Show, don't tell

posted Mon, 20 Feb 2006 18:45:00 GMT by Jonas Bengtsson

Selenium on Rails has moved.

There is this great tradition in the Rails community to create screencasts and I really like them so here's a screencast of Selenium on Rails.

In the demo I create a new Rails project, install Selenium on Rails, create a test case using Selenium IDE, create another in RSelenese, and run all the test as a Rake task.

The only setup not shown are installation/configuration of Selenium IDE and win32-open3.

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Comments

  1. Avatar badcarl said about 7 hours later:
    Fantastic presentation. I had looked into selenium before and it looked interesting, but now I'm convinced.
  2. Avatar Paul Clip said about 11 hours later:
    Excellent. Sellenium has been on my radar for a while but I never got 'round to trying it. Your demo covered a lot of ground. I particularly liked the inclusion of an .rsel example. I can't imagine creating a comprehensive set of test cases in straight "selenese".
  3. Avatar François said 1 day later:
    My my... Fantastic. Need to do it myself. Please, what are you using that gives you that special Alt+Tab ?
  4. Avatar Jonas said 1 day later:
    Thanks guys!

    Paul: I'd guess that programmers prefer RSelenese, and non-programmers (e.g. testers) Selenese. The main benefit of using Selenese is of course the excellent Selenium IDE. But to each his own, they are all rendered the same.

    François: TaskSwitchXP :-)
  5. Avatar Jason Huggins said 8 days later:
    Holy flippin' cow! This is cool stuff. Each and every day I'm floored by the all new stuff being done with Selenium. Many thanks for the screencast. I'll be showing this to lots of folks back here at ThoughtWorks. :-) Cheers!
  6. Avatar Jonas said 9 days later:
    I'm glad you liked it! And thanks for your work on Selenium, it's such a great tool!
  7. Avatar Sean said 23 days later:
    Am I missing something? Where's the screencast? The link just goes to another post, which then links to think one again.
  8. Avatar Jonas said 23 days later:
    The screencast is an embedded Flash movie in this post. Have you disabled/not installed Flash?
  9. Avatar Sean said 23 days later:
    Whoops. That was it. :) Thanks!
  10. Avatar lisa said 149 days later:
    Wonderful! I got many benefit from it. Thanks a lot.
  11. Avatar alice said 683 days later:
    when I did the following, I got error. C:\deardiary>rake test_plugins (in C:/deardiary) rake aborted! Don't know how to build task 'test_plugins'
  12. Avatar Harryharasuthan said 756 days later:
    finally got something to work on... i tries watir but it doesn't have this record feature which are similar to excel macros.... and its really helpful cuz we don't need a DOM inspector to workaround... thnx alot... :)
  13. Avatar Jason Jin said 822 days later:
    Good! A good tool!
  14. Avatar narendra said 1150 days later:
    Cool.. Good tutorial for starters like me