This week 12/2017

In this post I'd like to present handy pattern which is used to selenium test called "PageObject". Truly, it is a facade pattern which hides technical aspects of html and javascript content and shares only business friendly API.
Example PageObject bellow:

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@PageObject public class PtfPageObject { private static final String MENU_SECTION = "//table[@ng-controller='AppController']"; @FindBy(xpath = MENU_SECTION + "//tr[@id='summarize']/td[8]/span") private WebElement profitAmount; @Autowired private WebDriver webDriver; public String findProfitAmount(){ TimeoutUtils.waitForAngularJS(webDriver); return profitAmount.getText(); } }

I have turned this topic up after a half year. That time I used it to test web pages supported by JSP, ZK Framework or AngularJS pages and I found solution to synchronize an asynchronously loaded content.
Solution for AngularJS bellow:

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private static final int ANGULARJS_TIMEOUT = 30; private static final int WAIT_FOR_NEXT_CHECK = 1; public static final Function<JavascriptExecutor, Boolean> angularJSInProgress = (JavascriptExecutor drv) -> { String ngFinishedAllRequests = "var pendingRequests = angular.element(document.body).injector().get('$http').pendingRequests;" + " return (pendingRequests.length === 0)"; return (boolean) drv.executeScript(ngFinishedAllRequests); }; public static void waitForAngularJS(WebDriver webDriver, int secondTimeout) { Stopwatch stopwatch = Stopwatch.createStarted(); boolean inProgress = angularJSInProgress.apply((JavascriptExecutor) webDriver); while (!inProgress) { inProgress = angularJSInProgress.apply((JavascriptExecutor) webDriver); if(stopwatch.elapsed(TimeUnit.SECONDS) > secondTimeout){ throw new TimeoutException("Timeout occured - " + stopwatch.elapsed(TimeUnit.SECONDS)); } try { TimeUnit.SECONDS.sleep(WAIT_FOR_NEXT_CHECK); } catch (InterruptedException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } }

You can use the method waitForAngularJS to wait for a response from server and do not try to guess how long it can take.
In the same way I resolved synchronization with VueJS.
I didn't try to resolve connection state in case of jquery or native request in a different way than add counter of begun connections. Maybe such information is available somewhere in browser driver.

This week 3/2016

It is my first meeting with Selenium. I didn't know how to start, finally I watched and read a few tutorials. Than I installed the Selenium plugin for Firefox. I was looking for a plugin for Chrome but one plugin I found isn't so useful as this in Firefox.
Than I recorded my first test and exported to a Java class. Hm.. I found six different options of exporting my record to Java code. I can choose one of a few frameworks and type of testing path - local or remote. The plugin allow to  generate Java code dedicated for old Selenium libraries bellow 3 version (it is deprecated code in version 2.52) and developing type for future 3rd version of  Selenium libraries (WebDriver).

I tried all possible combinations except dedicated for TestNG framework.

Finally I can compare some common functionality. Below I  present main difference.

Old Selenium	WebDriver
Selenium interface is deprecated and will be removed in 3.x version
Supports regular expressions in disabled native mode/td>	Till now I didn't find any way to localise elements by regular expressions by xpath
All actions are accessible by one interface	Functionality of old interface is available by a few separated classes

Next my question was, how can I execute a test generated by IDE. Is it possible to run it from maven and what I need to run.

The IDE generated me a simple test class, in which I updated example package path. Class can be executed as unit test. However it is required to have run test environment for pass a test. I found no other way to do it.