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copied!<p>Selenium IDE is in-browser, it's then normal you can run at any step. But if your cookies have expired, you'll have to reauthent. It's not a Selenium problem, it's how websites work. In your tests, you'll always have to start from scratch if your cases involve athent process, unless you manage to get a fine control over your cookies. </p> <p>You can always make a quick http call to the website you want to connect to with <code>HTTPClient</code> for example, just to get the cookie back, then use it in webdriver with something like </p> <pre><code>driver.manage().addCookie(new Cookie("foo", "bar", "www.domain.com", "/", null)); </code></pre> <p>then go to the page you need. Notice that this solution solves the Authent problem only, and does not control the <strong><em>state</em></strong> of the tested web-application (data previously posted, etc...).</p> <p>At our company, we make an extensive use of selenium, and have a lot of tests relying on it, it's therefore a problem we know something about and we are aware of the frustation it can cause. </p> <p>We use a pretty different solution to get a productivity boost on tests. In fact, we're using a <a href="http://groovy.codehaus.org/Groovy+Shell" rel="nofollow"><code>Groovy Shell</code></a>-based solution which allows us to go back and forth while developping the tests and keep our browsers open. <code>Groovy</code> is a JVM scripting language that is really easy for a Java dev (almost all Java code is valid Groovy code) and it's really dynamic. </p> <p>So you can download groovy, run groovy shell (<code>groovysh</code> is the command), then line by line you can launch and interact with the browser xhile your written code is saved to a buffer. When you've done with your test, export the code and put it in Eclipse. It's faster than restarting every time from scratch. Magic lines for starting with selenium are </p> <pre><code>groovy.grape.Grape.grab(autoDownload: true, group : 'org.seleniumhq.selenium', module : 'selenium-firefox-driver', version : '2.37.1') import org.openqa.selenium.* import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.* driver = new FirefoxDriver() driver.get("http://my-website.com") </code></pre> <p>From this point, the browser window is always open, and you develop right in groovy (or java). It's like a selenium-ide, but in groovy, and can be integrated in your developement workflow (but there is a bit of work to do) This example works for Firefox (as you've probably guessed ;-)) but you can adapt it as you like. We have from this constructed a bunch of tools to develop our tests quickly and iteratively. We found this to be a great savior. </p>

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