Selenium Training Course

• The process of converting the manual test cases to test scripts by using any automation tool is known as Automation
• Advantages:
• It saves time by executing the test cases without manual effort
• CTC(Cost to the company) can be saved
• We can maintain Accuracy by repeating the same task in same manner
• Bugs can be identified
• We can report the bugs to the developer
• We can ensure for quality

• Selenium contains 4 components
• Selenium IDE 2. Selenium RC 3. Selenium WebDriver 4. Selenium Grid

• Selenium is an opensource automation tool
• It supports multiple languages like Java,C#,Perl,python,Ruby,HTML and PHP
• It supports Firefox, IE, Google chrome, Safari and Opera
• Supports Windows, Linux and Mac
• Supports Web and mobile Applications
• Its very flexible and extendable

• IDE stands for integrated Development environment
• It is for Record and Run the Scripts
• Selenium IDE is an add on for Firefox
• Its accountable for user actions
• Recorded script can be viewed in the supported languages like HTML, JAVA, C#, Ruby, Python
• Recorded script can be run against other browsers also by using Selenium RC or Webdriver

It always depends on the application and test cases. But on and average we can automate 5 to 6 test cases per day. Ex: 1. For analysing the test cases 2. Developing the script 3. Debugging and executing the script 4. Stabilizing the script

• Challenge means problems or issues
• Maintaining synchronization is a challenge in Selenium
• Handling Desktop, Flex, Flash elements is challenge with selenium.
• Proving the user defined Results a challenge
• Taking the data from the application is a challenge

• FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile();
• profile.setAcceptUntrustedCertificates(true);
• profile.setAssumeUntrustedCertificateIssuer(false);
• driver=new FirefoxDriver(profile);

selenium-server-standalone-2.42.3.jar

• Add the below command after opening the browser.
• driver.navigate().to(“javascript:document.getElementById(‘overridelink’).click()”);

• Syntax: -jar seleniumJarfileName -port anyFourdigitNo
• Ex: -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.33.0.jar -port 1234

• Save the selenium jarfile (Selenium-server-standalone-2.34.0.jar) in any folder (Ex: D:/Library)
• Open command prompt
• Navigate to the path where you have saved the jar file and follow the below steps
• D:
• cd D:/Library
• java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.34.0.jar

• ID
• Name
• CSS (Cascade style sheet)
• XPATH (Relative xpath and Absolute xpath)
• Dom

• ID
• Name
• CSS
• XPATH
• Classname
• TagName
• LinkText
• Partial Link Text

• DefaultSelenium selenium= new DefaultSelenium(“localhost”,4444,”*firefox”,”http://”);
• localhost – It is the machine name and selenium server should be configured in the specific machine
• 4444 – It’s selenium port number.
• firefox – Its is the command to launch firefox
• http:// – Protocol to open URL

• Xpath is two types:
• Relative XPath
• Absolute XPath

• // is the starting point of the Xpath
• / will navigate into the tag
• Ex: //html/head/body/div1/div2/……

• We have to navigate to Alert or Confirmation as below,
• driver.switchTo().alert()
• To click OK or Cancel on Alert or Confirmation Alert then follow as below
• driver.switchTo().alert().accept(); — To click OK
• driver.switchTo().alert().dismiss(); — To click Cancel