Learn how to build simple and powerful automated tests that will work on the browsers you care about, cover visual testing and functional regressions, and be configured to run automatically through the use of a continuous integration (CI) server.

1. Awesome
Test Automation
Made Simple
by Dave Haeffner

2. Agenda
1. Getting Started with Powerful Tests
2. Running Your Tests on any Browser
3. Automating Your Test Runs with CI
4. Q&A

3. Act I
Getting Started
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4. Selenium
• Open-source browser automation tool
• Every major browser, OS, and programming
language
• Mimics human action
• Uses a few common actions
• Works with “locators”
Locators tell Selenium which HTML
element a command refers to

5. Locator Strategies
• Class
• CSS selectors
• ID
• Link Text
• Partial Link Text
• Tag Name
• XPath
Good locators are:
• unique
• descriptive
• unlikely to change
That rules a few of these out

6. Locator Strategies
• Class
• CSS selectors
• ID
• Link Text
• Partial Link Text
• Tag Name
• XPath
Good locators are:
• unique
• descriptive
• unlikely to change
That rules a few of these out

7. Locator Strategies
• Class
• CSS selectors
• ID
• Link Text
• Partial Link Text
• Tag Name
• XPath
Good locators are:
• unique
• descriptive
• unlikely to change
That rules a few of these out
Start with IDs and Classes

8. Locator Strategies
• Class
• CSS selectors
• ID
• Link Text
• Partial Link Text
• Tag Name
• XPath
Good locators are:
• unique
• descriptive
• unlikely to change
That rules a few of these out
Start with IDs and Classes
Use CSS or XPath sanely

9. Locator Strategies
• Class
• CSS selectors
• ID
• Link Text
• Partial Link Text
• Tag Name
• XPath
CSS vs XPath
http://bit.ly/seleniumbenchmarks
http://bit.ly/cssxpathexamples

10. Finding Quality Locators
• Inspect the page
• Verify your selection
• e.g., FirePath or FireFinder
• http://bit.ly/verifyinglocators

11. Common Selenium actions
• find_element
• click
• clear
• send_keys
• text
• displayed?
Look up your language’s bindings
http://bit.ly/seleniumwiki

12. A Login Example
1. Visit the login page
2. Find the login form’s username field and input text
3. Find the login form’s password field and input text
4. Find the submit button and click it

13. http://the-internet.herokuapp.com/login

14. An Example
(with Ruby & RSpec)

18. Recap
• Assertions are the crux of an automated test
• Automated visual testing gives you hundreds of
assertions in just a few lines of code
• Automates something that used to be done manually
• Over 16 open-source solutions available
• Visual testing has limitations (e.g., false postives).
Applitools handles them in stride
http://bit.ly/se-visual-1

19. Act 2
Any Browser
with
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20. An Example

22. Recap
• Run Your Tests on any browser & operating system
combination you need
• Few lines of code
• Great reporting (e.g., video recording)
http://se.tips/cloud-testing

23. Act 3
Automated Test Runs
with and
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25. Continuous Integration
• Feedback loops
• Code promotion

26. Feedback loops
• The goal: Find failures early and often
• Notifications
• Email, chat, SMS
• In-person (audio & visual)

27. Code
Committed
Integration
(pass?)
Deploy to
autom. test
server
(success?)
Run
automated
tests
(pass?)
Deploy to
manual test
server
(manual)
(success?)
yes
yes
yes
Notify team if no
Code Promotion
Bonus points: stop the line

28. Simple Jenkins configuration
1. Create a Job
2. Pull In Your Test Code
3. Set up Build Triggers
4. Configure Build steps
5. Configure Test Reports
6. Set up Notifications
7. Run Tests & View The Results

29. An Example

30. Recap
• Automate Your Test Runs without infrastructure
overhead
• Plug into the development workflow you’re a part of
• Enable notifications to fit your team’s context
• Automatically link to high bandwidth information
(e.g., Sauce Labs & Applitools job dashboards) to
make everything sing
http://se.tips/ci-walkthrough

31. Awesome Test Automation
has been Achieved!

32. Q&A Panel

33. Adam Carmi
Co-founder & VP of R&D
Abhijit Pendyal
Solutions Engineer, Sauce Labs
Brian Dawson
DevOps Evangelist, CloudBees

34. Free Stuff!

35. Automated Visual Testing e-Book:
Step-by-Step Guide & Best Practices - by Dave Haeffner
Send an email to info@applitools.com with EBOOK in the subject line
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