Overcoming the limitations of Selenium Core

While working with Selenium Core I encountered a limitation as I tried to do a payment with PayPal: it is not possible to visit another domain from within your tests. The reason is the “Same Origin Policy” which applies to Selenium Core according to “Which Selenium Tool Should I Use?”: Selenium Core needs to be […]

New versions of the Selenium helper

There are two new versions of the Selenium helper available. Version 0.2 is a bug fix release. It was created by Felix Geisendörfer, and fixes a XPath problem with Internet Explorer. Thanks Felix! Version 0.3 supports the new release of Selenium (version 0.7.0). A lot of new functions have been added (such functions are marked […]

File upload with Selenium

In my Selenium tests I want to upload some files. Due to security restrictions it is by default not possible that a Javascript fills in a path in the respective input field. But fortunately, there exists a workaround: a) The Mozilla must have the configuration option “signed.applets.codebase_principal_support” set to the value “true”. This allows non-signed […]

Selenium

In the last days I experimented with Selenium (thanks to knoebi for the hint). What is Selenium? Here the description from the website: Selenium is a test tool for web applications. Selenium tests run directly in a browser, just as real users do. I have to admit that I like Selenium, and so I will […]