19 Jan 09 Automation with Selenium,Junit, Ant

What is Selenium
How does Selenium work
History and how it started
About Ant
And Junit

Much of the technologies above do not or will not need an introduction if you already know them or can read them from the links above.

More over today’s article is more about how we can use all the three selenium, ant and junit to come up with an automated solution for regressive testing.

Please refer to the documentation links above for the basic knowledge on any of the used tools.

I am assuming that you know how to record a test in selenium if you dont then go here

Now that you do know how to record and save the tests simply save them in any directory structure you like as long as they follow the right package convention. like com.foo.bar
this would mean the file should be in directory like com/foo/bar. Conventionally and logically today that is how the TestCase is compiled through the ant script. If the package is not the right path then compile time errors will occur.

My calling target for running the whole procedure should look like this

< target name="build_tests" depends="clean, compile, start-server,  tests, stop-server" / >

Details of the depending targets are as follows.
clean: would clean the entire build directories etc to make sure nothing from our past is carried forward into the future.

compile: should compile

start-server: should start the selenium server.

tests: should run the selenium tests.

stop-server: should stop the selenium server once all tests have been executed.

How to start a selenium server from Ant?

    < target name="start-server" >
        < java jar="lib/selenium-server.jar" fork="true" spawn="true" >
            < arg line="-timeout 30" / >
            < jvmarg value="-Dhttp.proxyHost=proxy.proxyhost.com" / >
            < jvmarg value="-Dhttp.proxyPort=44444" / >
        < / java >
    < / target >

The target above is simply taking the selenium-server.jar which is in the classpath and running the main-class from it. the proxy parameters are optional.

How to stop the server from Ant?

 < target name="stop-server" >
        < get taskname="selenium-shutdown"
            src="http://localhost:4444/selenium-server/driver/?cmd=shutDown"
            dest="result.txt" ignoreerrors="true" / >
        < echo taskname="selenium-shutdown" message="DGF Errors during shutdown are expected" / >
    < / target >
 

The selenium server starts on port 4444 by default and to tell it to shutdown is simple, the command in the src is passed to it. cmd=shutDown
That should just shutdown the server.

Executing the test cases?
Selenium Test cases are Junit tests cases and that’s how they are treated in this tutorial.
Thus some of you will be very much familiar with the ant targets junit and junitreport. However I will describe how the following is working.
the following target will run the selenium tests and print a summary report to the ${dir}
The includes and excludes, simply tell the target which files to include or exclude while running the test cases. This is typically done when you don’t want some tests cases to be included or your source for tests and the application are in the same directory and you only want to include something like Test*.class.

  < target name="tests" depends="compileonly" description="runs JUnit tests" >
    < echo message="running JUnit tests" / >
    < junit printsummary="on" dir=".." haltonfailure="off" haltonerror="off" timeout="${junit.timeout}" fork="on" maxmemory="512m" showoutput="true" >
      < formatter type="plain" usefile="false" / >
      < formatter type="xml" usefile="true" / >
      < batchtest todir="${testoutput}" filtertrace="on" >
        < fileset dir="${src}" >
          < includesfile name="${tests.include}" / >
          < excludesfile name="${tests.exclude}" / >
        < / fileset >
      < / batchtest >
      < classpath >
        < pathelement path="${classes}" / >
        < pathelement path="${build.classpath}" / >
      < / classpath >
    < / junit >

The following will take the formatted output from the lines above and generate a report out of it in xml and html and place the results in the ${reports}/index.html
A sample Junit test report might look like this.

   < echo message="running JUnit Reports" / >
   < junitreport todir="${reports}" >
      < fileset dir="${reportdir}" >
        < include name="Test*.xml" / >
      < / fileset >
      < report format="frames" todir="${reports}" / >
    < / junitreport >
    < echo message="To see your Junit results, please open ${reports}/index.html}" / >
  < / target >

In general you can add all of this to your nightly build through any of the CI servers like Cruise Control. Also as a general practice you will need to do a little more then just executing this target every night depending on your application. For instance cleaning up of resource centers like Databases etc.

Tags: ant, automated-testing, build, CI, continous, engineering, integration, Junit, scm, selenium, Software, testing

10 Dec 08 Generate XML – DBMS_XMLGEN

On my way to my solution store just found this nice to use, old and easy feature.
Possibilities endless, usage typically very easy.

I used the following to generate XML from sqlplus:

 select dbms_xmlgen.getxml('select * from user') from dual; 

Output:

< ROWSET >
 < ROW >
  < TNAME >Employee< / TNAME >
  < TABTYPE > TABLE < / TABTYPE >
 < / ROW >
< / ROWSET >

Tags: DBMS_XMLGEN, HOWTO, Programming, Software, Software Development, sql, tips, utils

17 Nov 08 Command, Singleton, JMenuItem, JButton, AbstractButton – One Listener for the app

Here I would like to demonstrate a simple use of JMenuItems being used with Single Listener for the entire system.
A simple sample of use would probably be SingleInstance Desktop Application.

Lets see how that is done here.

1. First lets create a OneListener class that should be able to listen to ActionEvents and also be able to add Commands to itself. Please refer to my previous post on Command,Singleton if you would like to see more about this patterns and there usage.

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package com.shaafshah.jmenus;
 
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.util.ArrayList;
 
import javax.swing.AbstractButton;
 
// Implements the ActionListener and is a Singleton also.
 
public class OneListener implements ActionListener{
 
	private static OneListener oneListener = null;
 
	// Holds the list of all commands registered to this listener
	private ArrayList<Command> commandList = null;
 
	// A private constructor
	private OneListener(){
		commandList = new ArrayList<Command>();
	}
 
	// Ensuring one instance.
	public static OneListener getInstance(){
		if(oneListener != null)	
			return oneListener;
		else return oneListener = new OneListener();
	}
 
	// Add the command and add myself as the listener
	public void addCommand(Command command){
			commandList.add(command);
		    ((AbstractButton)command).addActionListener(this);
	}
 
 
	// All Events hit here.
	@Override
	public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
		((Command)e.getSource()).execute();
	}
 
}

In the above code, the addCommand method adds the command Object and adds a listener to it.
Now how is that possible.
Basically because I am categorizing my UI objects as Commands with in the system having some UI. And I am also assuming that these commands are Currently AbstractButton i.e. JMenuItem, JButton. Lets have a look at the Command Interface and its Implementation.

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public interface Command {
	public void execute();	
}

And the implementation, note that the Command is an interface where as the class is still extending a UI object.

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import javax.swing.JMenuItem;
 
public class TestCmd extends JMenuItem implements Command{
 
	public TestCmd() {
		super("Test");
		OneListener.getInstance().addCommand(this);
	}
 
	@Override
	public void execute() {
		System.out.println("HelloWorld");
	}
}

Personally don’t like calling the OneListener in the constructor of the class but just for the sake of simplicity of this post I have left it that way. There are many different ways to omit it.

So the TestCmd is a JMenuItem but is also a Command and thats what the OneListener understands.
As this commads Listener is also OneListener all ActionEvents are thrown there and from there only the Command.execute is called on.

So now you dont have to worry about what listeners are you in. The only thing you know is that when execute is called you need to do your stuff.

You can download the code from Here.

Hope this helps.

Tags: AbstractButton, command, Computers, Design, Design Patterns, GOF, HOWTO, Java, JButton, JMenuItem, Patterns, Programming, Singleton, Software, Software Development, Swing