Properties

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Navigator Properties

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Create a string to display the object properties

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Look at the log for results

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Test Suite on Commands

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Create a Test Suite based on the previous exercises: Well use the following three test cases to create one Test Suite (Test Script Package) Test Case Alert Button Click.html Test Case Navigator Properties.html Reviewed Test Case Popup.html

Use the test cases which are reviewed and working well.

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Test Suite on Commands

You can download the test suite from Exercises Section: Test Suite on Commands.html

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<tr><td><a href="Test Case Alert Button Click.html">Test Case Alert Button Click</a></td></tr> <tr><td><a href="Test Case Navigator Properties.html">Test Case Navigator Properties</a></td></tr> <tr><td><a href="Reviewed Test Case Popup.html">Test Case Creating Popups</a></td></tr>

Use the test cases which are reviewed and working well.
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Test Suite on Commands

To CREATE a test suite from the scratch do the following activities: 1. Open Test Case Alert Button Click.html in the Selenium IDE 2. Select File Save Test Suite As Test Suite on Commands.html 3. Open the Test Suite on Commands.html in notepad 4. Add the below HTML codes before the </tbody> 5. Select File Save to save the test case.
<tr><td><a href="Test Case Navigator Properties.html">Test Case Navigator Properties</a></td></tr> <tr><td><a href="Reviewed Test Case Popup.html">Test Case Creating Popups</a></td></tr>

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All the test cases in the same folder

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Creating Test Suite From Scratch

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Open the Firefox browser Open the Selenium IDE Select File Open Test Suite Choose the Test Suite on Commands.html from your local folder Press the TestRunner icon to run the test suite It will show the Test Suite in the firefox browser Click the Run All Tests button to run all the test cases Click the Run the Selected Tests button to run a specific test case
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Run Test Suite on Commands

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Exercise 1 DevRy Popup Window

Create a test case with the following steps: 1. Open http://www.devry-degrees.com 2. At the bottom of the page, you will see 5 footer links 3. Click a link at a time, this will create a popup 4. AssertTitle on the Popped Up window 5. Close the Popup 6. Click on the next link in the parent window, this will create a popup 7. AssertTitle on the Popped Up window 8. Close the Popup, Continue the same for all the 5 links
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Exercise 1 Questions
Answer the below Questions once you complete your Devry Popup Window Test Case: What are the Popups link works without any problem? Why one of the Popups assertTitle produces an Error?

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