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Getting Started with Browser Based Testing
This document provides an overview of behavior-driven development (BDD) using Behat, focusing on writing browser-based tests. It includes a demo scenario, discusses the functionality of Behat, pitfalls of using Selenium, and offers links for further training and resources. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of understanding and navigating the challenges in automated testing.
Getting Started with Browser Based Testing
- 1. Getting Started withBrowser Based Testing Thursday, August 6th, 2015
- 2. Outline Intro Overview of BDD/Behat Gettingstarted (writing our first test) Pitfalls Conclusion
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- 4. Overview • What isBDD • How? • Why
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- 7. What is Behat? ConvertsEnglish to Automated browser tests
- 8. How do youuse it? Scenario: Seeing a welcome message Given I log in as “teacher” When I follow “My Course” Then I should see “Welcome to My Course”
- 9. How does itwork? • Let’s look at the code! • Hint: Regular expressions
- 10. Getting started Live Demo Runninga script Layout of a test Writing a test
- 12. Pitfalls Selenium & Firefoxversions Do not auto-update FireFox Slow Careful with xpath & hope for 2.9 Discourages UI changes
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- 14. Related links Moodle’s Acceptancetesting docs http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Acceptance_testing KNP Labs BDD/Behat training http://knplabs.com/training/behat
- 15. Contact Rex Lorenzo (rex@oid.ucla.edu) Twitter:@rlorenzo Github: https://github.com/rlorenzo Workshop slides http://www.slideshare.net/rexlorenzo/getting- started-with-browser-based-testing