Jiri Daněk created DISPATCH-2221:
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Summary: Create automated webconsole tests using either Webdriver
(Selenium) or Playwright
Key: DISPATCH-2221
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DISPATCH-2221
Project: Qpid Dispatch
Issue Type: Test
Components: Console, Tests
Reporter: Jiri Daněk
Assignee: Jiri Daněk
Fix For: 2.0.0
Here's a reasonably recent overview of website end-to-end test automation
tooling:
https://www.testim.io/blog/puppeteer-selenium-playwright-cypress-how-to-choose/
(presentation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuSF6BDs7Ow).
End-to-end should mean that the test interacts with the Dispatch web console by
sending clicks to the browser window. The clicks are targeted using CSS-like
selectors (often button/link texts and aria selector), and they are dispatched
through browser debug protocol, so it is not _exactly_ simulating the user, but
it is simulating the user to a very great degree. The advantage of doing the
clicks this way is obviously maintainability; if a link moves 10 px to the
left, it will still be clicked just fine.
The idea for writing (and structuring) the tests is to first start with
record/playback, then export the recording as a program in a supported
programming language using supported assertions API (Java, JavaScript, Python,
... Pytest, Playwright Test, Jest, ...), and finally mold it into well-factored
and maintainable test suite (by extracting common steps, creating helper
functions, page objects, ...).
I considered Selenium with Python and Pytest, Selenium with Java and Junit, and
Playwright with Typescript.
Python is the language of the router, and it is usually known by QA-minded
folks. Java is statically typed (which I prefer), is used by ActiveMQ messaging
projects (that also need webconsole testing), and should be also well known.
JavaScript/TypeScript is the language of the webconsole, so the tests will be
easily understood by anyone developing the webconsole.
Selenium Webdriver is old and well-known. Playwright is more recent iteration
on the same theme, and it has nice test framework in TypeScript on top.
Both PlayWright and Selenium can run with headless browsers in Docker container.
For reverence, my tests from 2017 in Webdriver, Python binding, written for the
Hawt.io Dispatch plugin, https://github.com/jirkadanek/dispatch-console-tests.
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