2. Selenium
Selenium is a robust set of tools that supports rapid development of test automation for
web-based applications.
Supports Cross Browser Testing. The Selenium tests can be run on multiple browsers.
Allows scripting in several languages like Java, C#, PHP and Python.
4. Selenium IDE Limitations
No multiple browsers support
It runs only in Mozilla Firefox.
Selenium IDE can execute scripts created in Selenese only.
It is difficult to use Selenium IDE for checking complex test cases involving
dynamic contents
No manual scripts
E.g. conditions and Loops for Data Driven Testing
5.
6. • Introduction to Selenium 2.0(WebDriver)
Webdriver is the most commonly used cross browser testing tool
Native automation faster and a little less prone to error and browser configuration
Supports multiple OS platforms ( Windows/Mac/Linux/Android/iOS)
No other tool supports to the extent selenium does with multiple OS testing.
Supports multiple browsers (IE/Firefox/Chrome/Opera/Safari)
Supports all latest versions of all the browsers including Safari and Opera , considering
safari users
Selenium also supports backend validations.
Fast and Lightweight
Better execution speed compare to commercial tools.
7. Getting Started : Softwares Needed
JDK
Eclipse
Selenium jar files
Can be downloaded from http://www.seleniumhq.org/download/
Drivers for IE and Chrome
All Required jar files for the framework
junit-4.12.jar
hamcrest-core-1.3.jar
apache-poi.jar - To get the data from Excel
sikuli-java.jar - Integration with Sikuli
8. How to locate an element
To identify the objects such as Links, Buttons, Edit boxes, Drop downs, etc on the application Selenium uses a
concept called “Locators”.
By id :
HTML: <div id="coolestWidgetEvah">...</div>
WebDriver: driver.findElement( By.id("coolestWidgetEvah") );
By name :
HTML: <input name="cheese" type="text"/>
WebDriver: driver.findElement( By.name("cheese") );
By Xpath :
HTML
<html>
<input type="text" name="example" />
<input type="text" name="other" />
</html>
WebDriver: driver.findElements( By.xpath("//input") );
Note : There are plug-ins for firefox/chrome to automatically display the Xpath
9. Demo: Verify page title
public static void main( String[] args )
{
// Create a new instance of the Firefox driver
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
// (1) Go to a page
driver.get("http://www.google.com");
// (2) Locate an element
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.name("q"));
// (3-1) Enter something to search for
element.sendKeys(“Sun technologies");
// (3-2) Now submit the form. WebDriver will find the form for us from the element
element.submit();
// (3-3) Wait up to 10 seconds for a condition
WebDriverWait waiting = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);
waiting.until( ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated( By.id("pnnext") ) );
// (4) Check the title of the page
if( driver.getTitle().equals(“sun technologies - Google Search") )
System.out.println("PASS");
else
System.err.println("FAIL");
driver.quit();
}
