Mateusz Radkiewicz - "Automate user's actions with Selenium, Auto it and Sikuli"

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Automate user’s actions with Selenium, AutoIT and Sikuli

Mateusz Radkiewicz

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Let’s automate simple web application!

• Selenium WebDriver

What about more complex actions?

• Selenium Actions, Javascript Executor

Need to interact with OS interface?

• Java.awt.Robot

Come to grips with MS Windows.

• AutoIT

Sky is the limit!

• Sikuli

Agenda

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Selenium WebDriver

Basic Selenium WebDriver interactions:

• Open a web page

• Hit „back” and „forward” buttons

• Refresh a page

• Get current URL

• Delete or add a cookie

• Get the source of a page

• Switch to another tab/window

• Close the tab

• Click a link, button, checkbox, radiobutton, image

• Enter text into textfield, textarea

• Get text from a label

• Get web page element’s attributes

• Check if element is displayed

• Get element’s location on the screen

Control a browser Interact with a page

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Selenium WebDriver

Let’s automate simple web application!

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Selenium WebDriver

Amazon.com – simple test case

Objectives:

• Go to amazon.com

• Search for „octocopter”

• Get number of search results

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Selenium WebDriver

Demo

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Selenium WebDriver

What about more complex actions?

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Selenium WebDriver

Selenium Actions

Simulate more advanced actions using mouse and keyboard:

• Click right mouse button

• Double click

• Move mouse over element

• Drag and drop

• Press combination of keys

• Hold Ctrl key and click elements on the list

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Selenium WebDriver

Selenium Actions - example

Objectives:

• Select „Ford” and „Porsche”

• Move them to the right container

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Resize text area by modifying „rows” attribute

Scroll the page left by 20 pixels

Enter text with JavaScript

Enable the button

Selenium WebDriver

Javascript Executor – a little bit of magicA simple way to execute JavaScript code directly from Selenium test

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Java.awt.Robot

Need to interact with OS interface?Robot lets you press the keys and click on the coordinates on a screen.

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Java.awt.Robot

Robot - exampleObjectives:

• Open TED.com page

• Press Ctrl+F to enable search

• Search for „gems” word

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AutoIT

Come to grips with MS Windows

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AutoIT

Features• Simple scripting language for automating Windows GUI

• Interacts with all standard windows controls

• Simulates keyboard and mouse actions

• Suitable for general scripting and creating simple applications

• Scripts can be compiled into standalone *.exe

• Easy to learn

• Freeware

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AutoIT

File upload with Selenium and AutoIT - exampleObjectives:

• Go to „https://careers.kainos.com/members/”

• Click „Upload a CV …” button

• Enter a path to local file and click „Open”

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AutoIT

Step 1: Inspect the windowUse „AutoIT Window Info” tool to identify the window, field and button.

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AutoIT

Step 2: Write the script in „SciTE” editor

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AutoIT

Step 3: Compile the code

Step 4: Include AutoIT *.exe into Selenium test

• Open „SciTE” menu Tools > Compile

• Enter location of output *.exe file

• Click „Compile Script”

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AutoIT

Demo

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Sikuli

Sky is the limit!

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Sikuli

Features• Lets you automate anything that is displayed on the screen

• Uses image recognition algorithms to identify GUI components

• Can reach anything that’s out of range for other tools

• No need to have access to application’s structure

• Cross-platform

• Freeware

• Provides own IDE (Jython)

• Provides libraries for development in Java

• Extremely easy to create automatic test, problematic to maintain it

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Sikuli

File download with Selenium and Sikuli - exampleObjectives:

• Go to „https://code.google.com/p/altdrag”

• Click „Download installer”

• Click „Save File” button

• Click „Save” button in the next window

• Press Win+D to minimize all windows

• Verify downloaded on the desktop

• Delete above file

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Sikuli

Step 1: Download and install Sikuli• http://www.sikuli.org

Step 2: Include Sikuli in your project• Add „sikuli-java.jar” library in your IDE

Step 3: Create screenshots

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Sikuli

Step 4: Write the script

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Sikuli

Demo

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Sikuli

Sikuli IDE

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Sikuli

Matching Preview

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Sikuli

Let’s rock!Objectives:

• Run the script on Windows

• Switch to Ubuntu on VMware

• Open Firefox

• Navigate to Rio de Janeiroon Google Maps

• Collapse side panel

• Enable Google Street Viewon Astoria Palace

• Look around Copacapanauntil you find a girl on a bicycle

• Zoom into the girl

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Sikuli

Sikuli IDE - demo

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