Introductory slide deck which I have used to give quick introduction to software testers who are interested in Selenium and Test Automation.

1. Lets Automate!
Lets Automate your web tests using Selenium
A guide to automation using selenium
Ahmed Mubbashir Khan, http://about.me/mubbashir
@mubbashir

2. Agenda
Demo of sikuli-on-selenium
Automation
Automation objective
What is selenium
-Components of selenium
-Walkthrough
- S-IDE
- Driver/RC
-Grid
-Walking through the code of the demo(Maven, Java, TestNG)
Command Reference
- Locators Reference

3. Test automation is any use of tools to aid
testing- James Bach (http://www.satisfice.com/blog/archives/118)
OK- But its a very broad term, what are we
going to automate?
Answer: Regression Tests (Checks to be
precise)
http://www.developsense.com/blog/2009/08/testing-vs-checking/
What is Test/Check Automation?

4. Expecting automation to find lots of bugs when
you are automating regression testing is the
wrong objective - Dorothy Graham (STAReast 19 April, 2012)
Automation is not a magic tool. It will not find
bugs - good tests finds the bugs - Dorothy
Graham (STAReast 19 April, 2012)
What is the objective of (Regression)
Automation?

5. Think of your automation as a baseline test
suite to be used in conjunction with manual
testing, rather than as a replacement for it-
James Bach (http://www.satisfice.com/articles/test_automation_snake_oil.pdf (1999))
Just as there can be quality
software, there can be quality test automation-
James Bach (http://www.satisfice.com/articles/test_automation_snake_oil.pdf (1999))
What is the objective of (Regression)
Automation??

6. Test Automation is a software Project, Treat it
as a software project.
Test Automation is coding, why would you ask
it to be done by someone who can't code-
Adam Goucher
Automation is Software.

7. • Rapid feedback to developers
• Virtually unlimited iterations of test case
execution
• Support for Agile and extreme development
methodologies
• Disciplined documentation of test cases
• Customized defect reporting
• Finding defects missed by manual testing
Why Not Automate? Which are Myths? and
what about ROI?
To Automate or Not to Automate?

8. Hmm..
Always Remember: Agile test quadrant

9. Selenium (set of libraries) automates browsers.
That's it. What you do with that power is entirely
up to you. (http://seleniumhq.org/)
Selenium's History...
What is selenium?

10. Its Opensource (code.google.com/p/selenium/)
It runs in many browsers and operating
systems
Can be controlled by many programming
languages and testing frameworks.
Companies using selenium includes Google,
BBC, Ubuntu, Pivotal Labs, Mozlilla and Yelp
among many others.
And "Die QTP Die" http://paulhammant.
Why selenium?

11. QTP vs Selenium- Job Market
Why selenium??

12. Selenium does not own the browser, OS does.
Selenium can interact with the rendered HTML content of a
given web page, but it cannot interact with native browser
operations
● Anything which is outside web app (e.g.
upload/download dialog box)
● Anything which runs in a different runtime (e.g flash,
java applets)
● Some HTML5 features (e.g. video, audio, canvas,
webGL)
What selenium can't do?

13. Selenium is not a testing framework.
Selenium allows you to interact with web pages but
creating tests on top of it is the reponsibility of Test
Framework (xUnit) (https://twitter.com/#!
/AutomatedTester/status/176830982316494849)
What selenium can't do?

14. Download: http://code.google.
com/p/selenium/downloads/list
IDE, IDE Walkthrough
Lets do it
What else?
Driver(s)
Grid
Installation

15. Driver(s)
Grid:
java -jar selenium-server-standalone-*.jar -role hub
java -jar selenium-server-standalone-*.jar -port 5456 -role
node -hub http://192.168.0.92:4444/grid/register -browser
browserName=firefox,maxInstances=3 -hubHost
"192.168.0.92" -host "192.168.0.92"
gem install selenium-webdriver
[1] pry(main)> require 'selenium-webdriver'
[2] pry(main)> driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :firefox
driver=Selenium::WebDriver.for(:remote,:url => "http://192.
168.0.94:4444/wd/hub/",:desired_capabilities => caps)
Installation

16. Driver(s)
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome
('/Users/mubbashir/Documents/Frameworks/selenium/chor
me_driver/chromedriver')
driver.get("http://google.com")
driver.quit()
Installation

17. Recording
Adding waits and assertions
Replay and Verify
Don't record and save instead record and
export
Page Objetcs
IDE- Writing Test Case

18. Actions/Commands (http://release.seleniumhq.org/selenium-core/1.0.1/reference.
html#actions)
Commonly used commands:
open
click/clickAndWait
verifyTitle/assertTitle
verifyTextPresent
verifyElementPresent
verifyText
verifyTable
xxAndWait
waitForXX
IDE- Command Reference

19. Actions/Commands (http://release.seleniumhq.org/selenium-core/1.0.1/reference.
html#actions)
To Execute these commands you need to know:
Element Locators
Element Filters
String-match Patterns
IDE- Command Reference

20. Actions/Commands (http://release.seleniumhq.org/selenium-core/1.0.1/reference.
html#actions)
Element Locators
● identifier=id: Select the element with the specified @id attribute. If no match is found, select the
first element whose @name attribute is id. (This is normally the default; see below.)
● id=id: Select the element with the specified @id attribute.
● name=name: Select the first element with the specified @name attribute.
○ username
○ name=username
● The name may optionally be followed by one or more element-filters, separated from the name
by whitespace. If the filterType is not specified, value is assumed.
○ name=flavour value=chocolate
● dom=javascriptExpression: Find an element by evaluating the specified string. This allows you
to traverse the HTML Document Object Model using JavaScript. Note that you must not return a
value in this string; simply make it the last expression in the block.
○ dom=document.forms['myForm'].myDropdown
○ dom=document.images[56]
○ dom=function foo() { return document.links[1]; }; foo();
IDE- Command Reference-Locators

21. Actions/Commands (http://release.seleniumhq.org/selenium-core/1.0.1/reference.
html#actions)
Element Locators
● xpath=xpathExpression: Locate an element using an XPath expression.
○ xpath=//img[@alt='The image alt text']
○ xpath=//table[@id='table1']//tr[4]/td[2]
○ xpath=//a[contains(@href,'#id1')]/@class
○ xpath=(//table[@class='stylee'])//th[text()='theHeaderText']/../td
○ xpath=//input[@name='name2' and @value='yes']
○ xpath=//*[text()="right"]
● link=textPattern: Select the link (anchor) element which contains text matching the specified
pattern.
○ link=The link text
● css=cssSelectorSyntax: Select the element using css selectors. Please refer to CSS2 selectors,
CSS3 selectors for more information..
○ css=a[href="#id3"]
○ css=span#firstChild + span
IDE- Command Reference-Locators

22. Actions/Commands (http://release.seleniumhq.org/selenium-core/1.0.1/reference.
html#actions)
String-match Patterns
● glob:pattern: Match a string against a "glob" (aka "wildmat") pattern. "Glob" is a kind of limited
regular-expression syntax typically used in command-line shells. In a glob pattern, "*" represents
any sequence of characters, and "?" represents any single character. Glob patterns match
against the entire string.
● regexp:regexp: Match a string using a regular-expression. The full power of JavaScript regular-
expressions is available.
● regexpi:regexpi: Match a string using a case-insensitive regular-expression.
● exact:string: Match a string exactly, verbatim, without any of that fancy wildcard stuff.
If no pattern prefix is specified, Selenium assumes that it's a "glob" pattern
IDE- Command Reference- String
match patterns

23. Actions/Commands (http://release.seleniumhq.org/selenium-core/1.0.1/reference.
html#actions)
Commonly used commands:
assertFoo(pattern)
assertFooPresent
assertFooNotPresent
Alerts, Popups, and Multiple
Windows