How to do data driven testing in SeleniumIDE

[sanjay naani]

Hi All,

Please any body help me in doing data driven testing with seleniumIDE.

I heard it is possible by creating html table and passing some values we can access in those values in script.

Thanks in advance.

[mam_p]

I wrote several blog posts on this topic earlier this year...

http://saucelabs.com/blog/index.php/2011/01/selenium-resources-for-newbs-data-driven-testing-with-ide-xml/

http://maryannmp.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/data-driven-testing-with-selenium-rc-html-tests/

http://maryannmp.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/using-selenium-ide-to-generate-the-data-for-a-data-driven-test/

http://maryannmp.wordpress.com/2011/04/29/selenium-ide-javascript-data-driven-testin/

--mam-p

[Kiran Kumar Kendole]

For this you need to add three addons in your selenium IDE , user extenstions.

Find the attachments.

loadTestData  is the command for loading your XML.

Your XML should be in the following structure.

<testdata>

    <test var1="10" var2="20">

    <test var1="30" var2="50">

</testdata>

nextTestData | |

Each time loads one line.

you can access the variables using ${var1}, etc

KIRANKUMARKENDOLE

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[Jamil Alajrab]

Selenium IDE is a recording tool; you should look into using selenium
RC or webdriver which would enable you to do data driven testing
(Through a database, CSVs, text files ..etc ) using the language of
your choice (Java, Python, Ruby ..etc)

[Robert]

Hello Sanjay,

Data driven testing is a very powerful way to conducting automated
tests. However, SeleniumIDE is only a partial answer to giving you
this capability. Here are the basic steps to write data driven tests:
1.) Record (capture the workflow of) a test using SeleniumIDE
2.) Output the test in your favorite language from SeleniumIDE (my
favorite is C#)
3.) Edit the code, replacing "hard-coded" values with variables
you've bound to a data source (database, file, and/or web-service)

Although it would be cool if the volunteers who wrote Selenium
provided a macro language to to facilitate what it is you would like
to do, I have wholeheartedly agree that it is a wise move to reserve
that functionality for a true programming language.

Hope this helps

Robert Barnard, Automated Test
Northpointe Institute for Public Management






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