This document discusses running automated tests across different browsers and platforms using Sauce Labs and Holmium. It begins with an introduction and overview of why Sauce Labs is useful for cross-browser and parallel testing. It then demonstrates running a sample test script locally and on Sauce Labs, including setting up accounts and credentials. Finally, it shows how to use the Holmium plugin to define page objects and run the sample tests on Sauce Labs, configuring the browser and environment via command line parameters.

1. Introduction to
- Sajnikanth Suriyanarayanan
Presented at AlbumPrinter QA Guild on 20th Nov 2014

2. Contents
● Why Saucelabs?
● Demo script
● Using Sauce to run demo script
● Introduction to holmium
● Running script with holmium on sauce
● Questions

3. Why Sauce?

4. ...
● Cross browser
● Cross platform
● Parallel testing
● yada yada…
There’s also Browserstack, Browsershots,
Browserling etc.

5. Let’s get our hands dirty

6. Demo Setup & Intro
sudo pip install nose selenium holmium.core
git clone https://github.com/sajnikanth/sauce-demo
● Setup
○ Use local Firefox
● Test Steps
○ Go to Vistaprint Corp Page
○ Click on “sign in” button
○ On Login Page, enter username, password and login
○ Check if “Welcome message is displayed”
● Tear Down
○ Quit Browser

7. Running Demo Script locally
python tests/selenium_vistaprint_test.py
or
nosetests tests/selenium_vistaprint_test.py

8. Saucelabs Setup
● Register at https://saucelabs.com
○ Have username handy
● Go to https://saucelabs.com/account
● Get Access Key
sudo pip install sauceclient

9. Demo Script on Sauce
● Setup
○ Check if sauce credentials are available during runtime
■ Env - Windows & Chrome
○ If credentials are not available
■ Use local Firefox
● Test Steps
○ Go to Vistaprint Corp Page
○ Click on “sign in” button
○ On Login Page, enter username, password and login
○ Check if “Welcome message is displayed”
● Tear Down
○ Check if sauce credentials are available during runtime
■ Update results on Sauce
○ Quit Browser

10. Running on Sauce
nosetests tests/selenium_vistaprint_test.py
-cred=<ENTER SAUCE USERNAME>:<ENTER SAUCE ACCESS KEY>

11. Demo Script with Holmium
Holmium is a plugin for nosetests; can easily create page objects
● Test Steps
○ Go to <URL>
○ Click on “sign in” button
○ Login with <username> and <password>
○ Check if “Welcome message is displayed”
○ Update results on Saucelabs, if possible

12. ...

13. Demo Script with Holmium on Sauce
nosetests tests/holmium_vistaprint_test.py
--with-holmium --holmium-browser=firefox
--holmium-environment=http://vistaprint.com
--holmium-remote=http://<ENTER SAUCE USERNAME>:<ENTER
SAUCE ACCESS KEY>@ondemand.saucelabs.com:80/wd/hub
--holmium-capabilities='{"platform":"OS X 10.10",
"name":"vistaprint_login"}'

14. ...

15. Recap
● Demo script run locally on Firefox (hard-coded)
● Demo script run on Sauce on Windows /
Chrome (hard-coded)
● Demo script with holmium on Sauce on OSX
/ Firefox (command line parameter)

16. Questions?
Resources
● Presentation Link - http://j.mp/introduction-to-sauce
● Demo Script
● Holmium
● Introduction to SauceLabs by Ryan Lane
● BrowserStack vs Sauce Labs
Contact
● mail@sajnikanth.com