Selenium Webdriver

Selenium Webdriver is an open-source tool for testing web applications. It supports IE, Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari browsers. It can run scripts locally or on a remote machine. Supported scripting languages are Java, C#, Python, Ruby, PHP, Perl ..

Selenium is probably the biggest web test automation tool. It is the core technology in many browser automation tools, APIs and frameworks. It doesn't have any built-in logging / reporting functionality, but using it together with e.g. Robot Framework, makes it an excellent web test automation tool.  

If you like to write scripts in Ruby, then I would pick Watir as the web test automation tool. Otherwise, Selenium is a very good choise.

Below I will describe how to install Selenium and write test scripts in Ruby. 



Installation (Ruby)

1. Download Ruby installer from http://www.rubyinstaller.org and run it. During installation select Ruby to be added to PATH and to associate .rb files to this Ruby installation.
2. Install Selenium Webdriver gem with command: gem install selenium-webdriver.

Example scripts

 

require 'rubygems'

require 'selenium-webdriver'

begin

  browser = Selenium::WebDriver.for :firefox

  wait = Selenium::WebDriver::Wait.new(:timeout => 10)

 

  puts "Go to google.com"

  browser.get "http://www.google.com"

  puts "Search for Selenium"

  element = browser.find_element(:name, "q")

  element.send_keys "Selenium"

  element.submit

  wait.until { browser.find_element(:tag_name, "body").text.include?( 'Web Browser Automation') }

 

  browser.quit

 

rescue

  browser.quit

end

More information 

 

http://www.seleniumhq.org

http://www.seleniumwebdriver.com