RE: Testing with Selenium
From: Steve Bertrand Steve Bertrand wrote: Bob McConnell wrote: I have begun the task of automating functional tests for some of our web servers. I have had some success using Selenium IDE in Firefox to capture input sequences, exporting them to Perl scripts, then using the Se remote control server to execute them. But I have run into one minor problem. A basic test is to verify the error message returned when an invalid password is entered. This test script is shown below. I can run this as a simple test, or it can be part of a suite. The command line to manually run the suite is normally: perl -MTest::Harness -e @ARGV= map glob, @ARGV \ if $^O =~ /^MSWin/; runtests @ARGV; test/*.pl Unfortunately, yes this is running on a WinXP system. My problem is that we have multiple virtual hosts on that server, and I need to select a specific host for each run. So when I run the harness I need some way to pass the tst12.dev portion of the URL into each of the test scripts. I can't see any way with Test::Harness or Test::More to do this. If I can, then I have other parameters that need to be passed in as well. Do I understand you correctly in believing that you are trying to run specific tests against numerous hosts within a single test file? Appears as though I've totally misunderstood what you are after... After re-reading, it looks as though you are trying to execute multiple test 'files', and want to supply the hostname (and perhaps other params) into them. Yes? Yes, I have a 'tests' directory with a growing number of Selenium scripts that will become an automated regression test. Each time I run those scripts with Test::Harness I need to pass a server name to each script. There are other variables I would also like to control. On my test server there are three hosts that I maintain, which normally have the current and two previous builds of the application. After I add or modify a test script, or make a change to the current version, if there is a test failure I can then run the same test on the previous versions to find out if they produce the same failure. These test scripts will be checked into our SCM so the QA and production teams have access to them as well. In addition, those teams should be able to record and add scripts that recreate problems they find or any that are reported by clients. Once fixed, those tests will also become part of the regression suite. This reduces the time to run a reasonably complete regression test from most of a man-week to a couple of hours. Paul's suggestion of environment variables appears to be the only viable option I have seen so far. Bob McConnell -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: Testing with Selenium
Bob McConnell wrote:
Good morning,
I have begun the task of automating functional tests for some of our web
servers. I have had some success using Selenium IDE in Firefox to
capture input sequences, exporting them to Perl scripts, then using the
Se remote control server to execute them. But I have run into one minor
problem.
A basic test is to verify the error message returned when an invalid
password is entered. This test script is shown below. I can run this as
a simple test, or it can be part of a suite. The command line to
manually run the suite is normally:
perl -MTest::Harness -e @ARGV= map glob, @ARGV \
if $^O =~ /^MSWin/; runtests @ARGV; test/*.pl
Unfortunately, yes this is running on a WinXP system.
My problem is that we have multiple virtual hosts on that server, and I
need to select a specific host for each run. So when I run the harness I
need some way to pass the tst12.dev portion of the URL into each of
the test scripts. I can't see any way with Test::Harness or Test::More
to do this. If I can, then I have other parameters that need to be
passed in as well.
Do I understand you correctly in believing that you are trying to run
specific tests against numerous hosts within a single test file?
If so, I do the same sort of thing. I loop through a pre-determined
number of items, and after each loop completes, reset the data:
my @bad_hours = qw ( a x $ 8p p8 $8 hello %hash );
for ( @bad_hours ) {
$plan_info{ hours } = $_;
my $return = $user-add_plan( \%plan_info, $error );
isa_ok ( $return, 'ISP::Error', $_ in the hrs field, the return );
_reset();
}
The _reset() function essentially undefs all existing params and
objects, and re-initializes them to an original state.
If you needed to loop in multiple variables, you could perhaps change
the construct to pass in differing anon hashes instead, and de-construct
and assign the values within the loop.
my @data = (
{ hostname = 'name', port = 8080, },
{ hostname = 'blah', port = 9010, },
);
Am I on the right track as to what you are after? If so, you could also
change the setup so that the core test is in a sub, and instead of
looping around the code, you could just loop around a sub call instead:
for my $data_href ( @data ) {
test_function( $href );
}
Steve
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Re: Testing with Selenium
Steve Bertrand wrote: Bob McConnell wrote: Good morning, I have begun the task of automating functional tests for some of our web servers. I have had some success using Selenium IDE in Firefox to capture input sequences, exporting them to Perl scripts, then using the Se remote control server to execute them. But I have run into one minor problem. A basic test is to verify the error message returned when an invalid password is entered. This test script is shown below. I can run this as a simple test, or it can be part of a suite. The command line to manually run the suite is normally: perl -MTest::Harness -e @ARGV= map glob, @ARGV \ if $^O =~ /^MSWin/; runtests @ARGV; test/*.pl Unfortunately, yes this is running on a WinXP system. My problem is that we have multiple virtual hosts on that server, and I need to select a specific host for each run. So when I run the harness I need some way to pass the tst12.dev portion of the URL into each of the test scripts. I can't see any way with Test::Harness or Test::More to do this. If I can, then I have other parameters that need to be passed in as well. Do I understand you correctly in believing that you are trying to run specific tests against numerous hosts within a single test file? Appears as though I've totally misunderstood what you are after... After re-reading, it looks as though you are trying to execute multiple test 'files', and want to supply the hostname (and perhaps other params) into them. Yes? Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: Testing with Selenium
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 02:12:31PM -0400, Bob McConnell wrote: Good morning, I have begun the task of automating functional tests for some of our web servers. I have had some success using Selenium IDE in Firefox to capture input sequences, exporting them to Perl scripts, then using the Se remote control server to execute them. But I have run into one minor problem. My problem is that we have multiple virtual hosts on that server, and I need to select a specific host for each run. So when I run the harness I need some way to pass the tst12.dev portion of the URL into each of the test scripts. I can't see any way with Test::Harness or Test::More to do this. If I can, then I have other parameters that need to be passed in as well. Any suggestions? I solve exactly this problem by using environment variables. You can also provide a default in your test if that makes sense. -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
