2009/9/18 Stuart Guthrie <[email protected]>:
> Hi there,
>
> If you're not a developer, you can ignore the rest of this post...
>
> Just wondering what people are using for integration testing their
> applications (should they write them).
>
> We're evaluating tellurium (groovy-based) which is another base-metal like
> sellenium (used by a lot of places).
>
> We currently use Selenium, our issues are that it doesn't handle complex
> javascript interactions with any degree of grace. Particularly the dojo
> toolkit that we use.
>
> I've also heard windmill is good if you're a python-leaning developer.
>
> Any experience out there with writing complex tests on top of javascript web
> UI applications? I'd love to know where others have trod.
If you don't mind using Ruby, you might want to have a look at
Cucumber[0] with Webrat[1].
You use Cucumber to write an executable specification, and behind the
scenes use Webrat to interact with the system you're testing.
Here's an example Cucumber feature:
Feature: Login
To ensure the safety of the application
A regular user of the system
Must authenticate before using the app
Scenario: Successful login
Given I am not authenticated
When I go to /
And I fill in "email" with "[email protected]"
And I fill in "password" with "test"
And I press "Log in"
Then I should see "Logged in successfully"
The steps within the scenario get mapped to a Ruby DSL behind the
scenes, so the "When I go to /" step gets mapped to:
When /^I go to (.*)$/ do |path|
visit(path)
end
The regex capture gets mapped to the path variable, and is passed to
the visit method, which is provided by Webrat. Webrat can interact
with sites with a bunch of different backends (Selenium, Watir,
Mechanize, Rails), so you can swap out the underlying testing
infrastructure without rewriting your high-level specifications.
Probably the coolest thing is that you can reuse those Cucumber steps
in any of your Cucumber features, which eliminates a lot of
duplication and brittleness in your tests.
Some of the Cucumber + Webrat documentation can be a bit Rails
specific, but the Selenium documentation is pretty solid. [2][3]
I've heard good things about Watir also, and the documentation has a
bunch of examples[4] for interacting with Gmail + Gmaps, so I assume
it handles complex JS pretty well.
I use Cucumber + Webrat on pretty much every web project I hack on,
but I don't test my JavaScript, mainly because I use progressive
enhancement. That said, there are a *lot* of people in the Ruby
community doing testing with Cucumber + Webrat + Selenium, so they
can't all be wrong.
HTH,
Lindsay
[0] http://cukes.info/
[1] http://wiki.github.com/brynary/webrat
[2] http://wiki.github.com/aslakhellesoy/cucumber/setting-up-selenium
[3] http://wiki.github.com/brynary/webrat/selenium
[4] http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Examples
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