This notes are free continuation of the earlier blog entry Using Selenium 2.0 with ChromeDriver for testing of Joomla sites.

All site tests were performed on Joomla 3.0.0 backend using Isis standard template and frontend with protostar template. Used testing environment was Chrome browser ver. 22, chromedriver ver.22, NetBeans Java SE ver.7.1.2.

Two years testing Joomla extensions with Selenium 1.0 and Firefox browser with necessary plugins showed positive impressions what concerns application web testing but also some obstacles with problematic stability of whole arrangement. When new Selenium 2.0 was public presented I expected faster coding of test cases, higher stability of test runs and better PHP test environment.
But the reality was something other. For Selenium 2.0 best programming is available in Java (fortunatelly more years used as my main programming language) and all old tests were necessary to transform in new Java coding. Test run stability with Firefox (especially when are used several instances of FF) and Selenium server was low promissing only steady troubles. Then switch to Chrome browser / Chrome Driver was bringing necessary reliability to the testing.

I am using frequently Selenium web application testing during development of different components and modules for CMS Joomla and Drupal. The best way is to perform testing directly from development IDE and here is excelent possibility to use Selenium module (plugin) inside of NetBeans. Latest versions of NetBeans (6.9, 6.9.1, 6.10.M1) have embedded Selenium Server ver.1.0.1, which can be started along with NB start.