Selenium Internals Traning - outline

[Manish Chakravarty]

Hey Guys,

I have prepared a four day training outline for selenium. 8 sessions,
two sessions per day.
I plan to have some trainings around this.

I want you ( the community people ) to know comment on how this
outline looks like:


Selenium Training - Program Outline

This a four-day program divided into 8 sessions. Sessions 2-7 are
hands on sessions. All sessions begin with a presentation. Hopes/
Expectations are clearly set at the beginning of the training and a
retrospective is done at the end; this is addition to a standup in
every session to ensure visibility and gauge progress.

Things to do a day before
• Burn CD with required software ( JDK6, Maven, Eclipse, selenium,
mercurial repo)
• Prepare FlipCharts

Things to be done everyday
• Feedback (end of day )
• Switch pairs (beginning of every session )
• Standup (beginning of day )

Session 1 - Introduction
Goals
• Introduce participants to each other
• Establish the goals of the program
• Do a “warm up” on selenium
• Setup Environment ( IDE, repo etc )
Outline
• Hopes and Concerns
• Icebreaking exercise
• Introduction to various different Selenium components and
Architecture

Session 2: Selenium Core
Goals
User should be able to…
• Write a simple test case in Selenese
• Demonstrate understanding of core and core-less
• Demonstrate understanding of core profiles
• Familiarity with various JS files
• Demonstrate how to build and deploy core part to Maven
Agenda
• Create an API goBack. This API would emulate the user pressing the
back button of the browser
• Building the Selenium Core
Outline
• Explain the source tree layout
• Create sample HTML page
• Create Selenese test case
• Include the test case in the actual suite ( conditions configure for
specific browser etc)
• Building the selenium core
• Describe conversion
• looking at pom.xml for selenese ant task
• Describe important JS files which are part of Selenium Core.
• Describe how Selenium coreless creates profile
• Firebug
• Windows Registry
• difference between PI mode and non PI mode ( diff between the JS
files being loaded )
Links
• Starting with Selenium
• Setting up Apache on OS X
• Ajax Testing with Selenium using waitForCondition
• Agile Testing with Selenium

Notes
browser launcher, launcher util, WindowsUtils, creation of firefox
profile and extension, ie registry modification, fire bug extension,
fire fox 3 patch, iedoc.xml geberation with rhino
selenium-api.js, selenium-browserbot.js, selenium-remoterunner.js,
selenium-testrunner.js, different between PI mode loading and non-pi
mode loading of js files
Session 3 – Selenium Server
Goals
User should be able to demonstrate understanding of
• the source structure of Selenium Server
• how selenium server and selenium core talk to each other (Incase of
selenese test case – selenium-testrunner.js and driver commands )
• diff context paths in the selenium server
• how selenium server handles requests
Outline
• Talk about source structure of SS ( talk about selenium server =
(SeleniumCore +SeleniumCoreLess ))
• Describe architecture of the Selenium Server
• Describes the commands Selenium Core sends to Selenium Server
( Excercise: Do this with FireBug; involve students )
• How selenium server handles selenese test cases
• How selenium server handles test cases driven by driver
• Talk about SSL certificates.
Notes
proxy handler
static content handler (classpath resources)
cache content handler
selenium driver handler


Session 4 – Selenium Driver
Goals
User should be able to demonstrate and understanding of ….
• How selenium converts iedoc.xml XML to Java/ruby/python driver
interface and implementation with iedocXXX.xml xslt & Converting
selenese test case to Java test case with XLateHTML2Java and handling
special conditions while test case conversion
• How to run test cases from Java driver end.
• Selenium Driver <—> Selenium Server interactions
Outline
• From the XML doc generated in session one, we will talk about how
code is generated out of it.
• In case of Java binding , how they are creating Java test case from
selenese test case.
• What if we dont want them to generate the system automatically?
• getEval (“WaitUntilPresent”)
• how to get rid of getEval and extending the Selenium driver
( inheritance OR composition )
• patterns (do, get , is )
Session 5 – Selenium Driver
Goals
User should be able to demonstrate and understanding of ….
• Understanding hooks
• Understanding how to extend the selenium core objects
• How things would differ from PI and non PI mode
Outline
• Taking the click and the wait ; such that click implicitly calls a
wait

Session 6 – Selenium Modes
Goals
User should be able to demonstrate and understanding of ….
• IEHTA/chrome #Running a functional test case under different
browsers
• Page ranking algorithm
• Multi-domain issues
• How to exclude files from injection
Outline
• Talk about IEHTA and Chrome modes
• Demonstrate running the functional tests under different browsers
Facilitated Discussion – “What are the major cross-browser issues have
you faced in general and with Selenium in particular?”

Session 7 (part 1) XPath
Goals
User should be able to demonstrate and understanding of ….
• difference between XPath implementation in IE and firefox
• how to change the XPath library used for IE
Outline
• Talk about XPath Implementation in IE and firefox
• Attendees will be asked to find out how to change the XPath library
for IE
• Explain the difference between the two javascript implementations
• Talk about the pros/cons of the native IE XPath implementation
( Including issues with MSXML )
Notes

MSXML cannot deal with malformed HTML documents. That is why a
JavaScript library is needed to deal with XPath.

Session 7 (part 2) Misc Selenium Issues

This session is more of discussions regarding Selenium issues
• Running selenium test cases in parallel (Selenium Grid)
• Slow JS
• Flex Driver
• Selenium-Flash demo Topics to vary wrt to time. Participation from
audience encouraged
Outline
• Demonstrate the stuff mentioned in the goals and talk in detail

Session 8: Wrap Up
Facilitated discussions regarding
• CI (including building things in parallel for different platforms
• Release Management ( Drop a hint about Continuous Integration)
• Automated Testing (Drop a hint about Agile Test Automation)
• Q&A
• Retro

[shilpa sharath]

Hey manish,
Please let me know abt the date and venue of these sessions.

Thanks
Shilpa

[Manish Chakravarty]

On Jun 18, 7:31 am, shilpa sharath <shilpasha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey manish,
> Please let me know abt the date and venue of these sessions.

Hey Shilpa,

We've not decided on the time and date(s) of the trainings yet.
I am waiting for more people to show interest to proceed.

-- Manish

>
> Thanks
> Shilpa
>
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Manish Chakravarty

> <manishch...@gmail.com>wrote:

[Sanchit Chawla]

Hi manish,

Sessions are fabulous , I wanna attend this training...

Thanks

Sanchit

[Manish Chakravarty]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Sanchit
Chawla<chawla....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi manish,
> Sessions are fabulous , I wanna attend this training...
> Thanks
> Sanchit

Hey Sanchit,

I've conducted trainings before for other companies and it'll be fun
to have another one, for individuals,
I am looking for 10 people to sign up so that I can make a batch.
The training will most probably be held at thoughtworks

-- Manish
PS: pass this on to more people if they are interested

--
Manish Chakravarty
http://manish-chaks.livejournal.com/

[sriram seshadri]

Hi Manish

I will also be interested in attending it.


Regards
Sriram

[himanshu makwana]

Hi Manish,

Awesome Session schedule, I too want  to join this schedule. Please Send me the Date and Venue for this session.
Last time i have missed it but now i don't want to miss this one.

Thank You.

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Manish Chakravarty <manis...@gmail.com> wrote:

--
Himanshu Makwana

[Shree]

Hey Manish!

This is wonderful!
Some of our folks would be interested in this. Please let us know the
exact schedule once you guys finalize on this.
I would need 1 week notice in advance so that I can work on gathering
people.

Thanks and Regards,
Shree

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[Ruturaj]

Hi Manish,

this training programme looks for all to get started from basic and
move on to hands on.

I will be eager to join the same, I do have recommendations/add on's
for this.

Please include Webdriver If possible.
Selenium based frameworks( using Page Objects)
How to run existing Selenium test on IE(which are currently running on
Firefox as they use Xpath)
Exception handing with Selenium
Generic Failure analysis

I know most of these points are very specific, but If these points
covered, will make automation engineer's life more easy.

Please share all of you your Suggestion/Comments .

Thanks,
Ruturaj

[Sanchit Chawla]

Hey manish..

Thanks for ur reply...

Could Web conferencing possible of this training??. As i m in noida and its really hard to presence there.

Several others employee of my company are also interested for this training

Please confirm...

Thanks

Sanchit

 

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Manish Chakravarty <manis...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Manish Chakravarty]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Sanchit
Chawla<chawla....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey manish..
> Thanks for ur reply...
> Could Web conferencing possible of this training??. As i m in noida and its
> really hard to presence there.
> Several others employee of my company are also interested for this training
> Please confirm...
> Thanks
> Sanchit

Hey Sanchit,

How many people would be interested in this? can you give me a figure?
In case there are enough number of people, ( ~10) we could have a
session just for you.
The pricing etc will have to figure out later, but you need to give me
a number so that I can go back to ThoughtWorks and discuss it with
them.

Regards,
Manish Chakravarty

[*Ashok D*]

Hi Manish,

 

I am from Mumbai. Can you conduct this traning through online? Please let me know if that workable.

 

Thanks

Ashok

[Srini]

Hi Manish,

Can you please let me know when are you planning to have this session
in Bangalore.
Also please let me know where, and cost of this sessions.
please count me for this session.

Thanks
Srini.

On Jun 21, 4:43 pm, "*Ashok D*" <dandeas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Manish,
>
> I am from Mumbai. Can you conduct this traning through online? Please let me
> know if that workable.
>
> Thanks
> Ashok
>
> On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Manish Chakravarty

> <manishch...@gmail.com>wrote:

>
>
>
> > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Sanchit
> > Chawla<chawla.sanc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hey manish..
> > > Thanks for ur reply...
> > > Could Web conferencing possible of this training??. As i m in noida and
> > its
> > > really hard to presence there.
> > > Several others employee of my company are also interested for this
> > training
> > > Please confirm...
> > > Thanks
> > > Sanchit
>
> > Hey Sanchit,
>
> > How many people would be interested in this? can you give me a figure?
> > In case there are enough number of people, ( ~10) we could have a
> > session just for you.
> > The pricing etc will have to figure out later, but you need to give me
> > a number so that I can go back to ThoughtWorks and discuss it with
> > them.
>
> > Regards,
> > Manish Chakravarty
>
> > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Manish Chakravarty <

> > manishch...@gmail.com>

> > > wrote:
>
> > >> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Sanchit
> > >> Chawla<chawla.sanc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> > Hi manish,
> > >> > Sessions are fabulous , I wanna attend this training...
> > >> > Thanks
> > >> > Sanchit
>
> > >> Hey Sanchit,
>
> > >> I've conducted trainings before for other companies and it'll be fun
> > >> to have another one, for individuals,
> > >> I am looking for 10 people to sign up so that I can make a batch.
> > >> The training will most probably be held at thoughtworks
>
> > >> -- Manish
> > >> PS: pass this on to more people if they are interested
>
> > >> > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Manish Chakravarty

> > >> > <manishch...@gmail.com>

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[mervab...@gmail.com]

Hi Manish,

This is Vijay, I am very much interested to attend Selenium Internals
Training, i don't want to miss this one.

Can you please let me know when are you planning to give the Selenium
Internals Training
in Bangalore.

Thanks
Vijaya Bhaskar.M

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[mervab...@gmail.com]

Hi Manish,

This is Vijay, I am very much interested to attend Selenium Internals
Training, i don't want to miss this one.

Can you please let me know when are you planning to give the Selenium
Internals Training

in Bangalore. If it is possible give me your mobile number.

Thanks
Vijaya Bhaskar.M

On Jun 18, 10:51 am, Sanchit Chawla <chawla.sanc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi manish,
> Sessions are fabulous , I wanna attend this training...
>
> Thanks
> Sanchit
>
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Manish Chakravarty

> <manishch...@gmail.com>wrote:

[senthilnathan]

Hi Manish,

I am senthilnathan from bangalore.I am new to Selenium and i want to
learn it. Please let me know the date & time & venus fro this session.


Thanks
Senthilnathan

On Jun 17, 5:13 pm, Manish Chakravarty <manishch...@gmail.com> wrote: