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My Session: Functional Web Testing With SeleniumIDE
My Session at BarCampBlock
Here is the link to my presentation. (It's in OpenOffice.org presentation format.)
So, I believe I did a decent job of presenting some of these concepts, given the technical difficulties I experienced.
I had never done a presentation off of my MacBook before, so when time came to hook up to the projector, I did not have the little translation dongle that matches MacBooks with standard projector connections. Ugh!
So, I did the session while standing up, and holding my laptop up to show the slides. Some of the questions led me to believe that I may have skimmed over the full Selenium suite a bit too fast, but I was on a deadline... (Y'know?)
In the end, standing up, one-handed trying to navigate SeleniumIDE, I think it flustered me enough that I didn't do such a great job with the demo I had planned. Luckily, after the presentation time had elapsed, there were 3 or 4 people who hung back, and I gave them a better showcase of the power of Selenium.
So, all in all, I'm probably not 'polished' enough for a big conference, but for a less formal un-conference, I think I did a decent job.
Posted at 07:05PM Aug 18, 2007 by Nelson "Nelz" Carpentier in Java | Comments[5]
Hey Nelz,
It was a good presentation. One of the most useful of the day that I went to. I've been attempting to use Selenium IDE in FireFox and it doesn't appear to be capturing when I type text into textboxes? Also, is there a site with good documentation for this?
Posted by Paul Mendoza on August 19, 2007 at 08:56 AM PDT #
Hey Paul!
I just checked against the Gmail homepage, and it seemed to pick up my text as soon as I navigated away from the cell...
As far as documentation: The SeleniumIDE page does seem to be a bit sparse. The thing that helped me the most was watching the video. If you are moving to Selenium Remote Control, the tutorial pages there do a decent walk-through...
Also, I have found that the user forums are really great resources... They may seem difficult to join at first, but that is where others with your exact same questions are...
And, in the end, if you need some quick help, send me an email...
Posted by Nelz on August 20, 2007 at 07:55 PM PDT #
For quick and easy web testing within Firefox, you can also try https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3863
Ross
Posted by Ross Langdon on August 25, 2007 at 02:26 AM PDT #
I like that selenium support C#, but InCisif.net IDE is way more powerfull.
Let me what you think.
E.
Posted by Eric Serrot on October 10, 2007 at 07:32 PM PDT #
Eric,
Thanks for the hint and testimonial.
I will have to let you be the advocate for that product, as I am firmly entrenched in the platform-agnostic world, and from what I can tell, your proposed solution only works for IE.
As an update, my understanding of Floyd (http://openqa.org/floyd/) is that it is trying to use a similar approach of using the browser's own API, but again in a platform-agnostic way...
- Nelz
Posted by Nelz on October 10, 2007 at 10:42 PM PDT #