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SHARING THE PAIN – PROTRACTOR & WEBDRIVER
Nikitha Iyer Developer
Anand Bagmar Software Quality Evangelist
@BagmarAnand about.me/anand.bagmar
ABOUT US
@NikithaIyer
Why are you here?
Case Study
DOMAIN
USER BASE
USAGE
SINGLE PAGE APPLICATION
Disclaimer
Why Protractor?
TEAM OWNS QUALITY
Testing ≠ Testers
Quality is a Team Responsibility
Unit (xUnit / JavaScript)
Component
Integration
View
Web Service
UI
Manual / Exploratory
Performance
Security
Accessibility
TEST PYRAMID
TEAM COMPOSITION & SKILLS
OPTIONS LOOKED AT
q Cucumber-JVM / Cucumber-Ruby
q WebDriver-JS
q Protractor
Challenges
CHALLENGES - JAVASCRIPT
What is Test Automation?
Synchronous, Step-by-Step execution
ASynchronous Callbacks & Promises!
Power of JavaScript?
CHALLENGES – BROWSER (& OS) SUPPORT
Browser / Driver Why? Challenges phantomJS Headless execution
- easier for developers - Seamless CI
integration
- Officially not recommended by Protractor
Chrome - End-user requirement
- Excellent for development & testing
- Certain elements “not visible” – though worked with Firefox
Firefox - End-user requirement
- Worked locally - Worked in CI – in
headless (xvfb), but NOT for maps
- Worked in headless mode (xvfb) in vagrant
CHALLENGES – BUILD TOOL INTEGRATION
Gulp-angular-protractor
Gulp-protractor
Protractor
Selenium-WebDriver
Gulp
CHALLENGES - ANGULAR
Type Example Angular Directives Ex: ng-repeat, ng-model Custom Directives Ex: third party libraries providing
multi-column select, Sliders for range, Charts
Working with non-Angular Ex: Login, Admin
CHALLENGES - DEBUGGING
Setting breakpoints while handling promises
CHALLENGES – MAPS
Overcoming the Challenges
SOLUTIONS – SIMPLIFY BUILD TOOL INTEGRATION
Protractor
Selenium-WebDriver
Gulp
SOLUTIONS – DETERMINISTIC TEST DATA
q Same Test Data in all environments / tenants
q Minimal Environment specific configuration
q Intelligent ‘before’ & ‘after’ setups
SOLUTIONS – UTILITIES
Page functions - Common behavior
- Non-angular
Screenshots with counters
Unique output directory names
JS Console warnings & errors
Chart functions
CSV loader
Modals & Alerts
File Upload
File Download
Custom Locators
Configurations
SOLUTIONS - LEARN
• JavaScript
• Angular
• Protractor
DID WE SOLVE ALL THE PROBLEMS?
JUST KIDDING!!!
Of course, NO!!
- Maps
- Reports
- How many and where to put “assertions”?
- Use Soft-asserts
YES!!!
OUR TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS PAIN & GAIN!
q Choose tech-stack based on context
q Experiment & Fail-Fast!
q Proper Cost-Value evaluation
q Manage Risk (what to automate – now / later, and what NOT to automate)
q Keep learning & sharing – new and better solutions
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REFERENCES
Page Objects – Google - https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/PageObjects
Page Objects – Martin Fowler - http://martinfowler.com/bliki/PageObject.html
Perils of Page-Object Pattern – Anand Bagmar - http://essenceoftesting.blogspot.in/2014/09/perils-of-page-object-pattern.html
Protractor – https://docs.angularjs.org/guide/e2e-testing, http://www.protractortest.org/#/
Learn Protractor for Angular – https://docs.angularjs.org/tutorial
Sample project – https://github.com/NikithaIyer/angular-phonecat-e2e
@BagmarAnand about.me/anand.bagmar
THANK YOU
@NikithaIyer
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