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Selenium - Where to Start?

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  • 14-10-2015 10:28pm
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    Gerb68
    Registered Users Posts: 266 ✭✭


    I'm looking for a few pointers on where to start with Selenium. I just want to get to grips with it and see it in action. I have a live personal profile website which was built using Bootstrap and contains some PHP and JavaScript. I would like to test this site but I do not know where to begin. On the Selenium website there are a number of different downloads and I do not know which is appropriate for my site to test.

    Any help with this would be much appreciated or even any links to tutorials for a novice testing the site I have mentioned.

    Thanx
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    Buford T Justice
    Registered Users Posts: 6,250 ✭✭✭Buford T Justice


    Gerb68 wrote: »
    I'm looking for a few pointers on where to start with Selenium. I just want to get to grips with it and see it in action. I have a live personal profile website which was built using Bootstrap and contains some PHP and JavaScript. I would like to test this site but I do not know where to begin. On the Selenium website there are a number of different downloads and I do not know which is appropriate for my site to test.

    Any help with this would be much appreciated or any links to tutorials for a novice testing the site I have mentioned.

    Thanx

    How do you want to run your tests? Via web browsers or unit tests in php?
    For the former, you can get a plugin for selenium in firefox, and you'd be looking at something like selenium web-driver for php, but I think phpunit is a dependency for it.


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    Gerb68
    Registered Users Posts: 266 ✭✭Gerb68


    Thanx for the response. I'd like to get my head around both. I'll look into both but I thought unit testing involved JavaScript.


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    ThrowinShapes
    Registered Users Posts: 63 ✭✭ThrowinShapes


    You could use Nightwatch.js. The guide covers using it with Selenium: http://nightwatchjs.org/guide


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    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,671 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    Started playing around with it in the Django Python framework. It seems to tie in nicely with basic unit testing but early days yet.


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    Spunge
    Registered Users Posts: 2,779 ✭✭✭Spunge


    it was super easy to setup for me with rails, but i have no clue otherwise.
    its awesome as **** btw, it kind of reignited my love of code and TDD, spent all weekend coding just for fun.


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