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Stefan Krecher

Using Amber for Webtesting?

Hi,

i asked myself if Amber could be used for Webtesting?

Frameworks like selenium or canoo-webtest have severe issues - but if Amber could get "injected" into serverside-generated websites it could propably check the existence of the page elements or click buttons etc.

It would be so a fun and easy way to write SUnit-Tests for Websites in smalltalk ...

What do you think?

regards,

Stefan

laurent laffont

Re: Using Amber for Webtesting?

I've tried last week and it's possible through an iframe. Ex:

...

loadAmber(....)

....

Then in amber you can write something like:

|cwin|

cwin := (document getElementById: 'tested') contentWindow.

((cwin jQuery: 'input.searchTerms') element) at: 'value' put: 'harry potter'.

(cwin jQuery: 'form.search') submit.

(document getElementById: 'tested') load: [

cwin := (document getElementById: 'tested') contentWindow.

self assert: ((cwin jQuery: '.items') length > 0) ].

That assumes the tested site has jQuery. It needs some work to have a little framework / proxy to facilitate this, but I'm looking forward .....

Laurent.

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Stefan Krecher <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi,
i asked myself if Amber could be used for Webtesting?
Frameworks like selenium or canoo-webtest have severe issues - but if Amber could get "injected" into serverside-generated websites it could propably check the existence of the page elements or click buttons etc.

It would be so a fun and easy way to write SUnit-Tests for Websites in smalltalk ...
What do you think?

regards,
Stefan

Stefan Krecher

Re: Using Amber for Webtesting?

Hi,

i think, some kind of proxy would be needed to inject the Amber-Source + jQuery

We always had two main issues with the "Big" ones (Selenium and Canoo Webtest):

1) dealing with javascript-alerts

2) identifying popup-windows

Do you think these problems could get solved with amber?

regards,

Stefan

laurent laffont

Re: Using Amber for Webtesting?

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Stefan Krecher <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi,
i think, some kind of proxy would be needed to inject the Amber-Source + jQuery

yes

We always had two main issues with the "Big" ones (Selenium and Canoo Webtest):
1) dealing with javascript-alerts

one way is to redefine alert in the TestCase. Should be possible as we can write:

window.alert = function(m) { console.log(m); };
alert('test');

2) identifying popup-windows

same.

Laurent.

Do you think these problems could get solved with amber?

regards,
Stefan