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Here be some Selenium guidelines (mostly for writing, but include running here too).
You want https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Execution/Web_Testing/Docs/Automation/Testcases/Guidelines
 
=IDE=
* click vs. clickAndWait - use the latter on anything that requires network activity, but if you use the former on other buttons/links, your script will pause indefinitely
* verifyLocation - use w/regexp; otherwise it'll be absolute (I think)
** e.g. ...
* wherever possible, use relative--not absolute--URLs in |open| commands
=PHP=
* Locating elements
** xpath: for elements that have dynamically generated xpaths use 'contains'.
  for e.g. if xpath for 'remove add-on' link has the add-on ID
  in it (id('addon-2464')/a[1]) and we do not know the add-on ID then
  we can write the xpath with 'contains'
  //div[@id,'addon-2464'][2]/a[1]) => //div[contains(@id,'addon- ')][2]/a[1]
** If you want to match on the text in an element
  //a[text()=’My Text’]: matches a link whose text is “My Text”
** If you want to match more than one string in attribute or text
  //a[contains(text(),’Bill’) && contains(text(), ‘Clinton’)]:matches a link
  whose text contains both Bill and Clinton. You can use any xpath function or
  operator to create your expression 
** Find the nth element of a type
  //div[position()=3]: matches the third div on the page
  //div[@id=’abc’]//table[position()=3]: matches the third table inside the div
  whose id is abc

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