Vskills Selenium RC | Tests Development & Conversion

selenium = new DefaultSelenium("localhost", 4444, "*iehta", "http://www.google.com/");

The Selenium-IDE generated code will look like this. This example has comments added manually for additional clarity.

package com.example.tests;
// We specify the package of our tests

import com.thoughtworks.selenium.*;
// This is the driver's import. You'll use this for instantiating a
// browser and making it do what you need.

import java.util.regex.Pattern;
// Selenium-IDE add the Pattern module because it's sometimes used for
// regex validations. You can remove the module if it's not used in your
// script.

public class NewTest extends SeleneseTestCase {
// We create our Selenium test case

      public void setUp() throws Exception {
        setUp("http://www.google.com/", "*firefox");
             // We instantiate and start the browser
      }

      public void testNew() throws Exception {
           selenium.open("/");
           selenium.type("q", "selenium rc");
           selenium.click("btnG");
           selenium.waitForPageToLoad("30000");
           assertTrue(selenium.isTextPresent("Results * for selenium rc"));
           // These are the real test steps
     }
}

C#

The .NET Client Driver works with Microsoft.NET. It can be used with any .NET testing framework like NUnit or the Visual Studio 2005 Team System.

Selenium-IDE assumes you will use NUnit as your testing framework. You can see this in the generated code below. It includes the using statement for NUnit along with corresponding NUnit attributes identifying the role for each member function of the test class.

You will probably have to rename the test class from “NewTest” to something of your own choosing. Also, you will need to change the browser-open parameters in the statement:

selenium = new DefaultSelenium("localhost", 4444, "*iehta", "http://www.google.com/");

The generated code will look similar to this.

You can allow NUnit to manage the execution of your tests. Or alternatively, you can write a simple main() program that instantiates the test object and runs each of the three methods, SetupTest(), TheNewTest(), and TeardownTest() in turn.

Selenium-IDE generates reasonable Ruby, but requires the old Selenium gem. This is a problem because the official Ruby driver for Selenium is the Selenium-Client gem, not the old Selenium gem. In fact, the Selenium gem is no longer even under active development.

Therefore, it is advisable to update any Ruby scripts generated by the IDE as follows:

1. On line 1, change require "selenium" to require "selenium/client"

2. On line 11, change Selenium::SeleniumDriver.new to Selenium::Client::Driver.new

You probably also want to change the class name to something more informative than “Untitled,” and change the test method’s name to something other than “test_untitled.”

Here is a simple example created by modifying the Ruby code generated by Selenium IDE, as described above.

Perl, PHP

The members of the documentation team have not used Selenium RC with Perl or PHP. If you are using Selenium RC with either of these two languages please contact the Documentation Team (see the chapter on contributing). We would love to include some examples from you and your experiences, to support Perl and PHP users.