In this little tutorial I will explain as clear as I can, how to create a test case using Selenium IDE, Selenium RC and JUnit, hope it will be useful for everybody.
01. Download Selenium RC and after downloading Selenium IDE (http://seleniumhq.org/download/) install it in Firefox
Figure 01. Download page of Selenium IDE and RC.
02. Open Selenium IDE in firefox, look for my blog in google and click on the first link that appears:
Figure 02. Selenium IDE on firefox.
03. Export the test case to JUnit clicking on Options à Format àjava JUnit
04. Personally, I don’t want just to copy and paste the code that is just autogenerated by Selenium IDE, you can do this, but it is more fun to create some classes and subclasses and then make run your test cases J. So you can check at the code that I generated from the help that I got from Selenium IDE.
package com.selenium.test;
import com.thoughtworks.selenium.SeleneseTestCase;
/**
*
* Abstract class that will setUp() and tearDown() all the test classes that
* will extend this class.
*
* @author Christian Roman
*
*/
abstract class SeleniumTestBase extends SeleneseTestCase {
/**
* Method that will open the web browser and redirect it to the main page of
* google.
*/
@Override
public void setUp() throws Exception {
setUp(“http://www.google.com.bo/”, “*chrome”);
selenium.open(“/webhp?hl=es”);
}
/**
* Method that will close the session opened by the method setUp().
*/
@Override
public void tearDown() throws Exception {
selenium.close();
selenium.stop();
}
public void clickGoogleLink(String keyword, String link){
selenium.type(“q”, keyword);
selenium.click(“btnG”);
selenium.waitForPageToLoad(“30000″);
selenium.click(“link=”+link);
selenium.waitForPageToLoad(“30000″);
}
}
Listing 01. SeleniumTestBase.java
package com.selenium.test;
import org.junit.Test;
public class GoogleSearchTest extends SeleniumTestBase {
@Test
public void testChrisrodWordpress() throws Exception {
clickGoogleLink(“chrisrod wordpress”, “SEAM « Chrisrod’s Weblog”);
assertTrue(selenium
.isTextPresent(“Uso del LDAP para el modulo de autenticaciones en SEAM”));
}
@Test
public void testHowToDraw() throws Exception {
clickGoogleLink(“how to draw faces”, “Portrait Drawing – Learn to Draw Faces”);
assertTrue(selenium.isTextPresent(“Learn portrait drawing skills including face proportions”));
}
}
Listing 02. GoogleSearchTest.java
05. The structure of my code looks like this:
Figure 03. Code structure for running the test cases and libraries needed to accomplish this objective.
06. Run selenium server, I mean double click over the jar file: selenium-server.jar, that comes with Selenium RC.
07. Run your JUnit test case and enjoy watching how your web browser open, executes commands and close by itself (well actually controlled by Selenium Server)
Figure 04. Running JUnit on GoogleSearchTest.
Figure 05. Selenium Server in action.
