Extension:Selenium
 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 |
| Latest version | 0.8.4 (2008-01-10) |
| MediaWiki | 1.12.0+ |
| License | GPL |
| Download | |
| Example | Selenium example |
| Translate the Selenium extension if it is available at translatewiki.net | |
| Check usage and version matrix. | |
 | This page is obsolete. It is being retained for archival purposes. It may document extensions or features that are obsolete and/or no longer supported. Do not rely on the information here being up-to-date. See Selenium instead. |
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.
Installation[edit]
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.
Usage[edit]
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;
Orginal website for Selenium is
<ref>http://seleniumhq.org</ref>
}
Known issues[edit]
- 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.
