Validation of a tool tip

To validate the tooltipof below mentioned site:

https://www.google.com/adsense/g-app-single-1?hl=en&sourceid=aso&subid=ww-en-et-ads&medium=link

selenium.mouseOver(""//img[contains(@id,'tooltipImage')])
Thread.sleep(1000);
selenium.mouseOver("//div[contains(@class,tooltipPopup)]")
Thread.sleep(1000);
selenium.getText("//div[contains(@class,tooltipPopup)]/meta/a")

Launching the Selenium RC - Window Service.

Lunching the selenium RC as window service by following manner:

Here are the steps:

1. Install the latest Java runtime if you don't have it installed already
2. Install the Selenium server (e.g. C:\Selenium\selenium-server-1.0.1
3. Download srvany.exe and instsrv.exe (these are part of the Microsoft Windows Resource Kit - you will need to download the correct version for your OS) and copy these files to a location on your server (e.g. C:\reskit)
4. Browse to this folder, and type: instsrv "Selenium RC" "C:\reskit\srvany.exe" - this will create the windows service named "Selenium RC", which will now be installed as a Windows service, although it won't start up yet
5. Open up regedit, and browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Selenium RC
6. Right-click "Selenium RC" in the tree, and click New - Key, and add a key called "Parameters"
7. Open Parameters, and create a new string value called "Application"
8. Add the following to the data value for the new string value: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin\java.exe" -jar "C:\Selenium\selenium-server-1.0.1\selenium-server.jar", substituting paths to the java exe and the selenium server jar file where appropriate
9. Load up the windows services console (services.msc) and start the service

Launching Broswer using different methods

we can launch the browser by following ways:

• Using default selenium object.
• Using webdriver object.
• Using HTTPCommandProcesser object.
• Using WebDriver backed Selenium object.

By default selenium object:

    browser=new DefaultSelenium("localhost",4444, "firefox","http://www.google.com");
    browser.start();
    browser.windowMaximize();
    browser.open("http://www.google.com");

By Webdriver Object:
  
    WebDriver browser1;
    browser1=new FirefoxDriver();
    browser1.get("http://www.google.com");

By HTTPCommandProcesser object:

    HttpCommandProcessor browser2;
    browser2= new HttpCommandProcessor("localhost", 4444, "*firefox", "http://www.google.com");
    browser2.start();
    String[] url={"http://www.google.com"};
    browser2.doCommand("open", url);
  
By WebDriver backed Selenium object:
  
    browser1=new FirefoxDriver();
    browser=new WebDriverBackedSelenium(browser1,"http://www.google.com");
    browser.open("http://www.google.com");
    browser.windowMaximize();

How to handle ssl certificate error in selenium rc

Hi all,
when your tests redirect to an HTTPS URL on the same host, where your SSL certificate is self-signed, things go wrong. As Selenium effectively runs Firefox with a new profile every time, you potentially lose any certificate exceptions you might accept.

We have a technique to avoid this problem:
  - create a custom profile;
  - run Firefox using that profile;
  - browse to the HTTPS URL and accept the exception into that profile;
  - close the profile.

Steps to create a Firefox profile:
1. Close down any running Firefox instances.
2. Start Firefox (the one you're going to run your tests with) with the profile manager: firefox –ProfileManager using command prompt.
3. Create a new profile. You'll be prompted to choose a directory for the profile. Put it somewhere inside the project where you're writing the tests.
4. Select the profile and run Firefox using it.
5. Browse to the HTTPS URL (with self-signed certificate) you're going to be testing against.
6. Accept the self-signed certificate when prompted. This creates an exception for it in the profile.
7. Close the browser.
8. Go to the Firefox profile directory.
9. When you run your Selenium server, pass a -firefoxProfileTemplate /path/to/profile/dir argument to it. This tells Selenium to use your partial profile (with certificate exceptions) as a basis for minting its new profile. So you get the certificate exceptions, but without any of the other clutter you would get if you used a whole profile.


command for using the firefox profile template in selenium server.

java -jar selenium-server.jar -firefoxProfileTemplate /path/to/profile \
-htmlSuite “*chrome firefox-bin” “http://host.com” “testSuite.html” “seleniumResults.html”

Way to Get XPATH in IE

Are you stuck with an application that only works in IE?
Do you want the XPATH of an element that can be seen only IE? Unable to replicate the scenario in firefox. There are many firefox addons like xpather, xpath-checker and firebug that will give you the xpath of an element in a second. But sadly there is no addon or tool avaialable that will do this for IE. For most cases you can get the xpath of the elements that fall in your script using the above tools in firefox and tweak them a little (if required) to make them work in IE. But if you are testing an application that will work only in IE or the specific scenario or page that has this element will open-up/play-out only in IE then you cannot use any of the above mentione tools to find the XPATH.
Well the only thing that works in this case is the Bookmarklets that were coded just for this purpose. Bookmarklets are JavaScript code that you will add in IE as bookmarks and later use to get the XPATH of the element you desire. Using these you can get the XPATH as easily as you get using xpather or any other firefox addon.

STEPS TO INSTAL BOOKMARKLETS
1)Open IE
2)Type about:blank in the address bar and hit enter
3)From Favorites main menu select--->Add favorites
4) In the Add a favorite popup window enter name GetXPATH1.
5)Click add button in the add a favorite popup window.
6)Open the Favorites menu and right click the newly added favorite and select properties option.
7)GetXPATH1 Properties will open up. Select the web Document Tab.
8)Enter the following in the URL field.

javascript:function getNode(node){var nodeExpr=node.tagName;if(!nodeExpr)return null;if(node.id!=''){nodeExpr+="[@id='"+node.id+"']";return "/"+nodeExpr;}var rank=1;var ps=node.previousSibling;while(ps){if(ps.tagName==node.tagName){rank++;}ps=ps.previousSibling;}if(rank>1){nodeExpr+='['+rank+']';}else{var ns=node.nextSibling;while(ns){if(ns.tagName==node.tagName){nodeExpr+='[1]';break;}ns=ns.nextSibling;}}return nodeExpr;}

9)Click Ok. Click YES on the popup alert.
10)Add another favorite by following steps 3 to 5, Name this favorite GetXPATH2 (step4)
11)Repeat steps 6 and 7 for GetXPATH2 that you just created.
12)Enter the following in the URL field for GetXPATH2

javascript:function o__o(){var currentNode=document.selection.createRange().parentElement();var path=[];while(currentNode){var pe=getNode(currentNode);if(pe){path.push(pe);if(pe.indexOf('@id')!=-1)break;}currentNode=currentNode.parentNode;}var xpath="/"+path.reverse().join('/');clipboardData.setData("Text", xpath);}o__o();

13)Repeat Step 9.

You are all done!!

Now to get the XPATH of elements just select the element with your mouse. This would involve clicking the left mouse button just before the element (link, button, image, checkbox, text etc) begins and dragging it till the element ends. Once you do this first select the favorite GetXPATH1 from the favorites menu and then select the second favorite GetXPATH2. At his point you will get a confirmation, hit allow access button. Now open up a notepad file, right click and select paste option. This will give you the XPATH of the element you seek.


*I got this bookmarklets from some other site but can't remember which one. Credit goes to the guy who created these JS.