Tag Archives: QA

The File Logging Plugin for Selenium IDE v1.7 Released

The version 1.7 of my File Logging plugin for Selenium IDE is now available on the Firefox addons site. This version brings a bunch of user experience improvements and major internal improvements. This version saves the current log level for the … Continue reading

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A Quick Introduction to CSS Locators in Selenium

While writing my recent posts on alternate locators, locator builders and Seleninum plugin API, I skipped over a truely basic question. What is a CSS locator in Selenium? It seems that some people are still looking for the answer(tm)! As you already … Continue reading

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Creating CSS Locator Builders for Selenium IDE

Selenium IDE has a very powerful extension support. In this post I am going to show you how easy it is to extend Selenium IDE with new locator builders. A locator in Selenium is a means of identifying an element … Continue reading

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Learn Alternate Locators Using Selenium IDE

A locator in Selenium is a means of identifying an element for the selenium command. Usually it is the target part of the command. Did you know that when recording with the Selenium IDE, sometimes the target textbox changes into … Continue reading

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The Stored Variables Viewer Plugin for Selenium IDE v1.3 Released

The new version of my Stored Variables Viewer plugin for Selenium IDE has been uploaded to the Firefox addons site. This version bring user experience improvements, added functionality and internal improvements. Thanks to Paul Grandjean for helpful comments on the first version. Once … Continue reading

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Log Search Bar Plugin for Selenium IDE v1.1 Released

The Log Search Bar plugin for Selenium IDE has been updated to v1.1. This version works around a bug in Firefox to support older 3.x versions of Firefox and adds some internal improvements. Thanks to Bob Zakes for providing helpful comments about circumstances … Continue reading

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Running Selenium RC With Firefox 4 Beta 6

Yeah!!! Managed to get a small test working on Firefox 4 beta 6 using Selenium RC v1.0.1 Here are the steps that I followed. Rename the selenium-server.jar to selenium-server.zip (as it is actually a zip file). Unpack the selenium-server.xip into … Continue reading

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Exploratory Maintenance and Debugging Selenium Tests

What would you do if you ever have to maintain or debug tests that are unknown to you or you have forgotten? Sounds familiar? One obvious approach is to study the test scripts. But if pouring over pages and pages … Continue reading

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Highlight Elements Plugin for Selenium IDE ver 1.0 Released

The Highlight Elements plugin for Selenium IDE is now available on the Firefox addons site. This plugin for Selenium-IDE highlights elements specified in the Selenese commands on the web page as the test case is executed. Once this plugin is installed, a highlight … Continue reading

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The Test Suite Batch Converter plugin for Selenium IDE Updated

The Test Suite Batch Converter plugin for Selenium IDE has been updated to v1.1. This update makes some internal improvements. The user interface was not changed. Get it from the Firefox addons website. As usual, feel free to leave comments, … Continue reading

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