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Selenium Documentation

Matt Rees - Cloud Testing — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:24:30 +0000

We have uploaded some Selenium documentation to www.cloudtesting.com/selenium-docs/

You can also view it at selenium.cloudtesting.com/ and of course it available from seleniumhq.org

Processing Javascript with Selenium

Matt Rees - Cloud Testing — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:34:49 +0000

To allow you to create dynamic testing scripts, i.e. ones where the information entered onto forms, such as dates change over time, Cloud Testing has implemented the processing of JavaScript.

Stored Variables

The commands store, storeValue and storeText can be used to store a variable value for later.

Store	javascript{var d=new Date(); d.toString()}	dateToday
Store	javascript{var d=new Date(); d.setDate(d.getDate() + 1); d.toDateString();}	dateTomorrow
Store	javascript{var d=new Date(); d.setDate(d.getDate() + 40); d.toDateString();}	date40days
Store	Plain text string	variableName

These variables are stored internally in a map called “storedVars”, with values keyed by the variable name, which can be accessed as follows:

storedVars['date40days']

JavaScript

All parameters or arguments for Selenium commands can be constructed using both simple variable substitution as well as full JavaScript. They both have access to the variables stored above, but in different ways:

Full JavaScript – javascript{…}

Javascript evaluation provides the full power of JavaScript when constructing a parameter or argument for a Selenium command. To use this mechanism, the entire parameter value must be prefixed by ‘javascript{‘ with a trailing ‘}’. The text inside the braces is evaluated as a JavaScript expression, and can access previously stored variables using the storedVars map detailed above.

Note that variable substitution cannot be combined with JavaScript evaluation.

Echo	javascript{storedVars['dateTomorrow']}
Type	textField	javascript{‘Tomorrow=’ + storedVars['dateTomorrow']}
Echo	javascript{‘Tomorrow=’ + storedVars['dateTomorrow']}
Type	fullName	javascript{storedVars['fullName'].toUpperCase()}

Simple variable substitution – ${…}

Variable substitution provides a simple way to use a previously stored variable in a command parameter. The variable to substitute is indicated by ${variableName}. Multiple variables can be substituted, and intermixed with static text.

Echo	${dateTomorrow}
Type	textField	Today: ${dateToday} Tomorrow: ${dateTomorrow}
Echo	${variableName}
Type	fullName	$(title} ${firstName} ${lastName}

Example in Cloud Testing

The following example from Cloud Testing shows what can be done.

The example script is available to view in the ‘Live Demo’ account is available via the Online demo page.

Selecting which browser to use for Selenium test in Cloud Testing

Matt Rees - Cloud Testing — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:15:51 +0000

Cloud Testing have just released a new feature, which allows you to choose which of the available browsers you would like to run your test / Selenium script with.

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)

Firefox updated on Cloud Agents – 3.0.15, 3.5.4 and 3.6 Beta 1

Phil Smith - Cloud Testing — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:00:59 +0000

All of our Cloud Testing Agents have been updated with the latest releases of Firefox, i.e. 3.0.15 for the 3.0 release and 3.5.4 for the 3.5 release.

Version 2.0.0.20 remains available for those requiring a test on 2.0.

The Beta 1 release of the 3.6 browser has also been added to a number of agents to allow testing with it using the Cloud Testing service.

For full details of the Functional and Cross Browser testing services available from Cloud Testing, visit the website at http://www.cloudtesting.com/

Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 is now available for download

cloudtesting — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:41:50 +0000

The following posting on the Mozilla developer news (https://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2009/10/30/firefox-3-6-beta-1-is-now-available-for-download/) announces 3.6 beta 1 of Firefox:

The Mozilla community is proud to release Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 for download. This beta version of the next version of Firefox is built on the Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering engine, containing many improvements for web developers, Add-on developers, and users. The Mozilla community appreciates your feedback and assistance in testing this preview of the next version of Firefox. Your beta software will update itself periodically, and eventually will be updated to the final release itself.

This first revision of the Beta of Firefox 3.6 / Gecko 1.9.2 introduces several new features:

Users can now change their browser’s appearance with a single click, with built in support for Personas.

Firefox 3.6 will alert users about out of date plugins to keep them safe.

Open, native video can now be displayed full screen, and supports poster frames.

Support for the WOFF font format.

Improved JavaScript performance, overall browser responsiveness and startup time.

Support for new CSS, DOM and HTML5 web technologies.

Web developers and Add-on developers should read more detail about the many new features in Firefox 3.6 for developers on the Mozilla Developer Center. For the full list of changes since the alpha release, see this list (it’s big).

Please use the following links to download Firefox 3.6 Beta, or visit the beta download page:

Windows: Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 Setup.exe

Mac OS X: Firefox 3.6 Beta 1.dmg

Linux: firefox-3.6b1.tar.bz2

At this time most Add-ons have not yet been upgraded by their authors to be compatible with Firefox 3.6 Beta. If you wish to help test your Add-ons, please also download and install the Add-on Compatibility Reporter – your favorite Add-on author will appreciate it!

The release can be downloaded from http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html

Cloud Testing has added support for 3.6 Beta to it’s Functional and Cross Browser testing service, which allows users to upload and run their Selenium IDE scripts, capturing screen-shots, HTML, components and timings. Tests can be initiated via an API or via the web portal.

See the Cloud Testing website at http://www.cloudtesting.com/ for more details.

Subscribers can access the service at http://portal.cloudtesting.com/

API to run your Selenium scripts on Cloud Testing servers now in beta

Phil Smith - Cloud Testing — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:45:42 +0000

Cloud Testing has released a updated version of it’s Portal (http://portal.cloudtesting.com/) which now gives customers access to an API (Application Programming Interface). This will give users the ability to initiate tests on the Cloud Testing agents, as well as view the status of projects, scripts and results of individual tests in and XML format.

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

RSS Feed for script results and project status now in Beta

Phil Smith - Cloud Testing — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:35:45 +0000

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.

1.5.6 Agent software

Matt Rees - Cloud Testing — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:13:39 +0000

The latest Cloud Testing agent software has now been released.

All cookies are now removed using the Selenium command deleteAllVisibleCookies();

See the Updates section for details of all agent releases.

Using the Selenium Highlight command with Cloud Testing

Phil Smith - Cloud Testing — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:20:30 +0000

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

HOWTO: Cookie manipulation with Selenium and Cloud Testing

Phil Smith - Cloud Testing — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:45:38 +0000

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 using the ‘Create Cookie’ command.

The first argument is the name=value, e.g.

PHPSessionID=1213121

The second argument contain options for the cookie. Currenly ‘path’ and ‘max_age’ are supported.

The format is:

“path=/directory/, max_age=3600″

Create Cookie example

For example:

Delete Cookie

Cookies can also be deleted using the ‘Delete Cookie’ command. This take the cookie name as the first argument and the path as the second.

Delete Cookie example.

Full Example

In the following example, we visit a page, from which we get some cookies set by the server, we then add two cookies of our own, before deleting one of them.

Script with cookie create / delete

When we run the test, we get the following results:

Results of a test run

You are always able to view the cookies on any step that has interaction with the web server. After we have visited the page at step 1, we have the following cookies set:

Original cookies - set by server

After we set our own cookies at step 3 and 4 (CT and CT2), the next server interaction results in us having the following cookies set:

After manually added cookies

Note that the original cookies are still set, any new ones are just added.

In step 7 we delete one of the cookies we added (CT), we are left with the original ones from the server plus CT2:

After deleting the manual cookie CT

For full details of the services and features available from Cloud testing see www.cloudtesting.com