The Future Of Web App Testing and How To Stop It

The Future of Web App Testing

and How to Stop It@jhuggins

Jason Hugginshugs@saucelabs.com

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But First...

A Brief History Of Web Testing

Why Selenium?

Browser Wars II

6, 7 & 8

9.61.0

2, 3 3, 4 beta

Test Automation

Source: - F.O.X.: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kv/499219/

Large tests

Dynamic HTML - Ajax

End-to-end Workflows

Any browser - Any platform

Selenium Cumulative Downloads

Firms with: 100+ downloads January – October 2008

Why not Selenium ?

Small tests

Anything outside the JavaScript sandbox

Source: http://lug.mtu.edu/wiki/images/2/27/SANDBOX.jpg

Flash, Java Applets, Silverlight, PDF

Source: http://goldberg.berkeley.edu/art/big-images/doi-box-hi-res.jpg

Example?

ThoughtWorks Time & Expense

Source: - Neal Ford: http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2006_nfjs_canonical/Neal_Ford-Testing_with_Selenium-slides.pdf

Selenium IDE

Selenium IDE for Firefox

SeleniumRemote Control

Selenium Remote Control

Source: - http://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/824/5100491.JPG

Selenium Remote Control

Selenium Grid

Selenium Grid

Source: - http://factoryjoe.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/pods.jpg

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Which is faster? (1 server, sequential tasks)

Time

Servers

1

2

3

4

25

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Which is faster? (4 servers, parallel tasks)

Time

Servers

1

2

3

4

p13y.com

Source: - http://www.flickr.com/photos/onetreehillstudios/2958752337/

And Now...

The Future (which only you can prevent)

Source: http://goldberg.berkeley.edu/art/big-images/doi-box-hi-res.jpg

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Example!

Thank You

@jhugginshugs@saucelabs.com