[Seaside] SeasideTesting and WebTester w/ Selenium

Joel Turnbull joelbywan at gmail.com
Sat Aug 28 17:14:12 UTC 2010


On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 1:49 AM, Bart Gauquie <bart.gauquie at gmail.com>wrote:

Kewl!. I gave you access to the repository. Can you share your code ?
> Thanks!
>
>
done!

Bart
>
>

> On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 6:02 AM, Joel Turnbull <joelbywan at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> Bart,
>>
>> It wasn't too long before I needed a span, so I had an idea and gave it a
>> try.
>>
>> I copied your new Div classes into generic Element classes. An element
>> could be anything you are looking for with 'isElementPresent'. The test
>> looks like:
>>
>>
>> testIsPresent
>>     self should: (self elementById: 'divId') isPresent.
>>     self should: (self elementById: 'spanId') isPresent.
>>     self shouldnt: (self elementById: 'someOtherId') isPresent.
>>
>>     self should: (self elementByXPath: '//div[@class=''foo'']') isPresent.
>>     self should: (self elementByXPath: '//span[@class=''foo'']')
>> isPresent.
>>     self shouldnt: (self elementByXPath:
>> '//span[@class=''someOtherFooClass'']') isPresent.
>>
>>
>> Initially, it seems to be doing the trick.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Joel
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 11:19 PM, Joel Turnbull <joelbywan at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 6:55 AM, Bart Gauquie <bart.gauquie at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> I found the time and uploaded a new version. Please give it a run.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ok, I understand now. I gave it a run and it's great, thanks!
>>>
>>>
>>>> I've also noticed that WebTester contains an awfull lot of duplicated
>>>> code. Time to try out the reflective powers Smalltalk has I've learned in
>>>> the meanwhile to fix this. :-)
>>>>
>>>> Kind Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Bart
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Bart Gauquie <bart.gauquie at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Joel,
>>>>>
>>>>> WebTester is still in development. New features are added if needed.
>>>>>
>>>>> I agree that the code you've written is yikes ...
>>>>>
>>>>> What you've should be able to write is something like:
>>>>>
>>>>>      self assert: (self divByXPath: '@class="foo"') isPresent
>>>>>
>>>>> which will encapsulate the code you've provided. (analoguous to the
>>>>> other encapsulations).
>>>>>
>>>>> If I find the time, I will add it ... or I welcome your try to add it
>>>>> ...
>>>>>
>>>>> Kind Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Bart
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Joel Turnbull <joelbywan at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm not sure if I'm doing this right.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How do I, with WebTester, test that <div class="foo"> is present? This
>>>>>> is boggling me, and testing something like that seemed pretty obvious with
>>>>>> SeasideTesting. I ended up doing this, but yikes...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     self assert: ( self webTester processCommand: 'isElementPresent'
>>>>>> withParams: ( Array with: '//div[@class=''foo'']' )) = 'true'
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Am I trying to do something that WebTester is not suited for?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Joel Turnbull <joelbywan at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Very helpful, thank you. It occurred to me last night as I was
>>>>>>> playing some more with WebTester that it isn't necessarily a mutually
>>>>>>> exclusive decision. Like Johan stated, each  can be utilized for different
>>>>>>> kinds of testing.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 7:16 AM, C. David Shaffer <cdshaffer at acm.org
>>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>  On 08/25/10 06:49, Bart Gauquie wrote:
>>>>>>>> > WebTester opens a browser by sending a http request to Selenium
>>>>>>>> Remote
>>>>>>>> > Control (http://seleniumhq.org/projects/remote-control/). And
>>>>>>>> then
>>>>>>>> > this remote control starts the browser. Selenium Remote Control is
>>>>>>>> a
>>>>>>>> > java process you have to start before starting the selenium tests
>>>>>>>> in
>>>>>>>> > Smalltalk.
>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I see.  I'm sure that makes sense for Selenium but for
>>>>>>>> SeasideTesting
>>>>>>>> the best option is raising a browser window from Smalltalk (you
>>>>>>>> could
>>>>>>>> ask the user to do it for you if you are really allergic to FFI).
>>>>>>>>  This
>>>>>>>> is especially true on build servers where ST is running inside a VNC
>>>>>>>> session, for example.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> David
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