Open Source Web Testing

Open Source Web Open Source Web TestingTesting

FreeFreeYou have the sourceYou have the source

Many people solving common problemsMany people solving common problems

by Len Vaz – Moreover Technologies

FrameworksWatir (Ruby)Selenium (Java)Watij (Java)HtmlUnit (Java)HttpUnit (Java)WET (C#)

What to look for? Documentation Active user groups Browsers supported Operating systems supported Ease of use Does it support what you are testing?

Logging, DB support, Reporting, VMWareLook at existing test cases for other

features

Stuff to help - 1A good IDE

http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ http://www.aptana.com/

IE Developer toolbar http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?

familyid=e59c3964-672d-4511-bb3e-2d5e1db91038&displaylang=en

Firebug https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843

Stuff to help - 2 IRB – Interactive Ruby shell

Tab completion (.irbrc) require ‘irb/completion’

Persistent command history (.irbrc) require ‘irb/ext/save-history’ ARGV.concat [ "--readline", "--prompt-mode",

"simple" ] IRB.conf[:SAVE_HISTORY] = 100 IRB.conf[:HISTORY_FILE] = "#{ENV['HOME']}/.irb-

save-history"

Stuff to help - 3 Turn off pop-up blockers Have browser windows open to new windows If you need UTF-8 support, add:

require 'win32ole' WIN32OLE.codepage = WIN32OLE::CP_UTF8 Make sure your data is utf8 encoded when saved

Problem dealing with frames – selenium??? http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Frames

Use Ruby’s unit/test framework http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/test/unit/rdoc/classes/Test/Unit.html

DocumentationWatir

http://wtr.rubyforge.org/rdoc/ (Watir API) http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/ (Ruby) http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/ (Ruby) http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general (User group) http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development (dev) http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Project+Home

Selenium http://seleniumhq.org/documentation/ LinkedIn (user group) http://clearspace.openqa.org/community/selenium (forum) http://www.jroller.com/selenium/

Selenium – Platform, Browser and Languages supported

PlatformsWindows, OS X, Linux, Solaris

BrowsersFirefox 2, 3; IE 7; Safari 2, 3; Opera 8, 9,

ChromeLanguages

C#, Java, Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby

Watir – Platform, Browser and Languages supported

PlatformsWindows, OS X, Linux

BrowsersFirefox 2, 3; IE 7; Safari 2, 3; Chrome

LanguageRuby

Watir / Selenium Installation

Watir (http://wtr.rubyforge.org/install.html)Install Ruby (http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=167)Install Watir (gem install watir)Install jssh (http://wiki.openqa.org/download/attachments/13893658/jssh-20080708-WINNT.xpi)

Selenium gem install selenium; gem install selenium-client (Ruby)Install Java (

http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp)Install Selenium (http://seleniumhq.org/download/)

Remote control & Selenium IDE

Watir example require ‘watir’ Watir.options[:browser]='firefox‘

ie, firefox, safari, chrome browser = Watir::Browser.new browser.goto ‘http://www.google.com’ browser.text_field(:id, 'q').set 'automation‘ browser.button(:name, 'btnG').click puts browser.title browser.close

Selenium example require ‘selenium/client’ @browser = Selenium::Client::Driver.new("localhost", 4444,

"*iexplore", "http://www.google.com", 10000); iexplore, konqueror, firefox, mock, chrome, iehta,

piiexplore, pifirefox, safari, opera, custom) @browser.start_new_browser_session @browser.open “/” @browser.type “q”, “automation” @browser.click “btnG”, :wait_for => :page puts @browser.title @browser.close_current_browser_session

Selenium componentsSelenium IDESelenium CoreSelenium Remote ControlSelenium Grid

Selenium server

IRB

TestUnit in Eclipse

Selenium IDE-1

Selenium IDE-2