Selenium Documentation
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
Selecting which browser to use for Selenium test in Cloud Testing
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 [...]
Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 is now available for download
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 [...]
API to run your Selenium scripts on Cloud Testing servers now in beta
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 [...]
Three ways to view functional test results
There are now three different ways to view the results of your Selenium tests that you run using the Cloud Testing service.
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 [...]
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 element yellow. Useful for [...]
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 using the [...]
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 to get [...]
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 Cloud Testing [...]
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 an OK [...]
