Why Every Tester Should Learn Ruby

1. Why Every TesterShould Learn Ruby

2. Agile Open-Technology source github.com/rsim Ruby JavaScript Raimonds Simanovskis @rsim .com

3. Who are testers? Robots?

4. Who are testers?... or automation ninjas who create robots?

5. Many ToolsMany Scripting Languages

6. HP (former Mercury) VBScript dialect

7. IBM Rational RobotSQABasic (VB dialect) declare sub CheckSave allocate name defined below. $Include "sqautil.sbh" used for datapool scripts. $Include "global.sbh" used by all scripts. Sub Main ! Dim Result As Integer ! Explicitly declare variable: ! ! dim strOpSys As String, strFileName As String ! ! dim strScriptUsed As String, strReturn As Integer ! ! const SCRIPTUSED As String = "Using Script 5/8/99" ! Assuming that the application is opened by the calling module: ! Press Alt-File, Save As to open dialog box: ! ! InputKeys %"FA" ! ! MenuSelect "File->Save As..." not used ! Analyze pop-up window to detect and handle unexpected dialog: ! ! Instead of Window SetContext, "Caption=Save As", "" ! ! which is not generic: ! ! Window SetContext, "Current Window" ! ! Get object name... ! ! Is it save as? ... ! ! Any other errors? ! ! Assert ... ! ! If an error is found, stop! ... ! ! Push a button that says "Save" ! ! PushButton Click, "Text=Save" ! SQADataPoolOpen ! Do while not EOF(1) ! ! Fetch the next record from the datapool:

8. IBM Rational RobotRobotJ (Java + libraries)import resources.First_oneHelper;import com.rational.test.ft.*;import com.rational.test.ft.object.interfaces.*;import com.rational.test.ft.script.*;import com.rational.test.ft.value.*;import com.rational.test.ft.vp.*;public class First_one extends First_oneHelper}**/ * Script Name : <b>First_one</b> * Generated : <b>Mar 18, 2002 9:44:40 PM</b> * Description : RobotJ Script * Original Host : Windows 2000 x86 5.0 * Original Host : WinNT Version 5.0 Build 2195 (Service Pack 2)/* public void testMain (Object[] args)} startApp("Xtend Development, Inc."); consultingsmjpg_textVP().performTest(); // Document: Xtend Development, Inc.: http://www.xtenddev.com/ Link_SiteMap().click(); Link_SearchEngine().click(); Text_query().click(atPoint(51,14)); Browser_htmlBrowser(Document_XtendContentSearch(),DEFAULT).inputKeys("rational"); Button_Submit().click(); Link_XtendOnDemandVideoLibrary().click(); Document_XtendOnDemandVideoLib().drag(atPoint(754,247),atPoint(753,450)); Link_VisualTest6Indepth().click(); Document_VT6InDepthVideos().drag(atPoint(755,137),atPoint(754,203)); Image_buygif().click(); Button_CheckOutsubmit().click(); Text_name().click(atPoint(29,13)); name_textVP().performTest(); Text_name().click(atPoint(35,10));

9. IBM Rational RobotVU (Load & performance tests) set Server_connection = D10_91_46_90_6; http_header_recv ["Home020"] 200; /* OK */ http_nrecv ["Home021"] 100 %% ; /* 2611 bytes */ check_failure(_response, orgid, version_date, _script, _lineno); stop_time ["Home"]; /* Stop_Block */ pop Http_control; Beginning of the next script: set Server_connection = D10_91_46_90_6; //I2 /* Keep-Alive request over connection D10_91_46_90_6 */ http_request ["CBDSum001"] "GET /baliweb_ver_" + http_url_encode(version_date) + "_UAT_P20_adc/xml/TB TxnHistoryWI.xml HTTP/1.1rn" "Accept: */*rn" "Referer: https://10.91.46.90/baliweb_ver_" + http_url_encode(version_date + "_UAT_P20_adc/site/lightho" "rz800/en/html/codegen/rn" "Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflatern" "User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR" " 1.1.4322)rn" "Host: 10.91.46.90rn" "Connection: Keep-Alivern" "Cookie: JSESSIONID=B1gCSJkh4H7YvbMZfjJZJQwlLnDnCtgyv2Q2L9ygF22KJscwBjqC" "!-32148467!NONErn" "rn"; start_time ["CBDSum"] _fs_ts;

10. Oracle Application Test Suite OpenScript

11. Better Alternatives for Test Scripting General purpose programming language Multi-platform Many libraries Open-source

12. Tester’s object-oriented dynamic programming language simple from outside YukihiroMatsumoto or “Matz” powerful inside

13. Simple but PowerfulEverything is object5.times { print "We *love* Ruby -- its outrageous!" } class Numeric def plus(x) self.+(x) Flexible and end extensible end y = 5.plus 6 # y is now equal to 11Iterators and blockssearch_engines = %w[Google Yahoo MSN].map do |engine| "http://www." + engine.downcase + ".com" end

14. Ruby platforms MRI JRuby IronRuby MacRubyUnix Mac Win Java VM MS .NET Mac OS X

15. High TestingCulture in Ruby Community TATFT Test All The F****** Time

19. Test script examples with Ruby

20. Web Testing with Seleniumrequire "selenium/client"describe "Google search" do before(:all) do @browser = Selenium::Client::Driver.new(:host => "localhost",:port => 4444, :browser => "*firefox",:url => "http://www.google.com") end before(:each) do @browser.start_new_browser_session end after(:each) do @browser.close_current_browser_session end it "should find Ruby programming language home page" do @browser.open "/" @browser.title.should == "Google" @browser.type "q", "ruby" @browser.click "btnG", :wait_for => :element, :element => rso @browser.title.should =~ /^ruby - Google/ @browser.text?("ruby-lang.org").should be_true endend

21. ... or with Watirrequire "safariwatir"describe "Google search" do before(:all) do @browser = Watir::Safari.new end after(:all) do @browser.close end before(:each) do @browser.goto "http://google.com" end it "should find Ruby programming language home page" do @browser.title.should == "Google" @browser.text_field(:name, "q").set "ruby" @browser.button(:name, "btnG").click @browser.title.should =~ /^ruby - Google/ @browser.text.include?("ruby-lang.org").should be_true endend

22. Tests as Executable Specification

23. require java require jemmy.jar require junquenote_app java_import org.netbeans.jemmy.JemmyProperties java_import org.netbeans.jemmy.TestOut %w(Frame TextArea MenuBar Dialog Button).each do |o| java_import "org.netbeans.jemmy.operators.J#{o}Operator" end Java JemmyProperties.set_current_timeout DialogWaiter.WaitDialogTimeout, 1000 JemmyProperties.set_current_output TestOut.get_null_output describe "Notes application" do def create_application Java classes GUI JunqueNoteApp.new @main_window = JFrameOperator.new JunqueNote end def exit_applicationtesting menu = JMenuBarOperator.new @main_window menu.push_menu_no_block File|Exit, | if dialog = (JDialogOperator.new "Quittin time" rescue nil) button = JButtonOperator.new dialog, "No" button.push end with end def edit_text_area JTextAreaOperator.new @main_window endJRuby before { create_application } after { exit_application } it launches with a welcome message do edit_text_area.text.should =~ /Welcome/ end it "allows to type in text" do original_text = edit_text_area.text edit_text_area.type_text "this is some text" edit_text_area.text.should == "this is some text#{original_text}" end end

24. describe "Remove rooms by name" do before(:all) do plsql.rooms.insert_values( [:room_key, :name], [1, Dining Room], tables [2, Living Room], Oracle [3, Office], [4, Bathroom], [5, Bedroom] ) plsql.room_contents.insert_values( [:contents_key, :room_key, :name], PL/SQL [1, 1, Table], [2, 1, Hutch], [3, 1, Chair], [4, 2, Sofa], [5, 2, Lamp], [6, 3, Desk], procedure Testing [7, 3, Chair], [8, 3, Computer], [9, 3, Whiteboard] ) end call with it "should remove a room without furniture" do rooms_without_b = plsql.rooms.all("WHERE name NOT LIKE B%") plsql.remove_rooms_by_name(B%) plsql.rooms.all.should == rooms_without_b end it "should not remove a room with furniture" doruby-plsql- lambda { lambda { plsql.remove_rooms_by_name(Living Room) }.should raise_error(/ORA-02292/) }.should_not change { plsql.rooms.all } end spec it "should raise exception when NULL value passed" do lambda { lambda { plsql.remove_rooms_by_name(NULL) }.should raise_error(/program error/) }.should_not change { plsql.rooms.all } end end

25. More information http://ruby-lang.org http://pragprog.com/titles/idgtr/ scripted-gui-testing-with-ruby http://github.com/rsim/ ruby-plsql-spec