| Web Application Testing Using Selenium Test Tools |
| Testing your Web applications is essential to ensuring a flawless user experience. With constant changes being made to your Website and applications, and the number of supported browsers always increasing, it’s important to have an effective and efficient test automation solution that enables rapid isolation of bugs and ongoing testing to ensure exceptional performance.
Selenium is an open source toolset that enables effective and efficient Graphical User Interface (GUI) test automation of Web applications. The InfoStretch blog features an excellent article, GUI Test Automation: Why Selenium Can Be the Tool of Your Choice, that highlights the benefits of why Selenium should be considered when choosing a tool to automate testing. |
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Selenium HQ, the Website for Selenium open source tools, describes what to test using Selenium tools as follows:
Testing for Expected Content
A content test is a simple test for the existence of a static, non-changing, UI element. For instance: Does each page have it’s expected page title? Does the application’s home page contain an image that is expected to be in a specific location on the page? Does each page of the website contain a footer area with links to the company contact page, privacy policy and trademarks information? Does each page begin with heading text using the h1 tag? Does each page have the correct text within that header?
If your application will be undergoing platform changes, or files will likely be moved to different locations, content tests may prove valuable.
Testing Links
A frequent source of errors for Websites is broken links and missing pages behind those broken links. Testing for these involves clicking each link and verifying the expected page behind that link loads correctly.
Functional Tests
We’ll test specific functions within your application that can include multiple pages, form-based inputs, submit and cancel operations – whether they are checkboxes, drop-down lists, or any other browser-supported input – we’ll test it for its functional accuracy.
Testing Dynamic Elements
We’ll test every web page element that has an identifier, result sets that return data to the user, dynamic content that involves UI elements whose identifying properties change each time you open the page and Ajax-driven applications. |
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