From:
Ian Bicking <ianb@colorstudy.com>
To:
selenium-devel@lists.public.thoughtworks.org
Date:
2005-03-05 04:34

It seems like there's various ideas that aren't fully realized or
understood, but there's also a core idea that works fine right now and
is where you should direct new users. The introduction to that would
be: unpack the files somewhere where your webserver can see them, on the
same host as the application you are testing (not a big deal, they are
just flat files and if you are testing something you ought to have
access to the server). Then Edit TestSuite.html to link in your new
tests, and copy one of the current tests as a model for your tests –
that last part I actually didn't find in the documentation (maybe it was
there, but it didn't pop out at me), so I just grepped around to see
what I was adding stuff to.

Anyway, that's all you have to do to start using Selenium (at least from
what I can tell), and I think that's probably the right way to start
even if you later want to do more advanced things. Like I said, the
documentation is very intimidating right now, as it talks about design
decisions forced by the security model, several different kinds of
layout, running a custom server, and there's all that Java and Ruby and
whatnot in the directory tree... it's all very distracting.

–
Ian Bicking / ianb@colorstudy.com / http://blog.ianbicking.org