Fly Through Web Automation Testing

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Fly Through Web Automation Testing

Test Automation Using Selenium Webdriver and Rspec

About the Book

What you will gain from this book will relieve the stress of manual testing. The book covers the fundamentals of automating UI testing for web applications. The aim is not to throw a bible on testing theories, but to provide practical examples on writing automated test scripts using popular open source tools, such as Selenium-Webdriver and Rspec.

Paid and 'Record and Playback' tools are a no-no in this book, giving you more exposure to writing your own test scripts and execute them through IDEs or command prompts - whichever you prefer.

Book Coverage:

Chapter 1: Shows you how to write your first test script.

Chapter 2: Provides examples on locating page elements using various approach.

Chapter 3: Demonstrates code structuring using the Rspec framework and the concept of page objects.

Chapter 4: Demonstrates how the test script can be shortened using the technique Refactoring.

Chapter 5: Demonstrates how command lines can be used to execute test script.

Chapter 6: Covers the concept of 'Rake' to perform builds

Chapter 7: Goes through setting up Git for version control.

Chapter 8: Covers the concept of Continuous Integration and setting up Jenkins to perform a build.

Chapter 9: Explains cross browser testing and demonstrates how to switch different browser types.

About the Author

Table of Contents

  • Preface
    • Who should read this book
    • How to read this book
    • Your Feedbacks
  • Open Source Tools, Frameworks and IDE
    • Which IDE
    • Frameworks and tools
  • Setting Up
    • TestWise Setup
    • Manual Setup
  • Chapter 1 - Writing My First Test
    • Exercise
  • Chapter 2 - Locating page elements
    • Select from a drop down list and multi-select list
    • Selecting radio button
    • Ticking checkboxes
    • Sleep and waiting time
    • Window Resizing
    • Exercise
  • Chapter 3 - Rspec and page objects
    • Page Objects
    • Exercise
  • Chapter 4 - Refactoring
    • Database Reset
  • Exercise
  • Chapter 5 - Command Line
  • Chapter 6 - Rake
    • Report
    • Useful rake commands
  • Chapter 7 - Versioning control with GIT
    • Setting up Git
    • Version control setup
    • Git Clone
  • Chapter 8 - Continuous Integration Build
    • Jenkins as CI Server
    • Setting up the slave
  • Chapter 9 - Cross browser testing
    • Getting TestWise to run Internet Explorer and Chrome
    • Internet Explorer Setup
    • Switching browsers
    • Exercise
  • EXERCISE SOLUTIONS
    • Chapter 1
    • Chapter 2
    • Chapter 3
    • Chapter 4
  • Appendix I
    • Inspect elements
    • Setting up Bitbucket
    • Finding Repository URL

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