Course Summary
This is a 2-day bundle consisting of Intro to Selenium course (mostly focused on Selenium-IDE) and Advanced Selenium course (mostly about Selenium-RC).
Duration
2 days.
2 course(s)
Outline
Intro to Selenium (1 day)
Functional Web Testing with twill
- Overview and setup of twill
- Basic twill
- Working with forms
- Cookies and twill
- Working with variables
- Using the shell
- twill command line
- Scripting twill
- Advanced twill
- Running other Python scripts using runfile and run
- Handling strings and arguments
- Debugging options
- Output control
- HTTP/Browser issues
- Organizing your twill tests
- Using testing frameworks
- Recording test WITH scotch
- twill Extensions
- check_links for link checking
- require for assertions about pages
- csv_iterate for using CSV values in tests
- argparse for command-line arguments
- dirstack for changing directories
- formfill for easy form management
- twill and Python
- Extending twill
- Writing twill extension modules
- Creating domain-specific languages in twill
Functional Web Testing with Selenium
- Overview of Selenium
- Intro to Selenium Core
- Building a test suite in Selenium
- Deploying and running tests
- Recording tests with Selenium IDE
- Selenium commands
- Opening URLs
- Clicking on links
- Submitting forms
- Checking checkboxes
- Entering text in input fields
- Selecting values in pull-downs
- Verifying application state
- Using variables
- Using XPath Checker to locate page elements
- Selenium and JavaScript
- Selenium and Ajax
Testing Sample Application with twill and Selenium
- Sample application overview
- First step: charting test path
- Second step: building test script
- Third step: controlling the environment
- Using Fixtures and Tests with unittest
- Testing admin interface
- Recording Selenium tests with Selenium IDE
- Adding Test Conditions
Advanced Selenium (1 day)
Selenium-RC
- Selenium-RC overview and how it works
- Setting up remote control
- Converting Selenese scripts to programs
- Learning the API
- Browser considerations and support
- Handling https and popups
- Common problems
Test Design Best Practices
- Test driven design and design of tests
- What to test
- Verifying test results
- Choosing location strategy
- Testing Ajax apps
- UI mapping
- Error handling
Selenium-Grid
- Selenium-Grid overview
User-Extensions
- User-Extensions overview
- Actions
- Accessors and Assertions
- Locator strategies
- Using User-Extensions with Selenium-IDE
- Using User-Extensions with Selenium-RC
Selenium 2.0 with WebDriver
- Various WebDriver implementations
- Emulating Selenium-RC
- Using xPath with WebDriver
- Using WebDriver
- Future roadmap
