Summary

This concludes our first chapter; we got a lot accomplished in it. First we discussed the advantages of using Selenium and other OSS tools over the expensive commercial tools. After that we installed Selenium IDE and recorded our first test script, followed by the step-by-step deconstruction of each command performed in the script.

We then proceeded to convert the recorded test into Ruby programming language, comparing each command from the IDE with its Ruby equivalent. Finally, we started working with the Test::Unit testing framework and then learned about test assertions. We finished the chapter by making the test fail on purpose and played with the Ruby debugger. In the next chapter, we will add a couple of new tests and start to dive deeper into the Test::Unit framework. We will also talk about test suite design patterns that emerge from growing your test suite.