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Gems of Selenium

Anand Ramdeo

Komal Joshi

Selenium Is..

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A bit of History..


SELENIUM

It All Started Here• Time and Expense application built using

Python+Plone @ Thoughtworks• Goal was “Fast, Fast, Fast”


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It All Started Here

• Time and Expense application built using Python+Plone @ Thoughtworks

• Goal was “Fast, Fast, Fast”


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Problems..


And Solutions..

• Mozilla Extension – “Driftwood” by Andrew McCormick from Thoughtworks. Worked, but it was firefox only solution.

• Paul Gross and Jasson Huggin set out to implement Fit for JS.

• Which eventually became Selenium Core or Java Script Test Runner


Popularity of Selenium


Reason of Success



In search of treasure

The journey begins..•Want to automate ? •What are the common problems faced by people when using selenium IDE?


In search of treasureTreasure is ….•Reliable automation.•Stable automation.•Maintainable automation.•Effective Automation.


Found my first Gem….UI Element

How can this precious gem help me?


UI Element is...

• • ...a mapping between semantically meaningful names of elements on webpages, and the elements.

...defined using JSON


Abstraction With UI-Element selenium.type("q", “TestingGeek"); selenium.click("btnG");

LOGIN_BUTTON = "css=input[value='Log in']"DELETE_CONFIRMATION = "css=input[value='\"Yes, I'm sure\"']"

myMap.addPageset({ name: 'allPages', description: 'All WLL Pages', pathRegexp: '.*'});

myMap.addElement ('allPages', { name: 'register' , description: 'Register link on all the pages' , locator: "xpath=//*[@id='user']/dd/a[1]" })

sel.click("ui=allPages::register()")

Abstracting with UI Element


I want to extend Selenium with some new assertions,actions

No problem User-extension.js is here for that.


Extending Slenium...

Selenium Object PrototypePagebot Object Prototype.On startup, Selenium will automatically look

through methods on these prototypes, using name patterns to recognize which ones are actions, assertions and locators.


Automation is incomplete without cross browser testing

Selenium RC gem for different browser…• * iehta• * firefox• * iexplore• * chrome• * custom (for custom browsers)


https...

Different options of selenium…- https- Multiwindow=<true/false>- Firefoxtemplate=<default template

location>


Collecting all the gems and putting in the treasure chest


Is this the only treasure• The real gems are in your minds in your brains.• Come up with a solution• Implement a simple but effective solution.


Automate using wrappers.

SA

Use a combination of tools....• Selenium + Auto it.• Selenium + Batch files.


SA

/** * This method would just kill the PDF*/

public void closesPDF(){{

String[] dialog = new String[] { "src\\test\\resources\\KillAcroRd32.bat"};try {

Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(dialog);System.out.println(p.getErrorStream().toString());System.out.println(p.getInputStream().toString());System.out.println(p.getOutputStream().toString());System.out.println("After execution");

} catch (IOException e) {// TODO Auto-generated catch blockSystem.out.println("In the exception");e.printStackTrace();throw new AssertionError("No Dialogue box displayed");

} }

}


Easy to read Natural language automation• Simple easy to read language

• POM.


Componentise your automation


Add dynamism...

Connecting to the databses…


All this is less effective if automation does not run automatically......


Integrate with CI tools

Mavenise your automation... And integrate them with Hudson...


Distribute the Tests

With Selenium Grids or

Hudson Slaves...


Integrate with CI tools

What about Selenium 2.0 ?.....

Will my old selenium tests run in 2.0?


Selenium 2.0

-Web Driver- Presentation redering etc.


import java.util.List;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;import org.openqa.selenium.RenderedWebElement;import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

public class TestingGeek {

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { // The Firefox driver supports javascript WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

// Go to the TestingGeek home page driver.get("http://www.testinggeek.com");

// Enter the query string "Cheese" //WebElement query = driver.findElement(By.name("q")); WebElement menu= driver.findElement(By.id("menu27")); menu.click(); // query.sendKeys("Cheese");

// Sleep until the div we want is visible or 5 seconds is over long end = System.currentTimeMillis() + 5000; while (System.currentTimeMillis() < end) { // Browsers which render content (such as Firefox and IE) // return "RenderedWebElements" // RenderedWebElement resultsDiv = (RenderedWebElement) driver.findElement(By.className("gac_m")); RenderedWebElement resultsDiv = (RenderedWebElement) driver.findElement(By. id("menu27")); // If results have been returned, // the results are displayed in a drop down. if (resultsDiv.isDisplayed()) { break; } }

// And now list the suggestions //List<WebElement> allSuggestions = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//td[@class='gac_c']")); List<WebElement> menus = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//div/div/div/ul/li[2]/ul")); for (WebElement menu1 : menus) { System.out.println(menu1.getText()); } }

}


Thank You.

Anand Ramdeo

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www.AtlantisSw.com

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