Selenium IDE

Selenium IDE:

• Selenium IDE is very useful if you want to quickly create scripts to test your web application.
• It provides an easy interface for developing/Running/Debugging test scripts or test suites
• It is a Firefox add-on
• It provides Record & Playback functionality
• It can only run scripts on Firefox and it’s not available for other browsers
• You can export recorded tests in multiple languages to use with Selenium WebDriver

It consists of mainly 4 parts:

1. Menu bar
2. Tool bar
3. Test case pane
4. Log, reference, etc

 Figure 1: Selenium IDE User Interface

Selenium IDE consists of 4 types of commands:

1. type, click, sendkeys, select, check, typeAndWait, clickAndWait, selectAndWait
2. assertTitle, assertText, assertElementPresent, assertAttribute
3. verifyTitle, verifyText, verifyElementPresent, verifyAttribute
4. waitForTitle, waitForText, waitForPageToLoad, waitForAttribute

Locating web elements on any page with the help of Selenium IDE:

1. identifier
2. Using id attribute
3. Using name attribute
4. xpath
5. css
6. link
7. dom (Document Object Model)

XPATH:

• xpath=//tagName[@attribute='value']
• xpath=//*[@attribute='value']
• xpath=//tagName[@attribute1='value1' and @attribute2='value2']
• xpath=//tagName[@attribute1='value1' or @attribute2='value2']
• xpath=//tagName[text()='value1']
• xpath=//tagName[contains(@attribute, 'value1')]
• xpath=//tagName[starts-with(@attribute, 'value1')]
• xpath=//tagName[ends-with(@attribute, 'value1')]
• xpath=//tagName[@attribute='value']/childTag/GrandChildTag
• xpath=//tagName[index]      index value is 1, 2, 3, 4, ...

CSS:

•  css=#idvalue
•  css=.className 
•  css=tagName#idvalue
•  css=tagName.className
•  css=tagName[attribute='value']
•  css=tagName[attribute1='value1'][attribute2='value2']
•  css=tagName[attribute*='value1')]    like contains
•  css=tagName[attribute^='value1')]    like starts-with
•  css=tagName[attribute$='value1')]    like ends-with
•  css=tagName[attribute='value']/childTag/GrandChildTag

Google Search Test Case:
open	/?gws_rd=ssl
type	id=lst-ib	selenium
click	name=btnG
waitForTitle	selenium - Google Search
clickAndWait	link=Selenium - Web Browser Automation
assertTitle	Selenium - Web Browser Automation
verifyText	link=Download	Download

SlideShareLogin
open	http://www.slideshare.net/
click	id=login
waitForValue	id=user_login
type	css=#user_login	username
type	xpath=//input[@id='user_password']	password
clickAndWait	login_from_loginpage
waitForTitle	Share and Discover Knowledge on LinkedIn SlideShare
verifyTitle	Share and Discover Knowledge on LinkedIn SlideShare

UploadFileSlideShare
open	/
clickAndWait	link=Upload
type	name=file	C:\Users\sysadm\Desktop\abc.docx
waitForAttribute	id=img_slide_image@id	img_slide_image
type	name=title	Simple File
type	//textarea[@name='description']	Sample Doc File
select	name=top_cat	label=Education
clickAndWait	xpath=(//button[@type='submit'])[2]
waitForTitle	Simple File
assertTitle	Simple File

DeleteUploadedFile
open	/
clickAndWait	link=Upload
clickAndWait	link=My Uploads
waitForElementPresent	//input[contains(@id,'heck-')]
check	//input[starts-with(@id,'check-')]
click	id=j-delete-common
waitForText	//div[@id='main-container']/div[2]/div/span	You do not have any uploads.
verifyText	link=Upload one now	Upload one now

SideshareLogout
open	/
clickAndWait	link=Upload
clickAndWait	link=Logout
verifyTitle	Share and Discover Knowledge on LinkedIn SlideShare
verifyText	id=login	Login