Comments on: 10 Tips for Building Selenium Integration Tests

By: Aniket

Aniket — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 03:15:03 +0000

gui_map for selenium is a discovery for me. I was not aware of such thing. Thanks a lot for sharing, this will ease out life a lot

Aniket

By: mdma

mdma — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:02:10 +0000

A great read, showing that developing tests (or a test support) is real software development. We don't need to put up with using tools that generate fragile code.

Solid design for strong, maintainable tests!

By: Johan Bichel Lindegaard

Johan Bichel Lindegaard — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:35:11 +0000

Thanks for the tips.

I have been trying to test a click and drag interaction on my project using tip 4 (Simulate Click-Drag with MouseDownAt + MouseUpAt) however this does not seem to work. It only simulates the click and release not the actual change of cursor position, if I moved my mouse into the spawned browser and dragged down in between the two events it worked, but not in an automated fashion. However I found that introducing mouse_move_at() in between resulted in the intended behavior.

Example:
selenium.mouse_down_at("//div[@id='events']", "8,200")
selenium.mouse_move_at("//div[@id='events']", "8,400")
selenium.mouse_up_at("//div[@id='events']", "8,400")

I think this ought to be abstracted as a standalone function in selenium.

By: suresh

suresh — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:40:57 +0000

Does WaitForElementPresent command is implemented in selenium or do we need to implement a wrapper around using selenium Wait.wait method? I am using selenium 1.0.2 snapshot and I don't see that method(command) at all to use it Java/C# langugage(not in IDE). Am I missing something here?

By: TAB

TAB — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:52:38 +0000

Regarding point #9: I found XPather (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1192) to be a really nice addition to firebug when testing complex XPath expressions in Firefox.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:51:05 +0000

Good info!

By: Rafael Ribeiro

Rafael Ribeiro — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:12:40 +0000

The problem with the variable it seems that it because of the wrapper that selenium uses around the window object to make it more "secure". See this link: http://crschmidt.net/blog/348/selenium-ide-getcurrentwindow-problems/

By: Shae Erisson

Shae Erisson — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:55:52 +0000

I've also found that the XPath and XPather add-ons for Firefox can make it easier to find a good XPath selector for an element.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1095 XPath

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1192 XPather

By: Anoop

Anoop — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 06:01:51 +0000

thnx ..This article helped me a lot

By: John

John — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:34:13 +0000

A question about tip 7.

I can't get this to work. Selenium cannot find the variable i am trying to access. This is a variable that I create myself on page load.

It seems like selenium is able to access DOM variables, but not my own variables.

Any thoughts?