With Selenium IDE I generate a sample script for test the log to a website and a value in the website after logging. So my script is (Java) :
#test
public void mytest() throws Exception{
// Load the home page
...
// complete the log form
...
// check if the log work
...
// Logged : click on some element in the page
...
// Logged ; check the information X (if one HTML element contains child or not
...
}
I use JUnit for run the test class from a main class. My question is : What is the best way for re-factoring my code ? I would like create one class by "step", is it possible ? by example :
Class for load page and check there isn't error 404
Class for complete the log form, submit and check if the user is logged
Class for navigate in the website and get the information I want
Is it the best way? There isn't a real goal. Just, I want know how organize the code for a maximum of reuse (sorry for my bad English x) )
There are couple of reasons why you do not want to use Selenium IDE, do the recording for the test cases and refactor the code afterwards. Most of the time selenium IDE will provide you the selectors that are not stable enough. For rerunning the tests you want to make sure the selectors are stable enough and will not possibly depend on html structure. Second, as the test suite getting larger you want to reduce the code duplication as much as possible. Using Selenium IDE there is no way to understand which code blocks can be reused.
So, bottom line is for a good test suite start building a framework from scratch instead of using Selenium IDE. There are a lot of example out there how to start. I have one with TestNG here if that helps.
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I've tried to implement one of our app modules by using PageFactory (for iOS)
Most of the elements are located by name and others by classname
In general everything works (more or less) but the thing is that the appium server has tons of logs , it seems that each time I'm trying to use some page control , and all the declared controls within that page are being update (?) which cause to longer time execution.
In case and I'm trying to debug my test , it takes a lot of time to move step by step (the appium server works extra hours ...)
I do use "CacheLookup" whenever it possible ...
Where my mistake is, or it's just should be like that ?
Thanks
Updated
Not enough info provided to say for sure. If you have a bunch of cucumber steps and each step is creating a new page instance then yes, you could create a class variable to communicate between cucumber steps
Class variables get thrown out at the end of each scenario so no cross scenario contamination. However, if a single scenario leaves a page and comes back you would need to explicitly set the class page handle to nil/null so that it is reinitialized upon reentry to that page. You want to avoid stale element errors.
I'm a QA who decided to use SpecFlow for my test automation after some consideration. I think it's brilliant, but missing one feature which I did use often with other test runners such as NUnit - something similar to the TestCaseSource property from NUnit to specify a potentially dynamic set of data for tests to be ran against at run time.
I would often have different data in each environment the test should run in, so cannot specify hardcoded values for test parameters. A trivial example is for checking that each type of user account is able to login, the user account credentials can be retrieved using a DB query to populate each test case dynamically in NUnit:
public List<User> GetTestData()
{
List<User> testData = new List<User>();
testData = MyDatabase.GetAllUsersInfo().ToList();
return testData;
}
[Test, TestCaseSource("GetTestData")]
public void CallLoginService(User user)
{
var response = LoginController.TryLogin(User.UserName, User.Password);
if (response.Error != null)
{
Assert.Fail("Failed to Login: {0}", response.Error);
}
Assert.AreEqual("Logged in ok", response.Message, "Login message not as expected");
}
Obviously this is a simple example of that feature, but I think it describes it well enough. I know we have the ability in SpecFlow to use a Scenario Outline and table of test run input data, but that is still static, so doesn't fit the bill.
I've been looking for a while and have not found anything in SpecFlow like this yet, does anybody know of anything similar to the above which can be used (or planned if anyone who works on the project reads this)?
Thanks :)
I have no idea if anything like this is planned but for now the problem is that there is a background code generation step when you edit your feature file via Visual Studio.
When it is saved in Visual Studio it is parsed and converted into the feature.cs file and that is the one that is compiled and used for testing.
So your process would become
edit your data source
export to feature file
get specflow's VS plugin to convert to feature.cs
run msbuild
run tests via Nunit or similar
I wouldn't do this. Instead I'd focus on getting my tests to be better examples. It sounds like you are to trying to exhaustively cover every possibility. Don't come up with examples to cover every possible case, but instead cover as much logic as possible with fewer tests.
I have an application made in php for which am using selenium for unit testing using phpUnit. The problem is that I have to set the environment before I can go for tests. For eg. I have to set session variables, login and fetch data from remote server. All this takes a lot of time and it is not feasible to re-set this in every test function.
I am looking for a method so that I can use the same browser session for running all the tests in it. I tried looking for resources online, but couldn't find any good sources for this. The code I have written is
protected function setUp()
{
parent::setUp();
$this->setBrowserUrl("http://localhost/devel/");
}
public function start()
{
parent::start();
$this->open("");
//Setting up the environment here
}
public function testFunction()
{
//A test function
}
public function testFunction2()
{
//Another test function
}
But this is opening browser instance for both the functions. Is there any work around for this? Or is there any command line parameter while launching selenium server for this?
"[I am] using selenium for unit testing using phpUnit"
No, you're not. You're using PHPUnit with selenium for functional testing. :-)
But since it's probably not in your best interest to re-invent that wheel, you want Mink: http://mink.behat.org/
It wraps around Guzzle and lets you do session-based acceptance testing using a bunch of different drivers. It has Goutte for a headless browser, and can work with Selenium and Sahi and a bunch of others.
Also of note, depending on your needs, is Behat: http://behat.org/
It lets you write client-readable test documents that can be turned into Mink-based acceptance tests.
HTH.
Question already answered.
The unaccepted answer did the job for me.
#see How do I run a PHPUnit Selenium test without having a new browser window run for each function?
I am using Selenium with TestNG to test a website. I have created tests using the Selenium IDE and exported them to TestNG with each test being a method in a class. Eg,
For login tests there is a Login class which has methods testLogin(), testLogin2() etc
For signup tests there is a Signup class has methods testSignup(), testSignup2(), etc
I am using Ant to run the tests which works fine except that each class will open up a browser and then run its methods, eg, if I have five classes, then five browsers will open simultaneously and then run the tests.
What I want is to get Ant/Selenium/TestNG to just open up one browser and then run all the tests (in the same browser) in all the classes that I have specified in testng.xml. Using the example above, I want one browser to open then run testLogin(), testLogin2(), testSignup(), testSignup2().
If this cannot be achieved, then I want to open a browser, run all tests in a class then close the browser then open another browser then run the set of test methods in the next class.
Any help appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Today I have found the answer that works for me. Give me a few minutes to gather all code samples :)
Init.java
//base class that will be called before all tests
#Test(groups = "init")
public class Init{
DefaultSelenium browser;
public void start(ITestContext itc){
browser = (DefaultSelenium) itc.getAttribute("browser");
browser.open("url");
browser.click("xpath");
}
}
TemplateForClasses.java
/* - all public methods will be tests
* - all tests will be called after group init
* - just before suite will start we will start 1 browser instance
*/
#Test(dependsOnGroup="init")
public class TemplateForClasses{
DefaultSelenium browser;
#BeforeSuite
public void startBrowser(ITestContext itc){
browser = new DefaultSelenium(host,port,browser_type,url);
itc.setAttribute("browser",browser);
browser.start();
}
#AfterSuite
public void stopBrowser(ITestContext itc){
browser = (DefaultSelenium) itc.getAttribute("browser");
browser.stop();
}
//any other: #Before, #After methods
}
FirstGroupOfTests.java
//all tests classes will inherit preferences set in TemplateForClasses
public class FirstGroupOfTests extends TemplateForClasses{
public void FirstTest(ITestContext itc){
browser = (DefaultSelenium) itc.getAttribute("browser");
//browser.click("start");
}
}
idea:
start browser just once have tests
that run before every other tests(isBrowserRunning)
refer to browser from single test
This code was tested but currently I took it from the top of my head so possibly I will edit it tomorrow to make it more exact.
Update:
This result is based on testng.org documentation + some questions asked by me on stackoverflow + some answers found on several forums/groups
I must add I'm running testng programatically and I'm generating xml on the fly (as it is done on documentation.org). I am using it all in one package, I added package to the xml, included only classes Init + the ones that inherit from TemplateForClasses. If you need that xml, let me know.
I did this with Spring's dependency injection. And the init code is in a factory. I needed a way to have a Selenium instance shared not only between tests but between helper classes. Very seldom is selenium.someMethod() called directly in the tests. It more like helper.goToSomePage() or preferencesPage.changePassword(....).
It could be considered a bad idea to have a Selenium instance shared between tests, but the few bugs it brought were not that hard to find. The tests are run sequentially and the Selenium object need not be thread-safe. The state of the object must be kept consistent though.
For info, Spring is a Java framework and Dependency injection is only a part of it. Other DI frameworks like Guice can of course be used instead.
I too was stuck in the same problem for quite some time. I'll explain it in the simplest terms possible. Consider the following example:
Class A (contains the code selenium.start();)
|
|(inherited classes)
|--------class B }
|--------class C } Have some #Test methods
|--------class D }
Now everytime we run these test methods it will execute the code in the parent class constructor selenium.start(); Thats when the multiple browsers will all open up on your screen.
Now one by one the test methods will get executed - suppose tests in class B are executed they will be happening in one window, for class C another and so on.
So basically, all you have to do is remove the start() code from the parent constructor and put it somewhere in the classes B, C and D.
As long as you keep working with one selenium object everything will happen in one browser window. When you put start(); that browser will open (if it wasnt open) and a new session is created. stop(); and the session is terminated.
The flow of control goes like this=>
Class A, Class B
Class A, Class C
Class A, Class D
So if you can figure out a way to keep using the same selenium object with only 1 start() and 1 stop() for the entire execution sequence shown above, your test execution will happen in only one browser window.
If you put start() code in class A and stop code in each of B,C and D then you will have 3 windows open and one by one they will close as execution progresses.
If you put start() and stop() code individually in B,C and D then you will see one browser opening, executing test cases, closing. Another will then open, execute test cases for C, close etc.
Hope this helps. :-)
I'm using Selenium IDE in Firefox and submiting a form. The problem is that the form can be sucesfull or unsuccesfull (random). When it's unsuccesfull it will show and error message (AJAX) and I need to try to submit the form again.
I would like to write a test which will be submiting the form until it will redirect me to success page (text present).
Can someone helps me with this? I didn't play with Selenium this way yet.
Here is an extension that adds full-fledged looping, conditional execution, and callable functions to Selenium IDE: SelBlocks.
Dave Hunt mentioned flowControl, which is a possibility. But besides higher-level functionality, a significant difference is that SelBlocks takes eval expressions (regular javascript), which might make checking AJAX status a bit easier.
You can use selenium extension goto_sel_ide. This will enable flow control commands.
Then you can use while command, and with help of this you can run script till you get success message.
Let me know whether it is working for you or not