| 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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InfoStretch Framework for Automated Web Testing with Selenium. |
| InfoStretch has developed a framework for Web application testing and test automation using Selenium test tools that focuses on achieving a rapid return on investment – often in less than three months. The InfoStretch framework using Selenium has a robust set of pre-built features that include: |
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Parallel compatibility testing for many browsers from the cloud, with zero infrastructure costs.. |
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Integration scenario testing across UI’s and Web services. |
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Highly maintainable and repeatable tests that utilize reusable test assets, proper modularity and semantic structure. |
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Data-driven Selenium tests with external Excel, XML and CSV-based data. |
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Drill-down, Junit-style test reports that show key automation metrics across multiple test executions with screen shots of failed tests.. |
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Best practices for coding conventions and process guidelines, and coaching on how to make apps "testable." |
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Integration into many continuous integration/build automation systems such as Hudson. |
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| The InfoStretch Framework Will Help You: |
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Build Selenium tests faster to save time and free up resources. |
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Automate your entire testing needs to achieve maximum efficiency. |
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Achieve your goals in testing effectiveness. |
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Realize a solid ROI in three months or less. |
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What to Test
InfoStretch can manage all, or just specific parts, of your Web testing. Depending on your project needs and user expectations, we’ll work with you to prioritize your goals and identify how InfoStretch can best support your success.
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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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| Let InfoStretch demonstrate the value of our test framework using Selenium. Sign-up for a complimentary test evaluation of your Web application. |
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