Selenium automated testing in Openbravo ERP
Quality Assurance Webinar
April 8th, 2010
Agenda
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Automated integration testing
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10 minutes
What to automate?
Design
Stepping through code
Making an automated test for Openbravo
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Selenium
Benefits
Other used tools
Selenium IDE
Automated integration testing in Openbravo
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10 minutes
10 minutes
How to automate a test case?
Extend an existing test case
Q&A
30 minutes
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Automated integration testing
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Automated integration testing in Openbravo
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What to automate?
Design
Stepping through code
Making an automated test for Openbravo
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Selenium
Benefits
Other used tools
Selenium IDE
How to automate a test case?
Extend an existing test case
Q&A
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Selenium
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Selenium is a free software testing framework for web applications.
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Selenium Remote Control - http://seleniumhq.org/projects/remote-control/
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Allows to write tests in any programming language that can
make HTTP requests; using any mainstream JavaScriptenabled browser.
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Consists of:
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A server which automatically launches and kills browsers, and acts
as a HTTP proxy for web requests from them.
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Client libraries for Python, Ruby, .NET, Perl, Java, and PHP.
Includes Selenium Core (the test execution framework) as its
engine and automatically loads it into the browser.
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Benefits
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The testing suites can be executed daily, to check the most
recent changes.
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It takes less time than a manual execution.
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Spot errors that a human might not notice.
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Prevent regressions.
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Free staff to do other non-repetitive tasks and to look for
errors that a machine can't spot.
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Other used tools
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Selenium IDE: a Firefox extension that allows to record, edit,
debug and play back tests.
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Firebug: a Firefox extension that lets you inspect the HTML
file of a web page on an easy way. With it you can also edit
and debug the code of a page.
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Xpath Checker: a Firefox extension that shows the XPath of
an element on a web page. In addition, you can write your
own XPath expressions and see the elements that match.
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Ant: a software tool for automating software build processes.
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JUnit: a unit testing framework for the Java programming
language.
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Eclipse: Java/JUnit development environment
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Selenium IDE
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Automated integration testing
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10 minutes
What to automate?
Design
Stepping through code
Making an automated test for Openbravo
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Selenium
Benefits
Other used tools
Selenium IDE
Automated integration testing in Openbravo
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10 minutes
10 minutes
How to automate a test case?
Extend an existing test case
Q&A
30 minutes
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What to automate?
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Drivers and restrictions
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Automation is a time consuming task.
Maintainability is an issue.
Only very stable flows should be automated.
Automated test cases have sense if executed at least ten times.
Only user-visible actions are performed
Javascript events could be missed by Selenium.
Our pick
– The Acceptance test
http://wiki.openbravo.com/wiki/Acceptance_Testing
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Design: General diagram
Test Suite
Test cases
Steps
Parameters
Selenium
Tests
Fields
Verifications
Test controllers
Expected
Results
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Automated test cases
Screen definitions
Buttons
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Links
Windows
Openbravo ERP
(Running in a web browser)
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Stepping through 1/2: Test controllers
Test cases
Steps
Verifications
Expected
Results
Parameters
Test controllers
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Test controllers are closer to
Functional Test Cases
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They know about common steps
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Based in superclass
OpenbravoERPTest.java
Automated test cases
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Design: General diagram (Again)
Test Suite
Test cases
Steps
Parameters
Selenium
Tests
Fields
Verifications
Expected
Results
Test controllers
Automated test cases
Screen definitions
Buttons
Links
Windows
Openbravo ERP
(Running in a web browser)
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Stepping through 2/2: Screen definitions
Parameters
Fields
Automated test cases
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Screen definitions are
closer to HTML pages.
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They know about Fields,
Buttons, Links.
Screen definitions
Buttons
Windows
Links
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Automated integration testing
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10 minutes
What to automate?
Design
Stepping through code
Making an automated test for Openbravo
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Selenium
Benefits
Other used tools
Selenium IDE
Automated integration testing in Openbravo
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10 minutes
10 minutes
How to automate a test case?
Extend an existing test case
Q&A
30 minutes
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How to automate a test case?
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Document the scenario and execute it manually.
Visit Testlink at http://tools.openbravo.com:8891/testlink/
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Understand the design.
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Read the documentation and implementation of the main
classes.
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Look for code that you can reuse.
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Code missing screen definitions.
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Write the test controller.
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Test your test.
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Extend an existing test case – The screen definition 1/2
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Extend an existing test case – The screen definition 2/2
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Extend an existing test case – The test controller
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Extend an existing test case – The test controller
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Extend an existing test case – Creating the file
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Extend an existing test case – Running the test case
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Extend an existing test case – Results
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Wrap-up
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Selenium is a powerful tool for tests automation.
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Openbravo uses Selenium and other tools as part of its
Quality Assurance processes.
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You can use those tools and the automation framework
provided by Openbravo to test your Openbravo ERP instances
and modules.
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More info
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The source code is available at
http://code.openbravo.com/tools/automation/main
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Ask your questions and give us your suggestions in
http://forge.openbravo.com/projects/automation/forum
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The documentation is in the wiki
http://wiki.openbravo.com/wiki/Category:Automated_Testing_ERP
Pablo Luján
Arun Kumar
[email protected]
[email protected]
Leo Arias
[email protected]
elopio at #openbravo
on irc.freenode.net
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Next webinar: “Life Cycle Management”
April 22nd, 2010
IMPORTANT! Special time: 10:00 (CET)
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Q&A
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