Automating HTML5 using Selenium and Chrome Browser

[Jessica]

Hi,

I've been given the task to investigate how we can use selenium to
automate our HTML5 app. At this stage, the HTML5 app can't run on
Firefox which means using the IDE plug-in to draft out test cases
isn't possible.

I was just wondering if anyone knew of any tools or work arounds that
we could possibly use to start automating? We're ideally looking for
something similar to IDE.

Thanks,

[Paul Grandjean]

I had to say it, but IDE really isn't recommended by the folks who are experienced in using Selenium.  Selenium WebDriver is your best bet if you want a test suite that is extensible, reusable, and long-lasting.  Is the reason you need the IDE or something similar because you want QA folks to develop scripts but that don't have much of a programming background?

Paul

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[Mark Collin]

I’m surprised that FireFox can’t run an HTML 5 app, which browsers are supported?

[saju thomas]

Wondering why html5 cant run on firefox .
Tried the site http://www.toyotapriusprojects.com and it works like any other site .
and IDE does a not so bad job of identifying all the objects on site . although web driver sure will add loads of power to your test suite...

[David]

I think for OP case, Firefox is not supported based on some specific
HTML5 feature. Each browser has some amount of HTML5 support. Question
is which feature the app is using, that determines whether browser
supports it or not.

If you go to this site with browser: http://html5test.com/, you'll see
that not any browser scores perfect points, so each has some limits in
HTML5 support.

And it will also vary by Firefox version as well. The lower versions
(e.g. FF 3.6) has some support but less than the recent versions.

And while on this topic, I learned that WebDriver may not have HTML5
support for certain features as well. So even if browser support is
there, you might not be able to automate it yet. For example: HTML5
uploader that supports multiple file uploads is partially workable in
WebDriver, that is you can upload 1 file at a time, can't do multiple,
or at least I haven't figured out how to do so.

On May 28, 4:39 am, saju thomas <sajuthomas1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Wondering why html5 cant run on firefox .

> Tried the sitehttp://www.toyotapriusprojects.comand it works like any