Selenium IDE should support exporting to Selenium 2

[lukeis]

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 2003

First cut is already in with r12821

(nice revision :-)

Reported by Samit.Badle on 2011-07-07 21:00:59

[lukeis]

I was told to comment here, so my wish for the next feature in the IDE Webdriver Formatter
is support for the assert-functions like isTextPresent. Most tests don't make much
sense if you can not verify the presence of certain content or elements and as far
as I have seen on the groups almost everyone seems to have implemented a little helper
method around the webdriver API for themselves. 

I have something like this in my framework: 

protected bool ContainsText(string text, string inside) {         
            return _driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//*[@id='" + inside + "' or @class='"
+ inside + "']")).Text.Contains(text);
        }

That additional inside element was neccessary because the much simpler approach: 

protected bool ContainsText(string text) {         
            return _driver.FindElement(By.XPath("/html/body")).Text.Contains(text);
        }

had some serious performance issues on bigger pages. At least in the release that were
en vogue at the end of last year. 


Hope that helps. 

Thanks a lot for your work. Selenium is awesome ;) 

Reported by toba303 on 2011-07-19 11:56:38

[lukeis]

Got redirected here to from Samit's blog.

I am voting for adding the command for selecting drop-down values; equivalent to selenium.select(id,locator)
At least the basic commands from Selenium RC toolkit need to be available unless they
are being deprecated for some reason.

Cheers to Selenium!!

Reported by monatapaswi on 2011-07-19 18:24:43

[lukeis]

Thanks! I have included isTextPresent and the select related commands for the next release
of the formatters.

Cheers,
Samit

Reported by Samit.Badle on 2011-07-19 18:58:51

[lukeis]

Is there any time frame for when this fix will be committed to trunk? Or does it live
on branch I can check out? I just built the IDE from scratch and I'm still running
into the isTextPresent problem.

Thanks for your work!

Reported by mthurman@mixedmedialabs.com on 2011-07-27 20:42:20

[lukeis]

Here's my vote for the verify and assert functions being included in the export to java
(Junit, TestNG). 

Thanks!

Reported by danwilliford on 2011-07-27 22:41:20

[lukeis]

Hi,

BTW, mentioning 'verify and assert functions' does not help me much. :-( I need atleast
the actual Selenese command or the command mentioned in the unsupported command error
message. A real snippet which I can directly use as a test case will be even better.

Those waiting for the isTextPresent can also explore using the assertBodyText and verifyBodyText
instead of assertTextPresent and verifyTextPresent. It should be possible to do this
with a little tweak to the patterns. I have not personally tried this, but I have a
feeling that it would work.

At the moment I am working on releasing new versions of my plugins for Selenium IDE.
I will get back to this once that is done.

Cheers,
Samit

Reported by Samit.Badle on 2011-07-28 10:19:21

[lukeis]

select from dropdown would be great.

Reported by awattscurnow on 2011-08-15 04:34:22

[lukeis]

Greate release, it was my first taste of WebDriver and I loved every bit of it!

As for the commands to be supported, our team makes a signficant usage of all the prompt-related
messages - so I will be voting for those to be supported next.
More specifically, 'answerOnNextPrompt' and 'getPrompt'.

Reported by emanuele.ciriachi on 2011-08-19 10:47:47

[lukeis]

Issue 17 has been merged into this issue.

Reported by david.burns@theautomatedtester.co.uk on 2011-09-02 13:51:30