Selenium Tips

Selenium currently has poor support for highly dynamic sites such as Sakai 3. Often the procedure to make a test using the Selenium IDE is to record your clicks then change all the 'verifyTextPresent' commands to 'waitForTextPresent'. Tests that use 'waitForTextPresent' can take a long time to fail because the default timeout is 30 seconds, this can be changed with 'setTimeout <milliseconds>' be careful though because this also changes the timeout for the 'open' command.