1. XPath alternative for Browser
Automation in IE

2. Mridul Bansal
Graduate Student, Software Engineering (Dec’11)
San Jose State University
Software QA Intern @Citrix, CA
Software Test Development Intern @Hara, CA
Software Test Engineer @Covelix, India
http://www.linkedin.com/in/mridulbansal
About Me

3. Automation in IE using
Webdriver!!!
Problem Statement

4.  n00b
 Lot has already been said…
 Take with a pinch of salt
Caution!

5. IE9
Caution!

6.  Dynamic id
 XPath
 Handles XPath differently
 Painfully Slow
Why?

7.  Increase timeout
 CSS
 Alternate locators
Fix?

8.  Nokogiri (Ruby) http://nokogiri.org/
gem install nokogiri
require ‘nokogiri’
iFix

9. Earlier
@driver.find_element(:xpath => "//span[contains(., ABC')]").click
Now
src = "<div id=""treeForm:tree:childs"">#{@driver.page_source()}</
div>"
curr_id = Nokogiri::HTML(src).xpath("//div[@id =
'treeForm:tree:childs']/div[1]/div[2]/table[11]").attribute("id")
@driver.find_element(:id, curr_id).click
How?

10.  Test
execution time on FF3.6 using
Webdriver = 3:00
 Test
execution time on IE9 using
Webdriver = 4:50
Benchmarks

11.  HtmlCleaner - http://htmlcleaner.sourceforge.net/
Alternatives

12.  http://nokogiri.org/
 http://php.jglobal.com/blog/?
tag=selenium
 http://www.qaautomation.net/?p=216
 http://blog.altom.ro/2010/10/selenium-
xpath-and-internet-explorer.html
References

13.  Selenium Meetup
 Hara
 Huynh Kang
Credits

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16. Mridul Bansal
Graduate Student, Software Engineering (Dec’11)
San Jose State University
Software QA Intern @Citrix, CA
Software Test Development Intern @Hara, CA
Software Test Engineer @Covelix, India
http://www.linkedin.com/in/mridulbansal
Thanks for bearing!!