I want to be able to use Java to tell it to go to X url when X browser is open/running (my lingo is terrible). (Firefox/Chrome/IE is already up, and I want it to go from the default page to let's say Twitter.)
Most of the solutions are using java.awt.Desktop to launch native browser with a url in it, but that isn't useful if I want to change the url later on. (Already on Twitter-Home Page, but want to go to Twitter-Contact Us afterwards.)
The other solutions I've seen involve using Selenium WebDriver, but I also need to eventually learn how to basically force the Java to read a long list of URLs off an excel and simply verify that url isn't dead, and then do this on the Native Android browser, for example. So the Selenium might not be the right choice. Granted, you can also tell me this is an awesome choice for this too if it truly is. I haven't really been exploring Selenium.
Sorry for asking such a basic question. Company wants QA Automation without training/hiring an Automation QA. My end goal (aside not getting canned), is to see if I can get a bunch of urls to load on specific browsers. I can sort of (praying) be able to do stuff with it afterwards.
A simple trick would be to create an add-on( if you know javascript ) which will be quite similar in chrome and firefox (for IE I have no idea in my days it needed BHO) and send websocket commands from java to your addon. But this needs a java websocket server running where your addon will connect when the browser opens. Rest of communication can be carried upon the protocol lines of your requirements.
There are multiple parts to your question.
Read urls from excel.
Use Apache POI to do the same. Selenium code can use the same.
Check that the urls are not dead.
Use any java http client, (apache) to do that without even opening a browser. If the link is dead, it will be dead for all the browser.
Open the links in a multiple browsers.
Selenium is perfect for this. I am assuming that after the page is loaded you have way of validating that the page is correct. Selenium is very powerful here.
Target native android browser too.
I do not know of much difference between this and the previous question unless you are also testing site display based on browser size. The browser is more or less the same as chrome with webkit rendering engine.
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I am connecting a standalone program to a website, and I have to read some pages of the website. For first, I used Jsoup, but with this I discovered that some informations that I need are loaded after page load, so I searched for webdrivers. (I am not looking for images or something big, my content are all textual)
Now, i found the ChromeDriver, but it is too slow for my case because it has a lot of options and features.
In my case I need just a step more than the Jsoup possibilities.
It is possible to disable the best part of ChromeDriver options and features to reach this goal?
For example, i saw plugin disabling, but is one by one and is not for every chrome browser on every pc. I didn't found an option like "plugin.disable-all".
Furthermore,in this way I cannot open more than a few instance of chromedriver. In this moment, every instance of the chromedriver is opening a Google Chrome Helper that uses 100Mb of ram.
Hope all is clear
HtmlUnit might be enough for your needs. It does support some Javascript.
It can be used with Webdriver. But might as well be enough on its own
To make your webdriver run faster (but not that much faster), you can run the driver in Headless mode. See these articles for a tutorial on how to go into Headless mode for Chrome.
Before starting the driver, add the --headless argument to ChromeOptions.
Headless mode can speed up your automation by not rendering the browser window, but keep in mind that doing a straight HTTP GET with JSoup would always be faster.
My advice would be to reverse engineer the page a bit more, and see if you can figure out how to query directly whatever the (presumably AJAX) calls are putting on the page. If you can treat those specific requests as an API and only query for exactly what you want, you will be able to get results faster than with browser automation through Selenium.
We have developed selenium webdriver script with junit+java using eclipse on window 7. All the scripts are working as expected now we are using this script for load testing using Jmeter. However, while running script system open multiple browser (200) based on user thread and it create system to hang, is there any way to handle this or we can run script without opening browser. I have come across xvfb tool, but not able to get java api for this tool to plugin in eclipse.
We have also tried using HtmlUnitDriver but as it does not support javascript hence the test is getting failed, also we tried HtmlUnit and found same thing.
Note: that we have writen webdriver script to maintain display item of element (autocomplete, image) on screen.
It would be great if anyone can help or provide more inputs on this...
Firstly, do not integrate selenium scripts with JMeter for load testing! It's not a good approach to follow due to the obvious consequences that you have mentioned in your post. I followed a similar apporach in the beginning when I was new to JMeter and selenium but suffered a great deal when it came to running load tests that spawned too many browser instances which killed the OS.
You can go for HtmlUnitDriver or any headless browser testing tools out there with JMeter, but still, they will be running the browser internally in the memory. Moreover if your application is heavily using Javascript, it won't help.
So I would suggest that you record a browsing session with JMeter Proxy and modify the script (set of requests) according to your needs and play those requests alone, with number of threads.
From a higher level, you should be doing this:
Add a JMeter test plan, listeners, thread group and setup JMeter proxy and record a browsing session where you enter something into the autocomplete textbox and you get certain results.
Stop your proxy and take a look at all the requests that come under your thread group.
As far as I know, when it comes to autocomplete plugins, multiple
requests are sent everytime you enter a letter into the textbox. For
example, for the word 'stackoverflow':
Request1: q=s Request2: q=st Request3: q=sta and so on
Here you can simulate this effect by including words such that all
words have the same length which in turn will let you have same
number of requests to be sent to the server.
So in your test plan, you will pass one word per Jmeter thread. You
can pass the words to a request, from a csv file by using jmeter
parametrization.
This will be a much memory efficient way of load testing instead of using selenium with JMeter. I had asked a similar question. You can check out the responses.
This question might be very basic.
Till now I thought a command to print a webpage can only be initiated at the client side.
(window.print when using javascript)
But I came across http://juixe.com/techknow/index.php/2008/01/17/print-a-pdf-document-in-java/ which states about printing using Java. I think this seems to be related to some desktop client and the same may not be possible in a web client. Can anyone confirm and explain this?
You can't execute server side code on the client, so the only way to do it in browser is through javascript or using plugins/flash/java applets.
You could print using java, but for that java needs to run on the client.
A website can ask the browser to open its print dialog (Google Maps does this on the "print directions" page, for example), but it can't actually force the browser to print anything. (If it could, you can be sure that advertisers would use it to print ads on your printer.)
A Java application running locally with sufficient permissions can print, just like any other desktop application. That has nothing to do with web pages.
Don't confuse Java and JavaScript. When trying to use Java within a browser, you'd have to look into using applets. A Java applet could definitely be used to do the kind of work you'd normally have a rich client do from within a browser.
Java applets could also receive events sent out from a server via sockets or some other mechanism, although I'm not certain if security constraints would allow it. Also seems a bit of a roundabout way to do things.
Remember that web browsing is a client-side-driven affair. There's some push models in certain infrastructures (I believe it's possible using JavaServer Faces). But those are probably just a sort of polling mechanism initiated by the client that is abstracted away to look like a server-side push.
I need to display any web page as a browser field,not browser session.I am building the app in 4.7 OS.Can anyone help me with sample code?
On 4.7 you are stuck with the old browser field. Also known as Browser Field 1. It renders HTML pretty close to how it was on 4.5 devices. There is no way to take advantage of the newer browser that you invoke via browser session. So, you can forget about CSS2 or or JavaScript on the pages you want to render as a browser field. But for the fairly basic stuff it is good enough.
For the sample code - you really should check out and understand all the examples there are in the development package before starting writing the code. It will really save more time than take for learning. Look at components\samples\com\rim\samples\device\blackberry\browser\BrowserFieldDemo.java
I doubt that the problem lies with the browser field per se. Rather with communications.
The people in the post that you refer to were probably suggesting ";deviceside=true" as this gets around the "BES effect" in a simulator.
You may wish to experiment with running the MDS emulator alongside the simulator session as well. There are a number of posts that discuss the impact of deviceside and simulation. You can test in code to see if you are running a simulator so that you can programmatically influence the "BES effect".
We need a tool to test a set of fairly complex Java applications. The applications are mostly independent client programs or applets communicating with a servlet or apache server at a remote site. Specs:
Runnable on Windows XP, Vista and 7
Parameterizable (Can specify in a script the sequence of buttons to click, text to type in JTextFields and browser address bar etc.)
Can quit or bail out or display a nasty message if the expected window or dialog box doesn't appear
Record the output on the Java Console of browser in a .txt file (IE is sufficient for now) when the application opens a browser window.
While running, I should be able to see it running with folded hands while it would run
for a few minutes
We were thinking of writing an AWTRobot based tool that reads a command file and does this - (don't know how to do #3 or #4 yet - will ask you folks some day how to detect a window on the desktop). Would you suggest an open source tool available to do this? We don't need anything fancy to capture video or screenshots. Thank you, - M.S.
For browser based automated testing you can use Selenuim or you can use WebDriver.
The selenium project is hosted here
If you don't need to test the way the pages are actually rendered by the browser, but instead need to work at the HTTP/HTTPS/etc request level then have a look at JMeter. It has parametrization, dataproviders, graphs, and a proxy component for recording http user sessions.
If you do need browser testing, then, as has already been mentioned, Selenium is probably the best freely available tool. For production I would recommend using Selenium Remote Control server which can be driven by scripts written in Java/Python/C#/Perl/PHP.
To see what tools people use in real production environments, and to do your own research on what is available I recommend www.sqaforums.com.
Have a look at Sikuli
The reason I suggest this is it sounds like you need to test both a Java applet and the content of a native browser (launched from Java, but not itself Java) -- so it's not "Java all the way".
I'm not sure what you mean by criteria 4, though. It is worth noting that as Sukuli works by image analysis, it won't be able to copy text to a text file.
This question is an invitation for sales pitch, don't you think. How about Mercury Quicktest professional ( I believe its HP Quick test now). I do not believe this will be cheap either ( and well its HP, it will probably only work in IE ;)).
Since you want an open source solution, I believe, the most popular option is selenium and yes its a pain to configure sometimes ( like for Flex for example). So you should try Watir.
There is a lot of good buzz around it and when I evaluated it, I loved what I see.Also it does not work for desktop applications, I suggest you try some other solution for that.
(The problem is open source GUI testing tools are not usually all inclusive. If you need one solution to handle all your gui testing needs, then you should check out the more commercial ones like QTP.
I have used IBM Rational Functional Tester. It has everything you need and it's quite easy to learn. The scripting language is either Java or VB.Net so you won't have to worry about learning a language for your tests.
I had some pretty good results with Squish from FrogLogic and didn't break the bank: http://www.froglogic.com/products/
Did you try Squsih - http://www.froglogic.com/products/index.php