Testing: Selenium: ZimbraSelenium Tips
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General Information
This page details some helpful tips regarding usage of the Zimbra Selenium Harness
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Selenium
Preferred Locator Formats
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:
- by CSS (i.e. locator="css=a[href='#id3']")
- by xpath (i.e. locator="//a(@href='@id3']")
- by Identifier (i.e. locator="DWT233")
Translation: xpath to css
For those familiar with xpath but not css, here are some tips for translation.
| xpath | css | preferred | description |
|---|---|---|---|
| "xpath=//div[@id='foo']" | "css=div#foo" | "css=div#foo" | div with id equals "foo" |
| "xpath=//div[@class='bar']" | "css=div.bar" | "css=div.bar" | div with class attribute equals "bar" |
| "xpath=//div[@id='foo' and @class='bar']" | "css=div#foo.bar" | "css=div#foo.bar" | div with id=foo and class attribute equals "bar" |
| "xpath=//tr[contains(@attr,'partial']" | "css=tr[attr*='foo']" | "css=tr[attr*='foo']" | attr contains foo |
| - | "css=tr[attr^='foo']" | "css=tr[attr^='foo']" | attribute starts with foo |
| - | "css=tr[attr$='foo']" | "css=tr[attr$='foo']" | attribute ends with foo |
| xpath=(//div[@id='foo'])@class | "css=div[id='foo']@class" | sGetAttribute("css=div[id='foo']@class") | CSS format for sGetAttribute() |
| xpath=//div//table | "css=div table" | "css=div table" | descendant |
| xpath=//div/table | "css=div>table" | "css=div>table" | child |
Links
See http://saucelabs.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/selenium-totw-css-selectors-in-selenium-demystified/
See http://www.ivaturi.org/home/hackingseleniumtoimproveitsperformanceonie
