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About the Continuum Webapp Tests

Continuum web app tests depends on continuum-webapp module of Continuum. It depends on a successful build result in continuum-trunk.

Automation Tool

The module makes use of the latest Selenium Remote Control release (1.0.1)

Maven Plugins

The module makes use of the following maven plugins:

Testing Framework

Continuum web app tests module uses TestNG for the following reasons:

  • flexibility (coding convention),
  • dependency testing (skipping not failing),
  • fail and rerun (handy in large test suite) and
  • parametric testing ( reusing generic test) features.
    More on TestNG here.

View the module's pom.xml here

Pre-requisites

Installation instructions for Windows and Unix-based systems can be found here

Getting the Source from the Repository

Checkout continuum trunk here.

svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/continuum/trunk continuum-trunk
or
svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/continuum/trunk continuum-trunk

Running the Tests

Getting started with the tests:

After getting the source from the repository, execute the following:

cd /path/to/continuum-trunk/
mvn clean install
continuum-trunk must have a successful build or else there's no way to run continuum-webapp-test successfully.
cd /path/to/continuum-trunk/continuum-webapp-test/

Default configuration (i.e. App's Base URL, Selenium Host, Selenium Port's values, etc.) are stored in a property file that can be found in /path/to/continuum-trunk/continuum-webapp-test/src/test/resources/testng.properties (or here). You may change the values in it before executing the next command.

mvn clean install

This command will:

  • build the application from source
  • deploy the packaged application to a container and starts it
  • start the selenium server
  • start the selenium tests by launching the selenium test runner and the application under test (AUT)
    For every test failure encountered, TestNG Listeners will call selenium's windowMaximize and captureEntirePageScreenshot commands. This will maximize the application-under-test (AUT) browser then do a screen capture of the page and saves it as an image file with .png extension.
    View the code here
  • kill the selenium server after the tests are done
  • stop the app server (container)
  • return the results of the build (summary, reports, screen shots)

Running selected tests by editing testng.xml

Continuum web app tests is invoked with a testng.xml file. The contents of that xml file is displayed below and/or this could be found in /path/to/continuum-trunk/continuum-webapp-test/src/test/testng/config/ directory.

<suite name="ContinuumTest" verbose="1">
   <test name="BasicTest" enabled="true">
     <groups>
	<run>
	   <include name="about" />
	</run>
     </groups>
     <packages>
	<package name="org.apache.continuum.web.test" />
     </packages>
   </test>
   <test name="AdminTest" enabled="true">
     <groups>
	<run>
	   <include name="login" />
	   <include name="mavenTwoProject"/>								
	   <include name="projectGroup" />				
      	   <include name="mavenOneProject" />
      	   <include name="antProject" />
      	   <include name="shellProject" />
           <include name="buildDefinition" />
           <include name="notifier" />
	   <include name="schedule" />
	   <include name="myAccount" />
	   <include name="queue" />
	   <include name="purge" />
	   <include name="repository" />
	   <include name="configuration" />
	   <include name="installation" />
	   <include name="buildEnvironment" />
	   <include name="buildDefinitionTemplate" />
	   <include name="userroles"/>
	   <include name="agent"/>
	</run>
     </groups>
     <packages>
	<package name="org.apache.continuum.web.test" />
     </packages>
   </test>
</suite>

The order of the build when running the tests are defined in the annotations of each test. Groups are divided into unit tests. If want to run a specific test, you may edit the testng.xml file and exclude the undesired tests to be run.

Example:

<test name="AdminTest" enabled="true">
     <groups>
	<run>
	   <include name="login" />
	   <exclude name="mavenTwoProject"/>								
	   <exclude name="projectGroup" />				
      	   <exclude name="mavenOneProject" />
      	   <include name="antProject" />
      	   <exclude name="shellProject" />
           ...
           ...
           ...
	</run>
     </groups>
     <packages>
	<package name="org.apache.continuum.web.test" />
     </packages>
   </test>

More information about testng.xml here.

Running the tests with different container and/or browsers

Running Selenium tests in an alternate browser

Modify src/test/resources/testng.properties as needed then execute:

mvn clean install -Dbrowser=iexplore  (or -Dbrowser=safari or -Dbrowser=other -DbrowserPath=/path/to/browser)

Running Selenium tests against an existing Continuum instance

Modify src/test/resources/testng.properties as needed, then execute:

mvn clean install -Dexisting-container

(This skips the Cargo plugin configuration that starts a container with the Continuum webapp deployed)

Test with Firefox and Selenium IDE

continuum-webapp-test also has Selenium IDE scripts. Here's how you should run it:

  • Start Continuum
  • Open Firefox and navigate to Continuum (it should be on the "Create Admin User" page.)
  • in Firefox, Tools -> Selenium IDE
  • in Selenium IDE, File -> Open Test Suite and choose src/test/selenium-ide/continuum_test_suite.html
  • in Selenium IDE, modify the Base URL if necessary (for example, http://localhost:8080/continuum)
  • in Selenium IDE, click the 'Play entire test suite' icon

Viewing the Test Results

surefire-reports

After running the continuum webapp tests, cd to /path/to/continuum-trunk/continuum-webapp-test/target/surefire-reports/ and open the index.html file.
Click the 'ContinuumTest' suite link
Click the 'Results' link to view the summary of the tests. (Passed/Failed/Skipped)

screenshots

If there are test failures, cd to /path/to/continuum-trunk/continuum-webapp-test/target/screenshots/ to view the captured image files.
Screen shots are saved with the format "methodName(className.java_lineNumber)-time.png" in order to easily debug the error encountered.

Test Coverage

Test scripts available here automate the various features of Continuum. Listed below are the existing scripts with which you can help improve the testing process or you may contribute on any areas you see not covered.

Continuum Feature/s for development:

  • Release Projects

If you would like to be involved, start by reading the Continuum documentation to familiarize yourself with the features of the application.

Adding New Tests

This section will guide you on how to contribute new script/s to run with the existing ones.

You can find out what features already have tests by looking at the source code of the scripts on the Test Coverage section. If you look at the scripts, you can see which features have lots of tests and which need more..but note that even if the coverage looks good there may be more interesting tests to write..

Directory where to add new tests

Once you have written a good test scenario, the script must be placed in this directory:

/path/to/continuum-trunk/continuum-webapp-test/src/test/testng/org/apache/continuum/web/test/

Put your abstract classes in this directory:

/path/to/continuum-trunk/continuum-webapp-test/src/test/testng/org/apache/continuum/web/test/parent/

Order where to put the new class

Editing the testng.xml file to include the new class / group

  • Edit the testng.xml (refer to Editing testng.xml) to include the newly created script.
  • Run the test suite (refer to Running the Tests) to check if it will build successfully.

Once you have a successful build in continuum-webapp-test, you are now ready to create a patch and submit the work you have done to the community. Just follow the guidelines on the Creating Patches and Submitting Patches section.

Improving the Existing Tests

The listed items on continuum-webapp-test Test Coverage are not yet complete. Releasing Projects is one of the feature listed for development but basically, the existing scripts still has missing scenarios that needs to be completed, such as:

  1. Functions of Continuum Features to Projects
    • Wide use of Continuum features to different projects (i.e. the use of different build definitions, schedules, queues, agent, etc. ) --ant, shell, maven1, maven2.
  2. User Roles Test
    • User roles tests only have scripts for assertion of elements on the specific roles. Tests for user roles should include its specific function on Continuum.
  3. Logo / Headers / Footers
    • Assertion of Logo / Headers / Footers on each page (or scenarios) are not yet implemented.
  4. Optimization of the Automation Tool and Test Framework
    • Selenium and TestNG has lots of capabilities that will help improve the existing tests. Listed below are the items that are not yet implemented on the existing tests; for reporting, the generated report of surefire for TestNG has a text and html file. Improving the html file that would link to the screenshots of the failed tests would help a lot.
    • The wide use of TestNG, i.e. The use or @Parameters for values to be used on that specific test class. It will help developers not to be confused with regards to values that are placed in the property files (lots of values on that file) and those values will also be place on the TestNG report.

As listed above, those are just examples on how to improve Continuum's existing tests. As you go along with the scripts, you may encounter scenarios that needs to be modified so that it will be easily read to fellow developers. Tests contributions are welcome in this community. See Adding New Tests section on how.

Creating Patches

After adding new tests or improving existing tests, the next step is to create a patch.

Below are the steps needed for creating patches:

  • Update the version of the project's source. 
    svn up
  • Ensure that the project will build successfully (from trunk) and that your modification will not break anything 
    mvn clean install
  • Go to the directory where the modifications are done. Verify if the module's build is working. (i.e. /path/to/continuum-trunk/continuum-webapp-test/) 
    mvn clean install
  • After a successful build, add the new tests to version control. 
    Directory:
svn add /path/to/the/new_module/

    File:
svn add /path/to/the/new_module/file.extension

    Note: If the modifications are made to existing files which are already under version control, there is no need to do "svn add".

  • Create the patch from the trunk 
    cd /path/to/continuum-trunk/

    svn diff > PatchName.patch
  • Verify the content of the generated patch by viewing the file using any text editor. It should display all the intended changes.

Submitting Patches

After creating the patch, the next step is to contribute by sending the patch to the community!

  • If you don't have a codehaus jira account yet, sign up here
  • Login using your account
  • Go to Continuum project
  • Create a new issue with the appropriate issue type (bug, improvement, feature, test, etc)
  • Provide a good summary 
    New Tests for X Feature
or 
Improve Tests for an Existing Feature
  • Provide the environment details 
    Windows/Linux/Mac
Maven version
Java version
  • Provide the description 
    Describe what the patch is for. (changes made to the existing version)
Post the results of the build (test runs, failures, errors etc)
  • Don't forget to add your patch as an attachment. Tick the 'Patch Submitted' box then click the 'Create' button.
    If nothing happens in a few days, write to the dev list and nudge the developers to review your patch.