How to do parametrization using Selenium IDE?

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Rohit Sharma

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Apr 7, 2010, 8:23:43 AM4/7/10

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HI,
I'm new to Selenium IDE.
I want to do parametrization using java script function.

Can anyone help, how to do.

For e.g. i have to parametrize Google Search field.
please tel me detail process.

Thanks in Advance.

Niraj Kumar

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Apr 8, 2010, 4:57:27 AM4/8/10

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Selenium IDE doesnt support parametrization but by using some javascript we can parametrize our test case .
Very care fully follow below steps

1.create javascript function "loadTestData" and add this in you extension file user-extensions.js which IDE is pointing.
Copy and paste this code in you user-extensions.js file

/*
NAME:
    datadriven



PURPOSE:
    Basic data driven testing.

EXAMPLE USE:
    The structure of your data driven test case will be;
    -------------------------------------------
    COMMAND       |TARGET          |VALUE
    -------------------------------------------
    loadTestData |<file path>     |
    while         |!testdata.EOF() |
    testcommand1 |                |
    testcommand...|                |
    testcommandn |                |
    endWhile      |                |
    -------------------------------------------

*/

XML.serialize = function(node) {
    if (typeof XMLSerializer != "undefined")
        return (new XMLSerializer()).serializeToString(node) ;
    else if (node.xml) return node.xml;
    else throw "XML.serialize is not supported or can't serialize " + node;
}

function xmlTestData() {
    this.xmlDoc = null;
    this.testdata = null;
    this.index = null;
}

xmlTestData.prototype.load = function(xmlloc) {
    try {
        // Internet Explorer.
        this.xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
    }
    catch(e) {
        // Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, etc.
        try {
            this.xmlDoc = document.implementation.createDocument("","",null);
        }
        catch(e) {
        }
    }

    try {
        this.xmlDoc.async = false;
        this.xmlDoc.load(xmlloc);

        this.index = 0;
        this.testdata = this.xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("test");
    }
    catch(e) {
    }

    if (this.testdata == null || this.testdata.length == 0) {
        throw new Error("Test data couldn't be loaded or test data was empty.");
    }
}

xmlTestData.prototype.EOF = function() {
    if (this.index != null && this.index < this.testdata.length) return false;
    return true;
}

xmlTestData.prototype.next = function() {
    if (this.EOF()) {
        LOG.error("No test data.");
        return;
    }

    LOG.info(XML.serialize(this.testdata[this.index]));    // Log should anything go wrong while testing with this data.

    if (this.testdata[this.index].attributes.length != this.testdata[0].attributes.length) {
        LOG.error("Inconsistent attribute length in test data.");
        return;
    }

    for (i=0; i<this.testdata[this.index].attributes.length; i++){
        if (null == this.testdata[0].getAttribute(this.testdata[this.index].attributes[i].nodeName)) {
            LOG.error("Inconsistent attribute names in test data.");
            return;
        }

        selenium.doStore(this.testdata[this.index].attributes[i].nodeValue, this.testdata[this.index].attributes[i].nodeName);
    }

    this.index++;
}

Selenium.prototype.testdata = null;

Selenium.prototype.doLoadTestData = function(xmlloc) {
    testdata = new xmlTestData();
    testdata.load(xmlloc);
};

Selenium.prototype.doNextTestData = function() {
    testdata.next();
};

2. Create data file in xml name i.e googlesearches.xml
with the below contents
<testdata>
    <test phrase="bbc news"/>
    <test phrase="computers"/>
    <test phrase="mobile phones"/>
    <test phrase="insurance & loans"/>
</testdata>

3. Create test script.

<?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="" />
<title>test</title>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="1">
<thead>
<tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="3">test</td></tr>
</thead><tbody>
<tr>
    <td>loadTestData</td>
    <td>file:///C:/user/Automation/datadriven/datadriven/googlesearches.xml</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>while</td>
    <td>!testdata.EOF()</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>nextTestData</td>
    <td></td>
    <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>open</td>
    <td>http://www.google.co.in</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>type</td>
    <td>q</td>
    <td>${phrase}</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>click</td>
    <td>btnG</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>endWhile</td>
    <td></td>
    <td></td>
</tr>

</tbody></table>
</body>
</html>

Very carefully update your user-extensions.js or just copy and paste . :)

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