This module integrates Drupal with the Selenium test tool.
Itegration of Selenium with simpletest. All tests can run in both Firefox and Chrome and work against simpletest sandbox.
Selenium Webdriver is completely different product then Selenium 1 RC and tests should be written manually (not recorded with Selenium IDE). However we try to keep API similar to general drupal simpletests (DrupalWebTestCase class). Our aim is to create most of the methods from DrupalWebTestCase so tests can be written similar way we write unit tests.
Selenium 2 communicates with browsers in 'native way' i.e. it is not javascript framework like in Selenium 1. This gives us possibility to do completely all actions user can do in browser. This includes upload files, drag and drop, submit forms, test all ajax javascripts, make screenshots.
We can get all properties of every dom element of the page. We can find elements using sizzle library selectors (this library is used by jQuery). Example: "div.header a.active" -- Find all links with class "active" in all div blocks with class .header.
Our aim is to implement all methods DrupalWebTestCase. So current tests can be run in Selenium instead of internal web browser.
Current functionality of Selenium module has already a lot of methods implemented including:
1. drupalLogin, drupalLogout
2. asserts: assertLink, assertTitle, assertText, assertNoText
3. verboseScreenshot -- grab screenshot
4. drupalGet, drupalPost
All other functionality can be reached using connection to Driver (class SeleniumFirefoxDriver, SeleniumChromeDriver) and using element control (class SeleniumWebElement).
Module includes tests for following core javascripts:
- autocomplete.js
- collapse.js
- machine_name.js
- states.js
- tabledrag.js
- tableheader.js
- tableselect.js
- textarea.js
- vertical_tabs.js
Slides from presentation held on DrupalCafe Kyiv
http://www.slideshare.net/ygerasimov/automated-ui-testing-with-selenium
Related blog posts:
1. http://ygerasimov.com/integrating-selenium-to-drupal-simpletest-framework
2. http://ygerasimov.com/run-selenium-tests-drupal-on-debian-headless
3. http://ygerasimov.com/drupal-selenium-tests-api
4. http://ygerasimov.com/chrome-joins-simpletest-selenium-framework-drupal
Project Information
- Maintenance status: Actively maintained
- Development status: Under active development
- Module categories: Third-party Integration, Utility
- Reported installs: 52 sites currently report using this module. View usage statistics.
- Last modified: August 5, 2011
