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From: Jason Dillon <jason@planet57.com>
Subject: Re: Tests for Console
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 15:00:02 -0700
To: dev@geronimo.apache.org
Sender: Jason Dillon <jason.dillon@gmail.com>

Its too bad the console does not change the title of the page when  
the portlet changes... its nice and easy to check the title... but  
its always "Geronimo Console".

--jason


On Sep 1, 2006, at 2:37 PM, Bill Dudney wrote:

> Hi Jason,
>
> AFAIK you have to have the selenium stuff in the web app you are  
> deploying. But that is something I was going to play with over the  
> weekend.
>
> My approach was mirror what shale does;
>
> http://shale.apache.org/shale-apps/selenium.html
>
> But run the tests with the selenium server.
>
> TTFN,
>
> -bd-
>
> On Sep 1, 2006, at 3:24 PM, Jason Dillon wrote:
>
>> I was able to finally get the simple GoogleTest example to run in
>> Maven... some of the online docs are bunk, but if you download
>> selenium-rc 0.8.1 those examples work better.
>>
>> Still need to automate starting, stopping the selenium server, which
>> should happen when the G server is started & stopped.
>>
>> I briefly took a whack at this and have something... though the Ant
>> exec task buffers some output and ends up causing evil exceptions on
>> shutdown... which I have no idea why.
>>
>> I may check in some of what I have into a new top-level testsuite
>> module, so that we have a place to apply patches to.
>>
>> Does anyone know if we need to modify the webapps to include some
>> special selenium fluff?
>>
>> --jason
>>
>>
>> On 8/31/06, Bill Dudney <bdudney@apache.org> wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I'm planning on doing a proof of concept for selenium over the
>>> weekend to test the console (esp the datasource deployment :-).
>>>
>>> I will post a patch when i have something meaningful (hopefully by
>>> monday).
>>>
>>> TTFN,
>>>
>>> -bd-
>>>
>>> On Aug 31, 2006, at 9:25 PM, Jason Dillon wrote:
>>>
>>> > Cool... I think Bill Dundney expressed some interest in this as
>>> > well.  :-)
>>> >
>>> > I think to start antrun should work fine... and then after we  
>>> get a
>>> > POC working, then we can craft an m2 plugin.
>>> >
>>> > --jason
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Aug 31, 2006, at 7:15 PM, Gianny Damour wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> I support that. If Selenium is chosen as the tool to automate the
>>> >> integration testing of the Admin console, then I am happy to
>>> >> bootstrap the effort. On my current project, we are using  
>>> Selenium
>>> >> with script generation via Ruby and it rocks. Our build system is
>>> >> Ant, thought, I think that I should be able to make it work  
>>> with m2.
>>> >>
>>> >> Thanks,
>>> >> Gianny
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> On 01/09/2006, at 9:46 AM, Jason Dillon wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >>> selenium looks very promising... I've not tried it, but from the
>>> >>> docs
>>> >>> it looks good... I like the IDE to record.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I would love to see a proof of concept for how this could be
>>> >>> hooked up
>>> >>> to the build for integration tests of the console :-)
>>> >>>
>>> >>> --jason
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> On 8/8/06, Bill Dudney <bdudney@apache.org> wrote:
>>> >>>> Canoo is quite good;
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> http://webtest.canoo.com/webtest/manual/WebTestHome.html
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> It uses Ant to execute its tests and AFAIK there is not maven
>>> >>>> plugin
>>> >>>> to invoke it but should be straight forward to do with maven.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Its license appears to (this non-lawyer at least) be  
>>> compatible.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Also the Struts folks are using Selenium from M2 AFAIK.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> TTFN,
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> -bd
>>> >>>> On Aug 8, 2006, at 12:14 PM, Prasad Kashyap wrote:
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> > Does anybody know of any good open source tests for the  
>>> console ?
>>> >>>> > There are quite a few of those out there, most of them  
>>> GPL.  I
>>> >>>> have
>>> >>>> > never used any of them. So please share your valuable
>>> >>>> experiences,
>>> >>>> > comments and thoughts.
>>> >>>> >
>>> >>>> > The itests would be a good place to stage and run any such  
>>> tests.
>>> >>>> >
>>> >>>> > jWebUnit:
>>> >>>> > --------------
>>> >>>> > http://jwebunit.sourceforge.net/
>>> >>>> > http://htmlunit.sourceforge.net/
>>> >>>> > http://httpunit.sourceforge.net/
>>> >>>> >
>>> >>>> > License: GPL
>>> >>>> >
>>> >>>> > jWebUnit provides a high-level API for navigating a web
>>> >>>> application
>>> >>>> > combined with a set of assertions to verify the application's
>>> >>>> > correctness. This includes navigation via links, form  
>>> entry and
>>> >>>> > submission, validation of table contents, and other typical
>>> >>>> business
>>> >>>> > web application features. This code try to stay  
>>> independent of
>>> >>>> the
>>> >>>> > libraries behind the scenes. The simple navigation methods  
>>> and
>>> >>>> > ready-to-use assertions allow for more rapid test creation
>>> >>>> than using
>>> >>>> > only JUnit and HtmlUnit. And if you want to switch from
>>> >>>> HtmlUnit to
>>> >>>> > the other soon available plugins, no need to rewrite your  
>>> tests.
>>> >>>> >
>>> >>>> > jWebUnit also builds with maven 2. So it will be much easier
>>> >>>> for us to
>>> >>>> > integrate it into our project.
>>> >>>> >
>>> >>>> >
>>> >>>> > Enterprise Web Test
>>> >>>> > ---------------------------------
>>> >>>> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/webunitproj/
>>> >>>> > License: Common Public License  (can we still use it ?)
>>> >>>> >
>>> >>>> > Enterprise Web Test allows Java programmers to write re- 
>>> usable
>>> >>>> tests
>>> >>>> > for web applications that, unlike HttpUnit, "drive" the  
>>> actual
>>> >>>> web
>>> >>>> > browser on the actual platform they intend to support. Tests
>>> >>>> can be
>>> >>>> > leveraged for functional, stress, reliability.
>>> >>>> >
>>> >>>> > Cheers
>>> >>>> > Prasad
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>
>>> >>
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>