what is Selenium?

 Selenium:

• Test tool for web applications

• Runs in any mainstream browser

• Supports tests in many languages

• Selenese (pure HTML, no backend required)

• Java, C#, Perl, Python, Ruby

• Record/playback (Selenium IDE)

• Open Source with corporate backing

• Lives at selenium.openqa.org.

Selenium Uses:

 • Use Selenium when it makes sense

• when you want to reproduce a user’s interaction with your application in a real web browser

• when you depend on the browser (AJAX)

• Do consider presentation model and HTTPUnit

• Use Selenium for Integration Testing

• Use Selenium in your development environment

• Use the features offered by your language

A few Selenese commands:

Click,  Close, CreateCookie, dragdrop, fireEvent, getEval, getHtmlSource, , getTitle, getValue

goBack, isElementPresent, isTextPresent, isVisible, ,keyPress, mouseOver, open, refresh, type

The most commonly used commands for building tests:

Open:   opens a page using a URL.

click/clickAndWait:  performs a click operation, and optionally waits for a new page to load.

verifyTitle/assertTitle:   verifies an expected page title.

verifyTextPresent:   verifies expected text is somewhere on the page.

verifyElementPresent:  verifies an expected UI element, as defined by its HTML tag, is present on the page.

verifyText:  verifies expected text and it’s corresponding HTML tag are present on the page.

verifyTable:  verifies a table’s expected contents.

waitForPageToLoad:  pauses execution until an expected new page loads. Called automatically  when clickAndWait is used.

waitForElementPresent:  pauses execution until an expected UI element, as defined by its HTML tag, is present on the page.