SELENIUM IDE

SELENIUM IDE  

Installing IDE:

Got to Google

Type download selenium IDE

Click on search

Click on first link (download selenium)

Click on version no (under selenium IDE section)

Click on install

Navigation for accessing the selenium IDE in Firefox:

Activate menu item tools

Select option Selenium IDE or ctrl + Shift + S

Operational overview of recording:

During recording SIDE will do the following

 It will generate the commands for user actions on the application.

It will store the information to identify that object in the form of target,

 If at all the operation is required to store a value then it will store that value.

Operation overview of running:

During running SIDE will do the following

Using the target it will identify the object.

Understanding the command then it will do the operation on that object

Inserting break point:

Break point is a feature provided in SIDE which is used for temporarily breaking the execution./*/

Navigation:

Activate menu item Actions

Select the option Toggle Breakpoint

Running scripts line by line (Debugging):

To do debugging in SIDE they have provided Step command which is used to execute single step and break the execution.

Inserting comments: comments are used for increasing the readability or understandability of a program.-/Navigation:

Activate menu item edit

Select the option insert new comment

Inserting wait statement (Synchronization): whenever the application is taking some time to do some work and if at all we want the tool to wait till the application allows it to do the next operation then we need to insert wait statement. There are different predefined wait commands provided by the SIDE which we can use directly by typing them in the command.

Running the single line of script: To run a single line of script, do the following

Select the line

Activate menu item actions

Select the option Execute This Command

Analyzing the results in log: once the execution is finished SIDE will show step by step results in log tab so that one can easily analyze the results.

Syntax and description of commands: here reference tab will provide the syntax and description of any command so by using this one can easily understand what is the purpose of any command and what are the arguments to be passed to that command.

Target: it is something which is used for identifying the object in the application it may be xpath or id or name... e.t.c.

In SIDE it will show the statements in two views

Table view

Source view

Table view: it shows the statements in a GUI which is further divided in to 3 parts

Command

Target

Value

Source view: it shows the same statements in html format.

In this view <tr> tag indicates one row of the table (one statement) and <td> tag indicates one cell of the table

In SIDE every table row (<tr>) contains 3 cells (<td>)

Note: generally SIDE is not encouraged in the companies because it works only with Firefox and also not so powerful like eclipse.