Automatic Selenium Code Generation for Testing

Developers and product teams are striving to push new features out to customers at a much faster rate and are now realizing the advantages of automation. With the advent of Agile development model, writing automate test codes is now becoming a part of the software development life cycle. Manual testing which is completely done by human hands is costly, time consuming and error prone. However, this transition from manual to automation testing is not so easy especially for the existing manual testers. It is becoming mandatory and very important for them to have programming as a skill. In this paper, we discuss about an application that automatically generates Selenium WebDriver code which can then be used for testing. We present the design, analysis, results and the benefits of using this application to automate test cases. Our application will not only remove programming as a skill for testers but also save time and money for organizations. We input the test case in the form of a simple CSV file in the application which then runs it against a rule-based template engine to produce the desired code. The results highlight the advantage of using this application over manually writing automation test codes.