Formats for the Selenium IDE
The Selenium IDE (a plug-in for Firefox) allows you to record tests. A guy called “wishcow” published now a format which makes it possible to export those tests for the Selenium helper. Based on his format I wrote a format for creating test cases for the Selenium test suite. You can find it (plus the helper and the test suite) in the downloads section,
The installation is simple (you can find a graphical installation guide on “wishcow”’s blog):
- Open the Selenium IDE
- Select “Options”/”Options…”
- Switch to “Formats”
- Choose “Add”
- Define a name and copy&paste the format in the text area
- Click on “Ok” to save it
Happy testing :)
Can you please explain how your format is different from wishcows format? I want to use Selenium and find the IDE super easy to use, but don’t know where to start on integrating it with cake? Can you shed some light on it form a beginner point of view?
@Mandy: Well, wishcows format creates something like
<?php $selenium->open('http://www.example.com'); ?>whereas my format creates the following code:
<?php class MyTest extends SeleniumTestCase { var $title = ''; function execute() { $this->open('http://www.example.com'); } } ?>Also have a look at http://cakebaker.42dh.com/tags/selenium, where you find some Selenium related articles.
HTH
Hmm, I see that the test case is different (for example, there are $this-> references), but I don’t have the “class MyTest extends SeleniumTestCase” part in my exported test case.
@Wiktor: Hm, I don’t understand what you mean…
I save the Selenium IDE test to disk, open it and have one line (just an example):
$this->open(’/');
and from your post I understood that ther should be also the class declaration.
OK, I got it. In fact I only copied the test code to clipboard (Ctrl+C). To have the class declaration the Selenium IDE needs to know some name for it. So, when I export the test to disk under the “asdfasdf” name, the test looks as follows:
open(’/');
?>
;)
or rather:
…
class Asdfasdf extends SeleniumTestCase {
var $title = ”;
function execute() {
$this->open(’/');
@Wiktor: Good to hear you figured it out :)