Selenium on Micha Kops' Tech Notes

Layout Testing with Galen, JUnit and Maven

Mon, 16 May 2016 00:00:00 +0200

Writing tests not only to verify the behaviour of a web site but also the correctness of its layout especially for responsive websites is not always easy.

Luckily the Galen Framework eases the task of writing layout tests for us, offering a specialized domain-specific-language to write layout-specifications, it integrates well with Selenium Grid, Sauce Labs or BrowserStack, it offers an easy way to deal with different browser sizes and responsive designs and it generates nice, detailed test reports.

A short Introduction to ScalaTest

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0100

ScalaTest is an excellent framework to write concise, readable tests for your Scala or Java code with less effort.

In addition it integrates well with a variety of frameworks like JUnit, TestNG, Ant, Maven, sbt, ScalaCheck, JMock, EasyMock, Mockito, ScalaMock, Selenium, Eclipse, NetBeans, and IntelliJ.

In the following short tutorial we’re going to write some tests using ScalaTest exploring features like rich matchers, BDD syntax support or web tests using Selenium/Webdriver.

Arquillian Tutorial: Writing Java EE 6 Integration Tests and more

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0200

Now that the long awaited stable version of the Arquillian framework is released I wanted to demonstrate some interesting features of this framework that really eases writing and running of integration tests for Java EE 6 applications in many different ways.

In the following tutorial we are going to create some real-world examples using Enterprise JavaBeans, Contexts and Dependency Injection, the Java Persistence API and we’re finally running Drone/Selenium tests against a JEE Web Application that is using Java Server Faces.

Selenium WebDriver, Selenium Server and PageObjects by Example

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0100

A lot has changed since Selenium RC and WebDriver has given us a new syntax to write tests for our web pages. PageObjects add an abstraction to the pages under test and finally we’re able to programmatically start Selenium server instances and use them to run the tests.

In the following tutorial, we’re writing some tests using PageObjects, WebDriver, Selenium Server and finally we’re even taking some screenshots of our tested web pages..

Oh JBehave, Baby! Behaviour Driven Development using JBehave

Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 +0200

Behaviour Driven Development is the keyword when we’re talking about test scenarios written in an ubiquitous language, strong interaction with stakeholders, product owners or testers and well described, common understandable test scenarios.

The popular JBehave framework is our tool of choice here and allows us to decouple our test stories from the test classes, offers an integration for web tests using Selenium and finally there’s a helpful Maven plugin for JBehave, too.