Made some improvements over my HH.JS slides

1. State of the Automation
@admc
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2. Ich: github.com/admc
• I’m a web developer
• OSAF 2007, released Windmill Project
• Slide 2008, released WatiN, FlexPilot
• Mozilla 2009, released MozMill
• Sauce Labs 2010 - 2012
• Selenium Builder
• Jellyfish
• WD, WD-Candy
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3. Introduction
Thanks for having us!
You may know all of this, already.
Conclusions from years of pain.
I hope you find something new to take away.
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4. The History
Selenium Core - 2004
Windmill - 2007
Node.JS - Appears at JS.EU - 2009
Soda - Node drives Selenium 1!
JSDOM, Phantom, Zombie, Tobi - 2010
WebDriver - Starts talking about mobile
WebDriver + Selenium = Selenium 2
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5. Test Stack
Manual, otherwise still not
impressed.
WebDriver: wd-candy (wd pronounced
wood), WebDriverJS, webdriver-js
Zombie, Phantom, Tobi
QUnit
Jasmine
Vows
Mocha
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6. The Holy Grail
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7. Do what works
• Immediate value
• Easy for developers
• Some is better than none
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8. 6 Commandments of test
• Only run after passing headless
• Small succinct test cases
• No test case dependencies
• Abstract fragile locators
• Parallelize test runs to the max
• Focus on the money path
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9. What do I test?
• Metrics for pages (Mixpanel?)
• Analytics for browsers (Google?)
• Money path!
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10. Evangelism
• Your testing work is never done
• Selenium Conf 2011 - Automated Battle Scars
http://youtu.be/vZTi02tSs_M
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11. Continuous Integration
is HOT
Jenkins (commercial: cloudbees)
Travis-CI: OSS Only
Waterfall test flow, fail early
Only SMS on critical
Incredible speed up in development
Plugins for Selenium/WebDriver
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12. WebDriver (Se 2)
W3C Standard
Name situation
Selenium Conference: Community
Does web automation amazingly
Cares about mobile
Selenium Grid
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13. We accidentally..
All the browsers
We’re just getting started..
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14. Mobile Native
• A work in progress
• Searching for a community
• NativeDriver -- awesome, discontinued :-(
• calabash -- appears to have momentum
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15. Future
Full mobile web coverage
as part of Selenium
Faster Android emulation solution
Faster browser testing due to browser side
optimizations
Blessed mobile native solution with WebDriver API’s
Robots.
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16. Sauce Labs
Open Source projects!
Se Builder -> Node Selenium Libraries
Cleaner integration: QUnit, Jasmine
Integration with Selenium Grid
Better ways to
• debug your JS via the cloud
• profile your JS on the cloud
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17. Seriously, Robots
http://bitbeam.org
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18. The Clouds
• General
• EC2, RackSpace, MacMiniCloud etc.
• Specific
• Sauce OnDemand - Functional, Client JS Unit
• Testling - Client JS Unit
• Browser Stack - Client JS Unit
• TestBot - Client Functional
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19. Vielen Dank Berlin.JS!
Thanks Berlin.JS for hosting!
Keeping the JS Community growing in .de
Allowing us to come talk to you!
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20. Links
Mocha: http://visionmedia.github.com/mocha/
Calabash: https://github.com/calabash/
Selenium Grid: http://selenium-grid.seleniumhq.org/
WD: https://github.com/admc/wd
WD-Candy: https://github.com/admc/wd-candy
Vows: http://vowsjs.org/
QUnit: http://docs.jquery.com/Qunit
WebDriverJS: http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/WebDriverJs
webdriver-js: https://github.com/dmachi/webdriver-js
Selenium/WebDriver: http://seleniumhq.org/
Zombie.JS: https://github.com/assaf/zombie
Tobi: https://github.com/learnboost/tobi
Se-Builder: http://www.sebuilder.com
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21. Q&A
Bierzeit?
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