Selenium 2/Web Driver - the land where Page Objects are king!

In the world of automated web testing, Selenium 2/WebDriver is the new kid on the block, but it is also arguably the most compelling web testing tool around at the moment. Selenium 2/WebDriver is the result of the merging of two popular open source web testing frameworks: Selenium 1 and WebDriver, in an effort to learn the lessons gleaned from both of these older libraries. And the teams have learned their lessons well, and come up with a slick, elegant and functional testing framework. Selenium 2, like Selenium, is a cross-browser tool - it is equally happy to run through both Firefox and Internet Explorer. But it also works with HTMLUnit which simulates a browser by sending HTTP requests and analyzing the HTML responses. You can pick from several drivers, including HTMLUnit (which great for fast testing of more conventional web applications), as well as browser-based drivers for Firefox, Chrome and InternetExplorer. The basic API is identical, though milage will vary from one driver to another, particularly if you are testing AJAX-based applications - for example tests for some AJAX apps will work with the Firefox browser, but not with the HTMLUnit browser. The good news is that it is trivially simple to switch between drivers. Setting up Selenium 2 in a Maven project is easy: just add the following dependency: org.seleniumhq.selenium selenium 2.0a5 This will give you the Selenium 2 core libraries plus all of the driver...

Date: August, 09 2010
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/johnsmart/archive/2010/08/09/selenium-2web-driver-land-where-page-objects-are-king

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