symbioware selenium conf sf 2011
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Session by SymbioWare at 1st Selenium conference in SF. Enhancing and Extending Standard SeleniumTRANSCRIPT
Why Extending Selenium?
• The goal:– Make Selenium tests usable
by non-programmers
– Broader adoption of Selenium within organization beyond the initial high-skill QA team
– Reuse Selenium scripts in wider variety of tools
Selenium as a QA Platform: Pros and Cons
• What Selenium has:– A powerful API-based QA platform– De-facto Automated QA standard
• What Selenium needs:– High skill set (e.g., programming)– Full cycle test management– Custom coding for non-native features
Reducing the Skill Requirement
• Plain Selenium:– Based on API– Requires a “driver program” to implement conditions,
loops, flow control– Build another program to test the original program
• Extending Selenium:– Provide “programming” GUI with high level of abstraction– Import Selenium script into higher level of abstraction IDE– Mix and match Selenium and native 3-rd party commands
Reducing the Skill Requirement
Reducing the Skill Requirement
Reducing the Skill Requirement
Reducing the Skill Requirement
Reducing the Skill Requirement
Reducing the Skill Requirement
Implementing Full Cycle Test Management
• Plain Selenium:– Based on API– Does not have built-in test management features
• Extended Selenium:– Requirements management– Test cases management, versioning, export/import– Environment management– Notifications– Advanced reporting and analytics– Issue tracking, task assignment
Implementing Full Cycle Test Management
Implementing Full Cycle Test Management
Implementing Full Cycle Test Management
Implementing Full Cycle Test Management
Implementing Full Cycle Test Management
Adding Non-Native Features
• Plain Selenium:– Browser API – simulates keyboard and mouse– Requires programming to implement advanced
features
• Enhanced Selenium:– Database access, SQL queries– Data-driven tests– XML parsing– Other non-native functions otherwise requiring
programming
Adding Non-Native Features
Adding Non-Native Features
SymbioTeam On-Demand• Automated functional testing
• In-production business logic verification
• User experience monitoring
• for Web, Windows, and other platforms