Integration of Fixture and Selenium
Posted by Himanshu Gupta just before lunchtime: April 27th, 2009
Traditionally acceptance test was difficult to integrate with web. Now with combination of fitnesse and selenium you can do the integration easily.
Fitnesse – Selenium integration struggles
Posted by Cirilo Wortel around lunchtime: April 23rd, 2009
Recently I was challenged by a client to test a new web application in an Agile project. The team was new at working Agile and even more with working together with a functional tester, altogether this resulted in me getting very little development support from the team.
Because the lack of tooling and support I focussed my efforts on just recording test-scripts using Selenium IDE, hoping I would be able to reuse them once I got the development support I had been requesting. The plan was to integrate the pre-recorded scripts in a more extended test environment in a later stage of the project.
Using Groovy to keep your Maven and Fitnesse dependencies in sync
Posted by Erik Pragt around lunchtime: July 29th, 2008
The problem
What if you're working with Maven, where you've got all your dependencies nicely organised, and now you decide to use any other piece of 'classpath-aware' software, like Fitnesse. The chances are that you'll need to use the same classpath in Fitnesse as in Maven. A possible solution could be to maintain it by hand, but why not write a very small script for it to do it for you? My (very very very!) basic solution is to use a Groovy, because it's easy to write, easy to read, and easy to use!
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(Some) Secrets of DoFixture revealed
Posted by Maarten Winkels late at night: July 8th, 2008
For automated acceptance testing we use the Fitnesse framework. Fitness is a Wiki page that enables testers to write executable tests as Wiki pages. Wiki pages are made up from text as comments and tables as tests. To integrate the tables with the application code, developers write Fixtures. Fixtures are a very thin layer of software that invoke application code and can be exposed on the wiki. The system is very easy to use.
There are a number of useful fixtures included in Fitnesse, but by far the most useful fixture comes from a separate library (FitLibrary): The DoFixture. A DoFixture exposes every public method as a row in a table. Every odd cell in the row is a part of the method name and every even cell is a parameter. This makes the table easy to read. The row
| train | 123 | leaves | Amsterdam | station at | 12:00 | to | Utrecht Centraal | station |
will thus invoke the method trainLeavesStationAtToStation(‘123’, ‘Amsterdam’, ’12:00’, ‘Utrecht Centraal’). As you see, the words in the odd cells are concatenated in camel case.
Unfortunately not all features of this fixture or the Fitnesse framework are well documented and easy to find. This blog will list a number of features that can improve the efficiency of using Fitnesse. The features shown are fixture loading, parse delegates and system under test. To enhance the usefulness of the last feature, we will also look at some improvements.
This blog is based upon the same version of fitnesse and fitlibrary as the "Fit for Developing Software" book.
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