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Selenium- Training
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Agenda
• Introduction
• Begin with Selenium IDE
• Getting started
• Features of Selenium IDE
• Scripts – recording & running
• Formatters available in Selenium IDE.

3. INTRODUCTION
History of Selenium
• Jason Huggins from Thoughworks
• Developed to test internal app
• Birth of Selenium Remote Control
About Selenium IDE
• Shinya Kasatani from Japan started working
• Firefox plugin to develop test cases
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4. Begin with Selenium IDE
INSTALLATION
• A Firefox add-on
• Can download from official website
• Available at – Tools -> Selenium IDE.
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5. Getting Started
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6. About Selenium IDE
 Selenium IDE (Integrated Development Environment) is a
prototyping tool for building test scripts.
 It is a Firefox plugin and provides an easy-to-use interface for
developing automated tests.
 Selenium IDE has a recording feature, which records user actions as
they are performed and then exports them as a reusable script in
one of many programming languages that can be later executed.
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7. Features of Selenium IDE
 Record and playback
 Intelligent field selection will use IDs, names, CSS or X-Path as
needed
 Auto complete for all common Selenium commands
 Walk through test cases and test suites.
 Debug and set breakpoints
 Save tests as HTML, Java or other formats
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8. Controls available on IDE
• Toolbar controls:
• Speed Control
• Run All
• Run
• Pause/Resume
• Step
• Record.
 click to Record Now Recording
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9. Building and Running scripts
Recording
• Automatically inset commands into test pane
• By default record button is ON
Selenium commands
• Actions - e.g. “click this link” and “select that option”.
If an Action fails, or has an error, the execution of the current test is
stopped.
• Accessors - Examine the state of the application and store the results
in variables, e.g. “storeTitle”.
• Asserts - To check the web properties. E.g. “make sure the page title is
X” and “verify that this checkbox is checked”.
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10. Building and Running scripts
• Edit using
• Table view
• Source view
• Execution of the script as
• Single test case
• Test Suite.
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11. Additional features
• Toggle Breakpoint:
• Use to stop the script execution as define
• Useful for debugging the script
• Set/Clear Start point:
• Use for executing script from define line
• Useful for running scripts from middle
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12. Script Format
• By default recorded as HTML format
• User can change it to required languages
• JAVA, C#, Python are few of them
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13. Commands
• 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.
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14. Commands
• verifyText : verifies expected text and its 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.
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15. Exporting Test case and Test Suite
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16. Advantages of IDE
• Easy to learn & understand
• Support various language formatter
• User friendly UI and controls
• Has functionalities which are needed regularly
• Can exported easily for further execution.
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17. DEMO
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18. Questions
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