We all know Selenium/WebDriver more as testing automation tool. But in reality this is just a tool/library to automate operations with different browsers using similar API from different languages. In this talk I will show how to use different parts of Selenium product family for day to day tasks of developer, QA engineer or even Project Manager. Hope after visiting this talk you will spend less time on boring procedures and improve many things in your current development process.

1. Web automation with
Selenium for software
engineers
Mikalai Alimenkou
http://xpinjection.com
@xpinjection

3. WebDriver – is not a testing
automation tool
Uses browser
Manual testing WebDriver
commands

4. How WebDriver works
Open
browser
Locators
Data
Send commands to
the browser

5. Easy browser management

6. driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@id=(//label[tex
t()='Fax']/@for)]")).click();
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@id='App']/div/p[4]/di
v[1]/h4[@class='Online']")).getText()
What is going on
here?
Depends too much
on page structure!
Main WebDriver issues

7. #1. Ad hoc regression testing
We have
requirements
Developers afraid
of bugs on code
changes
Somebody uses product
Browser

8. #2. Bugs description
=
Manual bug
description
WebDriver
bug description

9. #3. Automate boring procedures

10. #4. Demo presentations

11. #5. Social networks ‘life’

12. in development
depends on how
tools usage

13. @xpinjection
http://xpinjection.com
mikalai.alimenkou@xpinjection.com