SELENIUM: WHAT IS IT GOODFOR?

ABSOLUTELY SOMETHING!DALLAS DRUPAL DAYS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2012

WHATCHA GONNA DO?

Selenium

Selenium IDE: A comprehensive walkthrough of the

misunderstood IDE.

Store and Run Tests: A guide to Automated Testing at it's most

basic level.

PHPUnit

The Important Features: What we need to get Selenium working

with PHPUnit.

Translation from Selenium IDE: The first steps to using PHPUnit

for managing and running your tests.

Hudson / Jenkins / Travis

Continuous Integration: What does it mean to be continuously

integrated?

BUT FIRST!

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WHAT IS SELENIUM?

“Selenium automates browsers. That's it.”

SELENIUM

SELENIUM IDE

Record Your Actions.

Modify Your Targets.

Fill In the Gaps With Tests.

Store and Run Your Tests.

SELENIUM IDERECORD YOUR ACTIONS.

Live Demo Time!

STORE TESTSWARNING: CONFLICTING INFORMATION!

If you plan to move on to more advanced testing:

Separate different features into different Test Suites.

If you plan to stick with what you got now:

Combine all features into the same Test Suite.

STORE TESTSFor both do:

Separate tests into logical test cases.

Share and reap the rewards!

RUN TESTSMake a backup of the database.

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Run the Tests!

Restore if needed.

backup and migrate

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CONGRATULATIONS!!!YOU ARE READY TO MOVE TO THE NEXT LEVEL!

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WHERE DOES PHPUNIT COME IN?PHPUnit allows you to make the process more automated!

PHPUNIT

SELENIUM FEATURE OVERVIEWYou can run your old tests! (with massaging)

You can now perform repetitive tasks!

You can now chain running your tests to events!

TRANSLATION OF SELENIUM TESTSThere are 2 ways!

PHP Export Addon

Throwing your selenese test cases into a directory and telling

PHPUnit to run em.

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Live Demo Time!

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CONGRATULATIONS!!!YOU'VE LEVELED UP TWICE IN AN HOUR!

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THERE'S MORE?!? I THOUGHT I MADE THE TESTSAUTOMATED?

But you can do more with continuous integration provided by a

platform such as Travis, Hudson, Jenkins.

CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION

OVERVIEWContinuous Integration (CI) there to help your work's quality by:

Taking repetitive manual tasks and automating them

Doing these tasks more frequently

And doing these task faster!

THINGS THAT NOW BECOME EASIER AND POSSIBLECode standard checking

Processing Tasks on events such as commits!

More information in an already formatted report!

Running Tests

TO COMPLETE THIS LEVEL YOU MUST...Install a CI system: Hudson, Jenkins, and Travis are all free with

great documentation.

Build a job: Usually tell it when to run. For instance, on git commit to

github, or every night at midnight.

Tell it what to do: Anything commandline will run. PHPUnit is

commandline. Hudson, Travis, have Selenium built in!

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CONGRATULATIONS!!!YOU'VE MADE IT TO THE END!

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But wait there's one more thing...

WHAT THIS MEANS IS THAT YOU NOW HAVE ACHOICE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING...

How Automated do you want to go.

What works for your team?

How many resources do you have to dedicate to automation?

IN THE END, IT IS ALMOST ALWAYS BEST FOR YOUR PRODUCT TO GET TO THE LAST LEVEL.

QUESTIONS?