Web Development Recipes, 2nd Edition

Recipe 35

Browser Testing with Selenium

Problem

Testing is a hard and tedious process. As websites become more complex, it becomes more important to have tests that are repeatable and consistent. Without automated testing, our only chance at having a consistent working website is to have a top-notch quality-assurance person who works long hours and has checklists. That process could be painfully slow. We need to speed up the testing process and create tests we can run on demand so we can verify that things work the way we want today, as well as several months from now when we start adding new features.

Ingredients

• Firefox^[102]

• Selenium IDE^[103]

• QEDServer (for our test server)^[104]

Solution

We can use automated tools to test our web projects, in ...