0 Table of Contents- Selenium - Ruby - Watir-Webdriver

Disclaimer:

• This tutorial assumes that you are aware of ruby programming language basics. In case you are not, I strongly recommend you to first take a ruby course. There are many good websites for this purpose, just Google them.
• I am not be liable for direct, indirect or consequential damages or for any loss of revenue, profits or data arising in connection with using this site or material.
• All statements with this site are purely my understanding of the technology and need not be correct.
• I am by no means a “Selenium-pro”. I thought this tutorial could be helpful to a lot of people, and thus I wrote it. If you have any corrections, questions, or suggestions please email me at shivausum@gmail.com.

This tutorial is intended to help understand Selenium-Ruby duo. At the end of the tutorial you should be in a good position to start automation for your web applications.

1. Introduction to selenium
• What is Selenium?
• Selenium history
• What languages are supported by Selenium and Why did we choose Ruby ?
• What are available options in ruby in support of Selenium?
2. Required installation and setup on you computer
3. Selenium - Ruby - Watir-Webdriver
• How to add Watir-Webdriver support in your scripts
• Some of the simple operations automated
• Opening a browser with given URL
• Checking if title of a page is as expected
• Closing the browser
• Identifying an element using XPath
• Time to learn more automation
• Finding an element
• Confirming if an element is really present on the loaded page 
• Checking for text inside a web element
• Clicking on an element (ex: button)
• Sending keyboard keys to a web element
• Selecting an option from a drop down
• Validating if a check box is checked
• Time to write some robust code
• Risks involved in above task if used with out using any wrappers around them
• Eliminating the risks by writing some robust code
• Using functions, exception handling and utility files
• Use a common template to write your code
• Project structure
4. Debugging
5. Sample test case automated
6. References

Happy Testing :) :)
Shiva Krishna Imminni

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