Slides from my presentation at Boston meetup http://www.meetup.com/Automated-Testing-Boston/events/136799792/

1. Boston Meetup: Best Practices for Continuous
Integration at Scale
Scaling Browser Test Automation
Framework and Demo
Arpit Gupta
@arpitgupta

2. Agenda
• Writing sample Automated test case
1. Basic example
2. Intermediate example
3. Slightly advanced example
• Actual test suite
– Demo
– Code Walk through
• More examples

3. Getting Started
Using watir-webdriver

4. Simple Test
require 'watir-webdriver’
b=Watir::Browser.new
b.goto 'amazon.com’
b.text_field(:id => 'twotabsearchtextbox').set
'test automation’
b.button(:type => 'submit').click
b.div(:class => 'topBarCol').h2.span.text
"Showing 1 - 16 of 3,411 Results"

5. Advanced Tests
https://github.com/thearpitgupta/Get_Start
ed_With_Browser_Automation

6. Page-objects
Layer to store all the details about
the elements on the webpage

7. Test Cases (spec)
Page-objects
Helper Methods
Browser Automation
Library
Browser elements

8. Browser Automation library
• Opening & closing different browser types
– Chrome
– Firefox
– Safari
• File downloading & comparing with csv
– Via Firefox profile
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Alert pop ups
Database connection
Generating Test Data
Waiting for a process to complete
Support for complex browser elements: chzn dropdown,
high charts, tables, etc.

9. Thank You!
Arpit Gupta
@arpitgupta