Using ColdFusion within Selenium
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Selenium only cares the output is in its simple table structure. Please refer to Sebastien Lachance's post about Structure of an html test and James Netherton's post about Selenium suites . I use the Firefox IDE to initially create scripts and save as a cfm file. Then add the ColdFusion sweetness.
Here is a simple use of ColdFusion within a Selenium test script to create a random email address. This would be useful when needing unique email addresses for testing a create new user process.
<cfset r = Randomize(5)>
<cfset email = "#r#@test.com">
<tr>
<td>type</td>
<td>emailAddress</td>
<td><cfoutput>#email#</cfoutput></td>
</tr>
Generating dynamic test scripts are easy. Here is an example of looping through all the options of a select statement with a query and verifying after submitting.
<cfquery name="selectOptions" datasource="DS">
select select_id, selectName from selectTable
</cfquery>
<!— loop through select options—>
<cfloop query="selectOptions">
<tr>
<td>select</td>
<td>Select_ID</td>
<td>value=#selectOptions.select_ID#</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>clickAndWait</td>
<td>button</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>verifyValue</td>
<td>select_ID</td>
<td>#selectOptions.select_ID#</td>
</tr>
<!— more checks, actions, and then return back to form —>
</cfloop>
