About Selenium IDE Language

• The default language of Selenium.
• A simple language looks similar to HTML and structured with 3 components.
• Has limited support for variables, but no control structure.
• Three core components
• Actions - Are commands that actually does something.
• Element Locators - tells Selenium which HTML element a command refers to.
• Accessors - verify the state of the application to conform what is expected.

Example as below,
<tr>
     <td>open</td>------------------------- command / accessor
     <td>http://google.com/</td>----------- target / Element locators
     <td></td>----------------------------- value
</tr>
<tr>
     <td>type</td>
     <td>q</td>
     <td>Selenium documents</td>
</tr>
<tr>
     <td>clickAndWait</td>
     <td>btnG</td>
     <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
     <td>clickAndWait</td>
     <td>//a/b</td>
     <td></td>
</tr>
 

Selenium IDE Actions

• Are commands that actually does something.
• Most action typically take one or two arguments: An element locator and a value.
• Many actions can be called with the “AndWait” suffix.

  Examples:

  <tr>
       <td>click</td>
       <td>link=Employee Administrator</td>
       <td></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
       <td>type</td>
       <td>username</td>
       <td>Concuradmin</td>
  </tr>

Selenium IDE Accessors

• Verify that the state of application conforms to what is expected. This informs/notifies Selenium to expect an error after the next command is executed.
• Have seven permutations:
  • waitFor and waitForNot (locator, pattern)
  • verify and verifyNot (locator, pattern)
  • assert and assertNot (locator, pattern)
  • store (argument, variable)

Examples:
<tr>
     <td>waitForElementPresent</td>
     <td>username</td>
     <td></td>
</tr>

<tr>
     <td>assertText</td>
     <td>select</td>
     <td>Select and Continue</td>
</tr>


Selenium IDE Issues

• Selenium IDE
  • Is supported only by Mozilla Fire fox.
  • Can run only 1 tests at a time.
• How do we test in other browsers ?
• How to store / posts the test results to some controller ?
• How do we group test cases to form a test suites ?

  Sol: Use Selenium core

• How to use other languages like Java, Ruby, C# in selenium ?
  Sol: Use Selenium RC