Exercise 12 - GOTO user extension

Aim:
Install the GOTO extension and run the provided script that makes use of the extension.

Difficulty level: Easy

What you will learn?
Goto user extension

Tips:

• Ensure to install the user extension first before script execution

Pre-requisites:

• Firefox browser with Selenium IDE installed ,use link How to install Selenium IDE?

Exercise Steps:
      1. follow the instructions below to install the user extension in the IDE
      2. copy and paste the script provided into the IDE.
      3. run the goto script

Solution:
      1. Click on 'Options' tab.
      2. Select Options menu.
      3. Open 'Selenium IDE Options' window frame.
      4. Click on 'Browse' button.
      5. Browse goto script file from your system path.
      6. Click on "OK' button
      7. Restart your firefox browser now in the command list you would see goto commands as well


Conclusions

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Zip file location: ( download from here)
C:\FoundationSelenium\Ex12\Goto_sel_ide.js, C:\FoundationSelenium\Ex12\GotoScript.html.



Here is the contents of go to java script:

var gotoLabels= {};
var whileLabels = {};

// overload the original Selenium reset function
Selenium.prototype.reset = function() {
// reset the labels
this.initialiseLabels();
// proceed with original reset code
this.defaultTimeout = Selenium.DEFAULT_TIMEOUT;
this.browserbot.selectWindow("null");
this.browserbot.resetPopups();
}

Selenium.prototype.initialiseLabels = function()
{
gotoLabels = {};
whileLabels = { ends: {}, whiles: {} };
var command_rows = [];
var numCommands = testCase.commands.length;
for (var i = 0; i < numCommands; ++i) {
var x = testCase.commands[i];
command_rows.push(x);
}
var cycles = [];
for( var i = 0; i < command_rows.length; i++ ) {
if (command_rows[i].type == 'command')
switch( command_rows[i].command.toLowerCase() ) {
case "label":
gotoLabels[ command_rows[i].target ] = i;
break;
case "while":
case "endwhile":
cycles.push( [command_rows[i].command.toLowerCase(), i] )
break;
}
}  
var i = 0;
while( cycles.length ) {
if( i >= cycles.length ) {
throw new Error( "non-matching while/endWhile found" );
}
switch( cycles[i][0] ) {
case "while":
if( ( i+1 < cycles.length ) && ( "endwhile" == cycles[i+1][0] ) ) {
// pair found
whileLabels.ends[ cycles[i+1][1] ] = cycles[i][1];
whileLabels.whiles[ cycles[i][1] ] = cycles[i+1][1];
cycles.splice( i, 2 );
i = 0;
} else ++i;
break;
case "endwhile":
++i;
break;
}
}
}

Selenium.prototype.continueFromRow = function( row_num )
{
if(row_num == undefined || row_num == null || row_num < 0) {
throw new Error( "Invalid row_num specified." );
}
testCase.debugContext.debugIndex = row_num;
}

// do nothing. simple label
Selenium.prototype.doLabel = function(){};

Selenium.prototype.doGotolabel = function( label )
{
if( undefined == gotoLabels[label] ) {
throw new Error( "Specified label '" + label + "' is not found." );
}
this.continueFromRow( gotoLabels[ label ] );
};

Selenium.prototype.doGoto = Selenium.prototype.doGotolabel;

Selenium.prototype.doGotoIf = function( condition, label )
{
if( eval(condition) ) this.doGotolabel( label );
}

Selenium.prototype.doWhile = function( condition )
{
if( !eval(condition) ) {
var last_row = testCase.debugContext.debugIndex;
var end_while_row = whileLabels.whiles[ last_row ];
if( undefined == end_while_row ) throw new Error( "Corresponding 'endWhile' is not found." );
this.continueFromRow( end_while_row );
}
}

Selenium.prototype.doEndWhile = function()
{
var last_row = testCase.debugContext.debugIndex;
var while_row = whileLabels.ends[ last_row ] - 1;
if( undefined == while_row ) throw new Error( "Corresponding 'While' is not found." );
this.continueFromRow( while_row );
}

Here is the script in text format:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head profile="http://selenium-ide.openqa.org/profiles/test-case">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<link rel="selenium.base" href="http://foundation.time2test.co.uk/" />
<title>GotoScript</title>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="1">
<thead>
<tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="3">GotoScript</td></tr>
</thead><tbody>
<tr>
 <td>open</td>
 <td>/</td>
 <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>clickAndWait</td>
 <td>link=Log in</td>
 <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>assertTextPresent</td>
 <td>Username</td>
 <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>assertTextPresent</td>
 <td>Password</td>
 <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>type</td>
 <td>id=user_login</td>
 <td>admin</td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>type</td>
 <td>id=user_pass</td>
 <td>time4test</td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>clickAndWait</td>
 <td>id=wp-submit</td>
 <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>waitForElementPresent</td>
 <td>//div[@id='user_info']/p/a[2]</td>
 <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>getEval</td>
 <td>storedVars['arrayElements']=new Array(&quot;edit.php&quot;,&quot;upload.php&quot;,&quot;link-manager.php&quot;,&quot;themes.php&quot;,&quot;plugins.php&quot;,&quot;options-general.php&quot;,&quot;edit-comments.php&quot;)</td>
 <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>getEval</td>
 <td>storedVars['y'] = storedVars['arrayElements'].length;</td>
 <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>store</td>
 <td>-1</td>
 <td>x</td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>label</td>
 <td>top</td>
 <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>getEval</td>
 <td>storedVars['x'] = ${x} + 1 ;</td>
 <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>getEval</td>
 <td>storedVars['thisval'] = storedVars['arrayElements'][storedVars['x']];</td>
 <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>open</td>
 <td>http://foundation.time2test.co.uk/wp-admin/${thisval}</td>
 <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>gotoIf</td>
 <td>${x}&lt;${y}-1</td>
 <td>top</td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>clickAndWait</td>
 <td>link=Log Out</td>
 <td></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
</body>
</html>

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