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    Selenium is a suite of tools for automating web browsers across different platforms. It was created in 2004 by Jason Huggins at ThoughtWorks to mimic human user actions like clicking and filling forms. Selenium has since expanded to include Selenium IDE for recording and playback testing, Selenium WebDriver for programmatic testing, Selenium Grid for parallel testing, and was originally known as Selenium Core using table-based syntax. The project has evolved and grown over the years with contributions from many developers and is now widely used with major programming languages and browsers to automate testing of web applications.

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    Selenium...

    ...how it came to be, what does it do, and how to use it


    Ana Prpic,
    QA Engineer @OradianHQ

    Twitter: @a_prpic
    Mail: [email protected]
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    ...talk to me later if youre interested in working with me!


    What is Selenium?

    Selenium is a suite of tools for


    automating web browsers across
    platforms
    Selenium is a software
    testing robot, sent from
    the future to help us test
    websites
    -Jason Huggins
    What does it do?
    Mimics human action
    Does so by leveraging locators
    - they tell Selenium which
    HTML element to interact with

    some common actions:

    getUrl(), click(), submit() etc.


    Selenium Suite
    Selenium IDE

    Selenium
    WebDriver

    Selenium Grid

    Selenium RC
    How it all started
    Selenium Core

    2004. - Jason Huggins - ThoughtWorks

    Table-based syntax

    JavaScriptTestRunner

    Open-sourced in 2004.
    Table syntax?
    Each row represents a command for browser to
    execute
    It is split into three columns:
    The first column - name of the command to execute
    The second column - element identifier
    The third column - optional value
    Example

    command element value


    open /mytestpage
    type #nameField Rick Sanchez
    click #submitButton

    verifyText #name Rick Sanchez


    Selenese commands
    Actions
    click()
    select()
    Accessors
    storeTitle()
    Assertions - three modes:
    assert - assertTitle()
    verify - verifyText()
    waitFor - waitForElementPresent()
    The same origin policy

    The same-origin policy restricts how a


    document or script loaded from one origin
    can interact with a resource from another
    origin. It is a critical security mechanism for
    isolating potentially malicious documents.
    (Same-origin policy, MDN)
    Selenium Remote Control

    Paul Hammant - Selenium server - every request can


    be intercepted by Selenium
    This opened up the possibility of writing Selenium
    bindings in multiple languages
    Selenium IDE

    Shinya Kasatani

    Firefox add-on

    Record & Playback

    Donated to the Selenium Project in 2006.

    No longer supported
    (Applitools engineers working on a complete re-write!)
    Selenium WebDriver

    2007. Simon Stewart - ThoughtWorks - wanted a tool


    that spoke directly to the browser using native
    method for the browser and the OS

    Selenium RC - dictionary-based API - wide range of


    languages
    Selenium WebDriver - object-oriented API - Java
    2009. The two projects announced merger

    Supported languages include Java, C#, Python, Ruby


    etc.

    Supported browsers: Chrome, Firefox, IE, Opera

    The original RC is deprecated, but is still running in


    maintenance mode
    Selenium Grid
    Patrick Lightbody

    Parallelisation!

    Uses Hub & Node concept


    SauceLabs, BrowserStack, TestingBot, Ghostlab, CrossBrowser
    Testing etc.
    (from ToolsQA)
    Selenium today
    WebDriver rules

    Support for ALL major browsers

    Every major programming language

    Selenium Server has grid capabilities built-in


    October 2015

    Demo time!

    November 2015
    Selenium Tests
    Create a WebDriver instance

    Navigate to a Web page

    Locate an HTML element on the


    Web page

    Perform an action on an HTML


    element

    Anticipate the browser response


    to the action

    Run tests and record test results


    using a test framework

    Conclude the test


    Sauce Labs
    Demo
    Were going to automate THE INTERNET!
    the-internet-herokuapp.com by Dave Haeffner (blog)
    Form Authentication example
    Next Step - dive in yourself!
    Resources (blogs, videos, documentation, webinars etc.):
    Beaufort Fairmont - webinars
    Test Talks - podcast
    WebdriverIO - official docs
    JavaScript - Reference Docs
    Setting Up an End-to-End Testing Workflow with Gulp, Mocha, and
    WebdriverIO - blog
    SeleniumConf Talks
    Automate The Planet -blog
    etc.
    Recap
    Selenium History

    Selenium Today

    Selenium Demo

    Next steps
    Thank you!
    Questions?

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