On Feb 17, 2010, at 5:49 PM, Vincent Massol wrote: > Hi, > > Yesterday I wanted to add some functional tests for Create page/space actions > and I found that the Selenium version we're using doesn't work on Snow > Leopard (my OS) so I started looking at issues and found that the pb was > fixed in Selenium2/WebDriver. Since I had wanted to explore it for a while I > took the time to do a quick exploration... > > Selenium2 is the merge of Selenium and WebDriver. > > Pros of Selenium2: > * No more JS sandbox. In selenium1 all the selenium API is executed as JS in > the browser. In Selenium2 the browsers are controlled using their native APIs > (JNA). > * Faster (as a consequence of the previous point) > * Allows to do stuff such as file uploads, etc since there's no longer the > issue of the JS sandbox > * No need to start a Selenium Proxy. All you need is to start XE and then you > can run the tests as simple JUnit tests. > * The API is much cleaner (this is to be expected with hindsight). See > http://seleniumhq.org/docs/09_webdriver.html > * There's a very fast executing HtmlUnit driver (not to be used with tests > using JS though since it emulates browser JS support and thus cannot > guarantee the result in the real browser) > > Now Selenium2 also recommends to use the PageObject pattern which IMO is a > very good pattern that we should use. More here: > http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/PageObjects > > In order to get a feel of it, I've committed a first test in the sandbox > using the PageObjects pattern: > http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/contrib/sandbox/webdriver-ui-tests/ > > To run the test: > * Start a local XE on port 8080 > * Open the project in your IDE and run LoginTest as a JUnit test > > Let me know what you think. > > My opinion > * We should test it more, on Ajaxy web pages to verify it's stable and > working well enough > * If that works well enough then we could make it our default way of writing > functional UI tests and start migrating existing tests one by one + write new > ones in it
I forgot to mention that there's a backward compatibility driver too so existing tests are supposed to work too (with some doubts on complex sutff): http://seleniumhq.org/docs/09_webdriver.html#emulating-selenium-rc Thanks -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
