An overview of Selenium, including Selenium IDE, Selenium RC, Selenium Grid, and Sauce OnDemand (A cloud-hosted Selenium test infrastructure service). Also covers an overview of upcoming features in Selenium 2, and how to best use Selenium: use of the Page Object patter, and how to use with continuous integration.

1. Selenium and
Sauce Labs
Jason Huggins
twitter: @hugs
email: hugs@saucelabs.com

2. Agenda
• Overview of Selenium
• Selenium IDE, RC, Grid
• Sauce Labs and Sauce OnDemand
• Demo
• Selenium IDE, Sauce OnDemand
• Tips and Tricks
• Selenium 2
• Q&A

3. The Problem

4. Automated
Source: - F.O.X.: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kv/499219/

5. Ajax

6. Workflows

7. What is Selenium?

8. Selenium IDE for Firefox

9. “Selenese”

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11. Example Selenium RC Test - Java

12. Example Selenium RC Test - C#

13. Python, Ruby,
Java, C#, or Perl
Test Script
HTTP
Your Awesome
Web App
Selenium RC Server
HTTP HTTP
Selenium Remote Control

14. Time
Servers
Unit of Work

15. Time
Servers
Unit of Work

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Selenium Grid

17. Sauce Labs

18. What Sauce Labs Does
• Cloud-hosted Selenium for:
• Speed—run tests in parallel
• Pain-free infrastructure (test infrastructure is notoriously fussy, fiddly
due to accelerating Browser numbers and version pace, security
patches etc.)
• Higher availability, repeatability
• Value-added (enhanced, certified) distros:
• Sauce RC (Selenium RC (remote control))
• Sauce IDE (Selenium IDE)
• Commercial Support for Selenium

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Sauce OnDemand (just like Grid)

21. Demo!

22. How to Avoid
Selenium Poisoning

23. Intent Action

24. Action
• open 'www.example.com'
• clickAndWait 'link=Log in'
• type 'User Id', 'hugs@saucelabs.com'
• type 'password', '12345678'
• clickAndWait 'Log In'

25. Intent
• Log in
• Change password
• Modify profile
• Log out

26. 1.Write intent.
2. Map to actions.

27. Seek higher level
abstractions

28. Hudson
Ant/NAnt
xUnit
Selenium

29. Hudson
Ant/NAnt
xUnit
Business Specific Library
Selenium

30. Page Object Model

31. Google:“Selenium Page Objects”

33. Start small

34. It’ll get big anyway

35. What to start with?
• Smoke tests
• “Money path”
• New features

36. Benefits of Short Tests
• Easier to read
• Easier to write
• Easier to debug/maintain
• Easier to parallelize

37. Selenium 2?

38. • Native Keyboard & Mouse Events
• Same Origin Policy / XSS / HTTP(S)
• Pop-ups, dialogs
– Basic Authentication
– Self-signed certificates
– File upload/download
Better Control

40. • WebDriver Object
• WebElement Objects
Cleaner API

41. Python, Ruby,
Java, C#, or Perl
Test Script
HTTP
Your Awesome
Web App
Selenium RC Server
HTTP HTTP
Selenium Remote Control

42. Python, Ruby,
Java, C#, or Perl
Test Script
HTTP
Your Awesome
Web App
Selenium RC Server
HTTP HTTP
Selenium 2

43. Python, Ruby,
Java, C#, or Perl
Test Script
Your Awesome
Web App
HTTP HTTP

44. Python, Ruby,
Java, C#, or Perl
Test Script
Your Awesome
Web App
C/C++ HTTP

45. But... Java... Is... Still... In...There...
Python, Ruby,
Java, C#, or Perl
Test Script
HTTP
Your Awesome
Web App
Selenium Grid
HTTP HTTP

46. But... Java... Is... Still... In...There...
Python, Ruby,
Java, C#, or Perl
Test Script
HTTP
Selenium Remote
Server
HTTP HTTP
Ye Ol' Internet
(Sauce Labs)
... but now only when you need it.

47. Q&A