HowTo
Cross Browser Testing – Screencast
To see an overview of the features of the cross browser testing service, why not watch our screen-cast below (either double-click on the movie or click the play button). The example script is available to view in the ‘Live Demo’ account is available via the Online demo page.
Using the Selenium Highlight command with Cloud Testing
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 [...]
HOWTO: Cookie manipulation with Selenium and Cloud Testing
As the Cloud Testing service uses Selenium RC, and real browsers such as Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, Chrome and Opera, cookie handling while running your test should be taken care of automatically. If however you want to do something special, you can override the default behaviour as follows: Create Cookie You can add cookies by [...]
HOWTO: HTTP Basic Authentication with Selenium and Cloud Testing
If you need to run tests against a web server that has HTTP Basic Authentication (HTTP Auth) on, there is a simple way to make it work with Cloud Testing and Selenium. When you access the server manually you get one of the pop-up dialogs, depending on which browser you are using. If you fail [...]
Ideas for new Selenium and Cloud Testing HowTo's
Thanks to everyone for their positive feedback on our HowTo articles so far http://blog.cloudtesting.com/howtos/. We have a number of ideas of future articles we’re going to cover, but would be interested in finding out what you want to read about. Articles we have in the pipeline will cover: Working with pop-up windows using Selenium and [...]
Running Cross Browser tests with Selenium and Cloud Testing
Once you have uploaded your Selenium script into your Cloud Testing account, one of the many things you can do is run a Cross Browser test. This will allow you to compare screenshots, captured HTML and components of the various steps in your user journey in the browsers that we currently support: Internet Explorer ( [...]
Cloud Testing HowTos
The fill list of Cloud Testing How To articles can now be found at: http://blog.cloudtesting.com/howtos/
Using Cloud Testing Notes
In this HowTo, we explain how to make use of the Notes feature in the Cloud Testing service to aid distributed development and test teams work better. Notes Notes can be added or edited by any user who has ‘Run’ or ‘Edit’ access to a project. They are shared between all users of the project [...]
HOWTO: Capture a script using Selenium IDE and import into Cloud Testing
These instructions assume you have downloaded and installed the Selenium IDE Add-on for Firefox. For more details see the Selenium HQ website. Inportant: If you previously had Selenium IDE installed in Firefox 3.0, you will need to un-install and re-install the latest version for it to work with Firefox 3.5. Step 1. From within Firefox, [...]
