redjpark / selenium-starter

selenium-starter

This is a quick start for starting with Web UI automation using WebDriver/Selenium with Java language. Mac is the main platform used for this instruction. (However, you can easily find Windows equivalents via Google)

prerequisites

JDK 8

• download JDK 8 from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html)
• follow instruction and install JDK

maven

• download & install by consulting an excellent advice: http://www.mkyong.com/maven/install-maven-on-mac-osx/

Eclipse

• download http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/eclipse-ide-java-developers/lunasr2
• install

maven plugin for Eclipse

• maven plugin for Eclipse: http://eclipse.org/m2e/

TestNG plugin for Ecipse

• download: http://testng.org/doc/download.html
• documentation: http://testng.org/doc/eclipse.html

Firefox

• download and install: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

Firefox extensions

• Firebug: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firebug/
• Firepath: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firepath/
• Selenium-IDE: http://www.seleniumhq.org/download/
• SE-Builder: http://www.saucelabs.com/addons/selenium-builder-latest.xpi (from Firefox)

Projects Part 1 (Selenium-IDE)

First Project: Google Search

We will use Selenium-IDE to simulate a user searching for some text with Google.com, and validate that the text is found.

1. Start Firefox
2. Tools>Selenium IDE
3. dd

Second Project: github access

Third Project: github access

Projects Part 2 (Java/TestNG/WebDriver)

Project #1: Quick Start

https://github.com/redjpark/selenium-starter/wiki

Project #2: Google Search

Project #3: github access

Resources

• http://www.seleniumhq.org
• https://github.com/SeleniumBuilder/se-builder