Is Sahi Pro good for you as an Automation Tool? What can you expect from it? This presentation provides a glimpse of what it will be like to use Sahi Pro as your automation tool.

1. What to Expect from Sahi Pro
Simple Reliable Test Automation
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Q: What is Sahi Pro?
• Sahi Pro is a test automation tool
• It enables testers to
– Convert manual tests to automation tests
– Rapidly and reliably execute batches of such tests
– Provide detailed reports of playback results
• Sahi Pro is easy to use and can be used by
non programmers too
• Sahi Pro needs minimal maintenance

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Q: How do the tests look?
This is a scenario file. It defines business flows.

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Scenarios
• Scenarios define business flows
• They are easily readable and can be used as
manual tests too.
• They do not depend on the actual user interface
• Any good tester (manual or automation) can
write them, even if they do not have
programming knowledge.
– This is the bulk of Sahi automation and requires
understanding of your business domain and
organizing your tests.

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Q: How does the Scenario work?
• Each step in the Scenario calls a Javascript function
or Java method
• These functions define the actual steps to be
performed on the UI

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Functions in Sahi Scripts
• Such Javascript functions are defined in Sahi scripts
• Sahi scripts use Sahi APIs to interact with
– Web Browsers
– Desktop applications
– Java applications
– Flex Applications
– Mobile Applications
• Sample Sahi APIs:
– Action APIs: _click, _setValue etc.
– Accessor APIs: _textbox, _button etc.

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Q: How do we write these functions?
• You can record your interactions using the Sahi
Recorder
• This can be converted into functions using the
“Create Function” wizard in the Sahi Pro Editor

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Q: Record? Hmm…
• If you have religious reasons to not use recorders,
you can write the script manually too.
– Record and playback is frowned upon because of inability
to work with dynamic data, identifiers which are sub-
optimal etc.
– Good recorders and object spies can make object
detection and interaction scripting easy.
– Use Sahi’s recorder to your advantage. You can always fall
back to manual scripting if needed.

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Q: How do I run Scenarios?
• Scenarios can be executed from
– Sahi Pro UI
– Command line
– ANT
– Continuous Integration systems like Jenkins
• Normally hundreds or thousands of Scenario
files are grouped in a Suite file and executed
as a batch.

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Suites
– Suites are a group of scenarios/scripts.
– Scenarios/scripts can be organized via tags. Selective
tags can be run
– Data can be passed to Scenarios/scripts. Same
scenario can be run with multiple sets of input data.

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Suite Execution
• Sahi Pro can distribute scenarios/scripts
across machines for faster results
– Say across 6 machines and finish off in 1/6th time
• Sahi Pro can run browser scenarios/scripts in
parallel on a single machine
– 6 machines each running 5 instances of browsers
can run 30 scripts simultaneously!

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Q: What about Reports?
• Reports are automatically generated, without
writing any code
• Reports show
 historical data of all suites and scripts run
Can be drilled down to suite report
Drill down further to script/scenario report
Drill down to function call
Drill down to step executed, along with screen shot if
there is an error
Drill down to exact line of code in Script.

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Q: Aren’t UI tests flaky?
• Not with Sahi. UI tests break for 2 reasons
– Brittle identification mechanisms
– Waits or synchronization issues
• Sahi uses smart identification mechanisms which are not
easily affected by UI change
– No XPaths
• Sahi automatically waits for the right amount of time
between steps
– No wait statements required
• Sahi tests have very few false positives or false negatives.
When a script fails, you can say with confidence that the
application has changed.

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Q: No XPaths, No waits?
_navigateTo("http://mail.google.com");
_setValue(_emailbox("identifier"), "madeupname");
_click(_span("Next"));
_setValue(_password("password"), "secret");
_click(_span("Next"));
_click(_div("COMPOSE"));
_setValue(_textarea("to"), "abc@example.com");
_setValue(_textbox("subjectbox"), "Hi there!");
_click(_image("Minimise"));
_click(_link("/Google Account: /"));
_click(_link("Sign out"));
_click(_span(0, _near(_image("photo.jpg"))));
_click(_submit("Remove an account"));
_click(_div(0, _near(paragraph("Madeup Name"))));
_click(_div("Yes, remove"));
_assertVisible(_emailbox("identifier"));
Here is a sample script, automating Gmail. Try it!

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Summary
• Sahi scripts are easy to create and maintain
• The tester concentrates on business
functionality. Sahi does all the tooling parts.
• Sahi scripts execute fast and reliably, helping
agile teams get rapid feedback
• Very little time is wasted in the automation
process.

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