how to write functional tests with Selenium. how to set up Selenium Testing On Grails Apps In Continuous Integration Using two approaches: The long way – using Maven and/or Ant The fast way, using the grails- selenium-rc plug-in - ( see http://buildchimp.com/wordpress/?p=241 )

5. Launching Selenium

6. Recording New Selenium Tests

7. Exporting test commands to 3GL (Java, etc.)

8. Individual tests referenced by the suite are recorded using their paths relative to the suite. For simplicity put your suite and all tests in the same directory (to start) Saving New or Modified Selenium Tests

10. Selenium Client Side Library & Server In Action HTTP Selenium-server.jar Source: http://seleniumhq.org/docs/05_selenium_rc.html Reports back results of test to client HTTP (javascript) (client side java script / Ajax portion of application under Test – originates from here ) Application under test (server side)

11. Selenium RC Server Acting As Proxy To Avoid Same Origin Policy Restrictions What happens when a test suite starts ? 1) client/driver establishes connection w.selenium-RC 2) Selenium-RC server launches a browser (or reuses an old one) with URL that injects Selenium-Core’s javascript into browser-loaded web page. 3) client-driver passes a Selenese command to the server e.g.: open command 4) Server interprets the command and then triggers the corresponding javascript execution to execute that command within the browser (say open page in app under test)s 5) Request to open the page is routed through proxy server 6) 7) Proxy forwards request to app server App server returns response

13. Canoo Web Test Reports Canoo's reports show overall test results and let you drill down into any test

14. Canoo Web Test Reports (cont.) Click to review a copy of the response HTML page corresponding to the first test step that failed

16. deploy Compile Unit Test Integration Test Package .war file Download And Install Tomcat

18. Maven Nested Module Structure, Dependencies and Shared Repo mvn install Maven Repository Lives in $HOME/.m2/repostitory or /Docuemts and Settings/<user>/.m2/repository declares the artifact it produces to be org.example:demo:1.1 declares a a dependency on org.example:demo:1.1 org.example:demo:1.1

19. Maven pom.xml – Nested Module Structure

20. Maven pom.xml – Dependency Relationships Maven Repository org.example:demo:1.1

21. Hooking Maven Plug-ins Maven Into the Build Life Cycle Build Life Cycle Phases validate generate/process-sources process-sources generate/process-resources compile test prepare-package package pre-integration-test integration-test post-integration-test verify install deploy pom.xml

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