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diff --git a/tests/FunctionalTests/selenium/doc/FAQ.html b/tests/FunctionalTests/selenium/doc/FAQ.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000..90299653 --- /dev/null +++ b/tests/FunctionalTests/selenium/doc/FAQ.html @@ -0,0 +1,128 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> +<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> +<head> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> +<meta name="generator" content="Docutils 0.3.5: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/" /> +<title>Selenium Frequently Asked Questions</title> +<link rel="stylesheet" href="default.css" type="text/css" /> +</head> +<body> +<h1 class="title">Selenium Frequently Asked Questions</h1> +<div class="document" id="selenium-frequently-asked-questions"> +<!-- Please note that until there's a Q&A-specific construct available, +this FAQ will use section titles for questions. Therefore +questions must fit on one line. The title may be a summary of the +question, with the full question in the section body. --> +<p>This is a work in progress. Please feel free to ask questions and/or +provide answers; send email to the Selenium users email address at <a class="reference" href="mailto:selenium-users@lists.public.thoughtworks.org">selenium-users@lists.public.thoughtworks.org</a>.</p> +<div class="contents topic" id="contents"> +<p class="topic-title first"><a name="contents">Contents</a></p> +<ul class="auto-toc simple"> +<li><a class="reference" href="#selenium" id="id2" name="id2">1 Selenium</a><ul class="auto-toc"> +<li><a class="reference" href="#what-is-selenium-used-for" id="id3" name="id3">1.1 What is Selenium used for?</a></li> +<li><a class="reference" href="#why-can-t-i-script-google-com" id="id4" name="id4">1.2 Why can't I script google.com?</a></li> +<li><a class="reference" href="#how-can-i-run-my-test-against-a-foreign-or-remote-server-and-get-around-cross-site-scripting-security" id="id5" name="id5">1.3 How can I run my test against a foreign or remote server and get around cross-site scripting security?</a></li> +<li><a class="reference" href="#how-do-you-create-test-tables" id="id6" name="id6">1.4 How do you create test tables?</a></li> +</ul> +</li> +</ul> +</div> +<div class="section" id="selenium"> +<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id2" name="selenium">1 Selenium</a></h1> +<div class="section" id="what-is-selenium-used-for"> +<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id3" name="what-is-selenium-used-for">1.1 What is Selenium used for?</a></h2> +<p>It is used for functional or system testing web applications. These tests +are also sometimes called acceptance, customer, or integration tests. Selenium is not meant for unit testing.</p> +</div> +<div class="section" id="why-can-t-i-script-google-com"> +<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id4" name="why-can-t-i-script-google-com">1.2 Why can't I script google.com?</a></h2> +<p>Question: +<em>I was trying to write a simple script that does a google search. +I have been running into all sorts of problems. Does this work for you? +Here is my test:</em> <table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="1"> + <tbody> + <tr> + <td rowspan="1" colspan="3">Test Type<br> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td>open</td> + <td>http://www.google.com/</td> + <td> </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td>type</td> + <td>q</td> + <td>testing tools</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td>click</td> + <td>submitButton</td> + <td> </td> + </tr> + </tbody> +</table>.</p> +<p>Answer: +The quick answer is that because of cross-site scripting security built into +JavaScript engines in all browsers, you can't edit the content of a web page +from another domain. The foreign page will probably load correctly and be visible +in the test runner window, but Selenium won't be able to query or edit its contents. +In other words, you can't run selenium on "foo.com" and +run a test that edits values and clicks buttons against "bar.com". So, in +its current form, you can't "script" google.com because your script isn't +currently hosted on google.com. When Selenium and the application you are +testing is hosted on the same domain, however, you do not run into the +cross-site scripting security feature/limitation.</p> +<p>You read more about cross-site scripting here: <a class="reference" href="http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/JavaScript/JavaScript-Security/">http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/JavaScript/JavaScript-Security/</a></p> +<p>Also, if cross-site scripting security didn't exist, be careful about your +field and button references in your tests. The current version +of Selenium uses the "id" attribute of the object you are referring to in your +test. The search field and submit button at google.com have "name" attributes, +but not not "id" attributes. Therefore, Selenium wouldn't be able to find the objects. +Future versions of Selenium will be able to search for objects by more than +just the id attribute, though.</p> +</div> +<div class="section" id="how-can-i-run-my-test-against-a-foreign-or-remote-server-and-get-around-cross-site-scripting-security"> +<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id5" name="how-can-i-run-my-test-against-a-foreign-or-remote-server-and-get-around-cross-site-scripting-security">1.3 How can I run my test against a foreign or remote server and get around cross-site scripting security?</a></h2> +<p>There are a few ways around cross-site scripting to access a remote server. +You could use a combination of proxying and URL rewriting in Apache to +trick the browser into the thinking the application and the testing tool +are coming from the same domain.</p> +<p>Another option is to run Selenium as an "HTA" application, or "HTML +Application" in Internet Explorer. HTA applications run in the security +context of any trusted application on the client, so there is no cross-site +scripting limitation. (You can find out more here: +<a class="reference" href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/hta/overview/htaoverview.asp">http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/hta/overview/htaoverview.asp</a>) The +equivalent to this "security-free" client on the Mozilla side of the fence +would be to write a XUL wrapper/extension.</p> +<p>Also, please see the answer to the related question: "Why can't I script google.com".</p> +</div> +<div class="section" id="how-do-you-create-test-tables"> +<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id6" name="how-do-you-create-test-tables">1.4 How do you create test tables?</a></h2> +<p>The developers on the Selenium project use Mozilla Composer to +create plain HTML text files for their tests. +By default, Mozilla Composer writes very clean HTML without any extra, unnecessary markup.</p> +<p>Future versions of Selenium may support RST (ReStructred Text), or wiki-table +syntax, natively. However, you are free to use another format now, +as long as you remember to generate the HTML files from your source files, +either during your build process or dynamically at run-time.</p> +<table class="field-list" frame="void" rules="none"> +<col class="field-name" /> +<col class="field-body" /> +<tbody valign="top"> +<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body">Jason Huggins</td> +</tr> +<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Created Date:</th><td class="field-body">11/05/2004</td> +</tr> +<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Modified Date:</th><td class="field-body">11/05/2004</td> +</tr> +<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Created With:</th><td class="field-body">reStructuredText: <a class="reference" href="http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html">http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html</a></td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> +</div> +</div> +</div> +</body> +</html> |