Cross browser test

Aim:
Execute Selenium RC via command line against Firefox, Chrome and Internet explorer.

Difficulty level:
Easy/Medium

What you will learn?

• Selenium RC
• Multi browser execution
• Command line
• Viewing the results file
• Selenium RC parameters

Tips:

1. Use the below test cases or test suite or alternatively use your own test example.
2. Create the command in Notepad++ and then paste into the command prompt.
3. ensure you point Selenium RC to the suite and not the test script

Pre-requisites:

• Installed Firefox , Chrome and IE.
• Selenium RC

Exercise Steps
1. Use the script below or use your own scripts.
2. Locate the location of the Selenium Jar
3. Run the Selenium Command from the Jar directory
4. notice the results file.



Conclusions

1. execution using Selenium RC against various different browsers
2. Command line execution

Related Entries

Zip file location: ( download from here)
C:\FoundationSelenium\Ex6.1\testcase1.html, C:\FoundationSelenium\Ex6.1\testcase2.html, C:\FoundationSelenium\Ex6.1\testcase3.html, C:\FoundationSelenium\Ex6.1\Solution2Suite.html, C:\FoundationSelenium\Ex6.1\command.txt.


Solution:

Here are the used commands:
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Firefox:
java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.0b2.jar -htmlSuite "*firefox"  "http://foundation.time2test.co.uk/"  "C:\FoundationSelenium\Ex6.1\Solution2Suite.html" "C:\FoundationSelenium\Ex6.1\Result.html"
Chrome:
java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.0b2.jar -htmlSuite "*googlechrome"
"http://foundation.time2test.co.uk/"  "C:\FoundationSelenium\Ex6.1\Solution2Suite.html" "C:\FoundationSelenium\Ex6.1\Result.html"
Internet Explorer:
java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.0b2.jar -htmlSuite "*iehta" "http://foundation.time2test.co.uk/" "C:\FoundationSelenium\Ex6.1\Solution2Suite.html" "C:\FoundationSelenium\Ex6.1\Result.html"

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here is the test suite in HTML texts:
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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>
 <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="content-type" />
 <title>Test Suite</title>
</head>
<body>
<table id="suiteTable" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="1" class="selenium"><tbody>
<tr><td><b>Test Suite</b></td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="testcase1.html">testcase1</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="testcase2.html">testcase2</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="testcase3.html">testcase3</a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</body>
</html>

Here is the script in HTML texts which is included as first test case in suite:
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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>TestCase1</title>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="1">
<thead>
<tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="3">TestCase1</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>verifyTextPresent</td>
<td>Username</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>verifyTextPresent</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>
</tbody></table>
</body>
</html>

Here is the script in HTML texts included as second test case in test suite:
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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>TestCase2</title>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="1">
<thead>
<tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="3">TestCase2</td></tr>
</thead><tbody>
<tr>
<td>clickAndWait</td>
<td>link=Posts</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>waitForElementPresent</td>
<td>//div[@id='wpbody-content']/div[3]/h2</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>clickAndWait</td>
<td>link=Add New</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>type</td>
<td>id=title</td>
<td>javascript{&quot;Post&quot; + new Date().getMilliseconds();}</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>clickAndWait</td>
<td>id=publish</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>clickAndWait</td>
<td>css=#menu-posts &gt; div.wp-submenu &gt; ul &gt; li.wp-first-item &gt; a.wp-first-item</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>clickAndWait</td>
<td>link=Post Tags</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>waitForElementPresent</td>
<td>//div[@id='col-left']/div/div/h3</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>type</td>
<td>id=tag-name</td>
<td>NewTag</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>type</td>
<td>id=tag-description</td>
<td>This is new tag........</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>click</td>
<td>id=submit</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
</body>
</html>

Here is the script in HTML texts which is included as third test case in test suite:
---------------------------------------------------------------------

<?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>TestCase3</title>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="1">
<thead>
<tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="3">TestCase3</td></tr>
</thead><tbody>
<tr>
<td>clickAndWait</td>
<td>link=Users</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>assertTextPresent</td>
<td>Users</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>clickAndWait</td>
<td>//li[@id='menu-users']/div[3]/ul/li[2]/a</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>type</td>
<td>id=user_login</td>
<td>javascript{&quot;TestUser&quot; + new Date().getMilliseconds();}</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>type</td>
<td>id=email</td>
<td>javascript{&quot;TestUser&quot; + new Date().getMilliseconds()+&quot;@yahoo.com&quot;;}</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>type</td>
<td>id=first_name</td>
<td>TestFirst</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>type</td>
<td>id=last_name</td>
<td>TestLast</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>type</td>
<td>id=url</td>
<td>http://www.google.com/</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>type</td>
<td>id=pass1</td>
<td> time2test </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>type</td>
<td>id=pass2</td>
<td>time2test</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>clickAndWait</td>
<td>id=addusersub</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>clickAndWait</td>
<td>link=Log Out</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
</body>
</html>

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