Running Cross Browser tests with Selenium and Cloud Testing

Once you have uploaded your Selenium script into your Cloud Testing account, one of the many things you can do is run a Cross Browser test. This will allow you to compare screenshots, captured HTML and components of the various steps in your user journey in the browsers that we currently support:

Internet Explorer ( 6, 7 & 8 )
Firefox ( 2, 3 & 3.5)
Safari (3.2 & 4.0)
Opera (9.6 & 10.0)
Google Chrome (2.0 & 3.0)

Select script

First select the script you want to test from the list available in your project.

You can of course upload another one if you need one, directly from Selenium IDE.

Enter details of test

You can enter a name for the test, along with relevant notes such as which server it was run against, which release from SVN or CVS etc.

Select browsers

Next you need to select which browsers you want it run on.

If you have an Enterprise subscription, you will be able to choose from your own Private agents, otherwise you will be offered the currently available Public agents.

You can now schedule the test to be run. It will be run on our Cloud Testing agents – you don’t need to do anything more for now – you can check on the progress by looking at the Pending Runs tab.

Viewing the results

Once the tests have completed, you can view the overview of each of the script runs.

You can then choose to either view one step in all browsers (by clicking on the ‘Compare these Test Runs’ magnifier icon).

Alternatively you can choose to view a complete run in a single browser – in this case Google Chrome.

You can then either view the HTML, Components or a full size screenshot of the browser window (compared to the thumbnail).

Test results, screenshots, HTML and components will be stored in line with the package you purchased. Additional storage can always be added when required.

For full details of the services and features available from Cloud testing see www.cloudtesting.com

Update – 9th October 2009 – New Cross Browser compare thumbnails view

Firefox 3.0.11 released

A new update for Firefox 3.0 has been released today – 3.0.11. This is the list of issues as listed in the release note.

• Fixed several security issues.
• Fixed several stability issues.
• Several issues were reported with the internal database, SQLite, which have now been fixed by upgrading to a newer version.
• Fixed an issue where, in some specific cases, the bookmarks database would become corrupt. (bug 464486)

Firefox 3.0.10 released

Firefox 3.0.10 was released on the 29th April 2008, and fixes two issues found in Firefox 3.0.9 including two security issues and a major stability issue.

Users of the Cloud Testing “Functional Pro”  Website Testing Service, can compare their websites in IE8, IE7, IE6, Firefox 2 and 3.

Firefox 3.1 (Shiretoko) to be named Firefox 3.5

In a recent announcement, Mozilla announced that Firefox 3.1 (Shiretoko) is to be renamed Firefox 3.5. The announcement followed a proposal which listed the reason as “due to the sheer volume of work which makes Shiretoko feel like much more than a small, incremental improvement over Firefox 3″.

The new features in it will be “TraceMonkey, <video> tag and player support, improvements to user controls over data privacy, significant improvements in the web layout and rendering platform, and much more”.

The release, which is currently versioned as 3.1b3 is expected to be finally released in a few months.

The word “Shiretoko” is an Ainu word meaning “end of the earth” – see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiretoko_National_Park.

Firefox 3.0.7 released

An update to Firefox 3.0 has been released. The 3.0.7 release, fixes a number of Security issues. The full list of new features is available in the Release Notes on the Mozilla website.

Although no changes to how the browser renders pages are expected, users of the Cloud Testing ‘Browser Check’ service will be able to validate their sites with the new version with immediate effect.

Firefox 3.0.6 fixes several issues.

An updated version of Firefox 3.0 has been released by Mozilla. It addresses a number of issues, including one critical security bug. See the 3.0.6 release notes for more detail.

Firefox continues to eat into Internet Explorer’s market dominance. Internet Explorer now has 67.55 percent of the browser market globally, down over seven percent in the last year, according to recently released figures. The Firefox browser, has gained over three percent to 21.53 percent.

The latest release of Firefox is now available for website regression testing at CloudTesting.com.