Selenium is open source tool use for webpages automate.

1. SELENIUM BASIC
Dasun Eranthika

2. Content
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 What is Selenium?
 Languages supported by Selenium
 Browsers supported by Selenium
 OS supported by Selenium
 Components of Selenium
 How to install Selenium IDE
 How to configure Selenium WebDriver
 XPath
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3. What is Selenium?
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 Selenium is an open source automation testing
tool for web based applications.
 Languages supported by Selenium
 Java (Famous)
 C#
 Ruby
 Python
 PHP
 Pearl
 Should know at least on programming language to
digging deeper Selenium.
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4. What is Selenium? (cont.)
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 Browsers supported by Selenium
 Mozilla Firefox(till latest version)
 IE 6,7,8
 Google chrome
 Opera 8,9,10
 Operating Systems supported by Selenium
 Windows
 Mac
 Linux
 Unix
 Many more…
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5. What is Selenium? (cont.)
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 Components of Selenium
Selenium
Selenium Selenium
WebDriver Grid
IDE RC
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6. What is Selenium? (cont.)
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 Qualities of Selenium components
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7. How to Install Selenium IDE
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 Selenium IDE is only compatible with Mozilla
Firefox.
 It can directly download as an add-on to
Firefox browser from Selenium official website
(http://seleniumhq.org/download/).
 So, it’s better to browse with Firefox.
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8. How to Install Selenium IDE
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(cont.)
Click Firefox> Web Developer> Selenium IDE or press Ctrl+Alt+S to get
Click “Install Now” button ofitthe installIDEand and restart the browser
Allow Selenium IDE
to pop-up
Go to http://seleniumhq.org/download/ linkmenuclick to download Selenium
Selenium as Add-on
IDE
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9. How to configure WebDriver
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 Selenium WebDriver can be downloaded
from http://seleniumhq.org/download/
 Also get Selenium Javadocs on the site. Javadocs
will contain all the information about the
architecture of WebDriver
 While developing the WebDriver code, you can
actually rely on that architecture and refer to them
in case you are stuck in selenium.
 Selenium RC has a jar file called selenium-
server.jar which will be needed to start the server
 In selenium WebDriver, there is no server which
you need to start.
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10. How to configure WebDriver
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(cont.)
 In selenium WebDriver, there is no server
which you need to start.
 Selenium IDE is having the core engine which
is based on JavaScript
 can also write your own code in java script and
extend the functionality of IDE (e.g.: we can
read the test data from XML in IDE)
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11. How to configure WebDriver
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 Open Eclipse and configure the .jar file in
particular project properties.
1. Go to the Properties of the Application>Java
Build Path> Libraries
2. Click on “Add External JARs” button and add
those jar files to the project.
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12. How to configure WebDriver
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(cont.)
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13. XPath
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 XML Path Language, is a query language for
selecting nodes from an XML document
 addition, Xpath may be used to compute
values (e.g., strings, numbers, or Boolean
values) from the content of an XML document
 Xpath was defined by the World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C).
 I’ll come with detailed slideshow about Xpath
later.
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 For more readings, browse http://seleniumhq.org/, the
official Selenium website
 To download the PDF,
http://www.mediafire.com/view/?f6lcv69wnbhd6c6
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15. “The Journey Just
Began”
I’m in…
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