{"id":205,"date":"2016-08-15T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.benedettitech.com\/wp\/?p=205"},"modified":"2018-05-30T14:11:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T19:11:05","slug":"ui-unit-testing-with-selenium-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.benedettitech.com\/wp\/2016\/08\/15\/ui-unit-testing-with-selenium-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"UI Unit Testing with Selenium – Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nSo, I’m making it through the Selenium\u00a0Pluralsight course<\/a>\u00a0slowly but surely and I’m learning quite a bit so far.<\/p>\n

The first part covers a browser plug-in called\u00a0Selenium IDE. \u00a0Available only for Firefox, it’s essentially a session recording tool, \u00a0It records what we do in the browser then parses those into commands and then can be played back to act as tests. \u00a0To take this out for a spin, I went ahead and installed the plug-in and watched the demo on the course. \u00a0Now, we’ll need to find something suitable to test it on.<\/p>\n

\"selenium\"<\/a><\/p>\n

There’s a SaaS platform called ServiceNow<\/a> that I’ve been spending a great deal of time in this year. \u00a0Automating testing against this platform from a central host is one of my goals for this experiment. \u00a0To test this out, I’ve created a test instance<\/a> of ServiceNow and a test user. \u00a0Also, I’ve installed the Selenium IDE on Firefox so that I can record my session in the platform.<\/p>\n

My demo is basically automating a login for my test user. \u00a0First I’ll need to create a fresh test case in Selenium.<\/p>\n

\"newtest\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Then, I’ll record the steps to the login to get a complete test.<\/p>\n

\"finishedtest\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Then I’ll run the test and see if it logs me into the system, which it does.<\/p>\n

\"success\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This is just scratching the surface of Selenium and I have more modules in the course to cover. \u00a0Next post, I’ll have some additional content from the next module (Selenium Web Driver) and possibly a little more.<\/p>\n

As always, if you have any questions or comments, please feel free to add them here or address them to john@benedettitech.com.<\/p>\n

Thanks for looking in!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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