Web automation using Selenium RC from Scratch

Brief Summary

This course dives into advanced Selenium RC techniques for web application testing. You’ll learn the architecture, Xpaths, common functions, and how to handle web tables and windows, boosting your testing skills to the intermediate level.

About This Course

This course will help you in learning advanced techniques for testing web applications with Selenium RC API.

Selenium Remote Control (RC) is a test tool that allows you to write automated web application UI tests in any programming language against any HTTP website using any mainstream JavaScript-enabled browser.
Selenium Remote Control is great for testing complex AJAX-based web user interfaces under a Continuous Integration system. It is also an ideal solution for users of Selenium IDE who want to write tests in a more expressive programming language than the Selenese HTML table format.

In this training course, attendees will learn the following

1. Selenium RC architecture

2. How to start/stop Selenium client/server

3. How to use Selenese TestBase class

Xpaths

1. What are Xpaths

2. How to construct absolute xpath as well as relative xpath

3. Different Xpath functions

Selenium RC

1. Common Selenium RC functions

2. click(), open(), waitForPageToLoad().

3. Slowing down the execution speed

4. Closing and killing the browser.

Working with Web Tables

1. Finding number of rows and column in web table

2. Extracting the value from table

3. Handling dynamic web table

Window Handling

1. Extracting windows IDs with selenium

2. Tabbed browsing with selenium

3. Handling Java Script popups

Mouse & Keyboard action

1. Performing the mouse action such as mouseUp(), mouseDown() etc

2. Performing the Keynoard action such as KeyPress(), KeyUp(), metaKeyDown() etc

And source code shown as part of video lecture will be provided for download

• By the end of this course you will give have great understanding Selenium

• How to use Selenium to test web based application

• This tutorial will give you great understanding Selenium, and after completing this tutorial, you will be at intermediate level of expertise from where you can take yourself to higher level of expertise.