Testing: Selenium: ZimbraSelenium Tips

General Information

This page details some helpful tips regarding usage of the Zimbra Selenium Harness

Code

Selenium

Locators

Using the most optimal locators is crucial for cross-browser compatibility. IE is notoriously slow for processing xpath locators. As per the Selenium documentation, the preferred format of locators is:

1. by Identifier (i.e. locator="DWT233")
2. by CSS (i.e. locator="css=a[href='#id3']")
3. by xpath (i.e. locator="//a(@href='@id3']")

xpath to css translation

xpath	css	preferred	usage
"xpath=//div[@id='foo']"	"css=div[id='foo']"	"foo"	sIsElementPresent("foo")
"xpath=//div[@id='foo']"	"css=div[id='foo']"	"foo"	sIsElementPresent("foo")

See http://saucelabs.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/selenium-totw-css-selectors-in-selenium-demystified/

See http://saucelabs.com/blog/index.php/2010/03/selenium-tips-finding-elements-by-their-inner-text-using-contains-a-css-pseudo-class/