Selenium IDE

Key Features

*Menu Bar The File menu has options for Test Case and Test Suite (suite of Test Cases). Using these you can add a new Test Case, open a Test Case, save a Test Case, export Test Case in a language of your choice. You can also open the recent Test Case. All these options are also available for Test Suite. *Toolbar The toolbar contains buttons for controlling the execution of your test cases, including a step feature for debugging your test cases. The right-most button, the one with the red-dot, is the record button. *Test Case Pane Your script is displayed in the test case pane. It has two tabs, one for displaying the command and their parameters in a readable “table” format. *Log/Reference/UI-Element/Rollup Pane The bottom pane is used for four different functions–Log, Reference, UI-Element, and Rollup–depending on which tab is selected. *Building Test Cases There are three primary methods for developing test cases. Frequently, a test developer will require all three techniques. *Running Test Cases The IDE allows many options for running your test case. You can run a test case all at once, stop and start it, run it one line at a time, run a single command you are currently developing, and you can do a batch run of an entire test suite. Execution of test cases is very flexible in the IDE. *Using Base URL to Run Test Cases in Different Domains The Base URL field at the top of the Selenium-IDE window is very useful for allowing test cases to be run across different domains. Suppose that a site named http://news.portal.com had an in-house beta site named http://beta.news.portal.com. Any test cases for these sites that begin with an open statement should specify a relative URL as the argument to open rather than an absolute URL (one starting with a protocol such as http: or https:). Selenium-IDE will then create an absolute URL by appending the open command’s argument onto the end of the value of Base URL. *Selenium Commands – “Selenese” Selenium commands, often called selenese, are the set of commands that run your tests. A sequence of these commands is a test script. Here we explain those commands in detail, and we present the many choices you have in testing your web application when using Selenium. *Script Syntax Selenium commands are simple, they consist of the command and two parameters *Test Suites A test suite is a collection of tests. Often one will run all the tests in a test suite as one continuous batch-job. * open - opens a page using a URL.