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[Simpletest-support] Web Testing with SimpleTest

[Gabor S. <sz...@gm...>]

Thanks for the answers so far.

I published another article, now starting some WebTesting.

The newsletter is here:
http://mail.szabgab.com/mailman/listinfo/test-automation-tips

The blog entry is here:

http://szabgab.com/blog/2009/03/1237128967.html

Your comments are welcome!

Gabor


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Re: [Simpletest-support] Web Testing with SimpleTest

[Marcus B. <ma...@wo...>]

Hi...

Gabor Szabo wrote:
> http://szabgab.com/blog/2009/03/1237128967.html
> 
> Your comments are welcome!

I'd normally write...

class TestOfCalculator extends WebTestCase {
    function testBasicCalc() {
        $url = 'http://localhost:8081/php/calc/basic_calc.php';
        $this->assertTrue($this->get($url));
        $this->assertText('Basic Calculator');
        $this->assertTitle('Scientific Calculator');

        $this->assertField('a', '');
        $this->assertField('b', '');
        $this->assertNoText('Result:');
        $this->clickSubmit('Add');

        $this->assertTrue($this->clickSubmit('Add'));
        $this->assertText('Result:');
    }
}

...as...

class TestOfCalculator extends WebTestCase {
    function testCalculatorCanAddTwoNumbers() {
        $this->get($this->home() . 'calc/basic_calc.php'));
        $this->setField('a', 5);
        $this->setField('b', 9);
        $this->click('Add');
        $this->assertText('Result: 5+9=14');
    }

    function home() {
        return 'http://localhost:8081/php/';  // Usually smarter.
    }
}

Web tests are often used as acceptance tests. Having them "tell the
story" is really nice. So...

1) I moved the main domain out of the test. It also allows it to be
overridden on different machines using configuration or a script name
look-up.

2) The titles and stuff are really up to the graphic designer and
content author. You wouldn't want them to break your tests on every
writing whim. I tend to use assertTitle() to make sure things like
redirects are working, but not much else.

3) I've renamed the test into something that would appear on a
requirement. Anything not part of the requirement I've purged.

4) assertText() normalises whitespace into just a single space for
everything.

5) I tend to use click() for everything as it's the shortest.

As an aside there are some other more practical features that have a
"Wow!" factor for beginners, and everyone else trying to debug things...

* Any method that fetches a page - get(), post(), click*(), etc -
returns the raw HTML. Just put a "print" in front of the get() and
you'll see what I mean.

* showSource() shows the current content, and will escape it if you are
in the HtmlReporter.

* showRequest() and showHeaders() shows the outgoing and incoming
headers respectively.

You probably know this already, but I find that these get a great
response when I've been doing 1 on 1 demos.

> 
> Gabor

Anyway, thanks for the article :).

yours, Marcus

p.s. there is clickById() if you have labeled the buttons, and there
might be assertFieldById() to.

Re: [Simpletest-support] Web Testing with SimpleTest

[Gabor S. <sz...@gm...>]

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Marcus Baker <ma...@wo...> wrote:
> Hi...
>
> Gabor Szabo wrote:
>> http://szabgab.com/blog/2009/03/1237128967.html
>>
>> Your comments are welcome!
>
> I'd normally write...

Great advice, many new things to incorporate in the next
article or just in the course material.
Thanks!

BTW as I am not familiar with the PHP world, how do you
think I could promote these articles and the
Test Automation newsletter a bit?


regards
    Gabor

Re: [Simpletest-support] Web Testing with SimpleTest

[Marcus B. <ma...@wo...>]

Hi...

Gabor Szabo wrote:
> BTW as I am not familiar with the PHP world, how do you
> think I could promote these articles and the
> Test Automation newsletter a bit?

Sitepoint would help, as would:
http://forums.devnetwork.net/viewforum.php?f=39

> regards
>     Gabor

yours, Marcus

Re: [Simpletest-support] Web Testing with SimpleTest

[Noel D. <ma...@mc...>]

> BTW as I am not familiar with the PHP world, how do you
> think I could promote these articles and the
> Test Automation newsletter a bit?

The php blog round-up http://www.planet-php.net/ will be read by many
php-ers. You should be able to have yours added to the list.

It would be nice to see some more publicity for SimpleTest. I don't
quite feel comfortable with PhpUnit apparently being the "de facto
standard". I don't want to start some kind of petty war but learning is
important and I think, uniquely, SimpleTest has a real test-infected
culture surrounding it. There's a critical mass of knowledge which I'm
not sure exists anywhere else in the world of php (perhaps I just
missed it). This is very important for budding php programmers who want
to learn about TDD.

Noel

Re: [Simpletest-support] Web Testing with SimpleTest

[Perrick P. <pe...@no...>]

Your entries actually made it to the planet-php.fr (the french version). 
I don't really know how they got there but hey... the news is out.

http://www.planete-php.fr/

Thanks,
	Perrick



Noel Darlow wrote:
>> BTW as I am not familiar with the PHP world, how do you
>> think I could promote these articles and the
>> Test Automation newsletter a bit?
> 
> The php blog round-up http://www.planet-php.net/ will be read by many
> php-ers. You should be able to have yours added to the list.
> 
> It would be nice to see some more publicity for SimpleTest. I don't
> quite feel comfortable with PhpUnit apparently being the "de facto
> standard". I don't want to start some kind of petty war but learning is
> important and I think, uniquely, SimpleTest has a real test-infected
> culture surrounding it. There's a critical mass of knowledge which I'm
> not sure exists anywhere else in the world of php (perhaps I just
> missed it). This is very important for budding php programmers who want
> to learn about TDD.
> 
> Noel
> 
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