SELENIUM RC

What is Selenium RC?

Selenium RC (Remote Control) is an automation test tool that allows to create automation scripts for web based testing in any programming language such as JAVA, C#, PHP, Ruby, Python etc.
Selenium RC injects javascript to execute the test and is really ease to work with all browsers and platforms and also good supported for ajax applications as well.

Selenium RC have two parts:

• Selenium server - Launches the browser and execute the test cases.
• Selenium remote control - Provides an application programming interface with lots of libraries to support different programming languages

Architecture:

With different programming language and object oriented support gives you the ability to create more complex test cases that are not possible through Selenium IDE. You can executes these test cases as many time as required by using frameworks available in Java i.e. TestNG or JUnit. Also helpful while handling expected exceptions.

How to configure Selenium RC?

Pre Requisite:

• Install Firefox
• Install Java
• Download Selenium RC jar

Start Selenium RC standalone server:
Open command prompt and go to the directory where the Selenium RC jar file was kept and then write:

java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.20.0 

Create a new class file and copy paste the recorded script code. Now run it as a Java application.

Basic Selenium RC methods:

• selenium.start() - Takes you to the location where selenium server is and runs the server.
• selenium.open() - Takes you to the provied URL/Website address.
• selenium.getTitle() - Get the title of the current browser window.
• selenium.windowFocus() - Get the focus on the current window.
• selenium.windowMaximize() - Maximizes the current window.
• selenium.close() - Close the current browser window.

Method Detail:

start

public void start()

Description copied from interface:

Launches the browser with a new Selenium session

stop

public void stop()

Description copied from interface:

Ends the test session, killing the browser

click

public void click(java.lang.String locator)

Description copied from interface:

Clicks on a link, button, checkbox or radio button. If the click action causes a new page to load (like a link usually does), call waitForPageToLoad.

doubleClick

public void doubleClick(java.lang.String locator)

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Double clicks on a link, button, checkbox or radio button. If the double click action causes a new page to load (like a link usually does), call waitForPageToLoad.

clickAt

public void clickAt(java.lang.String locator,
                    java.lang.String coordString)

Description copied from interface:

Clicks on a link, button, checkbox or radio button. If the click action causes a new page to load (like a link usually does), call waitForPageToLoad.

doubleClickAt

public void doubleClickAt(java.lang.String locator,
                          java.lang.String coordString)

Description copied from interface:

Doubleclicks on a link, button, checkbox or radio button. If the action causes a new page to load (like a link usually does), call waitForPageToLoad.

fireEvent

public void fireEvent(java.lang.String locator,
                      java.lang.String eventName)

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Explicitly simulate an event, to trigger the corresponding "onevent" handler.

keyPress

public void keyPress(java.lang.String locator,
                     java.lang.String keySequence)

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Simulates a user pressing and releasing a key.

shiftKeyDown

public void shiftKeyDown()

Description copied from interface:

Press the shift key and hold it down until doShiftUp() is called or a new page is loaded.

shiftKeyUp

public void shiftKeyUp()

Description copied from interface: Release the shift key.

metaKeyDown

public void metaKeyDown()

Description copied from interface: Selenium

Press the meta key and hold it down until doMetaUp() is called or a new page is loaded.