Index

Selenium Professional

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction............................................................................................................................. 4

1.1 Testing Automation tools................................................................................................................ 4

1.2 Selenium Evolution....................................................................................................................... 4

1.3 Introducing Selenium.................................................................................................................... 5

1.4 Selenium’s Tool Suite.................................................................................................................... 5

1.5 Supported Browsers and Platforms.................................................................................................. 6

2. Selenium IDE.......................................................................................................................... 9

2.1 Installation.................................................................................................................................. 9

2.2 Selenium-IDE Introduction........................................................................................................... 11

2.3 IDE interface and components....................................................................................................... 12

2.4 Building Test Cases..................................................................................................................... 15

2.5 Running Test Cases..................................................................................................................... 17

2.6 Selenium Commands – “Selenese”.................................................................................................. 18

2.7 Commonly Used Selenium Commands............................................................................................ 21

3. Locating Elements................................................................................................................ 29

3.1 Locating Elements....................................................................................................................... 29

3.2 Locating by XPath....................................................................................................................... 31

3.3 Locating by DOM....................................................................................................................... 32

3.4 Locating by CSS.......................................................................................................................... 33

4. Regular Expressions............................................................................................................. 35

4.1 Matching Text Patterns................................................................................................................. 35

4.2 Using exact:............................................................................................................................... 35

4.3 Globs....................................................................................................................................... 35

4.4 Regular Expression..................................................................................................................... 36

5. JavaScript Usage.................................................................................................................... 39

5.1 Test language specification............................................................................................................ 39

5.2 Browser and variable access by JavaScript......................................................................................... 39

5.3 Event Firing............................................................................................................................... 40

6. Expanding Selenium............................................................................................................. 42

6.1 Test Suite Creation and Debugging................................................................................................. 42

6.2 User extensions.......................................................................................................................... 44

6.3 Add-ons.................................................................................................................................... 48

7. Selenium RC.......................................................................................................................... 51

7.1 Concepts and need...................................................................................................................... 51

7.2 Install and Configure RC server..................................................................................................... 52

7.3 Test execution............................................................................................................................ 54

7.4 RC based tests development and conversion...................................................................................... 58

8. WebDriver............................................................................................................................. 68

8.1 Introducing WebDriver................................................................................................................ 68

8.2 Configuring Selenium-WebDriver.................................................................................................. 68

8.3 WebDriver API Commands and Operations.................................................................................... 69

8.4 Selenium-WebDriver’s Drivers...................................................................................................... 74

9 Selenium Grid......................................................................................................................... 78

9.1 Selenium Grid Basics................................................................................................................... 78

9.2 Installing selenium grid................................................................................................................. 80

9.3 Configuring selenium grid............................................................................................................. 82

9.4 Executing parallel tests.................................................................................................................. 85

10. Advance Selenium.............................................................................................................. 89

10.1 Cookie management.................................................................................................................. 89

10.2 Network traffic capture............................................................................................................... 90

10.3 Video and screenshot capture...................................................................................................... 92