Selenium
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 [...]
Processing Pop-up Alerts and Confirmations with Selenium and Cloud Testing
This article covers the basics of how Selenium handles pop-ups, as well as how to test them using the Cloud Testing service. Future articles will cover the advanced details of handling Alerts and Confirmations. What are Alerts and Confirmations? The following very basic page will use Javascript to display either an Alert (which only has [...]
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 ( [...]
Firefox 3.5 final is released
The final release of Firefox 3.5 has now been released for download, with a flurry of Add-ons being updated to be compatible. The script capture tool Selenium IDE has been updated to version 1.0.2 and is available for download at http://seleniumhq.org/download/. NOTE: You may have to un-install the previous version of Selenium IDE (that you [...]
Capturing screen shots of browsers with Selenium and Cloud Testing – Part 1
When functionally testing your website, it is always useful to have a screen shot of what the browser window looked like. There are a number of ways of doing this. In this first of a series of articles we cover producing these with Selenium. Future articles will cover further advanced features of Selenium and using [...]
Cloud Testing HowTos
The fill list of Cloud Testing How To articles can now be found at: http://blog.cloudtesting.com/howtos/
Running Selenium scripts on Cloud Testing
This HowTo covers running your Selenium test script using the Cloud Testing service. It assumes that you have already captured and uploaded/imported your script – for details see HOWTO: Capture a script using Selenium IDE and import into Cloud Testing. Log in to the Cloud Testing portal at http://portal.cloudtesting.com/, navigate to the project which contains [...]
Support for Firefox 3.5 added
Here at Cloud Testing, we have rolled out Firefox 3.5 Beta4 onto our Cloud Agents, so you can now run your scripts more browsers. We now support: Firefox 2 (2.0.0.20) Firefox 3 (3.0.10) Firefox 3.5 (3.5 RC2) [Updated 24th June] Internet Explorer 6 Internet Explorer 7 Internet Explorer 8 You can choose to run your [...]
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, [...]
