Selenium Test execution speed on Safari vs Internet Explorer

I have been working on a selenium test suite that contains about 150 tests.

These test would normally take about 4hrs 30mins for it to execute to completion.

I tried to run same tests on Safari today, and it took exactly 1hr 9min. This is such a big difference 

and i think it is because of the extreme use of Xpath in the test suite. And as it is known thatXpath execute soooo slow in IE.

This is quite good as i have decided to run intraday tests in safari so as to get faster feedback, cos up until now i am unable to kick off these test because a test suite that takes 4hr 30min to executes would have taken almost half of my day and does little good.

I would be writing another post that talk about how to efficiently use Xpath in your tests whenever you need to ......

Any comments ............

Need to get a value of an attribute using selenium

I was in this situation when i needed to get the value of an html attribute and i found the selenium.getattribute very handy .....

Okay the scenario was such that there was an element which is collapsible on the page and the only attibute for that element that indictated the status of the collapsible element was the 'Class'. when the element was collapsed, the value of the class attribute was 'asleep' and when the element was expanded, the value of the class atttribute was 'awake'.

The script used to determine the status of this element is

selenium.GetAttribute("elementLocator@nameofAttribute");

so if the id of my element is FundingClass and the attribute we are interested in is the 'Class'

The selenium code will be
selenium.GetAttribute("FundingClass@Class");

Hope this helps someone .....

Use selenium to create screenshot

I just stunbled across selenium as a tool to take screenshot.
Thuis could be useful for anything.

In my case i used it to take the screenshot of a page just before it throws an error in my selenium test. and that i could have a look and investigate what the problem might have been.

very simple command and the great thing is it can be easily used for screenshots of a page across different browsers.

browser.CaptureEntirePageScreenshot("C:\\actual _path_to_where_you_want the_file _placed\\screenshot.png");