Testing Web Applications with GEB

Testing Web Applications
with GEB
Howard M. Lewis Ship
TWD Consulting
hlship@gmail.com
@hlship
© 2012 Howard M. Lewis Ship

Testing Web Applications

What's your process?
Manual?
Selenium?
What about Ajax?

Spoiled by jQuery

<div class="summary">

…

<div class="subtotal">107.95</div>

$(".order-summary .subtotal").text() == "107.95"

http://jquery.com/

Selenium WebDriver

Drives:

or limited HtmlUnit (browserless)

http://seleniumhq.org/

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

driver.get("http://localhost:8080/order-summary/12345");

WebElement element = driver.findElement(
By.cssSelector(".order-summary .subtotal");

assertEquals(element.getText(), "107.95");

driver.get("http://www.google.com");

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.name("q"));

element.sendKeys("Cheese!");

element.submit(); Triggers Ajax Update

new WebDriverWait(driver, 10)).until(new ExpectedCondition<Boolean>() {
public Boolean apply(WebDriver d) {
return d.getTitle().toLowerCase().startsWith("cheese!");
}
};

Groovy == Low Ceremony
+ Dynamic

Power of Selenium WebDriver 2.15.0
Elegance of jQuery content selection
Robustness of Page Object modelling
Expressiveness of Groovy
First Class Documentation

Running GEB Interactively

geb.groovy
import groovy.grape.Grape
Grape.grab([group:'org.codehaus.geb', module:'geb-core', version:'0.6.3'])
Grape.grab([group:'org.seleniumhq.selenium', module:'selenium-firefox-driver',
version:'2.15.0'])
Grape.grab([group:'org.seleniumhq.selenium', module:'selenium-support', ⏎
version:'2.15.0'])
import geb.*

import java.util.logging.*

new File("geb-logging.properties").withInputStream { ⏎
LogManager.logManager.readConfiguration it }

geb-logging.properties
handlers=java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler

java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.level=WARNING
java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.formatter=java.util.logging.SimpleFormatter

GEB Interactive
$ groovysh
Groovy Shell (1.8.6, JVM: 1.6.0_29)
Type 'help' or 'h' for help.
-------------------------------------------------
groovy:000> . geb.groovy
===> [import groovy.grape.Grape]
===> null
===> null
===> null
===> [import groovy.grape.Grape, import geb.*]
===> [import groovy.grape.Grape, import geb.*, import ⏎
java.util.logging.*]
===> null
groovy:000> b = new Browser(baseUrl: "http://google.com/")
===> geb.Browser@190a0d51
groovy:000> b.go()
===> null
groovy:000>

Google Demo

b = new Browser(baseUrl: "http://google.com/")
b.go()
b.$("input", name:"q") << "geb"
b.waitFor { b.title.toLowerCase().startsWith("geb") }
b.$("a.l").text()
b.$("a.l")*.text()
b.$("a.l")*.@href
b.$("input", name:"q") << "geb groovy"
b.$("a.l").first().click()
b.quit()
Not needed in 0.7

IMDB Demo

b = new Browser()
b.baseUrl = "http://imdb.com"
b.go()
b.$("#navbar-query") << "Bladerunner"
b.$("#navbar-submit-button").click()
b.waitFor { b.title == "IMDb Search" }
b.$("#main table", 1).find("a")*.text()
b.$("#main table", 1).find("a", text:"Blade Runner").click()
assert b.$(".star-box-giga-star").text() == "9.9"
b.$("table.cast_list td.name a")[0..3]*.text()

Browser Page Navigator
go() : void Delegation pageUrl : String x : int
quit() : void title : String y : int
page : Page $(…) : Navigator width : int
waitFor(…) : Object height : int
startsWith(…) : TextMatcher disabled : boolean
contains(…) : TextMatcher empty : boolean
Delegation

endsWith(…) : TextMatcher displayed : boolean
add(String) : Navigator
click() : void
filter(...) : Navigator
GebSpec find(…) : Navigator
not(String) : Navigator
first() : Navigator
last() : Navigator
getAt(…) : Navigator
getAttribute(String) : String
has(String) : Navigator
parents(String) : Navigator
parentsUntil(String): Navigator
size() : int
text() : String
value() : Object

$(css selector, index, attribute / text matchers)

$("p") ➠ all <p>
CS
$("p", 3) ➠ 4th <p> S3

$("p")[3] ➠ 4th <p>
$("p")[0..2] ➠ 1st through 3rd <p>

Attribute Matchers
$("a", text:"Blade Runner")

➠ All <a> tags whose text is "Blade Runner"
$("a", href: contains("/name/")

➠ All <a> tags whose href attribute contains "/name/"
$("a", href: ~/nm[0-9]+/)

➠ All <a> tags whose href attribute matches the
pattern

Attribute Predicates
Case Sensitive Case Insensitive Description

startsWith iStartsWith start with value

contains iContains contains the value anywhere

endsWith iEndsWith end with value

contains value surrounded by whitespace (or at
constainsWord iContainsWord
begin or end)

notStartsWith iNotStartsWith DOES NOT start with value

notContains iNotContains DOES NOT contain value anywhere

notEndsWith iNotEndsWith DOES NOT end with value

DOES NOT contain value (surrounded by
notContainsWord iNotContainsWord
whitespace, or at begin or end)

Relative Traversal
<div class="a">
    <div class="b">
        <p class="c"></p>
        <p class="d"></p>
        <p class="e"></p>
    </div>
    <div class="f"></div>
</div>

$("p.d").previous() p.c

$("p.e").prevAll() p.c p.d

$("p.d").next() p.e

$("p.c").nextAll() p.d p.e

$("p.cd").parent() div.b

$("p.c").siblings() p.d p.e

$("div.a").children() div.b div.f

Navigators are Groovy Collections

each() is a Groovy Collection method
groovy:000> castList = [:]
===> {}
groovy:000> b.$("table.cast_list tr").tail().each
{ castList[it.find("td.name").text()] = it.find("td.character").text() }
===> […]
groovy:000> castList
===> {Harrison Ford=Rick Deckard, Rutger Hauer=Roy Batty, Sean Young=Rachael,
Edward James Olmos=Gaff, M. Emmet Walsh=Bryant, Daryl Hannah=Pris, William
Sanderson=J.F. Sebastian, Brion James=Leon Kowalski, Joe Turkel=Dr. Eldon
Tyrell, Joanna Cassidy=Zhora, James Hong=Hannibal Chew, Morgan Paull=Holden,
Kevin Thompson=Bear, John Edward Allen=Kaiser, Hy Pyke=Taffey Lewis}

http://groovy.codehaus.org/groovy-jdk/java/util/Collection.html

Forms

<form id="navbar-form" …
<input type="text" name="q" …

groovy:000> b.q = "Galaxy Quest"
===> Galaxy Quest

groovy:000> b.$("#navbar-form").q
===> Galaxy Quest

Problem: Repetition

$("a", text:"Contact Us").click()

waitFor { b.title == "Contact Us" }
$(".alert .btn-primary").click()

waitFor { b.title == "Contact Us" }

($(".search-form input[name='query']") << "search term").submit()

Solution: Model Pages not just DOM
Browser Page
go() : void Delegation pageUrl : String
quit() : void title : String
page : Page $(…) : Navigator
at(…) : boolean waitFor(…) : Object
verifyAt() : boolean
browser: Browser

class Home extends geb.Page {
static url = ""
static at = {
title == "The Internet Movie Database (IMDb)"
}
}

groovy:000> b.$(".home").click(Home)
===> null
groovy:000> b.verifyAt()
===> true
groovy:000> b.at Home
===> true
groovy:000> b.page
===> Home
groovy:000> b.to Home
===> null

Page Content
class Home extends Page {
static at = { title == "The Internet Movie Database (IMDb)" }
static url = ""
static content = {
boxOffice { $("h3", text:"Box Office").parent() }
firstBoxOffice { boxOffice.find("a").first() }
}
}

groovy:000> b.firstBoxOffice.click()
===> null

to / do / at

===> null
groovy:000> b.q = "Forbidden Planet"
===> Forbidden Planet
groovy:000> b.searchForm.go.click()
===> null
groovy:000> b.at Search
===> true
groovy:000>

Content Options

static content = {
boxOfficeLinks { boxOffice.find("a", text: iNotStartsWith("see more")) }
movieShowtimes(required:false) { $("h3", text:"Movie Showtimes").parent() }
movieShowtimesGo(required:false) { movieShowtimes.find("input", value:"Go") }
}

Content Options
Option Type Default Description

Evaluate content once, or
cache boolean false
on each access

Error on page load if
content does not exist (use
required boolean true
false for optional or Ajax-
loaded)

Page or Class, On a link, identify the page
to null
list of Page or Class the link submits to

Wait for content to become
wait varies null
available (via Ajax/DHTML)

Page Methods
static url = ""
static content = {
boxOfficeLinks { boxOffice.find("a", text: iNotStartsWith("see more")) }
}

def clickBoxOffice(index) {
def link = boxOfficeLinks[index]
def label = link.text()
link.click()
waitFor { title.startsWith(label) }
}
}

===> null
groovy:000> b.clickBoxOffice 0
===> true
groovy:000>

Problem: Re-used web pages
class Movie extends Page {

static at = {
assert title.startsWith("Blade Runner")
true GEB 0.7 will magically
} convert to asserts
static content = {
rating { $(".star-box-gig-start").text() }
castList { $("table.cast_list tr").tail() }
}
}

groovy:000> b.$("#main table", 2).find("a",7).click(Movie)
===> null
groovy:000> b.page
===> Movie
groovy:000> b.verifyAt()
ERROR org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.powerassert.PowerAssertionError:
assert title.startsWith("Blade Runner")
| |
| false
The Bugs Bunny/Road-Runner Movie (1979) - IMDb

Solution: Conﬁgured Page Instances

String expectedTitle

static at = {
assert title.startsWith expectedTitle
true
}

static content = {
castList { $("table.cast_list tr").tail() }
}
}

class Search extends Page {
static at = {
assert title == "IMDb Search"
true
}

static content = {
mainTable { $("#main table") }
matchingTitles { mainTable[2] }
matchingTitlesLinks { matchingTitles.find("a", ⏎
href: contains("/title/tt")) }
}

def clickMatchingTitle(int index) {
def link = matchingTitlesLinks[index]
link.click()
browser.at new Movie(expectedTitle: label)
}
}

click()

===> null
groovy:000> b.clickMatchingTitle 3
===> true

def clickMatchingTitle(int index) {
def link = matchingTitlesLinks[index]
link.click()
browser.at new Movie(expectedTitle: label)
}

Problem: Duplication on Pages
b.$("#navbar-query") << "Bladerunner"
b.$("#navbar-submit-button").click()

Other examples:
Login / Logout / Register
"Contact Us" & other boilerplate
"Mark Favorite"
View Product Details
Bid / Buy

Solution: Modules
class SearchForm extends geb.Module {
static content = {
field { $("#navbar-query") }
go(to: Search) { $("#navbar-submit-button") }
}
}

static url = ""
static content = {
searchForm { module SearchForm }
}
}

===> null
groovy:000> b.searchForm.field << "Serenity"
===> [org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxWebElement@1ef44b1f]
===> null
groovy:000> b.page
===> Search

Problem: Repeating Elements

<table class="cast_list">
<tr>
<td class="primary_photo"> …
<td class="name"> …
<td class="ellipsis"> …
<td class="character"> …

Solution: Module Lists
class CastRow extends Module {
static content = {
actorName { $("td.name").text() }
characterName { $("td.character").text() }
}
} Scope limited to each <tr>
String expectedTitle

static at = { title.startsWith expectedTitle }

static content = {
castList { moduleList CastRow, $("table.cast_list tr").tail() }
}
}

groovy:000> b.at(new Movie(expectedTitle: "Blade Runner"))
===> true
groovy:000> b.castList[0].actorName
===> Harrison Ford
groovy:000> b.castList[0].characterName
===> Rick Deckard
groovy:000> b.castList*.actorName
===> [Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, ⏎
M. Emmet Walsh, Daryl Hannah, William Sanderson, Brion James, Joe Turkel, ⏎
Joanna Cassidy, James Hong, Morgan Paull, Kevin Thompson, John Edward Allen, ⏎
Hy Pyke]

js object

groovy:000> b = new Browser(baseUrl: "http://jquery.org")
===> geb.Browser@5ec22978
groovy:000> b.go()
===> null
groovy:000> b.js."document.title"
===> jQuery Project

Access simple page properties

Executing JavaScript
Text evaluated in-browser

groovy:000> b.js.exec '''
groovy:001> $("img").css("background-color", "red").fadeOut()
groovy:002> '''
===> null
groovy:000> b.js.exec 1, 2, "return arguments[0] + arguments[1];"
===> 3

jQuery Hook

More methodMissing() magic!

groovy:000> b.$("img").jquery.fadeIn()
===> [org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxWebElement@de86fd70,
org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxWebElement@615e6612,
Silently fails unless jQuery on page
org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxWebElement@52c13174,
org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxWebElement@69e1ba19,
org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxWebElement@2797f147,
org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxWebElement@69cfbbda,
org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxWebElement@27d5741a,
org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxWebElement@10b36232,
org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxWebElement@ec3e243f]

Waiting
waitFor { condition }
waitFor timeout { condition }
waitFor timeout, interval { condition }
waitFor "preset" { condition }

Reporting
package myapp.tests
Base class that reports at end of each test
import geb.spock.*

class Login extends GebReportingSpec {

def "successful login"() {

when:
go "login"
username = "user1"
report "login screen" Capture HTML and screenshot
login().click()

then:
title == "Welcome, User1"
}
}

reports/myapp/tests/Login/1-1-login-login screen.html
reports/myapp/tests/Login/1-1-login-login screen.png
reports/myapp/tests/Login/1-2-login-end.html
reports/myapp/tests/Login/1-2-login-end.png

Base Classes
Report end of each test

Framework Artifact Base Class Reporting Base Class

Spock geb-spock geb.spock.GebSpec geb.spock.GebReportingSpec

Junit 4 geb-juni4 geb.junit4.GebTest geb.junit4.GebReportingTest

Junit 3 geb-junit3 geb.junit3.GebTest geb.junit3.GebReportingTest

TestNG geb-testng geb.testng.GebTest geb.testng.GebReportingTest

Report failures only

Delegation
package myapp.tests Page

import geb.spock.*

Delegation
class Login extends GebReportingSpec {

def "successful login"() { Browser

when:

Delegation
go "login"
username = "user1"
report "login screen"
login().click()
Geb[Reporting]Spec

then:
title == "Welcome, User1"
}
}

GebConﬁg.groovy
src/test/resources/GebConfig.groovy
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver

driver = { new FirefoxDriver() } // use firefox by default

waiting {
  timeout = 2 // default wait is two seconds
}

environments {
  chrome {
  driver = { new ChromeDriver() }
  }
}

http://groovy.codehaus.org/gapi/groovy/util/ConﬁgSlurper.html

Environment
$ grade test -Dgeb.env=chrome

src/test/resources/GebConfig.groovy
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver

driver = { new FirefoxDriver() } // use firefox by default

waiting {
  timeout = 2 // default wait is two seconds
}

environments {
  chrome {
  driver = { new ChromeDriver() }
  }
}

Waiting Conﬁguration

GebConfig.groovy
waiting {
timeout = 10
retryInterval = 0.5

presets {
slow { timeout = 20, retryInterval = 1 }
quick { timeout = 1 }
}
}

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