If you are new to automated website testing it might seem pretty hard to get a decent overview about what there is that you should know, what different options you have for your automated web application testing and what else there is to consider. In this post I will try to give a good overview [...]
The Selenium IDE is a great plugin for the Firefox Browser to automate website testing. Unfortunately it is not available for Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera or Safari. Nevertheless it is not enough to test a web application on firefox. Every browser and every device has its own “specialties” of which you must be aware and [...]
Until now there is not such a thing as the Selenium IDE for IE / Internet Explorer but luckily there is a great alternative: FRET as an alternative to use the same functionality of the Selenium IDE on the Internet Explorer and many different other browsers and devices. Selenium IDE for IE Browser Download? There [...]
This tutorial will show you how to do automate website testing with Selenium on mobile devices. Before you go through this tutorial you should be some what familiar with Selenium or have at least completed our Selenium WebDriver Tutorial. So, we assume you have Eclipse installed and a simple Selenium Project set up. If not, [...]
If you want to use XPath to locate elements with the Selenium IDE you have basically three options to figure out the XPath definition you have to use for your test. Use the built in record function of the Selenium IDE with XPath Locator Builders. Use a plugin to figure out the XPath of a [...]
You need a basic example of how to use the the Selenium WebDriver in Java? Here you will find it. If you are not sure if you have the right set-up to start with the Selenium WebDriver, please read the Selenium WebDriver Tutorial (Java). Sample-Code for Firefox Sample-Code for Chrome Sample-Code for Internet Explorer [...]
Probably you know from the Selenium IDE the command pause. If you have been looking for the exact same command for the WebDriver in Java you've found probably nothing but it is pretty easy to imitate the command in Java. What exactly does the pause-command in the Selenium IDE? pause(waitTime): Wait for the specified amount [...]
This list of commands for the Selenium IDE you find below is a nicely formatted Version of the official Selenium Reference on seleniumhq.org. Please help to keep this list up to date and comment if you have corrections. To use this list to work with the Selenium IDE read it like this: Command: The name [...]
Have you experienced this Exception when starting your Selenium test for the first time with the Chrome WebDriver? Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalStateException: The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.chrome.driver system property; for more information, see http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/ChromeDriver. The latest version can be downloaded from http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html The reason is probably that [...]
Usually you want a fresh session without old cashing data and without any old cookies when you start a new run of your Selenium tests. For example if you are testing an online shop an in your last test you have put some products in your basket, you probably don't want when you start your [...]