Workflow for creating a Selenium Test

Best Practices for Selenium Testing : Workflow for creating a Selenium Test

Before you begin, download the latest Selenium IDE extension for Mozilla Firefox. Also you should familiarize yourself with selenium testing by referencing http://www.seleniumhq.org/ and http://release.seleniumhq.org/selenium-core/1.0.1/reference.html

1. Start the Selenium IDE in Firefox.

2. Record a web transaction.

3. Play back the web transaction in the Selenium IDE to determine if it is successful.

4. Edit the steps in the recorded transaction to create a robust test, and ensure that it can be played back at full speed.

5. Save the Test Case HTML file.

6. Create a Synthetic Selenium Test with the wizard using the saved HTML file.

7. Run the Selenium test.