In this issue, the focus is on Test Automation. We have an informative article on Automation of Rich internet applications using Selenium. Rich and Interactive content has been one of the growing trends in the Software world and like any other new technology trend, it comes with it’s own set of challenges apart from benefits. One of the challenges is Test Automation and the ability of tools to achieve this in the tradition-al way. Apart from that we have included references and links to articles on Test Automation. We hope that going through them will enrich your knowledge of Test Automation and provide new insights.
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February 2014 Marlab’s INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Flash\Flex Auto- mation Testing 2 Quality News & Views 7 Cartoon Space 7 Volume VI From the Editor … Welcome to yet another edition of Test digest !!! Thank you for the support and constructive feed- back that we have been receiving. In this issue, the focus is on Test Automation. We have an informative article on Automation of Rich internet applications using Selenium. Rich and Interactive content has been one of the growing trends in the Software world and like any other new technology trend, it comes with it’s own set of challenges apart from benefits. One of the challenges is Test Automation and the ability of tools to achieve this in the tradition- al way. Apart from that we have included references and links to articles on Test Automation. We hope that going through them will enrich your knowledge of Test Automation and provide new insights. Happy Reading !!!
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February 2014
Marlab’s
I N S I D E T H I S
I S S U E :
Flash\Flex Auto-
mation Testing 2
Quality News &
Views 7
Cartoon Space 7
Volume VI
From the Editor …
Welcome to yet another edition of Test digest !!!
Thank you for the support and constructive feed-
back that we have been receiving. In this issue, the focus is on
Test Automation. We have an informative article on Automation
of Rich internet applications using Selenium. Rich and Interactive
content has been one of the growing trends in the Software world
and like any other new technology trend, it comes with it’s own
set of challenges apart from benefits. One of the challenges is Test
Automation and the ability of tools to achieve this in the tradition-
al way.
Apart from that we have included references and
links to articles on Test Automation. We hope that going through
them will enrich your knowledge of Test Automation and provide
Automating Flash/Flex components, which are used for animation, vid-eo, and interactive content in web pages poses few challenges. We cannot directly use Eclipse IDE with Selenium library for Flash/Flex automation. But Selenium sup-ports Flash/Flex automation using ‘Adobe Flash Builder’ tool. This is a licensed tool & trial version is available for 45 days. Objective of this article is to implement automation for Flash/Flex ap-plication. Here we will be automating the below YouTube player.
Any online available Flash/Flex application cannot be automated using ‘Adobe Flash Builder’ with ‘Selenium’. The reason being, we will not be able to identi-fy the objects of Flash/Flex application available online. Hence access to ‘Source code of Flash/Flex application‘ or ‘Application Action Script API Reference document‘ is required for automation.
Here, for the ‘YouTube’ application, Google Developers has published the ‘YouTube Action Script 3.0 Player API Reference’. Below is the URL for Action Script API Refer-ence document :
Flash Builder Premium can be downloaded from the below URL https://creative.adobe.com/products/flash-builder Download the ‘Flash Builder Premium’ in required language support & platform for ‘Windows’ or ‘Mac’ OS version. Install the downloaded version, in-stalled version looks similar to open source ‘Eclipse IDE’ tool. Adobe Flash Builder (previously known as Adobe Flex Builder) is an integrated development environment (IDE) built on the Eclipse platform that speeds development of rich Internet applications (RIAs) and cross-platform desk-top applications, particularly for the Adobe Flash platform. Adobe Flash Builder 4 is available in three editions: Standard, Premium and Educational.
Flash-Selenium components for automation can be downloaded from below URL http://code.google.com/p/flash-selenium/downloads/list Download the required Flash component, based on which Scripting language you will be using for automation (Java, C #, PHP, Ruby etc.). We will be using Java for automation script, which can be downloaded from below URL : http://flash-selenium.googlecode.com/files/flash-selenium.jar
Create a New Java Project in ‘Flash Builder’ & configure the Java build path with ‘selenium-server-standalone-2.24.1.jar’ & ‘flash-selenium.jar’
Copy & paste the below java code to New Java Project Created, which is written using JUnit using Selenium RC & Selenium WebDriver for testing the YouTube Flash Application. /* Automation of Youtube - Player Application using Selenium WebDriver */ package flash.test; import org.junit.*; import com.thoughtworks.selenium.DefaultSelenium; import com.thoughtworks.selenium.FlashSelenium; import com.thoughtworks.selenium.Selenium; public class Flash_youtube { private final static String URL = "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efRNKkmWdc0"; private Selenium selenium; private FlashSelenium flashApp; @Before public void setUp() throws Exception { private WebDriver wd; Thread.sleep(10000L); flashApp = new FlashSelenium(selenium, "movie_player"); wd = new FirefoxDriver(); flashApp = new FlashSelenium(wd, "movie_player"); wd.get(URL); } @After public void tearDown() throws Exception { wd.quit(); } @Test
public void verifyFlexAppSumIsCorrect() throws Exception { // wait till video load – buffering (3) while (Integer.parseInt(flashApp.call("getPlayerState")) == 3){ Thread.sleep(1000); } // Play the video for 10 seconds Thread.sleep(5000); flashApp.call("pauseVideo"); //Pause the Video System.out.println("After pauseVideo"); Thread.sleep(5000); flashApp.call("playVideo"); //Play the Video Thread.sleep(5000); System.out.println("After playVideo"); flashApp.call("seekTo","140","true"); //Seek to 140 sec Thread.sleep(5000); System.out.println("After seekTo"); flashApp.call("mute"); //Mute the Video Thread.sleep(5000); flashApp.call("setVolume","80"); //Set the Volume to 80% Thread.sleep(50000); } }
In the HTML source code, ‘Flash/Flex component’ will be added to the web page. Providing the Selenium & Flash/Flex instance to FlashSelenium object : flashApp = new FlashSelenium(selenium, “movie_player”); ‘movie_Player’ is the tag id of Flash/Flex component of Embed or Object tag.
Note: Embed or Object tag is used in the HTML code to add the Flash/Flex component
in the web page. Embed or Object tag id & Selenium object instance must be passed to ‘FlashSelenium’ API. Below is the <embed> tag, which is renders the movie (ads) :
We will not able to get any id, Xpath, CSS values for any of the events like ‘Play’, ‘Pause’, ‘Mute’, ‘seekTo bar’, etc. Hence the Parameters ‘pauseVideo’, ‘playVideo’, ‘seekTo’, ‘mute’, ‘setVolume’ are called in method flashApp.call(Parameters). Provided in YouTube API reference document. Run ‘Flash_youtube.java’ as Junit Test. YouTube Play, Pause, SeekTo, Mute, SetVolume functions are executed. Advantage of using ‘Adobe Flash Builder’ tool:
It support Java projects Flexibility to port the Java frameworks for Flash/Flex automation.
continuation of ‘Flash\Flex Automation ..’
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