Automated Web Testing using JavaScript
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The document discusses automated web testing using JavaScript, highlighting various frameworks and tools such as QUnit, Selenium, Jasmine, and Protractor. It explores the differences between unit and end-to-end testing, as well as the use of headless browsers like PhantomJS for testing without a GUI. The session aims to provide insights into the benefits of JavaScript for testing and the diverse options available for creating robust web tests.
Automated Web Testing using JavaScript
- 1. Automated Web Testing using JavaScript Simon Guest, Distinguished Engineer. Neudesic, LLC
- 2. Web testing over the years...
- 6. Why JavaScript for Testing? 4 Free 4 Open source 4 Modular 4 Active and vibrant community 4 Client and server in JavaScript - why not tests?
- 7. Goals of this session
- 8. Explore automated Web testing using JavaScript
- 9. Unit testing vs. end-to-end testing
- 10. Interchangeable frameworks for JavaScript Testing
- 11. When not to write tests!
- 12. Simple function to add two numbers var add = function(x, y){ var result = x + y; return result; };
- 13. Let's write a test! var add = function(x, y){ var result = x + y; return result; }; test("test that add function doesn't return null", function() { var result = add(2, 3); notEqual(result, null, "We expect the value to be non null"); });
- 14. Test that is performing an assertion 4 Lot's of code just to test a single value 4 Test will rarely, if ever, fail 4 Quality vs. quantity of tests
- 15. Simple function to add two numbers var add = function(x, y){ var result = x + y; return result; };
- 16. Simple function to add two numbers var add = function(x, y){ var result = x + y; console.assert(result, "X should not be null!"); return result; };
- 17. Assertions in production code?
- 18. Simple function to add two numbers var add = function(x, y){ var result = x + y; assert(result, "An error has occured with this page. Please refresh."); return result; };
- 19. Testing logic using unit tests
- 20. QUnit 4 http://qunitjs.com 4 JavaScript Unit Test Framework 4 Used to test jQuery, jQuery UI, and jQuery Mobile
- 21. QUnit test("a basic test example", function() { var value = "hello"; equal( value, "hello", "We expect value to be hello" ); });
- 22. Demo - QUnit
- 23. Testing what the user actually sees...
- 24. Demo - What happens if the UI breaks?
- 25. Selenium 4 http://seleniumhq.org 4 Web Application Testing Platform 4 Open source (Apache 2.0) released by ThoughtWorks in 2004
- 26. Selenium 4 Selenium IDE - Basic test recorder, implemented as a Firefox extension 4 Selenium WebDriver - Formerly Selenium RC, remote control for browser 4 Selenium Grid - Instantiate browsers on remote machines
- 27. Demo - Selenium IDE
- 28. Demo - Selenium Builder
- 29. Selenium IDE/Builder 4 Quick/easy to create tests 4 However, no test inheritence 4 Output is HTML or JSON, not script 4 Difficult to inject any complex logic 4 Has to be manually run through Firefox
- 31. WebDriver Specification 4 W3C Working Draft 4 Platform and language neutral interface to allow control of a Web browser 4 Wire level protocol using HTTP and JSON 4 https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webdriver/raw-file/default/ webdriver-spec.html
- 32. Selenium WebDriver 4 Implementation of WebDriver protocol 4 Runs on host, listens on ports 4 Invokes browser (as configured) 4 Drives browser to test application
- 33. What do we use to write those tests?
- 34. Jasmine 4 http://pivotal.github.io/ jasmine/ 4 BDD Framework for writing JavaScript tests 4 Clean syntax 4 Support for mocks (spies)
- 35. Jasmine describe("a basic test example", function() { it(“tests that true is always the truth”, function() { expect(true).toBe(true); }); });
- 36. Protractor 4 https://github.com/angular/ protractor 4 Testing framework for AngularJS, but can be used for any application 4 Supports Jasmine tests by default (Mocha coming soon) 4 Scripts to support easy install of Selenium
- 37. Protractor 4 Also installs Selenium dependencies npm install –g protractor webdriver-manager update webdriver-manager start
- 38. Demo - WebDriver, Protractor, Jasmine
- 39. What did we see? 4 Tests written using Jasmine 4 Being invoked using Protractor 4 Sent to Selenium server using WebDriver protocol 4 Selenium invoking Chrome to run tests
- 40. Demo - Using WebBuilder to create Protractor tests
- 41. Demo - Can I do unit testing with WebDriver also?
- 42. Do I have to launch a browser?
- 43. PhantomJS 4 http://phantomjs.org 4 Headless (Qt-based) WebKit with JavaScript API 4 Ability to act as a browser without actually having a GUI 4 Ideal for running in hosted instances (e.g. docker)
- 44. PhantomJS page.open(‘http://localhost:8088’, function(status) { page.evaluate(function() { /* test elements on the page */ }); });
- 45. Demo - PhantomJS
- 46. Nice - but yet another framework?
- 47. Nice - but yet another framework? 4 PhantomJS can be invoked by Selenium as a virtual browser 4 (Configure Selenium to invoke PhantomJS CLI instead of Chrome executable)
- 48. Demo - Invoking PhantomJS using Selenium WebDriver
- 49. Simplifying the Stack 4 Selenium acting as a proxy 4 PhantomJS supports WebDriver wire-level protocol
- 50. Simplifying the Stack 4 Selenium acting as a proxy 4 PhantomJS supports WebDriver wire-level protocol phantomjs --webdriver=4444
- 51. Demo - Using GhostDriver
- 52. Wrapping Up
- 53. Wrapping Up 4 Many options for creating powerful Web tests using JavaScript 4 Abundance of frameworks, many of which are modular 4 Unit and end-to-end tests in both browser-based and headless mode
- 54. Thank You!
- 55. Q&A 4 Simon Guest, Distinguished Engineer, Neudesic LLC 4 simonguest.com (@simonguest) 4 http://github.com/simonguest/gids 4 http://slideshare.net/simonguest