Selenium Documentation

Contents:

• A Personal Note to the Reader
• Introducing Selenium
  • To Automate or Not to Automate? That is the Question!
  • Test Automation for Web Applications
  • Introducing Selenium
  • Selenium Components
  • Supported Browsers
  • Flexibility and Extensibility
  • About this Book
  • The Documentation Team
• Selenium Basics
  • Getting Started – Choosing Your Selenium Tool
  • Introducing Selenium Commands
  • Test Suites
  • Commonly Used Selenium Commands
  • Summary
• Selenium-IDE
  • Introduction
  • Installing the IDE
  • Opening the IDE
  • IDE Features
  • Building Test Cases
  • Running Test Cases
  • Using Base URL to Run Test Cases in Different Domains
  • Debugging
  • Writing a Test Suite
  • User Extensions
  • Format
  • Executing Selenium-IDE Tests on Different Browsers
  • Troubleshooting
• Selenese Selenium Commands
  • Verifying Page Elements
  • Locating Elements
  • Matching Text Patterns
  • The “AndWait” Commands
  • Sequence of Evaluation and Flow Control
  • Store Commands and Selenium Variables
  • JavaScript and Selenese Parameters
  • echo - The Selenese Print Command
  • Alerts, Popups, and Multiple Windows
  • AJAX and waitFor Commands
• Selenium-RC
  • Introduction
  • How It Works
  • Installation
  • From Selenese to a Program
  • Programming Your Test
  • Learning the API
  • Retrieving and Reporting Results
  • Adding Some Spice to Your Tests
  • How the Server Works
  • Server Command Line options
  • Troubleshooting
• Test Design Considerations
  • Introducing Test Design Options
  • Web Page Content – Static vs. Dynamic Pages
  • Location Strategies
  • UI Mapping with Selenium
  • Bitmap Comparison
  • Recovery From Failure
  • Types of Tests
  • Solving Common Web-App Problems
  • Interpreting Test Results
  • Organizing Your Test Scripts
  • Organizing Your Test Suites
  • Example Test Suites
• Selenium-Grid
• User-Extensions
  • Introduction
  • Actions
  • Accessors/Assertions
  • Locator Strategies
  • Using User-Extensions With Selenium-IDE
  • Using User-Extensions With Selenium RC

Appendixes:

• .NET client driver configuration
• Java Client Driver Configuration
  • Configuring Selenium-RC With Eclipse
  • Configuring Selenium-RC With Intellij
• Python Client Driver Configuration
• Locating Techniques
  • Useful XPATH patterns
  • Starting to use CSS instead of XPATH