Start Selenium RC Server Within Code.

Now there is no need to start selenium server by going to command prompt and calling to server.

You can directly start the server in your script itself.
You just need to import
import org.openqa.selenium.server.RemoteControlConfiguration;
import org.openqa.selenium.server.SeleniumServer;

The code will look like -

import org.openqa.selenium.server.RemoteControlConfiguration;
import org.openqa.selenium.server.SeleniumServer;

public class tet extends SeleneseTestCase {
private Selenium selenium;
public SeleniumServer seleniumserver;


@Before
public void setUp() throws Exception {
RemoteControlConfiguration rc = new RemoteControlConfiguration();
seleniumserver = new SeleniumServer(rc);
selenium = new DefaultSelenium("localhost", 4444, "*chrome", "https://www.google.co.in/");
seleniumserver.start();
selenium.start();
}

Android App : Automtion Testing Tools - Part II

Descriptions

Below we have listed different tools with their advantages and disadvantages.

Monkey

Monket tool is designed to simulate this situation. The Monkey tool, a part of the Android SDK, sends a stream of random user events. Command line parameters specify the number of user actions, the ratio of each event type, and a name of a package.
Advantages

• Monkey tool is zero maintenance costs.
• Stress testing can detect non-trivial bugs.

Disadvantages

• Monkey can’t simulate complex workloads such as authentication. In such cases, application functionality remains untested.
• Games with complex control that require quick reactions and complex gestures will be completed at the beginning, or do not begin.
• It’s very difficult to reproduce errors found by Monkey.
• Monkey doesn’t check application status during the test.

MonkeyRunner

You can not only develop Android device control scripts using MonkeyRunner, you can also write scripts to test the application on a specific device. Its like record and play back tool.
Advantage

• Flexible

Disadvantages

• The complexity of writing scripts, even in simple cases.
• Developing monkeyrunner scripts takes a lot of time, so this method is usually not justified. However, in special cases, this method might work.

Robotium

Robotium is not a part of Android SDK, and it’s distributed under the Open Source license.
Robotium scripts define actions on the application UI level rather than the input device level.
For example, a script needs to tap on an «OK» button. The monkeyrunner script will be implemented as “Tap at the screen point (x0, y0)”. A Robotium script will be implemented as “Press the button with the text “OK” .”
When actions are described at the interface level, the testing script can be made independent of interface layout, screen resolution, and orientation.
Additionally, Robotium allows you to check the application response to the action.For example, after clicking the «OK» button, the list with the “Item 1” item should appear.You can check list element names with Robotium. If you check the application state after each step, it is easy to find at which step the error occurred.
Disadvantages:

• You need to develop a test script in Java* for each application. This requires programming skills and time.
• When the application interface changes, the event sequence must be redone.

In general, Robotium allows you to develop the highest quality test cases with adequate cost.

Feature Matrix

	Monkey	MonkeyRunner	Robotium
License	Available with Android SDK	Available with Android SDK	Open source
Random user actions	Yes	No	No
Record and Playback	No	Yes	Placback available
Script Complexity	-	Yes	Yes
Define actions on	-	Input device level	Application UI level
Script language	-	Python	Java
Maintenance costs	No	Need to modify script if UI changes	Need to modify script if UI changes

Summary

Automated testing with Monkey is a good starting point for any application. It is possible that this method will show adequate results for a particular application.

Android App : Automtion Testing Tools - Part I

Introduction

As the mobile platform continues to pervade all aspects of human activities,
and mobile apps on such platform tend to be faulty just like other types of software,
There is a growing need for automated testing techniques for mobile applications.

 Why Do Automate - 

• Reduce ongoing costs of regression testing across multiple devices.
• Create Automation which is reusable across multiple handsets with minimal changes to scripts to cater existing as well as future handsets.
• To minimize challenges in manual testing, load testing, crashes

Limitation of Manual Testing -

• Diversity of devises
• OS versions
• Different h/w configuration
• Different screen sizes

Different Automation Tools

1. Monkey
2. Monkey Runner
3. Robotium
4. Selenium Webdriver

Monkey -

• The Monkey is a command-line tool that that you can run on any emulator instance or on a device.
• We can send random user events which acts as a stress test on the application
• Help to determine crashes or any sort of unhandled exception
• When the Monkey runs, it generates events and sends them to the system

Monkey Runner -

• Multiple device control
• Functional testing: can run an automated start-to-finish test of an Android application. You provide input values with keystrokes or touch events, and view the results as screenshots.
• It is like record and playback tool, will record user actions / input, we can execute those on emulator / devices

Robotium -

• Open-source test framework
• Need to write solid test case
• The framework handles multiple Android activities automatically
• Must have basic knowledge of Android programming.
• Support testing on real devices
• System and acceptance test

Android Webdriver -

• Tests can only be written in Java
• Android WebDriver models many user interactions such as finger taps, flicks, finger scrolls and long presses

Introduction To Quick Test Professional

Now along with selenium we will have post regarding different automation tools.
Quick Test Professional is one of the automation tool.


Quick Test Professional , popularly know by its acronym QTP is the functional automation testing tool from Mercury Interactive now acquired by HP. It is now called as HP Functional Test
QuickTest Professional is the solution for functional test and regression test automation.
QTP is easier to use and implement for both technical & non technical testers in comparison to other functional testing tools available.

QTP's Scripting Language is VB Script which is easy to use , understand and program.

Quick Test Professional is the most widely used tool for the purpose of Test automation and has emerged as the test automation tool of choice for the software industry.

Why QTP - 

• It is easy even for a non-programmer to understand QTP and start adding test cases.
• Support for record and playback and ability to edit scripts after recording. Also different recording modes are provided in QTP viz. Normal, Analog & Low level.
• Excellent Object Identification process / mechanism
• Ability to let you enhance the existing tests even without the AUT (Application under test) through active screen.
• Supports all popular Automation frameworks - Keyword driven testing approach, Data driven testing approach, Modular testing approach, Hybrid frameworks etc.
• QTP comes with an inbuilt IDE, which is simple and easy to use.
• QTP can be integrated with Test management tools like QC (Quality Center), Test director and also functional test tools like Winrunner. The test cases can be mapped to the automation scripts and be executed from QC (Quality Center) itself. Also, it can kick off Winrunner test execution from within.
• Easy to maintain different types of suites viz. Smoke, Sanity, Regression etc.
• It comes with loads of inbuilt properties and methods in QTP as well as inbuilt functions in VBScripts
• Use of Datatables/Excel files are easier and provides a variety of methods to play around with rows and columns.
• Easy to maintain test iterations and data driving the tests through configurations.
• Test reporting with all necessary details for analysis is provided.
• Microsoft Object model can be implanted in QTP easily (Example – Word document object, Excel Object, Outlook Object, ADO objects, File system objects, DOM etc)

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Error Handling In Selenium RC

With help of error handling you can able to get details of failure.

If any of the steps in your tests fails then selenium will throw an exception and tests would stop. If you handle the exceptions using 'try catch', then you should be able to achieve what you are looking for. 

As an example, see the code below. This would handle the Element Not Found Error.And you can write that exception to file

public void test() throws Exception {
try {
selenium.open("http://seleniumhq.org/");
selenium.click("xpath=(//button[text()='Login'])[2]");
}catch (SeleniumException e){  //If any error occurs

try{
//Code to write error in file
FileWriter fstream = new FileWriter("e:/filename1.txt",true); //Will
                                           write error details here, if file doesn't exists it will create new    
BufferedWriter bw = new BufferedWriter(fstream);
bw.write("Test Project " + e.getMessage());
bw.newLine();
bw.close();
}catch(Exception a){  //For File handling Error
System.out.println("Error In File Handling");  
}
    }
}


Output
Test Project ERROR: Element xpath=(//button[text()='Login'])[2] not found

Verify the height and width of image in Selenium

You can verify image height and width with help of selenium.

I have shared sample script. In this script i'm storing width and height of image and then comparing it with expected width and height.

CODE - 

int wid = (Integer) selenium.getElementWidth("css=p > img.medialeft");
int hght = (Integer) selenium.getElementHeight("css=p > img.medialeft");
System.out.println(wid);
System.out.println(hght);
 if ((hght == 234) && (wid == 140))
    {
      
       System.out.println("image size" +wid + " X "  + hght + "pixels");
  
     }

 Else
   {
       System.out.println("Image width and height is not matching with expected");
   }



Here expected width and height is 140 and 234 respectively.
In if condition it is checking whether width and height is same as required, if it is same it will print, else will move to other part or any error message.

Compare a variable with blank value in selenium

To compare variable with blank value, you can try solution like suggested      below - 

Here 'test' and 'j' are two variable. j having blank value.

It will compare 'test' and 'j' variable and accordingly it will display message  whether test variable is blank or not.

storeValue  |  element  |  test
store          |           |  j  (blank value)
gotoIf        |  storedVars['test']==storedVars['j']  |  true
getEval      |  alert("test Variable Value is not blank")
gotolabel   |  finish
label         |  true
getEval      |  alert("test Variable Value is blank")
label         |  finish

Xpath to determine checkbox “checked” attribute

If there is multiple check-boxes with same ids and you have to select the next check-box which is not selected/checked. 

For such scenario you can refer below script - 

Here 'stnewrecord' is class of check-box. Script will store number of check-box, and according to that loop will follow. It will check whether check-box is checked or not if not it will check else move to next step.

xpath=(//input[@class='stnewrecord'])[${i}]  

This is xpath of check-box. 'i' is position, it will increase on each iteration.

Configure Selenium RC With JUnit Using Eclipse

Before configuring Selenium RC with Junit Using Eclipse below components are required - 

1.Install JRE : http://www.java.com/en/download/

2.Download Eclipse IDE for Java Developers : http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
3. Download Latest version of JUnit: https://github.com/KentBeck/junit/downloads
4.Download and Install Selenium IDE firefox plugin : http://seleniumhq.org/download/
5.Download Selenium RC server and Selenium Client Drivers for Java:http://seleniumhq.org/download/

Once done with above steps launch Eclipse.
After launching eclipse, you need to Create New Project for selenium scripts

Go to File > New > Project then In Select a Wizard Click Java Project. Then provide all details like project name.
Once new project is created, right click on project go to Build Path > Configure Build Path.
Click on Libraries menu when pop-up appears, then click to "Add External Jar's ". Select Selenium RC server and Selenium Client Drivers for Java which is downloaded from http://seleniumhq.org/download/.

Once it is done, now build path is configured and project is ready to use.
Now create a package for project.
Once package is created then next step will be to create class.Right click on Package and add new class, it will ask for name. Click on Finish once class name is provided.

Once done with all above steps, your package explorer looks like below -

Once class is created you are ready to write script for selenium scenario. As well you can execute created script on eclipse IDE.

Thank you...