Web Test Tutorial - Part 1

Preconditions

• Is the Selenium WebDriver installed? Learn more: Selenium_WebDriver_Plugin/en#Browser_Support
• Is Firefox installed? Alternatively, Chrome and Safari also work.
• Internet connection available?
• Start expecco
• Select "New Testsuite"
• Undo button to remove existing demos

Create a connection

• Open the Gui-Browser
• Connect to the test website
• Has a Firefox window opened in the background?

First steps with the recorder

• Start recorder
• Recording a login sequence
  • Switch the mode
  • Insert text
  • Insert passwort
  • Press the submit button
• Convert workspace in an action block
• Prepare action block for execution
  • Leave GuiBrowser
  • Open network tab
  • Correlate the connection with the action block, insert action block for this
  • Move and rearrange action blocks
  • Add TriggerInput to first SendKeys action block
  • Add values to the "Reuse or Start Session" action block by double-clicking on the pins of the action block
    • name: http://expeccoalm-demo.exept.de (any name)
    • startURL: http://expeccoalm-demo.exept.de
    • browserType: Firefox (select in drop-down menu)
• Execute action blocks
  • Press "Execute" (the green arrow)
  • When the test is finished, your browser opens in front.
  • expecco should look like this now:
  • The detailed execution of action blocks is visible in the network tab.

Verify data fields

• Verification: is it the right page?
  • Open tab "Gui Browser"
  • Read path (Xpath) with:
    • Hover the element with the mouse (fly over)In the recorder
    • Select parent element from text
  • Prepare AktionblockGet text
    • Expand Elements in the tab "Actions"
    • Select "Get Text" action block and copy it to the "Test" tab
    • Switch to the "Login" action block, insert the copied action block there
    • Insert action block to check for equality [ Assert Equals ]

Test execution

• Click on the green "Play" icon
• View detailed test run
• Save test-suite

Query element properties

• Properties
  • Open GUI-Browser
  • Hover Project-filter-input to show the elements in the tree of the GUI-Browser
  • Select any element and property for the test
  • Select the "Check Attributes" action block
  • Insert and connect action block
  • Execute Test(see above)
    • It is important that the test environment (the browser) is reset to the start page(see also next step)before each test execution. Alternatively, you can simply close the browser.
    • Close remote-controlled browser
    • Execute test

Close the session after each test

• Insert new action block
• Apply changes to the SessionEnd action block
• Drag the SessionEnd block in the field "AfterExecution"
• Now the test can run as often as required without the Browser has to be closed

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