automating the boring entry tasks

[Robert Mooney]

Seleniumhq home page reads in part, "Boring web-based administration tasks can (and should!) also be automated as well."  Is the following possible using Selenium:

 

1.  I am using a company web site to manage the processing of information - essentially the site is the front end for a database.

2.  I have to manually interact with the web site to do my job.

3.  At dozens of times during the day I repeat the same steps - mouse clicks, key strokes, etc. to process information.

4.  These steps could (and should) be automated.

 

I want to be able to run the automation whenever it is appropriate.  Say I'm on a particular web page.  Everything is set for a particular set of steps to be run.  I want to start a Selenium process that takes over that web session and performs a series of automation tasks.  When Selenium is done I want the web session left open so I can continue manual processing.  There would be a number of these automation "scripts" depending on the task to be automated.

 

Is it possible?  Is it reasonable?  Any other comments?

[Tarun Kumar]

Looks possible, assuming that it is not overly complicated application using third party tools, applets etc etc 

[Mark Collin]

Sounds like Selenium IDE would be ideal for this.

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[Shaba K]

Sel -IDE would just get the work done.

However long run WebDriver would be helpful.

[Mark Collin]

If you did this with WebDriver you would have to write an implementation that can bind to an existing running browser process.  This doesn’t exist at the moment as far as I’m aware and would take some significant development effort to implement (Feel free to correct me if you know of such an implementation). 

 

The other advantages to using Selenium IDE are:

 

·         Easy to pause and replay individual commands without needing to load up an IDE like IntelliJ IDEA to be able to step through code.

·         You can start from any point in the test(so if you have already done steps 1-4 you can continue from step 5).

·         Low entry level, anybody can pick it up.

 

I’m a great believer in using the right tool for the right job and IMHO WebDriver is not the right tool for this job, however Selenium IDE is.

[Mike Riley]

Except he is asking for Selenium to run an already open browser session that was started manually.  How would you do that?

Mike

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