Automated Cross-Browser Testing With Selenium

We published an introductory article on Selenium earlier this year (An Introduction to the Web Testing Framework Selenium), as well as a look at using Selenium RC In The Cloud - SauceRC. So now it's time to put this information to work. For the next few weeks, I'll provide another of our HOWTO series on Selenium. I've selected automated cross-browser testing as the subject for this HOWTO series because that is a bulk of what we all do when providing compatibility testing for web sites and services.

This HOWTO series will be presented in 4 parts and will cover installing and using the Selenium IDE; recording, editing, and saving an HTML test suite; installing and configuring Selenium Remote Control (RC); and, using the Selenium RC "htmlSuite" option to run our HTML test suite on a variety of browsers. And when we're done with this HOWTO, we'll attempt to transition our testing to the SauceRC service mentioned earlier.