An Introduction to Selenium with Java

Introduction to Selenium:

What is Selenium?
Selenium is a functional Automation tool for Web applications.
Selenium is a Browser automation tool.

What we can do with Selenium?
Regression testing.
Retesting.
Browser compatibility testing.
Operating system compatibility testing.
GUI testing.

History of the Selenium
1) Selenium 1.0 (2004) released by Thaught works.
2) Founder of selenium 1.0 -- Jason Huggins.
3) Selenium 2.0 (2010) released by Google.
4) Lead engineer for selenium 2.0 -- Simon stewart.
5) Current version of the selenium -- 2.46.0

Selenium 1.0 components:
1) Selenium IDE
2) Selenium RC
3) Selenium Grid

 Selenium 2.0 Components:
1) Selenium Webdriver ( Webdriver)
2) WebdriverBackedSelenium
3) Remote Webdriver
 

Selenium vs QTP:

 1) Selenium is a open source tool , QTP is not.
 2) Selenium supports  browsers like IE, Firefox,Chrome, Opera and Safari , Qtp Only IE.
 3) Selenium support all Os's like Windows,Linux and Mac , Qtp supports only Windows.
 4) Selenium supports languages like Java,C#,Phython,Ruby and Perl , Qtp only VBscript.
 5) Selenium is Extendable and flexible , Qtp is flexible.
 6) Selenium will not support desktop applications, Qtp support both apps.

Frameworks:

 1) Junit frame work.
 2) TestNG Frame work.

Editor’s can be Used

I). Eclipse
II).NetBeans
III).IntelliIdea
  

An Introduction to Selenium IDE

Selenium Integrated Development Envrionment (Selenium IDE)  used to  record and play back actions on a browser.
It is Firefox  add on can easily added/installed to Firefox web browser.

Steps to Install Selenium IDE:

1. Go to seleniumhq.org/download
2. Choose latest version under Selenium IDE section and click on
3. Click on allow
4. Click on install
5. Restart Firefox.
6. Now you can see the Selenium IDE icon on right corner of your Firefox browser.

 * To convert selenium ide recorded script in to your language --> go to options -->  Select your language ex: java --> it will give your language code.

To change formats:
Click on Options --> under options click on options --> select toggle button as 'Enable experimental features'.

To save recorded script:
Click on file --> click on save test case --> save test case as '.html' in your local disk.
 
To import script:
Click on file --> click on open --> go to your folder --> select your script --> Execute against your application.

To maintain timeouts:
1. Select drag and drop available in tool bar and move to fast to slow.
2. To execute single script :
3. Click on play current test case.
4. To Execute single line of code :
5. Double Click on line.

Creating Test suite in SIDE:
Click on file --> create multiple test cases --> click on save test suite --> save all test case with names --> save test suite as '.html' .

To import Test suite into SIDE :

 Click on file --> click on open test suite --> goto saved folder and select test suite.

To run test suite:
Click on play entire test suite , which is available in tool bar.

Clip board format:
Click on options--> Click on Clip board format --> choose your language and then copy single or multiple line under test case -->  paste those lines in to your Script.

 Ex :

1. html

<tr>

     <td>type</td>

       <td>id=gbqfq</td>

            <td>video</td>

</tr>

 2.Java
driver.findBy(by.id("gbqfq"));

3. python
driver.find_element_by_id("gbqfq").clear()
driver.find_element_by_id("gbqfq").send_keys("video")
 
selenium ide vs Testing

S.No	Testing Task	Yes or No
1	Record and playback	Yes
2	Regression Testing	No
3	Retesting	No
4	Validation	No
5	Reporting	No
6	Database Validation	No