• Open
• Click and Wait
• Open Window
• Refresh
• Refresh and Wait
• Submit
• Submit and Wait
• Go Back
• Go Back and Wait

The new commands do exactly the same as the above Selenium commands, but don’t do an automatic screenshot. They are

• Open – No Screenshot
• Click and Wait – No Screenshot
• Open Window – No Screenshot
• Refresh – No Screenshot
• Refresh and Wait – No Screenshot
• Submit – No Screenshot
• Submit and Wait – No Screenshot
• Go Back – No Screenshot
• Go Back and Wait – No Screenshot

The new commands were added into the 1.9.0 release of the agent software. More details of the commands can be found in the support area of the customer portal – http://portal.cloudtesting.com/.

For more details of the Functional and Cross Browser testing service, please see our website at http://www.cloudtesting.com/.

Users can view the results in the RSS reader of their choice, shown below are the same feed in Thunderbird 3 (RC2), Internet Explorer 7, and Safari 4.0.4. Unfortunately Google Chrome does not yet support RSS feeds natively.

Cloud Testing results RSS Feed in Thunderbird 3.0

Cloud Testing results RSS Feed in Internet Explorer 7

Cloud Testing results RSS Feed in Apple Safari 4.0.4

The Cloud Tesing ‘Live Demo’ account is available via the Online demo page, which will allow you to see how the RSS feed works in your chosen RSS reader.

You can:

• View the results of recent runs.
• View or edit the settings – here you can import/export for use in Selenium IDE, or edit the parameters for individual steps.
• Schedule the times when this script will automatically be tested – you can schedule
• Add or edit notes made against this script.
• View all tagged runs.
• View the results of previous Cross Browser Tests or create a new one.

The portal is accessed at portal.cloudtesting.com. Read-only access to the ‘Live Demo’ account is available via the Online demo page.

Once you have clicked on the ‘Test’ button, the following dialog appears:

If you are happy with the default browser for this project – in this case Internet Explorer 7, all you have to do is click ‘Run Test’.

If you would like to choose the browser to use, you can choose from the drop down list:

If you are running a Private Cloud Testing Agent (which allows you to test websites and applications inside your firewall), you will be presented with the browsers available on that, otherwise you will have access to all those supported by Cloud Testing:

Internet Explorer ( 6, 7 & 8 )

Firefox ( 2, 3 & 3.5)

Safari (3.2 & 4.0)

Opera (9.6 & 10.0)

Google Chrome (2.0 & 3.0)

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The wizard is started by clicking on the link or icon.

Next you are asked for the URL you want to test.

If you only want to create a script without running any tests, all you have to do is click on the ‘Create Script Only’ button.

If you would to run an immediate Cross Browser Test, then simply tick the browser versions you want to use, then click ‘Test with Selected Browsers’.

You will then be presented with the confirmation screen, along with a list of other options that you can do to the newly created script.

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Cloud Testing has released a updated version of it’s Portal (http://portal.cloudtesting.com/) which gives customers the ability to view the status of both projects and scripts in an RSS feed.

Cloud Testing allows users to run scripts captured with Selenium IDE in a selection of browsers, with full screen-shots and diagnostics recorded and stored for analysis. For full details of all the features, see http://www.cloudtesting.com/serviceFeaturesFunctional.php

You can choose which view of the results to use by selecting from the links at the top right of the page.

The views are:

Overview View

This allows you to see a quick overview of all the steps in the script.

Clicking on the [+] next to a step expands the view so you can see the screenshot that was captured.

You can also click on the icons to view the full size screen-shot, HTML or full components list.

Thumbnails View

This view allows you to see all screen-shots from the script on a single page.

Details View

This is the classic view, and allows you to see all details on one page.

You can also click on the icons to view the full size screen-shot, HTML or full components list.

Running Selenium Scripts

The Cloud Testing service allows you to upload and run scripts recorded in Selenium IDE, in a number of browsers, for either Functional or Cross Browser Testing. For full details see the website at www.cloudtesting.com

Credits can be allocated / added to a project using the Edit Project page. Simply enter the number of credits you wish to add to this project.

Credits can be deallocated / removed from a project and returned to the Unallocated credits by selecting the ‘Reallocate Credits back to Account’ link and completing the following page.

For more details of the Cloud Testing service and it’s features, see the website at www.cloudtesting.com.

]]> http://www.cloudtesting.com/blog/2009/09/22/managing-testing-credits-with-cloud-testing/feed/ 0 http://www.cloudtesting.com/blog/2009/09/22/using-the-selenium-highlight-command-with-cloud-testing/ http://www.cloudtesting.com/blog/2009/09/22/using-the-selenium-highlight-command-with-cloud-testing/#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:20:30 +0000 Phil Smith - Cloud Testing http://blog.cloudtesting.com/?p=781 There is a little used but handy Selenium command called Highlight. It as you might have guessed highlights an element on a web page, which when combined with the screen-shot capabilities of Cloud Testing comes into it’s own.

The syntax is:

highlight(locator)

Arguments:

• locator – an element locator

Briefly changes the backgroundColor of the specified element yellow. Useful for debugging.

To use this feature within Cloud Testing, just choose the Highlight command, and enter the element or link name e.g. ‘link=Click Me’ for the first argument.

To enable you to view the highlighted area, you will need to add a Capture Screenshot command as the next step in the script, as the highlighting is reset and removed on any page refreshes or reloads.

The area corresponding to the element is highlighted in yellow as can be seen in the following view:

The following shows how you would highlight a text box on the screen.

and a larger view of the highlighted element:

For more information on the Cloud Testing service and features, please visit the Cloud Testing website at www.cloudtesting.com

On the Edit Script screen, you will find two new links, Export and Import:

For convenience, you can also swap between editing a script and importing, using the links below the navigation area (at the top right of the screen):

Once you have switched to the Import screen, you can choose to either replace all the existing commands, or append the commands found to the end of your existing script.

For more details of the Cloud Testing service and it’s features, see the website at www.cloudtesting.com