Selenium, Siebel and QTP

Question

I am about to start work on a UI automation project for a client who is using Siebel 7.5. I have been looking around and it seems that there is not a lot of info out there on if it is possible to automate GUI tests in siebel using Selenium. The question is, Is it possible to automate Siebel using selenium. I hear there are two modes for Siebel, SI and HI, what is the difference?

On another note, i have heard that there are issues automating early versions of Siebel using HP QTP. What are these issues and what is the best workaround.

I realise this is more than one question, i will vote up whoever answers a component and the answer will go to the person who answers the most components

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

HI stands for "Hi Interactivity" it is used for sites that are accessed over the LAN most objects in an HI Siebel application are ActiveX controls.

SI stands for "Standard Interactivity" it is used for sites that are accessed externally and is usually pure HTML.

Starting in version 7.7 Siebel starter supplying Siebel Test Automation (STA) which provides an API for testing tools, this API is used by QTP for testing Siebel 7.7 and later. STA is relevant only for HI applications, for SI applications Siebel adds some hints to the HTML in order to help testing tools.

I don't know of specific problems with QTP testing classic (pre 7.7) Siebel applications and I don't know about Selenium at all so I hope the general information I provided is useful.