QA/Execution/Web Testing/Selenium Guidelines

Here be some Selenium guidelines (mostly for writing, but include running here too).

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]