Pubman and Selenium tests

What is Selenium

• Selenium is a suite of Web application test automation tools for any browser on any operating system– Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera, Chrome– Windows, OS X, Linux, Solaris

• Selenium is broken up into 4 primary components– Selenium Core– Selenium IDE– Selenium RC– Selenium Grid

• http://seleniumhq.org

What is Selenium

• Selenium is a suite of Web application test automation tools for any browser on any operating system– Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera, Chrome– Windows, OS X, Linux, Solaris

• Selenium is broken up into 4 primary components– Selenium Core– Selenium IDE– Selenium RC– Selenium Grid

• http://seleniumhq.org

Supported Browsers* Tests developed on Firefox via Selenium-IDE can be executed on any other supported browser via a simple Selenium-RC command line.

Selenium Core• Selenium Core was developed for an internal application

at ThoughtWorks• The Core is written in JavaScript, so it runs directly in the

browser• Tests run directly on the application web server• Selenese is a command language written into HTML

tables

• Problems:– cannot switch between http and https protocols.– cannot go from one domain to another

Command Target Value

Selenium IDE• The IDE is a record and playback tool with built-in debugger and editor• The IDE is an add-on for Mozilla Firefox only• The IDE automatically creates test scripts in the Selenese HTML table format• The IDE can generate code into a wide variety of languages and test

frameworks– HTML Selenese, C#, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby– Bromine, JUnit, NUnit, RSpec, Test::Unit, TestNG, unittest

• Does not directly support:– condition statements, iteration– logging and reporting of test results– error handling, particularly unexpected errors– database testing – test case grouping, test case dependency– screenshot capture of test failures

Selenium IDE

Selenium RC

• is written in Java for portability and is executed from the command line

• Selenium-RC components are:– The selenium Server which launches and kills browsers, interprets

and runs the Selenese commands passed from the test program, and acts as an HTTP proxy, intercepting and verifying HTTP messages passed between the browser and AUT.

– client libraries which provide the interface between each programming language and the Selenium-RC Server

• client programming languages: C#, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Selenium RC

Selenium Grid

• The Grid enables you to run tests in parallel on multiple machines– Tests can be ran in parallel for reduced execution time– Test can be ran on various browser and operating system

combinations– Generates a collated report from all test machines

• The Grid can be run on a server farm or in the Cloud– The tests are distributed by the Hub server to multiple Selenium

RC machines– The tests can be ran by various Cloud computing services such

as Amazon EC2, Sauce Labs, BrowserMob, and PushToTest– The Grid is written in Java for portability and is executed from the

command line

Selenium Grid

Selenium IDE Test demo inhttps://zim01.gwdg.de/repos/smc/trunk/05_Implementation/02_Testing/Pubman_Selenium_Tests

Selenium RC test demo in…/pubman_ear/src/test/java/

Pubman Selenium tests

Selenium IDEThe list ofactions in theactual test caseto execute

The root of web application youwant to test

The log of theevents that wereexecuted, includingany errors orwarning that mayhave occurred

Selenium IDE

ExecutionCommands

Record testactions

Specify commands,including asserts

Reference of thecurrently selectedcommand

Running the Test Suite

• Execute the test suite using the Selenium IDE plug-in TestRunner.html

bug? http://jira.openqa.org/browse/SIDE-222

chrome://selenium-ide/content/selenium/TestRunner.html?baseURL=<BASE>&test=file:///<TEST SUITE FILE>&auto=true

Test SuiteExecutionControl

Test Cases

Steps of thetest case

Applicationbeing tested

TestRunner Control

TestRunner ControlPause/PlayExecution

Step throughExecution

Control Speedof Execution

Summary ofthe Test

View the log ofthe currentexecution

View the DOMof the currentPage being tested

HighlightElements in theExecution

Run All Tests

Run Selected Test

• With Selenium IDE

Upcoming: Selenium 2.0 and WebDriver