Presentation of my Talk during Selenium World Conference 2014 Bangalore, India. I spoke about how we started using Selenium in an open source project like Joomla! and what are the important lessons we have learnt during the journey.

2. Selenium and Joomla! Open Source
Puneet Kala
@punekala

4. CMS Usage for Building WebSites
Src: http://w3techs.com/

5. 1 Million Downloads
Every Month
Src: http://joomlacode.org/

6. Code Contribution!

7. Automated Testing for Joomla!

8. Selenium and Joomla
Automated Testing with Selenium RC was started
in 2010, by Ian MacLennan
Shifted to Selenium Webdriver, Started by Mark
Dexter, in 2012

9. System Testing with Joomla
Two Google Summer of Code Projects in year
2013, 2014 to develop the System Test Suite with
Webdriver.
Code Coverage of almost 80% backend and Major
Frontend part of the Application.
Approx. 200+ Testcases.

10. Structure of System Tests

11. Test Suite+
Reporting Tool, that displays Errors and Failures in
a table structure
Travis CI Integration with System Tests, with every
Pull Request.

13. Joomla! Extensions
Extra features that aren’t available with Joomla! by
default can easily be implemented by building an
Extension.
More than 8300 Extensions are available on the
Joomla Extension Directory.

14. Testing Joomla! Extensions
Adding Joomla! as Submodule.
Automated Tests, Installs Joomla and then Installs
the Extension on it.
Page Classes can be further built just like we have
for the CMS.
Can be used for testing any Extension.

15. Limitation and Difficulties
HTML Elements with no ID Attributes.
Maintenance is always a Pain.
Limitation of Travis test execution.
Need for Parallel Testing, limitations of Current
Suite.

16. Experience
Is Functional Testing really Required?
Test Automation strategy is the most Important,
right from the Beginning
Choosing the correct framework.
Plan to achieve small successes and grow.
Automation is not just about Regression Testing.

17. Contd.
You need Patience, Automation Scripts don’t just
payoff right from the first release of a Product.
Testers and Developers -: you need to be on
Same Team!!!!
Record and Playback, it will never payback.

19. Future Goals
Focus on Scaling System Tests.
Use of an Advanced Framework like CodeCeption.
Use of Cloud Based Testing Services.
Focus on Parallelizing Tests execution.

21. Get on Board!
We need your Help!
Volunteer, Learn, Grow with us.
System Testing Group:
http://docs.joomla.org/System_Tests_Working_Group
Email: puneet.kala@community.joomla.org
Twitter: puneet_kala