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Selenium IDE/RC and AMO, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Automation

Questions?  Feedback/suggestions?  Email [mailto:stephend@mozilla.com?subject=http://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Tools/Selenium/AMO_Automation stephend@mozilla.com]

== How to record and play back Selenium IDE scripts ==
# Record the script(s) with [http://selenium-ide.openqa.org/ Selenium IDE]
## Be sure to record '''relative''', not ''absolute'' paths (i.e. /en-US/firefox/some/AMO/url/, rather than https://preview.addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/some/AMO/url
# Download and install [http://selenium-rc.openqa.org/download.html Selenium RC] -- literally just unzip it into its own folder
## In the root of your Selenium RC folder, create a folder called |htmlSuite|
## Drop your |testcase.html| file(s) into the |htmlSuite| directory
## In |htmlSuite|, create an HTML file called |testSuite.html|, following the markup in [http://wiki.openqa.org/display/SIDE/Automating+Selenium+IDE+tests http://wiki.openqa.org/display/SIDE/Automating+Selenium+IDE+tests]
## Change the |href=| filename attributes to match each of your testcase's filename
# From the command line, issue: java -jar selenium-server.jar -htmlSuite "*firefox" "https://preview.addons.mozilla.org" [1 -- just a footnote, don't enter me!] "/Users/stephend/Desktop/selenium-remote-control-1.0-SNAPSHOT/htmlSuite/testSuite.html" "/Users/stephend/Desktop/results.html" (substituting, of course, the folder name of your RC version and path/to/tests and path/to/results.html)
# If all goes, well, your first testcase will begin running; when it's finished, it'll run the next testcase, and once that's completed, it'll quit Firefox and write out |results.html|

[1] This is the base URL, and what your test scripts will key off of

== Sounds great and all, but what does this do for / how does this help AMO? ==

# The idea is not to regress critical things like search, other functionality/page views
# Limitation: not a subtitute for a unit test