Selenium With WAP protocol

[Sandeep Neema]

Is anyone has any experience in using Selenium With WAP protocol?
Or we can automate testing by Selenium of the pages which are web-
based?

Anything related to WAP and Selenium can help a lot...
its urgent.

[Andrew]

I would say Selenium is agnostic. It requires a browser and it's up
to the browser/platform to deal with protocol, not selenium.
Selenium[client] is just a library of calls to interface with the
browser such as typing text in a form field or clicking a link.
Selenium-RC is a Java app that runs on the host under test. The
client running the test script makes calls to the server to interface
with the browser by IP:Port. So any high or low level protocol should
be handled by the OS and platform under test.

[Sandeep Neema]

As per my understanding of your reply...

You are saying your application can be deployed in any technology and
supports any protocol for communication,
if your browser is capable of handling that protocol than it does not
have to do anything with the tool. When does the tool protocol
supports comes into the play?
can you elaborate a little bit, its very urgent.!

[Andrew]

Not sure how much more I can elaborate, selenium doesn't work at the
protocol layer, it works at the web page layer.

Web Page <----- (selenium-rc operated client visits URL to web
server)
-------------------------------
Web Server (accepts http/https protocols)
-------------------------------
OS/Network interface
-------------------------------
Network Hardware


Selenium-IDE or RC only works with the top level (Web Page). It
doesn't have the mechanisms or means to handle anything else. You
could write your own support and tools if desired.
Basically, if you have a browser and it can see the website under test
manually, then selenium can too.

However, if I understand your situation correctly, you want to test
mobile (hence WAP). It would involve having developer access to a
bunch of mobile phones, getting the java JDK installed, selenium-rc.
Then kicking off the built in browser. The list is pretty long for
supported browsers but I don't recall any mobile browsers outside of
Safari.

[Sandeep Neema]

Hey andrew thanks for your help..

Actually i am new to mobile testing.
So, did you mean that we have to install selenium-rc in to mobile or
we have to use some interface by which we can use selenium to automate
testing for mobile applications.

And do you know if Firefox is supported by the mobile or not.?

[Andrew]

To be honest if I were going to approach mobile web testing, I
wouldn't use Selenium. I'd look into desktop automation like AutoIT.
I'd start with emulators for iPhone and android and go that route.

[Jayakumar C]

There are some progress on mobile web testing at selenium google code ,

http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/AndroidDriver
http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/IPhoneDriver
http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/WebDriverForMobileBrowsers

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