Selenium Testing Process

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Selenium 2 – Selenium Testing

Process
Phase in Selenium Testing Process
i) Test Planning
ii) Generate Basic Tests/Test Cases
iii) Enhance Test Cases
iv) Run & Debug Test Cases
v) Analyze Test Result and Report Defects
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Before going to learn Selenium Test Process, first know about phases of
Software Test Process / Software Test Life Cycle
i) Requirements Analysis
ii) Test Planning
iii) Test Design
iv) Test Environment Setup
v) Test Execution
vi) Test Closure
i) Requirements Analysis:
Risk Analysis
Segregate Test Requirements
Create RTM Document
ii) Test Planning:
Test Strategy Implementation
Test Estimations (Scope, resources, time and budget)
Team Formation
Test Plan Documentation
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Configuration Management planning

Define Test Environment Setup
Etc....
iii) Test Design
Understanding Test Requirements
Derive Test scenarios
Document Test Cases
Collect Test data etc...
iv) Test Environment Setup
Prepare Test Environment Checklist and Test Data
Test Environment Setup
Verify Test Environment
Conduct Smoke Tests
v) Test Execution:
Comprehensive Testing
Reporting Defects
Tracking Defects
Select Test cases for Re & Regression Testing cycle 1
Sanity Testing
Execute Re & Regression Test cases
Reporting defects
Tracking defects
Select Test cases for Re & Regression Testing cycle 2
Sanity Testing
Execute Re & Regression Test cases
Reporting defects
Tracking defects

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Final Regression
vi) Test Closure:
Evaluate the exit Criteria
Collect all artifacts
Prepare Test Summary Report
Send Test deliverables to customer
Improvement suggestion for Future Projects
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i) Test Planning in Selenium Test Process
>(Get Environment (UI Design and Database) details from

Development team, Analyze the AUT (Application Under Test) in terms
of Object identification/Element identification, Select Test Cases for
Automation and Select Selenium Tools and Others for Automated
Testing and Configure)
Selenium IDE: Use Record and playback some navigations and analyze
Selenium WebDriver: Using Element inspectors analyze the AUT,
Mozilla Firefox - Built-in feature "Page inspector"

Google Chrome - Built-in Developer tools (F12)
MS Edge - Built-in Developer tools (F12)
> Select Test Cases for Automation

Test cases that can be executed on Initial build and every modified
build (Smoke, Sanity)

Test Cases that can be executed on every modified build (Re &
Regression Tests)
Test Cases that can be executed using multiple sets of Test data (Data
Driven Tests)
> Select Selenium Tools and Others for Automated Testing and Configure
(Eclipse IDE, Java, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Maven, Jenkins etc...)
> Download Eclipse IDE and Extract -Editor, Syntax Guidance, Context Help
and Auto Compilation...
> Download Java (JDK) Software and Install in your computer
> Set Java Environment Variable path in the OS Environment
> Download selenium WebDriver java language binding from

www.selniumhq.org and add Selenium WebDriver jar files to Java Project in
Eclipse IDE
> Download & Install TestNG Testing framework in Eclipse IDE

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Download browser driver/s (Firefox, Chrome, MS Edge...) and Instantiate in
Selenium Test Cases
ii) Generate Basic Tests/Test Cases
Using Recording feature or Type Test steps using Element Locators

and Selenese commands we can Create Test Cases in Selenium IDE,
and Using Element Locators and WebDriver API Commands we create
Selenium WebDriver Test Cases
In UFT:
1) Object Repository based Test Design (Recording, Keyword Driven
Methodology)

Or
2) Descriptive Programming (Static Programming and Dynamic
Programming)
In Selenium:
a) Selenium IDE: Using Recording feature or Type Test steps using Element
Locators and Selenese commands
b) Selenium WebDriver: Using Element Locators and WebDriver API

Commands
iii) Enhance Test Cases
(Inserting Verification points, Parameterization, Synchronization, Error

Handling and Adding Comments etc,
1) Inserting Verification points
In UFT:
Using Check points (UFT Tool feature)

Using VBScript conditional statements
In Selenium IDE: Using "verify" or "assert" commands

In Selenium WebDriver:
Using WebDriver Verification Commands (limited use)
Using Programming Control Flow Statements
Using TestNG Testing Framework "assert" methods

2) Parameterization
> Replacing constant (fixed) values with parameters is called

Parameterization
> Passing single value or multiple values....
We use Parameterization feature for Data Driven Testing....
In UFT:
i) Using Data Table (UFT tool feature)
ii) Using VBScript Automation Object Models (FileSystemObject, Excel
Object....)
In Selenium IDE: No Support

In Selenium WebDriver: Using programming (Flat files/excel files)....
3) Synchronization
In UFT: Using Synchronization Point, or wait command or increase Tool

default time
In Selenium IDE: Using Synchronization Timeout feature ( Tool feature)

In Selenium WebDriver: Using programming wait feature or WebDriver
command
4) Error Handling
Handling expected and unexpected Errors

In UFT: Using Recovery Scenarios (tool feature or VBScript features

In Selenium WebDriver: Using programming features (Ex: exception
handling in Java)
5) Adding Comments
To make the code readable and to disable the code from execution
In UFT: We can use VBScript Comment syntax

In Selenium IDE: Using Selenium IDE comments syntax
In Selenium WebDriver: Using Programming Syntax (if we use Java then use
Java Comment syntax)
iv) Run & Debug Test Cases
Run > Debug > Run...

Run Test Cases is a mandatory task in Testing, but Debugging Test cases is
an optional task in Automated testing
Run Test Scripts / Test Cases

> Run a Single Test case
> Batch Testing
In UFT:
Use "Test Batch Runner" tool or using AOM Script or ALM/QC etc...
In Selenium IDE: using Test Suite feature

In Selenium WebDriver: Using Programming and using Testing

Framework
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Debug Test Cases
Note: Debugging feature is NA for Manual Testing and It is only for

Automated Testing
What is Debugging?
Locating and isolating errors through step by step execution
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Application Life Cycle
Development Testing Production
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Error Fault Failure
Mistake Defect
Bug
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When debugging is required?
Scenario 1: Test Case is not showing any error and providing desired result -
Not required
Scenario 2: Test Case is showing errors - Optional
Scenario 3: Test Case is not showing any error and Not providing desired
result - Required

Whenever Test case is not showing any error and not providing desired
result there debugging is required.
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v) Analyze Test Result and Report Defects
a) Analyze Test Result:
Selenium WebDriver doesn't have built-in Result Report facility, using

Programming control Flow statements or Testing Framework verification
methods we can generate Test Results
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Status of Test Results in Software Testing
1) Pass (if expected == actual)
2) Fail (if expected != actual)
3) Warning (Whenever Test Case is not executing properly)
4) Done (if there is no verification point in the Test case)
b) Reporting Defects:
After analyzing the test Results, if we find any deviation from expected then
report defects....
Functional Test Automation Defect Management

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Configuration Management planning

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i) Test Planning in Selenium Test Process

>(Get Environment (UI Design and Database) details from

Mozilla Firefox - Built-in feature "Page inspector"

> Select Test Cases for Automation

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> Download Java (JDK) Software and Install in your computer

> Set Java Environment Variable path in the OS Environment

> Download selenium WebDriver java language binding from

> Download & Install TestNG Testing framework in Eclipse IDE

ii) Generate Basic Tests/Test Cases

Using Recording feature or Type Test steps using Element Locators

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b) Selenium WebDriver: Using Element Locators and WebDriver API

iii) Enhance Test Cases

(Inserting Verification points, Parameterization, Synchronization, Error

1) Inserting Verification points

Using Check points (UFT Tool feature)

In Selenium IDE: Using "verify" or "assert" commands

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> Replacing constant (fixed) values with parameters is called

We use Parameterization feature for Data Driven Testing....

In Selenium IDE: No Support

In UFT: Using Synchronization Point, or wait command or increase Tool

In Selenium IDE: Using Synchronization Timeout feature ( Tool feature)

Handling expected and unexpected Errors

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In UFT: Using Recovery Scenarios (tool feature or VBScript features

In UFT: We can use VBScript Comment syntax

iv) Run & Debug Test Cases

Run > Debug > Run...

Run Test Scripts / Test Cases

In Selenium IDE: using Test Suite feature

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In Selenium WebDriver: Using Programming and using Testing

Note: Debugging feature is NA for Manual Testing and It is only for

Scenario 2: Test Case is showing errors - Optional

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v) Analyze Test Result and Report Defects

a) Analyze Test Result:

Selenium WebDriver doesn't have built-in Result Report facility, using

Functional Test Automation Defect Management

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