Selenium and Sauce Labs

Jason Hugginstwitter: @hugs

email: hugs@saucelabs.com

Agenda• Overview of Selenium

• Selenium IDE, RC, Grid

• Sauce Labs and Sauce OnDemand

• Demo

• Selenium IDE, Sauce OnDemand

• Tips and Tricks

• Selenium 2

• Q&A

The Problem

Automated

Source: - F.O.X.: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kv/499219/

Ajax

Workflows

What is Selenium?

Selenium IDE for Firefox

“Selenese”

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Example Selenium RC Test - Java

Example Selenium RC Test - C#

Python, Ruby, Java, C#, or Perl

Test ScriptHTTP

Your AwesomeWeb App

Selenium RC Server

HTTP HTTP

Selenium Remote Control

Time

Servers

Unit of Work

Time

Servers

Unit of Work

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Selenium Grid

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Sauce Labs

What Sauce Labs Does

• Cloud-hosted Selenium for:• Speed—run tests in parallel• Pain-free infrastructure (test infrastructure is notoriously fussy, fiddly

due to accelerating Browser numbers and version pace, security patches etc.)

• Higher availability, repeatability• Value-added (enhanced, certified) distros:

• Sauce RC (Selenium RC (remote control))• Sauce IDE (Selenium IDE)

• Commercial Support for Selenium

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Sauce OnDemand (just like Grid)

Demo!

How to Avoid Selenium Poisoning

Intent Action

Action

• open 'www.example.com'

• clickAndWait 'link=Log in'

• type 'User Id', 'hugs@saucelabs.com'

• type 'password', '12345678'

• clickAndWait 'Log In'

Intent

• Log in

• Change password

• Modify profile

• Log out

1. Write intent.2. Map to actions.

Seek higher level abstractions

Hudson

Ant/NAnt

xUnit

Selenium

Hudson

Ant/NAnt

xUnit

Business Specific Library

Selenium

Page Object Model

Google: “Selenium Page Objects”

Start small

It’ll get big anyway

What to start with?

• Smoke tests

• “Money path”

• New features

Benefits of Short Tests

• Easier to read

• Easier to write

• Easier to debug/maintain

• Easier to parallelize

Selenium 2?

• Native Keyboard & Mouse Events• Same Origin Policy / XSS / HTTP(S)• Pop-ups, dialogs

– Basic Authentication– Self-signed certificates– File upload/download

Better Control

• WebDriver Object

• WebElement Objects

Cleaner API

Python, Ruby, Java, C#, or Perl

Test ScriptHTTP

Your AwesomeWeb App

Selenium RC Server

HTTP HTTP

Selenium Remote Control

Python, Ruby, Java, C#, or Perl

Test ScriptHTTP

Your AwesomeWeb App

Selenium RC Server

HTTP HTTP

Selenium 2

Python, Ruby, Java, C#, or Perl

Test Script

Your AwesomeWeb App

HTTP HTTP

Python, Ruby, Java, C#, or Perl

Test Script

Your AwesomeWeb App

C/C++ HTTP

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Python, Ruby, Java, C#, or Perl

Test ScriptHTTP

Your AwesomeWeb App

Selenium Grid

HTTP HTTP

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Python, Ruby, Java, C#, or Perl

Test ScriptHTTP

Selenium Remote Server

HTTP HTTPYe Ol' Internet(Sauce Labs)

... but now only when you need it.

Q&A