Automation, Selenium and Sauce

Why jumping on the automated test bandwagon is more than just a good idea.

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1. Selenium, Sauce Labs and Automated Testing Why jumping on the automated test bandwagon is more than just a good idea http://bit.ly/automation-slides
2. Who is this guy?! Santiago Suarez Ordoñez @santiycr Selenium Ninja @ Sauce Labs Selenium Committer
3. Agenda • Automation ◦ Let's agree test automation is the way to go • Selenium ◦ Current state of the project ◦ Features and limitations • Sauce Labs ◦ Sauce OnDemand ◦ Sauce Scout
4. Why test automation? • Repetitive tasks are boring • Creative tasks are fun • Machines are made for boring tasks • They make no mistakes • They never get tired • They are fast!
5. Let's compare!
6. Selenium Jason Huggins (@hugs) @ ThoughtWorks Open Source (Apache) Released in 2004 JavaScript core (tons of hackery around) Selenium Core, IDE, RC
7. Selenium Core Deployed with the application Table-based syntax No flow control (conditionals, iteration) open /login type username santiago type password mySecretPassword click submit asserTitle Account Page
8. Selenium IDE Selenium Core inside a Firefox plugin Plus Record&Playback No need to deploy tests
9. Selenium RC Client-server architecture Multiple hacks let Selenium Core do XSS Tests written in various programming languages
10. Selenium had its limitations The browsers' javascript sandbox Native popups and windows: ◦ alert() ◦ confirm() ◦ downloads ◦ uploads The API grew way too big (>150 methods)
11. WebDriver Simon Stewart (@shs96c) @ ThoughtWorks Open Source (Apache 2) Released early 2007 A more native approach for automation A cleaner and object oriented API
12. WebDriver also had its issues Lower maintainability Less browser support Java only library Limited user base
13. API differences Plain API (Selenium RC) sel.type("username", "santiago") sel.type("password", "secretPass") sel.click("submit") OO API (WebDriver) WebElement user = driver.findElement(By.id("username")); user.sendKeys("santiago"); WebElement pass = driver.findElement(By.id("password")); pass.sendKeys("secretPass"); pass.submit()
14. Selenium 2 WebDriver's API Selenium's Community and user base Native hooks for some interactions Javascript Atoms for maintainability and instant browser support
15. Selenium 2's support matrix Bindings: Java, Ruby, Python, C#, JavaScript, PHP (unofficial), Perl (unofficial) Drivers: HTMLUnit, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, IE, Safari (on the works), iOS, Android, headless webkit...
16. Demo
17. Learn more! • http://seleniumhq.org/docs/ • selenium-users mailing list • http://code.google.com/p/selenium/ Contribute! • selenium-developers mailing list • #selenium on freenode (IRC) • http://code.google.com/p/selenium/
18. Sauce Labs
19. Sauce Automated Selenium's Remote Architecture taken to the Cloud Run your scripts locally, use our browsers remotely the internetz
20. Features Elastic growth (pay by the minute) High parallelization limits Up-to-date, maintenance-free test lab Enhanced reporting (videos, screenshots, logs) Focus on your tests, not your infrastructure
21. Free usage for open source projects Free basic accounts for everyone We're also cool with startups/FLOSS
22. Sauce Interactive Manual Testing in the cloud We use Selenium to give you browsers!
23. Sauce Connect Use Scout and OnDemand against a private server (localhost, 192.168.1.100, web_qa.local) http://saucelabs.com/docs/sauce-connect
24. Thanks! Santiago Suarez Ordoñez @santiycr http://saucelabs.com http://bit.ly/automation-slides Thanks @stephendonner (Mozilla for reviewing), @jarib (some slides content)
25. Q&A