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2012-09-28

Recording in Selenium IDE and Generating WebDriver Code

In this article, we are going to learn how to record steps in selenium IDE. We are going to see some basic path as well as some basic command descriptions.
Step 1 : Please Install IDE & Firefox (for reference you may see one of my previous posts)
Step 2 : Start Firefox
Step 3 : From menu, click tools, and then select Selenium IDE

Step 4 : By default, when IDE opened, it is recording mode( like , it is recording). In the example I am using www.kaz.com.bd this site for practice.

Step 4 : now, From browser go to www.kaz.com.bd
Step 5 : You get a static HTML site with 4 tabs “Home”, “Talents”,” Culture”,” Contact”.

Step 6: click on “Home”, then “Talents”,” Culture”,” Contact” accordingly and from stat menu bar, open selenium IDE UI. You will get those 4 steps listed

Step 7: Press stop button from Selenium IDE (right Upper corner Red Round Button)
Now, you have finished recording where steps are simple clicking tabs.
From the IDE, you can work on those steps like re-run.
Now, We will see how to get web driver Unit test codes (Selenium IDE supported some experimental codes)
Step 1 : To get the code, go to Option –> Options… and check the “Enable experimental features” and press ok

Step 2: Now, After recording from IDE, click Options -> Format and get the list below

Step 3: Select c#/NUnit /webDriver ( later on we will also get the JUnit 4 code also) and press OK on warning message( as this is experimental code, so it may be not very accurate).
Now you get the code

In C# Code we have

using System;

using System.Text;

using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

using System.Threading;

using NUnit.Framework;

using OpenQA.Selenium;

using OpenQA.Selenium.Firefox;

using OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI;

  

namespace SeleniumTests

{

    [TestFixture]

    public class Untitled

    {

        private IWebDriver driver;

        private StringBuilder verificationErrors;

        private string baseURL;

        

        [SetUp]

        public void SetupTest()

        {

            driver = new FirefoxDriver();

            baseURL = "http://www.kaz.com.bd/";

            verificationErrors = new StringBuilder();

        }

        

        [TearDown]

        public void TeardownTest()

        {

            try

            {

                driver.Quit();

            }

            catch (Exception)

            {

                // Ignore errors if unable to close the browser

            }

            Assert.AreEqual("", verificationErrors.ToString());

        }

        

        [Test]

        public void TheUntitledTest()

        {

            driver.Navigate().GoToUrl(baseURL + "/");

            driver.FindElement(By.LinkText("Home")).Click();

            driver.FindElement(By.LinkText("Talents")).Click();

            driver.FindElement(By.LinkText("Culture")).Click();

            driver.FindElement(By.LinkText("Contact")).Click();

        }

        private bool IsElementPresent(By by)

        {

            try

            {

                driver.FindElement(by);

                return true;

            }

            catch (NoSuchElementException)

            {

                return false;

            }

        }

    }

}

Step 4 : So, After recording we are getting NUnit code here.
If we make an empty class type project in vs2010(see my previous post on how to create webdriver environment setup) and copy to class to a new empty class, we can run the webDriver Unit test case using NUnit GUI(after building Project)

If we choose the JAVA/JUnit4 webDriver then , we will get the following code

In JAVA code we get

package com.example.tests;



import com.thoughtworks.selenium.Selenium;

import org.openqa.selenium.*;

import org.openqa.selenium.htmlunit.*;

import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.*;

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.*;

import org.openqa.selenium.ie.*;

import org.junit.*;

import static org.junit.Assert.*;



public class Untitled {

  

    WebDriver driver;

    Selenium selenium;

  

    @Before

    public void startSelenium() {

        driver = new FirefoxDriver();

        selenium = new WebDriverBackedSelenium(driver, "http://www.kaz.com.bd/");

    }

  

    @After

    public void stopSelenium() {

        driver.close();

    }

  

    @Test

    public void testUntitled() {

        selenium.open("/");

        selenium.click("link=Home");

        selenium.waitForPageToLoad("30000");

        selenium.click("link=Talents");

        selenium.waitForPageToLoad("30000");

        selenium.click("link=Culture");

        selenium.waitForPageToLoad("30000");

        selenium.click("link=Contact");

        selenium.waitForPageToLoad("30000");

    }

  

}

If we make a JAVA project in Eclipse(see my previous post on how to create webdriver environment setup) and copy to class to a new empty class, we can run the webDriver Unit test case code Running as JUnit 4.0 test project.

For detail about Selenium IDE, you can visit the link

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2012-09-26

Setting up Selenium Webdriver

Setting up Selenium Web driver environment in Windows PC

In the following article, we will learn how to setup environment for selenium IDE & selenium Webdriver.

Step 1: Installing Firefox
We need selenium IDE supported Firefox. To know supported Firefox version visit selenium IDE release note . See suitable version number and Download Firefox
Step 2: Installing Selenium IDE
Run the newly installed Firefox and go to the link
Download suitable Selenium IDE (Firefox supported, that you have seen from step 1). The Firefox plug-in will be installed.
Or, from Firefox, go to Tools -> add on (Ctrl+Shift+A) search selenium and install selenium IDE. You may find many helping add on. We may need to install when we will start for deeper level coding.

Step3: Selenium Driver Download
Download “Selenium Client Drivers” from here   for JAVA or C# . We will download both as we will setup both environments.Extract the folders and see
For Dot Net: We will get 2 folders for net35& net40 (for different dot Net versions). We have to include DLLs located inside folder as reference of the selenium project in VS 2010.
For JAVA: We will get 2 jar files. selenium-JAVA-2.25.0.jar, selenium-JAVA-2.25.0-srcs.jar. We have to include the jar in the project.

Step 4: IDE and Unit Test Frame Work Installation.
For Dot Net:
1.    Visual studio 2010 should be installed.
2.    NUnit(Download and install latest one)

For JAVA:
1.    Download and install latest Eclipse or Net Beans(My examples are on Eclipse of that version )
2.    JUnit 4.0 JARs (Already included in eclipse, if not present please install latest one from here )

Step 5 : Including Unit Test framework in the project
For Dot Net : After Crating a Project(class library)
->From solution explorer Right click Reference
-> add reference
-> Browse
-> Locate to the installed path of NUnit (under program files)
-> bin\framework
->select all (nunit.framework.dll, nunit.mocks.dll, pnunit.framework.dll) and press ok.
For JAVA: After Crating a JAVA Project
-> Mouse right click from Package explorer and click properties
(It also can be found while creating a new JAVA project)
-> build path
-> Libraries
-> Add Library
-> JUnit
-> JUnit 4.0(not 3.0) and Finish
(Usually it is included in the eclipse, if not, include as external JARs that we have downloaded in step 4

Step 6 : Including Selenium Client Drivers reference in the project
For Dot Net :
->From solution explorer Right click Reference
-> add reference
-> Browse
-> Locate to the downloaded & extracted folder path of step 3
-> Select net40
-> include all DLLs (Castle.Core.dll, Ionic.Zip.dll, Newtonsoft.Json.dll, Selenium.WebDriverBackedSelenium.dll, ThoughtWorks.Selenium.Core.dll,
WebDriver.dll, WebDriver.Support.dll)
And press OK.
For JAVA:
-> Mouse right click from Package explorer and click properties
(It also can be found while creating a new JAVA project)
-> build path
-> Libraries
->Add External JARs
-> Locate to the downloaded & extracted folder path of step 3
->selenium-JAVA-2.25.0.jar

Step 7 : Add Unit Test framework Header in the Code
In the Class header, we have to add those references that we add in Step 5. Add the header in the top of a Test class.
For Dot Net :
using NUnit.Framework;
For JAVA :
import org.junit.*;
import static org.junit.Assert.*;
import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.*;

Step 8 : Add Selenium WebDriver Header in the Code
In the Class header, we have to add those references that we add in Step 6. Add the header in the top of a Test class.
For Dot Net :
using OpenQA.Selenium;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Firefox;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI;
using OpenQA.Selenium.IE;

For JAVA :
import org.openqa.selenium.*;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select;

Now, we are ready for selenium web driver test implementation.
Be noted that, In Dot Net, we are using class library project type as we will use NUnit GUI for observing test results. And for JAVA, we are using run as JUnit(project) for observing test results.