I has been given a task to explore if we can test google-like AJAX sites. I mean when we write something in google search edit box, prompting combo/list box appears, and we must emulate some item choosing.
Using Selenium it seems to be impossible to do that, because Selenium operates in terms of HTML elements, but prompting combo/list box is not reflected in HTML source code (as I understood it's shown using browser features, not HTML - anyways, Selenium IDE doesn't trace such actions too).
Monday, February 4, 2008
Friday, February 1, 2008
Selenium HTTPS support
Selenium developers suggest four experimental launchers for testing SSL-enabled web pages. Two of them(*chrome and *iehta) work as a proxy and since https doesn't let you simply spoof http headers, Selenium issues its own certificate you have to trust (you can find it inside sslSupport folder of Selenium distributive).
Another two launchers (*pifirefox and *piiexplore) access SSL-enabled web pages directly. In this case there is one trouble consisting in necessity of closing warning messages about authenticity of server certificate (sure, it is supposed that you didn't get a certificate from public authorized CA). Obviously, doing this manually is not accessible.
I see two possible ways to solve this flaw:
1) Create your own CA, issue a certificate for your server and add this CA cerificate to public trusted CA's list on a client PC.
2) This method is more forced and I wouldn't recommend you to choose it, but maybe sometimes it can be a last resort. Moreover, it's platform-specific. For example, for windows you code a program (C++, WinAPI) that finds a warning windows by its title and sends a "close" message to it.
Another two launchers (*pifirefox and *piiexplore) access SSL-enabled web pages directly. In this case there is one trouble consisting in necessity of closing warning messages about authenticity of server certificate (sure, it is supposed that you didn't get a certificate from public authorized CA). Obviously, doing this manually is not accessible.
I see two possible ways to solve this flaw:
1) Create your own CA, issue a certificate for your server and add this CA cerificate to public trusted CA's list on a client PC.
2) This method is more forced and I wouldn't recommend you to choose it, but maybe sometimes it can be a last resort. Moreover, it's platform-specific. For example, for windows you code a program (C++, WinAPI) that finds a warning windows by its title and sends a "close" message to it.
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