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I just setup browser testing framework utilizing Selenium from TeamCity project. The usual suspects are involved, Gallio, MBUnit, Nant and even C# Unittests.

The usual scenario when it comes to automating browser testing is that the QA / testers will create some scripts to run a browser against your website. Somehow those tests are usually not maintained very well and often are run by hand. There is not much value in browser testing scripts if you have to run them by hand.

As I needed browser testing on one of the projects I’m on I decided to look into using more of a automated setup to run the browser tests. There seem to be two big players Waitn and Selenium, Selenium lends itself to broader range of testing, naturally we will go with Selenium.

Here is the scenario I want, the tester installs a recorder on his computer, in this case a FireFox plugin. The tester records the tests and runs them in the browser using the plugin tool. Once the tester is happy with the tests the tester checks them into the repository. After check-in tester lets a developer know that there are new or changed tests. The developer takes the script and turns it into C# UnitTest, simply has Selenium convert it to UnitTest code. Then the developer takes and updates or adds the tests that resulted from the scripts and checks it into the repository. The conversion step could be automated in the future once Selenium supports that. The next step is to run it from TeamCity and after it runs you get email with the results.

So let’s take a closer look at what is needed. We need the UnitTest to be able to run against different servers using different browsers. We will pass values from TeamCity to the Nant script that is responsible for compiling and running the tests. This is how your test C# configuration file might look like.

<!– Selenium RC properties–>
    <add key=“SeleniumAddress” value=“localhost” />
    <add key=“SeleniumPort” value=“4444″ />
    <add key=“SeleniumSpeed” value=“0″ />
   
    <!– Browser targets –>
    <add key=“BrowserType” value=“*firefox” />
    <add key=“BrowserUrl” value=“http://10.9.169.198/” />
    <add key=“BaseUrlPath” value=“IPCA.Dev/” />

Then the base test class will look something like this.

[FixtureSetUp]
        public virtual void TestFixtureSetup()
        {
            // Read from config
            msBrowserType = getConfigSetting(“BrowserType”, msBrowserType );
            msBrowserUrl = getConfigSetting(“BrowserUrl”, msBrowserUrl);
            msBasePath = getConfigSetting(“BaseUrlPath”, msBasePath);
            //
            msSeleniumAddress = getConfigSetting( “SeleniumAddress”, msSeleniumAddress );
            miSeleniumPort = int.Parse(getConfigSetting(“SeleniumPort”, miSeleniumPort.ToString()) );
            msSeleniumSpeed = getConfigSetting( “SeleniumSpeed”, msSeleniumSpeed );
           
           
            // Start up the selenium session, using config values
            selenium = new DefaultSelenium(msSeleniumAddress, miSeleniumPort, msBrowserType, msBrowserUrl);
            selenium.Start();
            // Clean errors
            verificationErrors = new StringBuilder();

            // sets the speed of execution of GUI commands
            selenium.SetSpeed(msSeleniumSpeed);
        }

        [TearDown]
        public void TeardownTest()
        {
            try
            {
                selenium.Stop();
            }
            catch (Exception)
            {
                // Ignore errors if unable to close the browser
            }
            Assert.AreEqual(“”, verificationErrors.ToString());
        }

And a sample Selenium C# Unittest

//
using System;
using System.Text;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using System.Threading;
//
using Gallio.Framework.Assertions;
using MbUnit.Framework;
//
using Selenium;

namespace SeleniumTests
{
    [TestFixture]
    public class LoginPage : WebTestBase
    {

        [Test]
        public void TheLoginPageTest()
        {
            selenium.Open( this.msBasePath + “TestLogin.aspx”);
            selenium.Click(“lbAdmin”);
            selenium.WaitForPageToLoad(“50000″);
            selenium.Click(“loginLink”);
            selenium.WaitForPageToLoad(“50000″);
            try
            {
                Assert.IsTrue(selenium.IsTextPresent(“my responsibilities regarding permissible access”));
            }
            catch (AssertionException e)
            {
                verificationErrors.Append(e.Message);
            }
            selenium.Click(“ctl00_pageContent_btnSubmit”);
            selenium.WaitForPageToLoad(“50000″);
            try
            {
                Assert.IsTrue(selenium.IsTextPresent(“Total Unassigned Web”));
            }
            catch (AssertionException e)
            {
                verificationErrors.Append(e.Message);
            }
        }
    }
}

After the Nant script compiles the tests and is getting ready to run the UnitTests it needs to startup the Selenium engine. Make sure to spawn in order for the Selenium engine to exist on another thread than your tests.

<property name=“SeleniumExec” value=“java” />
  <property name=“SeleniumPath” value=“C:\apps\selenium\selenium-server-1.0.3\” />
  <property name=”SeleniumParams” value=”-jar ${SeleniumPath}selenium-server.jar” />

    <!– Start selenium –>
    <exec   program=”${SeleniumExec}
      commandline=”
${SeleniumParams}” workingdir=”${path.base}${WebTest}
      spawn=”
true” failonerror=”true” verbose=”true
       />

    <!– Give it a sec to load –>
    <sleep milliseconds=”3000” />

In order to run the tests using different browsers, change the configuration file of the tests before run.

<!– Run tests in Firefox browser –>
    <xmlpoke
        file=“${path.base.test}${assembly.test.config}”
        xpath=“/configuration/appSettings/add[@key='BrowserType']/@value”
        value=“*firefox”
        verbose=“true”/>

    <call target=“runTests” />

<target name=“runTests”
    description=“runs tests using Gallio.” >

   
    <echo message=“*** Start runTests: “/>

      <gallio
        result-property=“exitCode”
        failonerror=“false”
        report-types=“Html;Xml”
        report-directory=“${artifacts}”
        report-name-format=“gallioresults”
        show-reports=“false”
        application-base-directory=“${path.base.test}”
            >

          <!– Specify the tests assemblies  –>
          <files>
            <include name=“${path.base.test}${assembly.test}”/>
          </files>
        </gallio>

        <!–
            Set error for email injector to pick it up and GlobalFailBuildMessage for
            the end target to fail the build after cleanup
          –>

        <if test=“${int::parse(exitCode)!=0}”>
          <property name=“GlobalFailBuildMessage” value=“*** One or more tests failed. Please check the log for more details” dynamic=“true” />
          <echo message=“EmailInjectMsg=${GlobalFailBuildMessage}” />
        </if>

    <echo message=“*** End runTests: “/>
  </target>

And after the run of the Unittests Selenium needs to be shut down

<!– Stop Selenium server –>
      <get  src=“http://localhost:4444/selenium-server/driver/?cmd=shutDownSeleniumServer”
        dest=“shutdown.txt”  failonerror=“false”
      />

As I had a need to setup different configurations in TeamCity to run against different locations on the webserver I used a couple of Nant variables that are passed on the command line from TeamCity, like you normally would do when running Nant script -D:BaseUrlPath=/Test/ etc.

<echo message=“*** Location variables passed from TeamCity”/>
    <echo message=“*** BrowserUrl=${BrowserUrl} “/>
    <echo message=“*** BaseUrlPath=${BaseUrlPath} “/>

Of course you get the Gallio UnitTest report as well

gallio_report

With this setup once we deploy to a server we can run all the browser tests on it using different browsers with one click of a button from TeamCity.

I came across this TeamCity Twitter plugin via StackOverflow the idea is to Tweet the build status as it changes. Pretty neat idea, however it will only run under Java 1.6. I tried to install on our build server at work but the TeamCity version we are running doesn’t run under Java 1.6 There was only one thing to do, write my own that will work under Java 1.5. It has to do authenticated POST request to the Twitter REST API. The build Twitter account can be found here, not that your that interested in our build Twitter feed :)

//
import java.io.*;
import java.net.Authenticator;
import java.net.PasswordAuthentication;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLEncoder;
import java.net.URLConnection;
//
import jetbrains.buildServer.serverSide.BuildServerAdapter;
import jetbrains.buildServer.serverSide.SBuildServer;
import jetbrains.buildServer.serverSide.SRunningBuild;
import jetbrains.buildServer.messages.Status;
//
import com.intellij.openapi.diagnostic.Logger;

// Tweets build start / finish to the build account
public class TwitterNotifier extends BuildServerAdapter
{
   private final static Logger LOG = Logger.getInstance(TwitterNotifier.class.getName());
   
   
   // Constructor, register the listener ( this )
   public TwitterNotifier(SBuildServer aBuildServer)
   {
       LOG.info(“*** Notifier adding listener=” + this );

       // Register with TC
       aBuildServer.addListener(this);
   }

   // Build started, set the version number
   public void buildStarted(SRunningBuild build)
   {
       String sTcBuildNumber = build.getBuildNumber();
       sendTweet( “Build “ + sTcBuildNumber + ” started on “ + build.getAgentName() );
   }

   public void buildChangedStatus(SRunningBuild build, Status oldStatus, Status newStatus)
   {
           String sTcBuildNumber = build.getBuildNumber();
       sendTweet( “Build “ + sTcBuildNumber + ” status, “ + newStatus.getText() );
   }
     
   public void buildInterrupted(SRunningBuild build)
   {
           String sTcBuildNumber = build.getBuildNumber();
       sendTweet( “Build “ + sTcBuildNumber + ” interrupted status, “ + build.getBuildStatus().getText() );
   }
   
   public void buildFinished(SRunningBuild build)
   {
           String sTcBuildNumber = build.getBuildNumber();
       sendTweet( “Build “ + sTcBuildNumber + ” finished, “ + build.getBuildStatus().getText() );          
   }
   
   // Updates the twitter account
   public static void sendTweet( String psText )
   {
           try
           {
               LOG.info( “*** TwitterNotifier plugin, “ + psText );
              
               //  Using paramaters known to work
               String urlString = “http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml”;
               String data = “status=” + URLEncoder.encode( psText, “UTF-8″);
               String username = “twitteruser”;
               String password = “twitterpassword”;
              
               // 
               Authenticator.setDefault(new MyAuthenticator(username, password));
               // Send data
                URL url = new URL(  urlString );
                URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
                conn.setDoOutput(true);
                OutputStreamWriter out = new OutputStreamWriter(conn.getOutputStream());
                out.write(data);
                out.flush();
                
                // Get the response
                StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
                BufferedReader readIn = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));
                String line;
                while ((line = readIn.readLine()) != null)
                        sb.append(line + \n );

                //
                //System.out.println( "*** Response=" + sb.toString() );
                
                // Close       
                out.close();
                readIn.close();
           }
           catch( Exception ex )
           {
               LOG.info( “***ERROR=” + exception2string( ex ) );
           }
   }

   public static String exception2string(Exception e)
   {
      try
      {
        StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
        PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(sw);
        e.printStackTrace(pw);
        return “——\r\n + sw.toString() + “——\r\n;
      }
      catch(Exception ex)
      {
        return “error converting exception to string”;
      }
   }

   
   static class MyAuthenticator extends Authenticator
   {
       private String username, password;

       public MyAuthenticator(String user, String pass)
       {
         username = user;
         password = pass;
       }

       protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication()
       {
         /*
         System.out.println("Requesting Host  : " + getRequestingHost());
         System.out.println("Requesting Port  : " + getRequestingPort());
         System.out.println("Requesting Prompt : " + getRequestingPrompt());
         System.out.println("Requesting Protocol: "
             + getRequestingProtocol());
         System.out.println("Requesting Scheme : " + getRequestingScheme());
         System.out.println("Requesting Site  : " + getRequestingSite());
         */

         return new PasswordAuthentication(username, password.toCharArray());
       }
   }

}  // EOC
 

I went yesterday to see my friend Eric Wendelin speak about javaFX at the BoulderJUG meeting.   Eric did a great job with a fresh and informative presentation.   Also on tap was Tim Berglund giving a talk about Liquibase and Database Refactoring in general, good job.

Since we are on the topic of java, why not check out the new jQuery talk by young Dmitri.

PDC, MS and other stuff

With PDC under way, if your a MS developer you might want to try - Microsoft Pre-release Software Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP).  This CTP release is available in English only as a Virtual PC image, only 75GB of space needed !

Then there is the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio October 2008 CTP.

And if you want to .Net MVC here it is.  It turns out the MVC idea isn’t that new at least not from Trygve Reenskaugs standpoint, what does he have to say about it ?  It certainly has been brewing on the Java front for some time.  For example Struts or Ruby etc

And if that wasn’t enough, LiveId is going to support OpenId, that’s a good thing.

In other news, I did not know that Tim Berners-Lee invented the World wide web.

I had a problem at the hosting place with an authenticated http request. Now 5 days later it’s finally solved.  5 days mind you is a long time.  It goes something like this.

1. Send in a support request.

2. Wait until the next day.

3. Get answer from a junior person claiming they don’t understand the problem well enough.

4. Repeat

Until finally a senior person or a “tech” takes a look at the problem and solves it.   In other words 5 emails and 5 days later my problem is finally solved, not good.  Yes my place is cheap and has a nice cPanel were you can do most of the administration yourself.  Setup MySql, subdomains, email forwards etc, but if you need help from support…

Anyway, the java servlet is now running, it will pull up my tweet feed and read it to you on the phone.  You can call it here 720-897-8900 or skype call it +990009369990026351

And on a less happier note, LinuxHaters is closing shop.  I’m thinking about doing a petition, any takers ?

Dmitri does jQuery

I was looking for material on jQuery by John Resig.  When I came up on a jQuery google tech talk by 12 year old Dmitri Gaskin, impressive !  Dmitri contributes on Drupal among other things.

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