How do you go about unit-testing ExtJS web apps using Selenium?
Can you point me to some web resources or book regarding this issue?
What pieces of your application are you looking to test using Selenium? Unit testing implies smaller pieces than a full "UI" test, from my perspective. If you're looking to do true unit testing, you will probably want to pull in some library like jsUnit or qUnit and then just have Selenium run those tests, and then grab the resulting information.
I haven't directly used Selenium to test the view itself, since I've always considered that to be pretty solid, coming directly from the Sencha crew. If you're trying to go down this road, your best bet would probably be to search the official selenium user group. They appear fairly active. The user group would potentially be a good resource for asking questions, as well. While keeping in mind that ExtJS is just a powerful way to alter the DOM in a very dynamic fashion.
...and I just noticed the links off to other pages that have already been provided. Still valid data, so I'm going to post it anyways. :)
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i am a new Webdeveloper and im struggeling to find the right tools and frameworks to use for the specific site i am building.
Its a site for managing all kind of information and documents about clients my firm cares for.
It consists of general information (like statistics etc.) that should be served synchronously and a client specific part that should be a SPA (mainly because i want to have a list of all clients on the side, so that the main part of the page updates when you click one).
My problem is , that there is so much information about that kind of stuff (but not specificly a project comparable to mine), so that i can't decide what the best approach would be.
I found those options so far:
Just serve everything with django and update reactive parts of the page with Ajax
building a dedicated Frontend and with Frameworks like Svelte or React and using Django as API.
Using these Frameworks just for the critical components that have to be reactive and serving everything with django
If i understand correctly, the cleanest way would be Nr. 2, but i would lose access to djangos form rendering with crispy_forms (which, for a website consisting mainly of forms, would kinda suck).
The same is kinda true for Option 3 i think, since the critical Elements are mostly forms. And as far is i know you cant render django forms as react components.
I was discouraged from using Option 1, cause it seems to very error-prone to build a SPA without a framework.
I would really appreciate some input from more experienced People like me to help me with the decicion which path to go down.
Greetings!
There are many options, but it all depends on your knowledge and deadline.
Don't try to make everything perfect at once. Make an MVP using the technologies that you are familiar with and show the working version to the management. I'm sure there will be many edits and improvements that they will want to implement.
If you need an advise about stack, then you can look at Django + DRF + Vue.js
I have a single page app built with emberjs with an a rails backend. Is it a common pattern to build an admin interface on rails serverside on a subdomain. What is the right approach for this?
Your question is vague but I will try to answer it my best. I have done this with a Node and a Go backend combined with Ember.js.
No, there is technically nothing to prevent you from doing a single page application for an admin interface.
Rails is a good choice for this, and generally you should stick with the backend framework/language you and your team master the most.
As for what would be the right approach, there is no magic recipes. Document your code, write test and follow best practices for the tools you are using.
One key element though will be the communication between your frontend and your backend. Ember chose to follow the JSON API specification (http://jsonapi.org/) and comes out of the box with an adapter to talk with these kind of API. Using such adapter will help you save a lot of time.
Here are some implementation of JSON API for Ruby : http://jsonapi.org/implementations/#server-libraries-ruby
One more thing about your frontend code structure. You haven't say how big your app will be. If it gets big, you may want to take the pod approach in ember-cli (http://ember-cli.com/user-guide/#pod-structure). It basically changes the structure of the code so it's easier to maintain a lot of files.
I have a django site which uses gevent-socketio for a word game and I would like to automate the tests.
Since gevent-socketio implies user interaction and JavaScript actions I'm stuck in how to start writing tests.
Anyone can point me in the right direction?
Here are some referrals:
selenium. Basically, it's testing in a real browser that django can integrate with by the help of LiveServerTestCase.
mechanize - programmatic web-browsing. It's a very powerful tool, definitely worth looking. Note that it can "talk" to javascript.
sikuli - testing tool that works using screenshots. Very powerful too, but may be a bit too exotic in your case.
Hope that helps.
I'd like to provide a browser page to help non-techies run the various tests I've created using the standard django test framework.
The ideal would be for a way to display all the tests found for an application with tick boxes against each one, so the user could choose to run all tests or just a selection.
Output would be displayed in a window/frame for review.
Anyone know of such a thing?
Not quite what you've asked, but sounds a bit like Fitnesse, which allows non-technical users to define tests in a wiki-like syntax and run them from the browser. It is possible to link this up to Django's test framework.
I'm looking for a web service testing framework that has a good built in text input / output gui. The point would be for business and other non developer users to be able to test requirements by using a simple gui that they could enter values into and see the results from the web service. I have seen lots of references on Stack Overflow and the web to great developer web service testing tool but a nice, built in, I/O gui is the key feature for me.
By web service testing I mean a tool that sends xml post requests over HTTP and tests the response.
I have been trying out fitnesse but to use it I need to cut out parts of the system and I very much want to do end to end testing. The way fitnesse displays its results is great but the wiki data entry is a bit clunky for business users imo.
We use FitNesse for the most part. The developers maintain a fixture that s the connector between your app and the FitNesse server. The business user can write the test cases in an wiki style. Works fine for us.
Rational Functional Tester was in the discussion too. However, I have never seen it, but would have met our requirements too.
You might want to look at the robot framework. It's a pretty decent testing library which makes it easy to test web services. There is also a library that integrates Selenium into the framework for front-end testing. Tests can be specified in a couple of plain text formats as well as in HTML tables. You also have the option to let users create test data in spreadsheets if you like, then save them in a tab-separated format.
Look at WebServiceStudio http://www.codeplex.com/WebserviceStudio
We use Concordion for business testing. It's very similar to Fitness but the input files are HTML files "executed" by JUnit.
If your web services don't take 500 parameters, a HTML table is a great way to define input values. I agree, there no UI (although a WYSIWYG HTML editor would do it) but the benefit is that your tests can be checked into Subversion (for example), executed regularly (read every night) and the result HTML files be published internally.
I found testing composite application in Netbeans very easy to use ...
As you requested in your question you can define an input XML and a desired output XML, and when you run the test you have a classic JUnit result like this :
alt text http://netbeans.org/images_www/articles/61/soa/ep-understand-trs/testpassed.png
Here you can find a good example:
Understanding the Travel Reservation Service
I use NetBeans 6.5.1 bundled wit GlassFish ESB 2.1 ... I'm not sure that this feature is supported in the newest NetBeans Versions