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This document discusses test automation using Selenium IDE. It provides an overview of test automation, why and when to automate tests. It then describes Selenium as an open source test automation tool and its key components, including Selenium IDE. Selenium IDE allows recording, editing and replaying tests in Firefox. The document outlines how to install, record and run tests in Selenium IDE. It also describes various Selenium commands for verifications, assertions, waits and storing values that can be used while creating automated test cases in Selenium IDE.
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- 1. Test Automation Using Selenium IDE Insoft Solutions 1
- 2. Test Automation Test automation is the use of software To set test preconditions. To control the execution of tests. To compare the actual outcomes to predicted outcomes. To report the Execution Status. Commonly, test automation involves automating a manual process already in place that uses a formalized testing process. 2
- 3. Why and When To Automate? Frequent regression testing Repeated test case Execution is required User Acceptance Tests Faster Feedback to the developers Reduce the Human Effort Test same application on multiple environments 3
- 4. Test Automation Tools Quick Test Professional By HP Rational Functional Tester By Rational (IBM Company) Silk Test By Borland Test Complete By Automated QA QA Run (Compuware ) Watir ( Open Source) Selenium ( Open Source) Sahi (Open Source) 4
- 5. Selenium Selenium is a robust set of tools that supports rapid development of test automation for web-based applications. Selenium provides a rich set of testing functions specifically geared to the needs of testing of a web application. Selenium operations are highly flexible, allowing many options for locating UI elements and comparing expected test results against actual application behavior. 5
- 6. Selenium Features Supports Cross Browser Testing. The Selenium tests can be run on multiple browsers. Allows scripting in several languages like Java, C#, PHP and Python. Assertion statements provide an efficient way of comparing expected and actual results. Inbuilt reporting mechanism. 6
- 7. Selenium Components Selenium IDE Selenium Remote Control Selenium WebDriver Selenium Grid 7
- 8. Selenium IDE Selenium IDE is an integrated development environment for Selenium tests. It is implemented as a Firefox extension, and allows you to record, edit, and replay the test in firefox Selenium IDE allows you to save tests as HTML, Java, Ruby scripts, or any other format It allows you to automatically add assertions to all the pages. Allows you to add selenese commands as and when required 8
- 9. Selenium IDE Installation Using Firefox, first, download the IDE from the SeleniumHQ downloads page When downloading from Firefox, you’ll be presented with the Window A. (See Next Slide) Select Install Now. The Firefox Add-ons window pops up, first showing a progress bar, and when the download is complete, displays the Window B. (See Next Slide) Restart Firefox. After Firefox reboots you will find the Selenium-IDE listed under the Firefox Tools menu. 9
- 10. Selenium Installation 10 Window A Window B To run the Selenium-IDE, simply select it from the Firefox Tools menu. It opens as follows with an empty script-editing window and a menu for loading, or creating new test cases. (See Next Slide)
- 11. Selenium IDE - UI 11 Start and Stop Recording Selenese Script Editor Selenium Log Replay Toolbar Accessor Area
- 12. Selenium Options 12 Selenium Options allow you to Set The Text Encoding Format Set the Default Page Time Out Set The Base URL recording option Adding Selenium Core and IDE Extension Add Automatic Page Title Assertions There are also other options under development
- 13. Recoding a Selenium Test Case Open Firefox that has the IDE installed Open the base URL of the application to record. Keep the application in a common base state. Go To Tools Selenium IDE and the IDE will be opened Now perform the operations on the application as you are testing the application. Once you are done with the recording click on the stop recording button and save the test case through the file menu. By default it will be saved as a selenese script (HTML format) 13
- 14. General Selenese Commands clicking a link - click or clickAndWait commands entering values - type command selecting options from a drop-down listbox - select command clicking checkboxes or radio buttons - click command 14
- 15. Running Your First Selenium Script Make sure the application is in the common base state. Click on the run button. Here you can also control the speed of the execution using the toolbar Once the test is run you can view the test log in the bottom of the IDE window 15
- 16. Creating a Test Suite In the Selenium IDE you can create any number of test cases and save them as test suite. To Run the test Suite click on the “Play entire test suite” button as shown below. 16 Test Suite with Test1 & test2
- 17. Running Options Run a Test Case Click the Run button to run the currently displayed test case. Run a Test Suite Click the Run All button to run all the test cases in the currently loaded test suite. Stop and Start The Pause button can be used to stop the test case while it is running. The icon of this button then changes to indicate the Resume button. To continue click Resume. Stop in the Middle You can set a breakpoint in the test case to cause it to stop on a particular command. This is useful for debugging your test case. To set a breakpoint, select a command, right-click, and from the context menu select Toggle Breakpoint. 17
- 18. Running Options Start from the Middle You can tell the IDE to begin running from a specific command in the middle of the test case. This also is used for debugging. To set a start point, select a command, right-click, and from the context menu select Set/Clear Start Point. Run Any Single Command Double-click any single command to run it by itself. This is useful when writing a single command. It lets you immediately test a command you are constructing, when you are not sure if it is correct. You can double-click it to see if it runs correctly. This is also available from the context menu. 18
- 19. Adding Assertions to the Script Selenese allows multiple ways of checking for UI elements. Verifications and assertions are used to check if an element is present somewhere on the page? specific text is somewhere on the page? specific text is at a specific location on the page? Verifications and assertions are not one and the same. If an assertion fails, the script will be aborted but if a verification fails the script will continue. 19
- 20. Verification Commands 20 verifyTextPresent This command is used to check if a particular text is present in a page or not. To add this command , While recording the test steps right click on the text item that you want verify. Once right clicked you can find an option “Show all commands”. On Clicking it you will find an option “verifyTextPresent”, select it
- 21. Verification Commands verifyTitle This command is used to check if the page title is correct or not. To add this command , While recording the test steps right click any where on the page that you want verify. Once right clicked you can find an option “Show all commands”. On Clicking it you will find an option “verifyTitle”, select it 21
- 22. Verification Commands verifyElementPresent This command is used to verify if a page element is present in the page or not. To add this command , While recording the test steps right click any element on the page that you want verify. Once right clicked you can find an option “Show all commands”. On Clicking it you will find an option “verifyElementPresent”, select it 22
- 23. Verification Commands verifyValue This method is used to check if edit box has particular value or if the check box is on. Basically this method returns the value of present in the object. To add this command , While recording the test steps right click any element on the page that you want verify the value of. Once right clicked you can find an option “Show all commands”. On Clicking it you will find an option “verifyValue”, select it. 23
- 24. Assertions Assertions are same as Verifications. The only difference is, if the assertions fail the script will abort. But the script will continue run in case a verification point fails. The steps for inserting the assertions is same as that of verification point. While recording Right Click Show all commands select an assertion. 24
- 25. Assertion Statements assertTextPresent This will assert if the text is present in the page. assertText This will assert if a particular element is having the particular text. assertTitle This will assert if the page is having a proper title. assertValue This will assert if a Text box or check box has a particular value assertElementPresent This will assert if a particular UI Element is present in the page. 25
- 26. Selenium WaitFor Commands waitForPageToLoad This command will make the script to wait till the page loads. Syntax is waitForPageToLoad(timeout); Time out is the maximum time the script will wait for the page to load. 26
- 27. Other waitFor Commands waitForAlert This command will wait for the alert message to appear waitForTable This command will wait for the Web table to completely load in the page waitForTitle This command will for the page Title to appear on the browser. Other waitFor commands Selenium has several other wait command like waitForText, waitForPopup and so on. These commands are generically called Synchronization commands 27
- 28. Store Commands Store command are used to fetch the values from the application and store it in a variable. These variables can be used latter for validation purpose. The Store command can be used to retrieve the page title, text from the page and other attributes from the application. 28
- 29. Echo Command Echo command is used to print the value in to the selenium IDS log. When printing a variable use ${var} There are some limitations for this methods this has to be used with caution 29
- 30. Limitations of Selenium IDE Can run the test only on Firefox No Programming login (like loops, conditional statements) can be applied Selenium IDE can execute scripts created in Selenese only. It is difficult to use Selenium IDE for checking complex test cases involving dynamic contents 30