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!