Faster way to build automation tests – Using Selenium Builder

Selenium has become a front-runner framework for the browser automation. When creating regression test suite biggest challenge is speed vs. maintainability. If we go with scripting approach we get speed but maintenance of scripts is difficult and if we code tests by hand it takes longer time to automate and this discourages automation.

SeleniumBuilder – An open source Firefox add-on, with this tool we can record and capture the scripts quickly and later export to the one of the many supported programming language / framework to generate the code. Once the code is exported ; refactor it to make it maintainable and reusable.  

Here are the steps of installing and using Selenium Builder.

Step 1. Install – Open Firefox browser and go to https://github.com/SeleniumBuilder/se-builder and click on install button. It will install add-on Firefox.

Step 2. Launch Selenium Builder. Go to Tools -> Web Developer -> Launch Selenium Builder.

Step 3. Start Recording using Selenium 2

Step 4. Record Verification. Click on Record a Verification button and then go to webpage (Bing) and select the text you want to verify.

Step 5. Search for ravikothiyal.blogspot on Bing

·      Click on the search result Ravi – blogsspot.com

·      Record Verification – Ravi

·      Record Verification - Ravi's blog on Computing, Java, Agile, Big Data, Enterprise Development, and more

·      Record Verification - Monday, July 28, 2014

 

Step 6. Stop recording

Step 7. Save Script

Step 8. Edit Script

Step 9. Export Script – Export script as java/junit

Step 10. Export Script - Export script as Ruby

Generated Java Code 

 import org.junit.After;  
 import org.junit.Before;  
 import org.junit.AfterClass;  
 import org.junit.BeforeClass;  
 import org.junit.Test;  
 import static org.junit.Assert.*;  
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;  
 import java.util.Date;  
 import java.io.File;  
 import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select;  
 import org.openqa.selenium.interactions.Actions;  
 import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;  
 import org.openqa.selenium.*;  
 import static org.openqa.selenium.OutputType.*;  
 public class RaviBlogTest {  
   FirefoxDriver wd;  
   @Before  
   public void setUp() throws Exception {  
     wd = new FirefoxDriver();  
     wd.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(60, TimeUnit.SECONDS);  
   }  
   @Test  
   public void RaviBlogTest() {  
     wd.get("http://www.bing.com/");  
     if (!wd.findElement(By.tagName("html")).getText().contains("Bing")) {  
       System.out.println("verifyTextPresent failed");  
     }  
     if (!wd.findElement(By.id("sb_form_q")).getAttribute("value").equals()) {  
       System.out.println("verifyElementValue failed");  
     }  
     wd.findElement(By.id("sb_form_q")).click();  
     wd.findElement(By.id("sb_form_q")).clear();  
     wd.findElement(By.id("sb_form_q")).sendKeys("ravikothiyal.blogspot");  
     wd.findElement(By.id("sb_form_go")).click();  
     wd.findElement(By.linkText("Ravi - blogspot.com")).click();  
     if (!wd.findElement(By.tagName("html")).getText().contains("Ravi")) {  
       System.out.println("verifyTextPresent failed");  
     }  
     if (!wd.findElement(By.tagName("html")).getText().contains("Ravi's blog on Computing, Java, Agile, Big Data, Enterprise Development, and more")) {  
       System.out.println("verifyTextPresent failed");  
     }  
     if (!wd.findElement(By.tagName("html")).getText().contains("Monday, July 28, 2014")) {  
       System.out.println("verifyTextPresent failed");  
     }  
   }  
   @After  
   public void tearDown() {  
     wd.quit();  
   }  
   public static boolean isAlertPresent(FirefoxDriver wd) {  
     try {  
       wd.switchTo().alert();  
       return true;  
     } catch (NoAlertPresentException e) {  
       return false;  
     }  
   }  
 }  

Refactored Java Code

 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;  
 import org.junit.After;  
 import org.junit.Assert;  
 import org.junit.Before;  
 import org.junit.Test;  
 import org.openqa.selenium.By;  
 import org.openqa.selenium.NoAlertPresentException;  
 import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;  
 public class RaviBlogTest {  
    private static final String HTML = "html";  
    private static final String SB_FORM_GO = "sb_form_go";  
    private static final String SB_FORM_Q = "sb_form_q";  
    FirefoxDriver wd;  
    static final String BING_URL="http://www.bing.com/";  
    @Before  
    public void setUp() throws Exception {  
      wd = new FirefoxDriver();  
      wd.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(60, TimeUnit.SECONDS);  
    }  
    @Test  
    public void BlogTest() {  
      wd.get(BING_URL);  
      Assert.assertTrue("Page is Bing", wd.findElement(By.tagName(HTML))  
            .getText().contains("Bing"));  
      wd.findElement(By.id(SB_FORM_Q)).sendKeys("ravikothiyal.blogspot");  
      wd.findElement(By.id(SB_FORM_GO)).click();  
      wd.findElement(By.linkText("Ravi - blogspot.com")).click();  
      Assert.assertTrue("Verify blog header",  
           wd.findElement(By.tagName(HTML)).getText().contains("Ravi"));  
      Assert.assertTrue(  
            "Verify blog title",  
            wd.findElement(By.tagName(HTML))  
                 .getText()  
                 .contains(  
                      "Ravi's blog on Computing, Java, Agile, Big Data, Enterprise Development, and more"));  
      Assert.assertTrue(  
            "Verify blog date",  
            wd.findElement(By.tagName(HTML)).getText()  
                 .contains("Monday, July 28, 2014"));  
    }  
    @After  
    public void tearDown() {  
      wd.quit();  
    }  
    public static boolean isAlertPresent(FirefoxDriver wd) {  
      try {  
         wd.switchTo().alert();  
         return true;  
      } catch (NoAlertPresentException e) {  
         return false;  
      }  
    }  
 }  

Generated ruby code

 require 'rubygems'  
 require 'selenium-webdriver'  
 wd = Selenium::WebDriver.for :firefox  
 wd.get "http://www.bing.com/"  
 if not wd.find_element(:tag_name, "html").text.include? "Bing"  
   print "verifyTextPresent failed"  
 end  
 if not wd.find_element(:id, "sb_form_q").value ==   
   print "verifyElementValue failed"  
 wd.find_element(:id, "sb_form_q").click  
 wd.find_element(:id, "sb_form_q").clear  
 wd.find_element(:id, "sb_form_q").send_keys "ravikothiyal.blogspot"  
 wd.find_element(:id, "sb_form_go").click  
 wd.find_element(:link_text, "Ravi - blogspot.com").click  
 if not wd.find_element(:tag_name, "html").text.include? "Ravi"  
   print "verifyTextPresent failed"  
 end  
 if not wd.find_element(:tag_name, "html").text.include? "Ravi's blog on Computing, Java, Agile, Big Data, Enterprise Development, and more"  
   print "verifyTextPresent failed"  
 end  
 if not wd.find_element(:tag_name, "html").text.include? "Monday, July 28, 2014"  
   print "verifyTextPresent failed"  
 end  
 wd.quit