Test automation using selenium

 Test automation is the use of software
To set test preconditions.
To control the execution of tests.
 To compare the actual outcomes to predicted
outcomes.
To report the Execution Status.
 Commonly, test automation involves
automating a manual process already in place
that uses a formalized testing process.
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Quick Test Professional By HP
Rational Functional Tester By Rational (IBM Company)
Silk Test By Borland
Test Complete By Automated QA
QA Run (Compuware )
Watir ( Open Source)
Selenium ( Open Source)
Sahi (Open Source)

 Selenium is a robust set of tools that
supports rapid development of test
automation for web-based applications.
 Selenium provides a rich set of testing
functions specifically geared to the needs of
testing of a web application.
 Selenium operations are highly flexible,
allowing many options for locating UI
elements and comparing expected test
results against actual application behavior.

 Supports Cross Browser Testing. The
Selenium tests can be run on multiple
browsers.
 Allows scripting in several languages like
Java, C#, PHP and Python.
 Assertion statements provide an efficient way
of comparing expected and actual results.
 Inbuilt reporting mechanism.

 Selenium IDE
 Selenium Remote Control
 Selenium Grid
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 Selenium IDE is an integrated development
environment for Selenium tests.
 It is implemented as a Firefox extension,
and allows you to record, edit, and replay
the test in firefox
 Selenium IDE allows you to save tests as
HTML, Java, Ruby scripts, or any other
format
 It allows you to automatically add
assertions to all the pages.
 Allows you to add selenese commands as
and when required

 Using Firefox, first, download the IDE from the
SeleniumHQ downloads page When downloading
from Firefox, you‟ll be presented with the Window
A. (See Next Slide)
 Select Install Now. The Firefox Add-ons window
pops up, first showing a progress bar, and when
the download is complete, displays the Window B.
(See Next Slide)
 Restart Firefox. After Firefox reboots you will find
the Selenium-IDE listed under the Firefox Tools
menu.

Window A Window B
To run the Selenium-IDE, simply select it from the Firefox Tools menu. It
opens as follows with an empty script-editing window and a menu for
loading, or creating new test cases. (See Next Slide)

Start and Stop
Recording
Selenese
Script
Editor
Selenium Log
Replay
Toolbar
Accessor
Area

Selenium Options allow you to
Set The Text Encoding
Format
Set the Default Page Time
Out
Set The Base URL recording
option
Adding Selenium Core and
IDE Extension
Add Automatic Page Title
Assertions
There are also other options
under development

 Open Firefox that has the IDE installed
 Open the base URL of the application to record.
 Keep the application in a common base state.
 Go To Tools  Selenium IDE and the IDE will be
opened
 Now perform the operations on the application
as you are testing the application.
 Once you are done with the recording click on
the stop recording button and save the test
case through the file menu. By default it will be
saved as a selenese script (HTML format)

 clicking a link - click or clickAndWait
commands
 entering values - type command
 selecting options from a drop-down listbox -
select command
 clicking checkboxes or radio buttons - click
command

 Make sure the application is in the common
base state.
 Click on the run button. Here you can also
control the speed of the execution using the
toolbar
 Once the test is run you can view the test log
in the bottom of the IDE window

 In the Selenium IDE you
can create any number
of test cases and save
them as test suite.
 To Run the test Suite
click on the “Play entire
test suite” button as
shown below.
Test Suite with
Test1 & test2

 Test Runner allows you to run the test case in a
browser loaded with the Selenium-Core
TestRunner.
 Test runner is invoked by clicking the below Shown
button in the IDE
On Clicking the Test Runner Button you will the
window as seen in the next slide

Click this button to run all the tests

Run a Test Case
Click the Run button to run the currently displayed test
case.
Run a Test Suite
Click the Run All button to run all the test cases in the
currently loaded test suite.
Stop and Start
The Pause button can be used to stop the test case while it
is running. The icon of this button then changes to indicate
the Resume button. To continue click Resume.
Stop in the Middle
You can set a breakpoint in the test case to cause it to stop
on a particular command. This is useful for debugging your
test case. To set a breakpoint, select a command, right-
click, and from the context menu select Toggle Breakpoint.

Start from the Middle
You can tell the IDE to begin running from a
specific command in the middle of the test case.
This also is used for debugging. To set a start
point, select a command, right-click, and from
the context menu select Set/Clear Start Point.
Run Any Single Command
Double-click any single command to run it by
itself. This is useful when writing a single
command. It lets you immediately test a
command you are constructing, when you are not
sure if it is correct. You can double-click it to see
if it runs correctly. This is also available from the
context menu.

 Selenese allows multiple ways of checking for
UI elements.
 Verifications and assertions are used to check
if
 an element is present somewhere on the page?
 specific text is somewhere on the page?
 specific text is at a specific location on the page?
 Verifications and assertions are not one and
the same.
 If an assertion fails, the script will be aborted
but if a verification fails the script will continue.

verifyTextPresent
This command is used to
check if a particular text is
present in a page or not.
To add this command
, While recording the test
steps right click on the text
item that you want verify.
Once right clicked you can
find an option “Show all
commands”. On Clicking it
you will find an option
“verifyTextPresent”, select it

verifyTitle
 This command is used to
check if the page title is
correct or not.
 To add this command ,
While recording the test
steps right click any
where on the page that
you want verify. Once
right clicked you can find
an option “Show all
commands”. On Clicking
it you will find an option
“verifyTitle”, select it

verifyElementPresent
 This command is used to
verify if a page element is
present in the page or not.
 To add this command ,
While recording the
test steps right click
any element on the
page that you want
verify. Once right
clicked you can find an
option “Show all
commands”. On
Clicking it you will find
an option
“verifyElementPresent”,
select it

verifyValue
 This method is used to
check if edit box has
particular value or if the
check box is on. Basically
this method returns the
value of present in the
object.
 To add this command
, While recording the test
steps right click any
element on the page that
you want verify the value of.
Once right clicked you can
find an option “Show all
commands”. On Clicking it
you will find an option
“verifyValue”, select it.

 Assertions are same as Verifications. The
only difference is, if the assertions fail the
script will abort. But the script will
continue run in case a verification point
fails.
 The steps for inserting the assertions is
same as that of verification point.
 While recording Right Click  Show all
commands  select an assertion.

 assertTextPresent
This will assert if the text is present in the page.
 assertText
This will assert if a particular element is having the particular
text.
 assertTitle
This will assert if the page is having a proper title.
 assertValue
This will assert if a Text box or check box has a particular value
 assertElementPresent
This will assert if a particular UI Element is present in the page.

waitForPageToLoad
This command will make the script to wait till the page
loads.
Syntax is waitForPageToLoad(timeout); Time out is the
maximum time the script will wait for the page to load.

waitForAlert
This command will wait for the alert message to
appear
waitForTable
This command will wait for the Web table to
completely load in the page
waitForTitle
This command will for the page Title to appear on
the browser.
Other waitFor commands
Selenium has several other wait command like
waitForText, waitForPopup and so on. These
commands are generically called Synchronization
commands

 Store command are used to fetch the values
from the application and store it in a variable.
These variables can be used latter for
validation purpose.
 The Store command can be used to retrieve
the page title, text from the page and other
attributes from the application.

 Echo command is
used to print the
value in to the
selenium IDS log.
 When printing a
variable use ${var}
 There are some
limitations for this
methods this has to
be used with
caution

 Can run the test only on Firefox
 No Programming login (like loops, conditional
statements) can be applied
 Selenium IDE can execute scripts created in
Selenese only.
 It is difficult to use Selenium IDE for checking
complex test cases involving dynamic
contents

 A solution to cross browser testing.
 A server, written in Java and so available on
all the platforms.
 Acts as a proxy for web requests from them.
 Client libraries for many popular languages.
 Bundles Selenium Core and automatically
loads into the browser

Software Required
 JDK 1.6 , selenium-remote-control-1.0.3 (this can
be downloaded from
http://seleniumhq.org/download/)
Installation Procedure
 Selenium RC is simply a jar file and to run it we
need java installed. (JDK 1.6 is preferred)
 Once the Java is installed just unzip the selenium-
remote-control-1.0.3. zip which was downloaded
from the selenium site to a directory.

 First Generate the Script using selenium IDE in the
firefox IDE
 Once the Scripts are recorded add assertions where
ever required
 Now format the Selenese test into the language of
your choice. Please refer to the Image

 Once the Selenese script is converted into
your preferred language you can you can
run them using Selenium Server.
 For running the script you also need the
client driver for that particular language.
 To enhance the script we will require IDE
like netbeans or Eclipse IDE
 To Integrate the script and run them as a
suite we will require build integration tools
like Maven or Ant.

 Following are the steps to create a selenese test
suite and run a test suite using selenium RC
1) Record a test case using selenium IDE and save it as
“Test1.html” (say).
2) Record another test case using selenium IDE and save its as
“Test3.html” (say).
3) In this way you can record any number of test case using
selenium IDE and save them as <filename>.html
4) Then Create a New Test Suite using the File Menu. See the
Image Below.

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Add the created test cases in to the suite as
shown in Image1
Once the test cases are added to the suite
save them as a test suite as in Image2
The Open the command prompt and navigate
to the directory where Selenium RC (server) is
placed.
In the command prompt Enter the command
as shown below.

Command :
 java -jar selenium-server.jar
-multiwindow -htmlSuite
"*iexplore"
"https://localhost/store/"
"D:testa.html"
"C:results.html“
 Once the command is run
the results will be stored in
the results.html file as
shown below.

Required Software
 Selenium RC Server jar , Selenium Java Client
Driver jar , JDK 1.6 +, Eclipse (or any other
IDE), Junit jar and testng jar
 For building the frame work we require
continuous build integration tools like Ant,
Maven or cruise control.

Enables communication with Selenium Remote
Control Server.
 Functionality of Selenium is exposed via these
drivers.
 Available in Ruby, Python, Java, C-Sharp …and so
on.
 Give access to the rich features and libraries of the
language, including their unit testing framework.
 Makes it possible to develop automated scripts in
the same language as product.
 Which one you should use?
Whatever make sense in your context. Most Popular is java and
for the training we will use java

Following are the steps for generating the
test scripts in java
1) Record the Script in Selenium IDE and
format them into Java
2) Create a Selenium Java project in Eclipse and
load all the necessary jar files
3) Copy the formatted Java code into the
Eclipse and run the test.

Steps of formatting the code into
java
1) Open the Browser and open
the base URL of the
application.
2) Open the Selenium IDE and
start recoding the test steps.
3) Once the recording is done go
to Menu  Options  Format
 Java(TestNG) –Selenium RC
4) You can see the java code in
the source tab of IDE. Save the
test case with .java extension.

 Eclipse is an open source community whose
projects are focused on building an extensible
development platform for building Java
applications and frameworks. Eclipse is one of the
best Java IDE and as a matter of face Eclipse is
much more than a Java IDE.
 We can configure a selenium project in eclipse and
even run the scripts from eclipse.
 Using eclipse its easy to enhance the recorded
script. We can add power to the recorded script by
parameterizing the test inputs and even validate
the back values.
 Eclipse also allows us to write reusable code for
efficient test automation.

 Download the “Eclipse IDE for Java Developers”
from the http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ page.
 Unzip the downloaded zip file from the above site
into a directory.
 Once the unzipping is over open the folder and
double click on the icon and it will open a dialog
box as shown below.

 Create a folder say (selenium) in any one of
the directory and change the workspace
location to the directory created by you.
Then click ok button.
 On doing so you will see the eclipse
welcome screen if you are doing it for the
first time. On the welcome screen click on
the workbench icon to open the project
explorer.
 When you to try to open the eclipse from
next time it will directly show the project
explorer as shown in the next slide.

Package
Explorer
Scrip View
console

 File  New  Java
Project
• Specify the project
name and click finish

 Open the folder contain the selenium project that
you have just created. Inside that folder create
another folder with name “lib”
 Inside the lib folder place the following jar files.
junit-4.8.1.jar
selenium-java-client-driver.jar
selenium-server.jar
testng-5.12.jars
 After placing the jar file in lib come back to the
eclipse and click on the project explorer strip and
press F5. You should see the all the jar files under
the lib folder in the project explorer as shown in
the Image in next slide.

 In the eclipse 
Package Explorer 
right click on the src
(source) folder. In that
select New  Package
and give a name to the
package. See the
Picture1
 Now right click on the
created package and
click on new  class
and provide a class
name. You will see a
java script template as
seen in the next slide

 Your IDE should look like this
This is where you have copy the
Java code that you formatted in the
Selenium IDE

 Right Click on the
Project
 Select Build Path 
Configure Build path
 On the next window
click on the libraries
tab and click on the
add jars tab

 As you click on the
add jars button a
window showing all
the jar files will be
opened. Select all
the jar files and click
on ok button
 By doing this step
we are almost ready
to write the script
and run it.

 Copy the code that was formatted in the
selenium IDE and paste it in the Eclipse IDE
script template.
 Make sure the class name that you created
and the class name in the script are same
 Make sure that you have add the methods
setUp and tearDown

 Start the Selenium Server
 For this open the command prompt and go to the
folder where the selenium server is present.
 Run the command “java -jar selenium-server.jar”
 The Selenium server will start running and you can
see the message in the command prompt.

 Once the server is up go to the eclipse and right
click on the script.
 In that select Run As  JUnit Test. See the image
below. After this you will get will see that the script
has run successfully in the window that‟s shown in
the next slide.

success
failure

setUp method
This method prepares the selenium server to run
the test. This method basically hooks to the
selenium server and opens up the base URL of the
application
test*** method
The methods with the name test will actually run
the tests on the application. There can be any
number of test methods in the app
tearDown method
This method will run after the end of the test. This
test will disconnect with the server and makes
room for the next tests to run the tests.

The generated selenium command can be
enhanced by writing java commands. Using
java methods we can do parameterization and
data base validation.
More over java methods can be used for to
perform some complex validations and
testing activities.
The best way to use java methods is used to
is have a Java IDE like eclipse.

Java Data Types
Int, float, String, char, Boolean and double
Declarations
String s =
“Selenium”;
Int i = 20;
float cur = 3.35;
Operators
* ,/ ,% ,+, - are the
mathematical
operators
* ,/, %, have a higher
precedence than + or
-

== Equal (careful)
!= Not equal
>= Greater than or equal
<= Less than or equal
> Greater than
< Less than

If Condition
if (name != “selenium”)
{
System.out.print(“Tool Changed”);
}
Else
{
System.out.print(“Tool is ok”);
}
Loop n times
for ( i = 0; i < n; n++ )
{
// this code body will execute n times
// I from 0 to n-1
}

Required Packages
 import java.util.Date;
 import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
Sample Code

Implementation Steps
1) First get the values from the list box
2) To get the values from the list box or any
other HTML element we need to know its
Xpath. (use Xpath checker)
3) The values taken from the list box are
stored in a variable.
4) Use the indexOf method to find if “HTML” is
present in the extracted variable.

Xpath Locator

 Parameterization is to same run the script
with multiple set of data.
 The data will be stored in a CSV file.
 We will have write a program to read the
values from the excel line by line and
replace the values.
 For reading the values from a CSV file we
will require the following packages
import java.io.File;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;

 Ant is a free tool from the Apache Jakarta
Group
 Originally written by James Duncan
Davidson
 on an airplane from Europe to the US...
 Like „make‟ for Java – only better
 Uses an XML file to drive its action
 Extremely powerful and modular
 Easily extensible
 Written in Java so it is cross platform

 Download ANT and copy it into any of the
directory
 Create a JAVA_HOME environment Variable
 Create a ANT_HOME environment variables
 Add the ANT bin path to windows path
environment variable
 Create a build file to load all the jar files
and create targets to run the selenium tests
using the build file

 Start the selenium server through the
command prompt
 Then go the folder where the selenium tests
are stored
 Make sure that the build.xml file is present
in that location
 Now run the command “ant” from the
command prompt
 You can see the test running and the results
will be saved in the results.txt file.

Selenium-Grid
Selenium-Grid allows the Selenium-RC solution to scale for test
suites or test suites to be run in multiple environments.
• With Selenium-Grid multiple instances of Selenium-RC are
running on various operating system and browser configurations,
each of these when launching register with a hub. When tests are
sent to the hub they are then redirected to an available Selenium-
RC, which will launch the browser and run the test.
• This allows for running tests in parallel, with the entire test suite
theoretically taking only as long to run as the longest individual test.

 Download Selenium Grid latest binary
distribution and unpack it on your
computer.
 Go at the root of selenium grid directory
and validate your installation:
 cd selenium-grid-1.0
 ant sanity-check
 Go to the selenium distribution directory
and launch in a new terminal:
 ant launch-hub
 Check out that the Hub is running by
looking at its console in a browser:

 In a new terminal enter the following
command
 ant launch-remote-control
 Based on your target file you can run either in
sequence or in parallel

 Relatively easy to automate web UI tests
 Record/Replay for regression tests
 RC allows integration with CI and
JUnit/FitNesse tests

 Speed: RC->Browser communication is a
speed bottleneck (run in grid, overnight)
 UI is brittle, tests depending on the UI break a
lot (DSTL might fix this, page abstractions as
well)
 Data-backed tests are not easily repeatable
(integrate with DB test engines)

 Use Selenium to verify workflow and session
 Don't put Selenium tests in your main
development build – run them overnight
 Have dedicated machines that run tests
 DON'T THINK OF THIS AS A REPLACEMENT FOR
EXPLORATORY TESTING!!!

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