Re: Automation testing in ofbiz

Posted by David E Jones-2 on Aug 26, 2006; 9:38pm
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Automation-testing-in-ofbiz-tp141528p141532.html


The easiest techniques I have seen are:

- searching for key strings which can be numbers, names, etc

- post-test validation, ie other tests in a series that run after or  
between UI level tests to check data in the database and such

-David


On Aug 26, 2006, at 2:09 PM, Al Byers wrote:

> I just got Grinder up and working today and am very impressed. It  
> took 2-3 hours to get comfortable with it enough to get the  
> TCPProxy to work. I still have jython/python to learn, but you  
> don't need much to get it going. It is the TCPProxy filter  that  
> allows you to capture your browser activity and then play it back  
> as a test. That is worth the price of admission right there.
>
> What I don't see yet, is the best way to test the HTML that comes  
> back from a front-end test to see if it passes. Is it to compare it  
> to "standard"? That doesn't seem practical because a small  
> difference would make the test fail. I see that there is python  
> interface to Tidy, so i wonder if the answer isn't to run the  
> response thru Tidy and then use Freemarker to process the response  
> to see if the test criteria is met. Doing that from scratch for  
> each test would be prohibitive, so I am wondering if there is some  
> sort of shortcut that, perhaps, ofbiz can help with. I haven't  
> thought it thru, but maybe there are some sort of markers that can  
> be placed there, that could easily be found using the xpath  
> capabilities of freemarker. Maybe those markers can be triggered  
> from the widget definitions. Just thinking out loud there.
>
> -Al
>
> David E Jones wrote:
>>
>> Try something like Grinder (on SourceForge). This is one candidate  
>> for the in-progress OFBiz suite of testing tools.
>>
>> -David
>>
>>
>> On Aug 25, 2006, at 10:37 PM, Sayoke Shome wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Is there any method in ofbiz which may help automating the front  
>>> end testing
>>> process?
>>>
>>> I need to test Ftls. Is there something similar to struts test  
>>> cases for
>>> FTL's we use in ofbiz.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks and regards,
>>>
>>>
>>>
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