sideflow - a flow control extension for Selenium IDE

Lets you do goto and while loops in the Selenium IDE Firefox add-on as well as via the selenese goal in the Maven Selenium Plugin. This is a Selenium IDE compatible port of the flow control extension from http://wiki.openqa.org/display/SEL/flowControl which is the older outdated version of https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/flow-control/.

Requirements

Selenium IDE v1.0.5 + Selenium Maven Plugin v2.3 +

Install

Firefox Selenium IDE

• Get Selenium IDE for Firefox from http://www.SeleniumHQ.org/projects/ide/
• Launch Selenium IDE from Firefox and open the Options menu
• Add the sideflow.js file to the "Selenium Core extensions (user-extensions.js)" field

Selenium Maven Plugin ( selenese )

• Install and configure your Selenium Maven Plugin in your POM
• Configure the plugin userExtensions property
• Configure your execution to use the selenese goal

Commands

• label | mylabel - creates a label called "mylabel" (a goto target)
• goto | mylabel - goto "mylabel"
• gotoLabel | mylabel - synonym for goto
• gotoIf | expression - jump to specified label if expression is true
• while | expression - loop while expression is true
• endWhile - indicate the end of a while loop
• push | value | arrayName - push value onto an array, creating array if necessary

Resources

• Full Documentation
• Selenium HQ SeleniumHQ

Authors

• Andrey Yegorov - original flow control extension
• Darren DeRidder - Selenium IDE port
• Paul Bors - Selenium Maven Plugin port

License

• See the attached License document.