Geb:

Save Time with Groovy

Functional Testing
Dallas, TX
October 2012

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Agenda

We will cover how a successful workflow for developing functional tests

Introductions
Interactive Shell

Basic setup

Syntax Overview

Page Abstraction

Overview

Modules

Functions

Functional Testing
Recap and Questions

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Introductions

Geb: Save Time with Groovy Functional Testing

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Interactive Shell

Geb: Save Time with Groovy Functional Testing

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Interactive Shell

Getting started with Geb in the interactive Groovy Shell

Firefox for Geb
Try out your tests before putting them into code

Useful for rapid test development

http://groovy.codehaus.org/Groovy+Shell

https://github.com/jhamit/geb-examples

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Interactive Shell

Basic Geb syntax looks familiar, though there are some differences with jQuery
http://www.gebish.org/manual/current/
Key Objects

geb.Browser
geb.navigator.Navigator

geb.js.JavascriptInterface
Nice Features

DOM Inspection via CSS Selectors, Indexes, Attributes

DOM Interaction via b.$.click()

DOM Manipulation via jQuery Hook

Examples

b.title
b.$('div.content-main')

b.$('div.tweet').first().find('a[href="/improving"]',0)

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Page Abstraction

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Page Abstraction

Define the essence of the page in order to separate the concerns of test
methods and web elements
These tools allow flexibility in page design without breaking tests
Page Conceptual abstraction of a URLs

Page Module - Sections that are reusable across multiple pages

Page Method Actions that are used frequently on pages

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Geb makes it easy to test natively in multiple browsers

Faster and easier to develop tests
Automated report generation

Easily invoked from command line

Can be incorporated into build/deployment process

Point to other environments with native browsers via geb.build.baseUrl

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Functional Testing

More Geb to come so follow along and share your techniques with the
community
More Geb to come
Follow along @josh_hamit or JoshHamit.com

Configurable page instances

Module lists

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Recap and Questions

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