Tutorial For Selenium IDE "getEval" Command To Get Alert During Script Execution

There are many advanced selenium IDE tutorial posts available about different commands, methods and selenium IDE plugins and i think that all of them will help you to make your software testing process easy using selenium IDE. Now let me tell you one more interesting and most useful command to include in your

main commands directory list and i hope it will helps you.

"getEval" Command

In Selenium IDE, "getEval" command is useful to run javascript snippet when command get executed. Run bellow script in your selenium IDE and see what happens. "gotoIf" and "gotoLabel" commands will be supported in selenium IDE only if you have attached user extension with selenium IDE. Click here to read more about "gotoIf" and "gotoLabel" commands.

New Test
Command	Target	Value
store	String Message	Str1
echo	${Str1}
store	String Message	Str2
echo	${Str2}
gotoIf	storedVars['Str1']==storedVars['Str2']	Check2ndStr
getEval	alert("Sorry, Str1 does Not Match with Str2..")
gotoLabel	2ndStrCheck
label	Check2ndStr
getEval	alert("Both Strings are Same :)")
label	2ndStrCheck
store	Message String	Str2
echo	${Str2}
gotoIf	storedVars['Str1']==storedVars['Str2']	correct
getEval	alert("Sorry, Str1 does Not Match with Str2..")
gotoLabel	finish
label	correct
getEval	alert("OK.. Now Both Strings are Same :)")
label	finish

I hope you are already aware about all other commands except "getEval" command. So let me describe here just "getEval" command. In above script, when "getEval" command executed, it will generate alert message with string written in target column and selenium will stop execution. Once you click on 'OK' button of alert message, once again selenium IDE will start next command execution. This way, You can put alert message in between selenium IDE script to get alert during software testing using selenium IDE. You can use "getEval" command for data driven testing using selenium IDE.

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