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State of the Automation

Tuesday, April 24, 12

Ich: github.com/admc

• I’m a web developer• OSAF 2007, released Windmill Project• Slide 2008, released WatiN, FlexPilot• Mozilla 2009, released MozMill• Sauce Labs 2010 - 2012

• Selenium Builder• Jellyfish• WD, WD-Candy

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Introduction

Thanks for having us!

You may know all of this, already.

Conclusions from years of pain.

I hope you find something new to take away.

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The HistorySelenium Core - 2004

Windmill - 2007

Node.JS - Appears at JS.EU - 2009

Soda - Node drives Selenium 1!

JSDOM, Phantom, Zombie, Tobi - 2010

WebDriver - Starts talking about mobile

WebDriver + Selenium = Selenium 2

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Test Stack

VowsMocha

QUnitJasmine

Zombie, Phantom, Tobi

WebDriver: wd-candy (wd pronounced wood), WebDriverJS, webdriver-js

Manual, otherwise still not impressed.

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The Holy Grail

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Do what works

• Immediate value• Easy for developers• Some is better than none

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6 Commandments of test

• Only run after passing headless• Small succinct test cases• No test case dependencies• Abstract fragile locators• Parallelize test runs to the max• Focus on the money path

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What do I test?

• Metrics for pages (Mixpanel?)• Analytics for browsers (Google?)• Money path!

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Evangelism

• Your testing work is never done• Selenium Conf 2011 - Automated Battle Scars

http://youtu.be/vZTi02tSs_M

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Continuous Integration is HOT

Jenkins (commercial: cloudbees)

Travis-CI: OSS Only

Waterfall test flow, fail early

Only SMS on critical

Incredible speed up in development

Plugins for Selenium/WebDriver

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WebDriver (Se 2)

W3C Standard

Name situation

Selenium Conference: Community

Does web automation amazingly

Cares about mobile

Selenium Grid

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All the browsers

We’re just getting started..

We accidentally..

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Mobile Native

• A work in progress• Searching for a community• NativeDriver -- awesome, discontinued :-(• calabash -- appears to have momentum

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Future

Full mobile web coverage as part of Selenium

Faster Android emulation solution

Faster browser testing due to browser side optimizations

Blessed mobile native solution with WebDriver API’s

Robots.

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Sauce LabsOpen Source projects!

Se Builder -> Node Selenium Libraries

Cleaner integration: QUnit, Jasmine

Integration with Selenium Grid

Better ways to • debug your JS via the cloud• profile your JS on the cloud

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Seriously, Robots

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The Clouds• General

• EC2, RackSpace, MacMiniCloud etc.• Specific

• Sauce OnDemand - Functional, Client JS Unit• Testling - Client JS Unit• Browser Stack - Client JS Unit• TestBot - Client Functional

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Vielen Dank Berlin.JS!

Thanks Berlin.JS for hosting!

Keeping the JS Community growing in .de

Allowing us to come talk to you!

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LinksMocha: http://visionmedia.github.com/mocha/Calabash: https://github.com/calabash/Selenium Grid: http://selenium-grid.seleniumhq.org/WD: https://github.com/admc/wdWD-Candy: https://github.com/admc/wd-candyVows: http://vowsjs.org/QUnit: http://docs.jquery.com/QunitWebDriverJS: http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/WebDriverJswebdriver-js: https://github.com/dmachi/webdriver-jsSelenium/WebDriver: http://seleniumhq.org/Zombie.JS: https://github.com/assaf/zombieTobi: https://github.com/learnboost/tobiSe-Builder: http://www.sebuilder.com

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Q & A

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