Introduction to Browser Automation and Testing with Selenium
How do you test your web-based applications? If you’re like most developers you click around your app, following links and filling out forms, visually verifying that the app behaves the way you expect it to behave. Do you enjoy doing that? Do you find it to be a good use of your time? And how often do you miss a bug because you quite simply didn’t notice it? Have you ever thought to yourself “there has to be a better way?”
Thankfully there is, and there’s an easy to use tool that will help get you there. Selenium is a browser automation tool which allows you to create a script which will “drive” your web browser and allow you to verify what gets rendered along the way. So not only can you automate tedious routines which have to be repeated over and over again, but you can create assertions which will test that your app is actually behaving as you intended it to. Even if you aren’t ready to start creating automated tests, you can still use Selenium to speed up your development by eliminating the need to click through your UI every time you want to manually check a code change.
This session will cover the basics that you need to know to get started using Selenium, and CFSelenium, in your next project. If you’re sick and tired of spending half of your day clicking around a web page then spend 50 minutes with Selenium and discover that there really is a better way.
