Selenium IDE - Quick start

1. Launch the Firefox browser.2. Open the website for testing in the Firefox browser. For this example we

will use http://www.emag.ro.3. Open Selenium IDE from the Tools menu.4. Selenium IDE by default sets the recording mode on. If it's not pressed,

you can start recording by pressing the (record) red button in the top-right corner.5. Now switch back to the Firefox browser window and type Samsung in

the search textbox and click on the Search button as shown:

6. Check if the link Computere & Periferice is present in the search results. We can do that by selecting the link and opening the context menu (right-click) and selecting Show All Available Commands | assertText link=Computere & Periferice COmputere & Periferice.

7. Next, we will click on the Computere & Periferice link to open the specific page and check if the Rezultate cautate Computere Periferie text is displayed on the page. To do this, select the Rezultate cautate Computere Periferie text and open the context menu (right-click) and select Show All Available Commands | assertText css=h1 Rezultate cautate Computere Periferie:

8. Go back to Selenium IDE. All the previous steps are recorded by Selenium IDE in the Command-Target-Value format as shown bellow. Stop the recording session by clicking on the Recording button:

Before we play the recorded test, let's save it in Selenium IDE:

1. Select File | Save Test Case (OR press CTR+S) from the Selenium IDE main menu:

2. In the Save As dialog box, enter the test case name as SearchTest.hml and click on the Save button. The test will be saved with the name SearchTest.

In Selenium IDE, we can group multiple tests in a test suite. Let's create a test suite and Selenium IDE will automatically add SearchTest to this suite:

1. Select File | Save Test Suite from the Selenium IDE main menu.2. In the Save As dialog box, enter the test case name as SearchAllTests.html and click on the Save button.3. You can create and record more than one test case in a test suite.

Selenium IDE provides multiple ways to execute the tests:

Option 1 – running a single test case

1. Select the test which you want to execute from the test suite pane and click on the (play current test case) button .

2. Selenium IDE will start the playback of the test and you can see the steps that we recorded earlier are being played automatically in the browser Window. At end of execution, Selenium IDE will display:

Option 2 – running all tests from a test suite

If you have multiple tests in a test suite, you can use the (play the entire test suite) button to play all the test cases.

After the test is executed in Selenium IDE, you can see the results in Log tab. All the steps which are successfully completed will be heighted in green and checks in dark green. If there are any failures in the test, those will be highlighted in red. This is how Selenium IDE helps you testing your web application.

Exporting a recorded test to Selenium WebDriver

1. Go back to Selenium IDE and click on Options | Options from the main menu.

2. In the Selenium IDE Options dialog box, check the Enable experimental features checkbox and click on the OK button.

3. To view the test in Java, select Options | Format | Java / JUnit 4/ WebDriver from the main menu as shown bellow:

4. Click on the OK button in the [JavaScript Application] dialog box as shown:

5. The Source tab on the Selenium IDE window will now display the test in Java:

To be able to run next step is necessary to configure the Selenium environment in Intellij IDEA.

6. Copy the entire contents from the Source tab and add it to the SearchTest class:

package com.example.tests;

import java.util.regex.Pattern;import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;import org.junit.*;import static org.junit.Assert.*;import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.*;import org.openqa.selenium.*;import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select;

public class SearchTest { private WebDriver driver; private String baseUrl; private boolean acceptNextAlert = true; private StringBuffer verificationErrors = new StringBuffer();

@Before public void setUp() throws Exception { driver = new FirefoxDriver(); baseUrl = "http://www.emag.ro/"; driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS); }

@Test public void testSearch() throws Exception { driver.get(baseUrl + "/"); driver.findElement(By.id("input_search")).click(); driver.findElement(By.id("input_search")).clear(); driver.findElement(By.id("input_search")).sendKeys("Samsung"); driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("div.btn-img.submit")).click(); assertEquals("Computere & Periferice",

driver.findElement(By.linkText("Computere & Periferice")).getText()); driver.findElement(By.linkText("Computere & Periferice")).click(); assertEquals("Rezultate cautare Computere Periferice",

driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("h1")).getText()); }

@After public void tearDown() throws Exception { driver.quit(); String verificationErrorString = verificationErrors.toString(); if (!"".equals(verificationErrorString)) { fail(verificationErrorString); } }

private boolean isElementPresent(By by) { try { driver.findElement(by); return true; } catch (NoSuchElementException e) { return false; } }

private boolean isAlertPresent() {

try { driver.switchTo().alert(); return true; } catch (NoAlertPresentException e) { return false; } }

private String closeAlertAndGetItsText() { try { Alert alert = driver.switchTo().alert(); String alertText = alert.getText(); if (acceptNextAlert) { alert.accept(); } else { alert.dismiss(); } return alertText; } finally { acceptNextAlert = true; } }}