Web Automation Using Selenium
Sandip Southekal
southekal.comPlan
- What is Selenium?
- What is Selenium?
- Why Web Automation?
- What is Selenium?
- Why Web Automation?
- Types of Selenium
- What is Selenium?
- Why Web Automation?
- Types of Selenium
- Examples
- What is Selenium?
- Why Web Automation?
- Types of Selenium
- Examples
- Pitfalls
- What is Selenium?
- Why Web Automation?
- Types of Selenium
- Examples
- Pitfalls
- Continuous Integration
- What is Selenium?
- Why Web Automation?
- Types of Selenium
- Examples
- Pitfalls
- Continuous Integration
- Other Uses
What is Selenium?
- automates browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Safari, PhantomJS etc..)
- mimics user actions
- JSON Wire Protocol to interact with DOM elements
Why Web Automation?
Famous Last Words
clicking on the link does not do anything!
looks borked on IE
doesn't work on my phone
unable to login
Why Selenium?
- agile
- repeatability
- speed
- rapid feedback
- unlimited iterations
- UI is fairly stable
Types of Selenium
Selenium IDE
Pros:
- simple firefox plugin
- record and playback Tool
- rapid prototyping
Cons:
- no iteration support
- no conditional statement support
- firefox only
Selenium WebDriver
- supports WebDriver API
- makes a direct call to the browser
- cross browser coverage
- Java, Python, Ruby, Perl, C# + more libraries available
- find locators via IDs, Classes, CSS Selectors, XPATH, Tags
Selenium Grid
- run tests in parallel on remote machines
- connect to a remote machine that has a particular browser version
- hub and node model
- setup in house or farm it to Sauce Labs, BrowserStack etc..
Pitfalls
- adding sleeps
- javascript elements
- browser behavior
- constant site updates (page object, data attributes)
- database validation (running tests in parallel)
Continuous Integration
- Jenkins
- Travis
- Circle CI
- and many more...
Other Use Cases
- Web Scraping
- Monitoring
- Load Testing