Selenium RC feedback

[Brett]

Since the hackathon I have been working with Selenium RC to see how it
could be integrated into ofbiz auto builds for regression testing.
Here is a summary of my findings and some recommendations.

1. Selenium RC can definitely be used as a simple ant build (e.g. Ant run-test)

2. Selenium RC does require jdk 1.5 so this may be a problem for some.

3. Requires some path settings to point to the appropriate browser for testing.


Recommendations

1.  You can write your selenium tests in Java for the auto tests, but
I would recommend we create an ofbiz selenium test driver to read a
file with selenium test commands.  This file would probably be a
simple XML file with selenium commands and expected responses.

2. We could use the test driver from step 1 and configure the tests in
the ofbiz-component.xml file with other automated tests.  The element
would include the path for the test script and execute with the other
configured tests.


I'll continue to play with selenium RC and let the group know what I
find.  If you have any thoughts on the above proposal post them to the
dev list.

Thanks,


Brett

[Tim Ruppert]

Very awesome Brett.  I suspected your findings and am super-stoked to see that it's come to fruition.  This further solidifies that we need to go back to the Selenium guys and check in about the licensing issues.  I have almost everything sorted out on the Webtest Framework hooks as well, but have yet to finish it.  Can't wait to get there, but in the meantime - thanks again Brett.

Cheers,

Tim

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On Mar 19, 2007, at 10:44 AM, Brett Palmer wrote:

Since the hackathon I have been working with Selenium RC to see how it

could be integrated into ofbiz auto builds for regression testing.

Here is a summary of my findings and some recommendations.

1. Selenium RC can definitely be used as a simple ant build (e.g. Ant run-test)

2. Selenium RC does require jdk 1.5 so this may be a problem for some.

3. Requires some path settings to point to the appropriate browser for testing.

Recommendations

1.  You can write your selenium tests in Java for the auto tests, but

I would recommend we create an ofbiz selenium test driver to read a

file with selenium test commands.  This file would probably be a

simple XML file with selenium commands and expected responses.

2. We could use the test driver from step 1 and configure the tests in

the ofbiz-component.xml file with other automated tests.  The element

would include the path for the test script and execute with the other

configured tests.

I'll continue to play with selenium RC and let the group know what I

find.  If you have any thoughts on the above proposal post them to the

dev list.

Thanks,

Brett