Selenium + WebDriver

OR

Automating Web Browsers for Fun and Profit

TriJS

Ryan Hayes

@RyannosaurusRex

6/14/2016

What is Browser Automation?

Doing stuff in the browser you would normally do with a mouse and keyboard...just without the mouse and keyboard.

Test Automation Spectrum

• Back-end Unit tests (NUnit/XUnit/JUnit)
• JavaScript Unit Tests (QUnit/Mocha)
• Integration Tests (Nunit/XUnit/JUnit)
• UI Testing (Jake, from QA and YOU!)

MANUAL TESTING WOOOOOO!

Automate with Selenium!

• Write once, run everywhere (all browsers)
• Uses WebDriver (more on this in a sec..)
• Write browser tests in:
  • C#!
  • Java!
  • Ruby!
  • Python!
  • JavaScript or TypeScript (http://webdriver.io/)!
• Run automated tests...
  • ...locally!
  • ...on your build/continuous integration server!
  • ...in the cloud!
  • on REAL BROWSERS!!!

Selenium + WebDriver!

Selenium Uses their WebDriver against WebDriver, which is based on WebDriver!

WebDriver could mean...:

• Selenium's WebDriver Framework
• W3C's WebDriver Spec
• Each Browser Vendor's implementation of the W3C WebDriver spec

State of Selenium

Selenium was just JavaScript injection.  Now it's standard, for realzies APIs.

(We are here)

Selenium Tips

• Do
  • Use the Selenium Recorder as a starting point
  • Use Page Object Pattern + Fluent API
  • Build a re-usable library of your own of composable actions.
  • Use BrowserStack to test over Safari and older IE
• Don't
  • Automate things that change often
  • Think this will replace all manual testing
  • Use as your only type of test

Automate the Repetative and Leave Exploratory Testing to the Humans!