Conclusion Through this tutorial, our objective was to make you familiar and accustomed with the basic terminologies and nomenclatures of Selenium IDE. We also presented a detailed study on all the features of Selenium IDE. Here are the cruxes of this tutorial: - Selenium IDE is an automated testing tool which supports record and play back.
- User is not required to have any prior programming knowledge except for the basic understanding of HTML, JavaScript and DOM.
- The menu bar allows user to create, save, edit and convert the recorded Selenium IDE test scripts. It also allows user to set formats and plug-ins.
- Toolbar allows user to set the test execution speed, to pause and resume test case, to roll up commands etc.
- Roll ups combines more than one test step and thus the rolled up commands acts and executes as a single command.
- Editor allows user to record or create test scripts. Editor has two views “table” and “source”.
- In table view, each test step is comprised of a command, target and a value.
- Source view displays the test case in the HTML format.
- Test case pane shows a comprehensive list of failed and passed test cases with the relevant color-coding.
- Log Pane displays the test execution heath in the form of message.
- Log messages can be saved in a file using “File Logging” plug-in.
- Reference pane shows the description of every selected command.
- UI-Element and Rollup are generally used while creating advance Selenium IDE scripts.
Next Tutorial #3: Now that we are acquainted and comfortable with Selenium IDE and its features, in the next tutorial we would practice these features by creating our own test script using Selenium IDE. A remark for the readers: While our next tutorial of the Selenium series is in the processing mode, install the tool and the required utilities to get started. Experience the features by playing around with the tool till we meet next with the next tutorial on “My first Selenium IDE script”.
|