This document discusses UI automation testing and provides an overview of common tools, frameworks, and techniques used for UI testing including Selenium WebDriver, continuous integration, data driven testing, keyword driven testing, and the page object pattern. It also briefly discusses the future of UI automation testing including running tests in parallel and in the cloud.

1. UI AUTOMATION
Magus Chen
http://magustest.com/blog/
maguschen@gmail.com

2. Agenda
● What is UI Automation
● Common tools and framework
● Selenium2/WebDriver
● Continuous Integration
● Data Driven
● Keyword Driven
● Page Object Pattern
● The Future

3. What is UI Automation
● End to End functional test
● Executed by program
● Verify result by program
● Report defect by program
● Logging for debug

4. Common tools and framework
● Commercial
○ HP QuickTest Pro
○ IBM Rational Functional Tester
● Open Source
○ Selenium/WebDriver
○ Watir
○ FitNesse
○ Sikuli

5. Selenium2/WebDriver
● Two sophisticated browser automation frameworks are
merged
○ http://seleniumhq.org/
○ http://code.google.com/p/selenium/
● Pros
○ APIs in popular languages
○ Multi-Browser and Multi-OS
○ Support many test frameworks
○ Support AJAX

6. Continuous Integration
● What is CI
● Glue in UI Automation
● Parallel test execution

7. Data Driven
● Test data + re-usable test logic
Test data:
Fields Data set 1 Data set 2
Title test title one long title
Description simple desc unicode desc
Test logic:
○ Navigate to target page
○ Fetch test data
○ Enter title and description
○ Submit form
○ Verify result

8. Keyword Driven
● Based on data driven
● Separate the test script developer and test case designer
Object Action Data Comment
signin_username input magus@email.com username
signin_password input password
signin_btn click page refresh
page_title check Login successfully

9. Page Object Pattern
● Reuse test code and reduce duplication
● Readable test code
● Focus on "What to do" instead of "How to do"
● Expose method that represent an element that can be seen and
can be operated on the page
driver.findElement(By.id("user")).sendKeys("magus");
driver.findElement(By.id("pwd")).sendKeys("password");
driver.findElement(By.id("submit")).click()
VS
login_page.login("magus", "password")

10. The Future
● Parallel
● Run in the cloud
● Example: http://saucelabs.com