Application And Research Of Selenium In Community Online System Testing

With the rapid development of computer network technology, Web applications areincreasingly complex, and the scale also increases. People are paying more attention on howto ensure the correctness and reliability of Web applications. As an important means toguarantee the quality and reliability of the software, Web testing has become an important partof the Web software development process. Therefore, how to improve the efficiency of thetest, and carry out automated testing is the challenge that every enterprise faces.So far the process of generating test scripts for functional testing of Web applicationsystems basically utilize the “Record-Play” approach. In details, the testing staffs first recordtest scripts of the testing process manually, then modify the auto generated test scripts ifnecessary, and then execute the test scripts. If any of the scripts fail，analyze the root causes ofthe issues. If it the test script causing the failure, then the test scripts need to be maintained.This article describes an open source framework of Web application automated testingSelenium. It is open source automated testing framework based on “Record-Play” mode. Andits advantages are lightweight, multi-browser support for multiple languages. But in someapplication scenarios, Selenium has deficiency. The main work of this paper is analysis andimprovement for the Selenium automation testing tool against its faults. And bring up asolution based on the Selenium automation testing method which is called Selenium Adapter.Then apply the method to a community online system, and shows the advantage of SeleniumAdapter automation testing method. In addition, make some research and improvement duringthe testing to let it more suitable for the characteristics of the product, to guarantee the qualityof the product, and can improve work efficiency.