Flash Testing with Selenium l 17/10/20122

Flash Testing with SeleniumBy Dilhan Jayakody

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Why Flash became very popular?

Why is it Challenging for Automation?

Prerequisites for Automating Flash Content

Flash Selenium API for Selenium RC

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Summary

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Why Flash became very popular?

It is browser independent

Allows you to make your site more interactive

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Why is it Challenging for Automation?

There are two main issues that needs to be addressed while automating web applications:• Need to 'get' certain properties of the object and compare it

against your benchmarks.• Performing actions on an object or 'set' certain values.

But Selenium cannot read or record any actions on flash objects.

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Prerequisites for Automating Flash Content

Have access to the Application Code

Install Adobe Flash Builder to see the developer code (download : www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=flash_builder)

Include Flash Selenium API to your test code (download : http://code.google.com/p/flash-selenium/downloads/list)

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Flash Selenium API for Selenium RC

It is an extension to the Selenium RC client driver that enables the Selenium RC client test drivers to call ActionScript methods of the Flash application.

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Using Flash Selenium API with Selenium RC

Using WebDriver

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Summary

Automating Flash Content with Selenium is Possible.

Limitation is the need to have access to the developer code.

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