Executing Webdriver script from HTML

Question

I am creating a frame work for my AUT. I plan to use Webdriver/Java. I am relatively new to Selenium, Java and html programming. I want to implement the framework in following manner.

1. There will be an HTML interface where user can select check boxes for the test cases he wants to run.
2. He can submit after making his selection.
3. On submitting the script will be executed.
4. Execution will consist of only selected cases.

My questions are:

• Is anything better than html for point 1? I don't want to use Excel as I want this interface to be interactive so that anyone can use the interface, without any knowledge of domain or the script running behind it.
• How should I go about point 3? I would need to start my main function and pass the selected 'cases' as an array or something.

Answer 1

Have you looked at Selinium IDE? It's a basic front end for Selinium. You can record and playback test cases and you are able to select which test case to run from a test suite.

Since recently this could be used to run tests in browsers other than just firefox using Selenium IDE.

PS You should also look into Huxley-Selenium for regression testing. We found the node version is much easier to install.

Hope this helps. Good luck!