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Functional / E2E testing Flex applications
Hi, i was wondering if anyone could point me to some up to date resources
that explain Functional/Acceptence testing of a flex application.
Ideally i would like to use WebDriver so that this can be done via SauceLabs
but the information provided on SauceLabs site was sparse at best.
Some sort of steer on the common approach to this problem would be great
cheers
Chris
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AW: AW: Functional / E2E testing Flex applications
Posted by Christofer Dutz <ch...@c-ware.de>.
Hi Chris,
Selenium can't directly talk to flex, you need some sort of bridge to bring the two together. As far as I know flexmonkium is what's doing that for Selenium Webdriver. Without this, Selenium will only detect a big black box where your flex application is running.
Well there are other alternatives however, but these are almost all commercial solutions.
The tool I liked best in this area was definitely Silk4J (http://www.borland.com/products/silktest/read/), but the price-tag is surely a lot higher than the open source solutions.
A few years ago I did an evaluation on different tools, but I think that's quite outdated now, but perhaps it gives you an Idea about other alternatives. Deffiniteley there are new players on the field, the old ones will have different products. Perhaps a lot of things work differently, but perhaps you'll still get some usefull information from it: https://dev.c-ware.de/confluence/display/PUBLIC/Functional+Testing+Tools
Chris
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Gesendet: Freitag, 15. August 2014 08:40
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You need an extract tools flex monkey , however this has gone out of support and does not support flex13, I know pepole are trying to sort that issue out
Once you have monkey in place you just use selenium in the normal way, I have it setup on my mac
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> On 14 Aug 2014, at 23:33, "chrismatheson" <ch...@matheson.it> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the pointers here.
>
> I've done some research but I don't quite see how the UIautomation stuff &
> selenium webdriver can work together?
>
> I work on an HTML / js project which has selenium tests in place of the type
> I am trying to mimic with flash, so the selenium webdriver interface is
> familiar, but I have only used the chrome driver / selenium local server /
> saucelabs to connect to browsers. I'm not sure how flex can expose more API
> to the clients? I'm assuming find element by CSS will be no use :)
>
> Chris
>
>
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Re: AW: Functional / E2E testing Flex applications
Posted by Scott Matheson <sm...@intralinks.com>.
You need an extract tools flex monkey , however this has gone out of support and does not support flex13, I know pepole are trying to sort that issue out
Once you have monkey in place you just use selenium in the normal way, I have it setup on my mac
Sent from my iPad
> On 14 Aug 2014, at 23:33, "chrismatheson" <ch...@matheson.it> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the pointers here.
>
> I've done some research but I don't quite see how the UIautomation stuff &
> selenium webdriver can work together?
>
> I work on an HTML / js project which has selenium tests in place of the type
> I am trying to mimic with flash, so the selenium webdriver interface is
> familiar, but I have only used the chrome driver / selenium local server /
> saucelabs to connect to browsers. I'm not sure how flex can expose more API
> to the clients? I'm assuming find element by CSS will be no use :)
>
> Chris
>
>
>
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Re: AW: Functional / E2E testing Flex applications
Posted by chrismatheson <ch...@matheson.it>.
Thanks for the pointers here.
I've done some research but I don't quite see how the UIautomation stuff &
selenium webdriver can work together?
I work on an HTML / js project which has selenium tests in place of the type
I am trying to mimic with flash, so the selenium webdriver interface is
familiar, but I have only used the chrome driver / selenium local server /
saucelabs to connect to browsers. I'm not sure how flex can expose more API
to the clients? I'm assuming find element by CSS will be no use :)
Chris
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AW: Functional / E2E testing Flex applications
Posted by Christofer Dutz <ch...@c-ware.de>.
Hi Chris
Unfortunately good documentation on this topic has always been thin :-(
You have to know and keep in mind one thing: Flex already comes with features to explicitly allow automation. But you have to add that support to your application. You can do this in two ways: 1. You compile in the automation libs (You have to make sure all classes are included to your application ... so a normal dependency will not work) then the application created is a little bigger, but it comes with all it needs to be automated. 2. You load your application with a loader application that contains the automation classes (I prefer option 1 as its a lot easier to setup an automated CI build for this).
These automation adapters don't allow you to automate your application. It makes you able to do so, but you need something that uses these automation adapters to actually do something.
I would recommend in to take over this part, you should have a look at selenium web driver (http://docs.seleniumhq.org/projects/webdriver/) (Not the older non-web-driver version) and FlexMonkium (http://flexautomation.blogspot.de/)
With this you should be albe to write record-replay tests as well as (an this is the option I would prefer) to write JUnit/TestNG/whateverjavatestingframeworkyouareusing tests that integrate in your CI build.
Chris
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Gesendet: Mittwoch, 13. August 2014 00:08
An: users@flex.apache.org
Betreff: Functional / E2E testing Flex applications
Hi, i was wondering if anyone could point me to some up to date resources
that explain Functional/Acceptence testing of a flex application.
Ideally i would like to use WebDriver so that this can be done via SauceLabs
but the information provided on SauceLabs site was sparse at best.
Some sort of steer on the common approach to this problem would be great
cheers
Chris
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