Extension:Selenium
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 Release status: beta |
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| Implementation | Tag, Special page |
| Description | Provide a selenium tag and special page interface to selenium-core |
| Author(s) | User:Zven |
| Version | 0.8.4 (10 January 2008) |
| MediaWiki | 1.12.0+ |
| Download | |
| Example | Selenium example |
Selenium is an extension which provides a tag <selenium> that encapsulates any selenium tests. For example, tests generated using selenium-ide (an extension available for the Firefox web browser). This allows mediawiki to act as a repository for maintaining selenium tests in articles. A wiki article that is a single selenium test is distinctly different from an article which contains a suite of selenium tests separated by section headings (==Section 1== etc).
This extension comes bundled with selenium-core (version 0.8.3), a test tool for web applications. The extension provides a special page (Special:Selenium) as an interface to allow a suite of selenium tests provided within an article to be parsed and run with selenium-core on the same server. When an article contains a selenium tag, it is automatically categorized into Category:Selenium. The Special page Special:Selenium provides a drop down list of selenium test suites to run using selenium-core.
This allows client side testing and validation of content on the server that the extension is installed on. For example, selenium-ide tests could be written to prove that a certain extension has been installed by checking for extension credits in Special:Version, and generate some content in the Sandbox that illustrates functionality and checks returned output for certain expected criteria. The Selenium-core environment will determine which tests have passed or failed.
[edit] Installation
Download the file Selenium.zip and unpack it in;
$IP/wiki/extensions
The structure should be as follows;
$IP/wiki/extensions/Selenium/Selenium.php $IP/wiki/extensions/Selenium/selenium-core-0
To enable the extension add the following line into your LocalSettings.php.
include("$IP/extensions/Selenium/Selenium.php");
Check the extension is installed at Special:Version on your wiki site.
Alternatively you can separately download selenium-core-0 and the extension file Selenium.php and recreate the directory structure above.
[edit] Usage
The <selenium> tag encapsulates an entire generated selenium-ide test without having to remove any of the generated tag content. Adding the following CSS code to MediaWiki:Common.css will configure the displayed tables to look like selenium tests within wiki articles
div.selenium table { border:1px solid #CCCCCC; border-collapse:collapse; font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:12px; }
[edit] Known issues
- Parameters are not expanded in transcluded articles.
- If <selenium> tags encapsulate multiple tests within a single section heading, only the first selenium tags within section headings are used to generate a suite used by the special page.
- Currently there is no logging of users who run a selenium-core suite from a wiki article.
