1) What is Selenium IDE ?A) Selenium IDE (Integrated Development
Environment) is an
ideal tool used to develop selenium test scripts... It is the only flavor of
selenium which allows us to record user actions on browser window... Here, the
scripts are recorded in 'Selenese'(a set
of selenium commands like Click, assertTextPresent, storeText, etc,.).. It
is not only a time-saver but also an excellent way of learning Selenium scripts
syntax... It is a Firefox add-0n...
2) How to install Selenium IDE ?A) click here for detailed steps I use seleniumhq.org site to download any software regarding selenium.. Here, if we click on the version number of selenium ide it starts downloading the add-ons, just we have to click on 'install now' button and restart the firefox browser.. With-in 5 minutes we can install selenium ide...
3) How do you open/start selenium-ide after installation ?A) First launch/open firefox browser and then click on
'Tools' tab in the menu bar.. You can see an option called 'selenium ide' ,
click on it, a small window will be opened where you can start recording
scripts... 4) Features of selenium IDE..A) click here for detailed features of
selenium ide·
Its main feature is record and playback..·
Debugging features by setting breakpoints,
startpoints, pause..·
Identifies element using id, name, xpath etc..·
Auto complete for all common selenium
commands..·
It has an option of asserting title of every
page automatically..·
Support for selenium user-extensions.js file..·
Option to run single test or
multiple tests(suite).·
It has a feature of exporting testcase/suite
into different formats like C#, Java, Ruby, Python..
5) Advantages and disadvantages of selenium IDE..A) Advantages
: ·
Freeware..·
Easy to install..·
It is the only flavor of selenium that allows
us to record user actions on browser window.. ·
Scripts recorded in IDE can be coverted
into other languages like Java, C#, Python and Ruby..·
It is not only a time saver but also an
excellent way of learning scripts syntax..·
We can insert comments in the middle of the
script for better understanding and debugging..·
Context menu, which allows us to pick from a
list of assertions and verifications for the selected location..Disadvantages:·
Main disadvantage of IDE is that it runs only
in firefox browser..·
Selenium IDE can execute scripts created in
selenese only.·
Cannot upload files..·
It does not directly support loops and
conditions..·
Reading from external files like .txt, .xls is
not
possible..
6) What are the selenium locators and what is the tool you
use to identify element ?A) Selenium locators are the way of finding HTML element
on the page to perform Selenium actions... We use firebug(for firefox) to identify
elements as it is more popular and powerful web development tool.. It inspects
HTML and modify style and layout in real-time.. We can edit, debug and monitor
CSS, HTML and Javascript live in any web page.. ((click here to download firebug))-->For Internet Explorer we can choose debugbar.. It views HTML DOM
tree, we can view and edit tab attributes.. ((click here to download debugbar))
7) How do you locate elements in IDE ?A) I will focus on the unique attribute values like id,
name or other structural information that is stable enough to withstand
frequent changes to the web application.. I strongly recommend CSS selectors as
locating strategy.. They are considerably faster than xpath and can find the
most complicated objects in any HTML document..
8) What is selenese ?A) Selenium set of commands that run our test is called
Selenese.. A sequence of these commands is a test script.. There are three types
of selenese..1.
Actions : They perform some operations like
clicking a link or typing text in text box or selecting an option from
drop-down box etc..2.
Assertions : They verify that the state of
application conforms to what is expected.. Ex: 'verify that this checkbox is
checked', 'make sure that the page title is X'..3.
Accessors : Checks the state of application
and store the results in a variable.. Ex: storeText, storeTitle, etc..
9) How do you add check points or verification points ?A) They are called as Assertions in selenium.. 'assert',
'verify' and 'waitFor' are the commands used to add check points..Ex: assertText, verifyElementPresent, waitForTextPresent, etc..
10) Name some commands that you use frequently in IDE ?A) Open, click, type, select, assertText, assertTitle,
assertTextPresent, verifyText, verifyTextPresent, veriftTitle, waitForText,
waitForTextPresent, waitForTitle, store, storeText, storeTitle, check, uncheck,
pause, mouseover, etc..
11) What is the difference between assert and verify ?A) When an 'assert' fails, the test is aborted where as
when 'verify' fails, the test will continue execution logging the
failure.. 'assert' is used when the expected value is mandatory to
continue with next set of steps.. However 'verify' is used when the expected
value is optional to continue with the next set of steps..
12) Difference between waitFor and pause commands ?A) 'waitFor' command waits for some condition to become
true..For example, 'waitForPageToLoad(20000)'-- it will wait upto 20
thousand milliseconds to load required page.. If the page is loaded before
20,000ms then it jumps to next step to execute.. If the page is not loaded
before 20,000ms then it stops the execution due to time-out error..--> pause command
stops the execution of the test until the specified time..Ex: pause(10000)-- It
stops the execution of test for 1o thousand milliseconds.. After completing
10,000ms it jumps to next command to execute.. I prefer 'waitFor' command than
'pause'..
13) How do you export tests from Selenium IDE to RC ?A) First i will open the test in IDE, which should be
exported to RC.. There after i'l select 'File' from the menu bar.. when we
mouseover on 'Export Test Case As' in the file menu, we could see different
languages like C#, Java, Python and Ruby.. Select the language you want to
export your test and provide the name to save it..
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