This is the README for the Web Driver IO Tutorial.
Please see my blog for a complete description of the files and much more information located at:
The live working test site for the tutorial is located at:
This project was updated to support version 4 of webdriverio
I recently had an interesting challenge presented to me. I needed to introduce automated testing to a Q/A department with very little technical experience and no programming experience.
This was really two (2) separate challenges. The first was to find the technologies to use to do the automated testing. The second was actually training the Q/A department.
The project will only address the technologies used and what I learned in the process.
The technologies worked well but I really had to search for information and spent many hours figuring out issues. There doesn't seem to be much on the Internet about this. I wanted to share this information, so I wrote this project along with a web site page to test all the scripts against.
I hope you find this project useful. If you do, please let me know.
Use Technologies That:
- Can test web site functionality
- Can test JavaScript functionality
- Can be run manually from command line
- Can be run automatically with a CI
- Have an easy to learn language for non programmers
- Q/A personnel with basic knowledge of HTML and JavaScript
- Use open source software (except cloud based testing platforms)
List of technologies I choose:
- mocha – test framework and executes the test scripts (test runner)
- shouldjs – expressive, readable, assertion library (test if something is true)
- webdriverio – browser control bindings (JS language bindings to communicate with Selenium)
- selenium – browser abstraction and running factory
- grunt - javascript task runner (used as test runner for cloud based testing platform)
- grunt-webdriver - grunt plugin for webdriver (uses wdio as test runner)
- wdio - test runner
- Browser/Mobile drivers + browsers
- Firefox (Browser and driver)
- Chrome (Browser and driver)
- IE (Browser and driver)
- Safari (Browser and driver plug-in)
- Opera (Browser)
(Not really webdriverio related but very good information)
- supertest - test REST APIs
- json-server - mock REST API server
- mongodb + promise-mongo - test database driven testing
- node-xlsx - Excel parser & builder
| Filename | Description |
|---|---|
| tutorial1.js | Title Test - Open page and verify title |
| tutorial1-wdio.js | Title Test - Open page and verify title using WDIO |
| linkTextURL1.js | Link Text/URL Test - Verify Link Text and URL |
| copyright1.js | Copyright Test - Verify Copyright Text |
| copyright1-wdio.js | Copyright Test - Verify Copyright Text using WDIO |
| formFillSubmit1.js | Populate Form Fields and Submit |
| showHideVerify1.js | Click Show/Hide Button and Verify Text |
| dynamicBrowser.js | Dynamically Invoke Different Browsers |
| callbackPromise.js | Compares callbacks VS promises |
| debugExample1.js | Example Shows Several Methods on How to Debug |
| formFieldValidation.js | Example of Validating Form Field Errors With Both Local Commands and Reusable Commands (commonLib.js) |
| common/commonLib.js | Example of Reusable Functions (library) |
| dataLoopExample1.js | Looping Static Data to Validate URL Link/Text |
| dataLoopExample2.js | Looping Static Data to Populate Form Fields |
| pageObjectExample1.js | Example how to use page objects |
| pageobjects/web-page.js | Example of page objects |
| linkTextURL2.js | Link Text/URL Test By Looping Through Elements |
| cssValidation1.js | Example how to validate several CSS properties |
| dropDownMenu1.js | Example how to validate dropdown menu selections |
| carouselExample1.js | Example how to validate image carousels |
| screenShot1.js | Example how to take screenshots at different browser widths |
| autoComplete1.js | Example how to select and validate autocomplete input field |
| iframe1.js | Example how to select / interact multiple iframes on a page |
| modal1.js | Example how to interact with a modal window (bootstrap) |
| selectBox1.js | Exmample how to interact with selectbox |
| saucelabs.js | Example how to use cloud based test site (saucelabs) |
| gruntSauceLabs.js | Example how to use grunt + grunt-webdriver + saucelabs |
| restAPIExample1.js | Example how to use supertest to test REST APIs |
| dbDataLoopExample.js | Example how to use database (mongoDB) driven testing |
| excelDataLoopExample.js | Example how to use excel as a data source for test data |
| multiWindows1.js | Example how to work with multiple windows |
| multiWindows1-wdio.js | Example how to work with multiple windows using WDIO |
| Filename | Description |
|---|---|
| wdio.conf-tutorial1.js | WDIO config for tutorial1-wdio.js using Firefox |
| wdio.conf-copyright1.js | WDIO config for copyright1-wdio.js using Firefox |
| wdio.conf-pObjEx1.js | WDIO config for pageObjectExample1.js using Firefox |
| wdio.conf-gruntfile.js | WDIO config with 3 browser/OS configs against saucelabs |
| wdio.conf-saucelabs-dataLoopExample2.js | WDIO config file for dataLoopExample2.js on two different OS/browsers (saucelabs) |
| wdio.conf-local-dataLoopExample2.js | WDIO config file for dataLoopExample2.js on two different browsers (locally) |
| wdio.conf-multiWindows1.js | WDIO config for multiWindows1-wdio.js using Firefox |
| Gruntfile.js | Example Gruntfile with grunt-webdriver and 3 browser/OS configs |
| Gruntfile-dataLoopExample2.js | Gruntfile for dataLoopExample2.js to run against saucelabs |
| Gruntfile-gruntSaucelabs.js | Gruntfile for gruntSaucelabs.js to run against saucelabs |
| Filename | Description |
|---|---|
| testData1.xlsx | excel spreadsheet with test data |
Create selenium directory:
$ mkdir selenium
Install Selenium Stand Alone Server:
Go to http://www.seleniumhq.org/download/
Download jar file (3.0.1 latest at this time)
Save/move into the “selenium” directory
Add "selenium" directory to PATH
Start the Selenium Stand Alone Server (terminal):
$ java -jar selenium-server-standalone-3.0.1.jar
Firefox:
Install firefox browser, if not already installed.
Firefox driver (GeckoDriver):
Go to https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases
Download latest driver
untar
$ tar -xvf <drivername>
Save/move to "selenium" directory
$ git clone https://github.com/onewithhammer/WebDriverIOTutorial.git
$ cd WebDriverIOTutorial
$ npm install
OR
$ sudo npm install
Run locally single test using mocha as framework and runner:
$ mocha [test-script-filename]
$ mocha tutorial1.js
Note: saucelabs.js & gruntSauceLabs.js - You will need a saucelabs account in order to set the environment variables for SAUCE_USERNAME & SAUCE_ACCESS_KEY
$ export SAUCE_USERNAME=[your saucelabs username]
$ export SAUCE_ACCESS_KEY=[your saucelabs access key]
Run grunt with default config file - Gruntfile.js using mocha as framework & wdio as runner. The config file will run a few test files against saucelabs with different OS/browser combinations.
$ grunt [task-name]
$ grunt webdriver
OR
Run grunt specifying a config file:
$ grunt --gruntfile <config-filename> [task name]
Run locally a single test using mocha as framework and wdio as the runner on 2 OS/browsers:
$ grunt --gruntfile Gruntfile-dataLoopExample2.js webdriver
Run locally single test using mocha as framework and wdio as the runner:
$ wdio [config-filename]
$ wdio wdio.conf-dataLoopExample2.js
Run on saucelabs a single test using mocha as framework and wdio as the runner on 2 OS/browsers:
$ wdio [config-filename]
$ wdio wdio.conf-saucelabs-dataLoopExample2.js
Install json-server
$ npm install -g json-server
Start json-server first with json database file (db.json)
$ cd json-server
$ json-server db.json
see https://github.com/typicode/json-server for github project.
see http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/ for working demo online of json-server.
then run script
$ mocha restAPIExample1.js
Use a tool like postman to view the data before and after the script is ran.
Use it.skip() to skip specs.
Note: json-server will update the db.json file.
To restore the original file (stop server first):
cp db-bak.json db.json
Install and make sure mongoDB is running locally then run script
$ mocha dbDataLoopExample.js
- show more should assertion lib examples
- show examples deepEqual()
- show example using control characters
- show example using custom reporter
- show example using page object - DONE
- Update examples to use old async method and V4 - NA
- Write examples of all using sync method and V4 - IN PROGRESS
see the CHANGELOG
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