maxwu/cucumber-java-toy repository overview

⁠Cucumber-JVM + JUnit + Selenium Web Driver Toy Project

This project is a fast toy project to refresh the fun on Java, JUnit, Selenium and Cucumber-JVM topic

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⁠Summary of Tips, Issues and Solutions:

• Tips on Selenium PageObject Design (with a common template sample)⁠
• Cucumber Java Toy v1.2 Release Notes and a brief technical summary⁠
• JUnit tips (in progress)⁠
• Practice tips between JUnit and Python Unittest⁠
• Trusting hosts with HttpClient in WebAPI test⁠
• Jenkins on 32bit Linux with chromium-browser, ChromeDriver and updated to selenium 3.1.0⁠

⁠Scope

v1.2

v1.3dev

⁠Tips

This section records the issues resolved during the construction/devops phase.

• @Before and @After hooks are invoked by each scenario on every test class thru internal hookAdd() when scanning is performed on "glue" implementations.

  • However, most of the online documents and tutorials suggest to initialize Page Objects (for specific scenario) during @Before;
    • This brings redundant browser activities on those classes have nothing to do with other feature files;
    • The execution time extends dramatically when typically (in those tutorials) not all Setup(s) are necessary for all scenarios.
    • If failure check hook is place with @After, for example, to take screenshot, useless screens are saved. Only one of the class is taking necessary picture, other pictures are from browsers without any test steps. Because the scenario status is shared between all registered hooks.
  • If there are multiple scenarios in one single feature definition file, here are the tips:
    • Browsers instance could not restore if they quit (destroyed) already;
    • To mitigate and separate test scenarios, we shall initial browser at each scenario @Before;
    • However, for default Object Factory (as most new comers to Cucumber), not suggested to add PageObject Init into @Before Hook;
  • Current Solution: This solution optimized test time from 3:09 to 2:18 min on dev MacPro env and from 4:24 to 3:08 on circleCI. However, there is no global hook supports with Cucumber-JVM for now. A possible balance is to:
    • Still creating new driver in @Before hook but don't go further to PageObject;
    • In the @Given step of Gherkin, initialize the PageObject, in Page Factory Pattern if you like;
    • Still destroy browsers by @After hook via quit() method.

    [TODO] To resolve it better, try to customize the Object Factory instead of default one in close future.

  • Readers shall pay attention to understand @Before, @After and the steps in Background section comparing to Junit. The concept is to invoke objects by reflection and run all hooks regardless to which scenarios is currently executing at present. Therefore, the sequence is:
    • Load Glue, build map for hooks;
    • Run scenarios:
      • Run @Before hooks (with reflected instances) according to the order (order value default to 10,000);
      • Run method which matching the Steps in scenario;
      • Run @After hooks;
    • Format reports.

• CircleCI browser version issue resolved by updating chrome to >=v52

  google-chrome --version
  wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -
  sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list'
  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get --only-upgrade install google-chrome-stable
  google-chrome --version
  

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• Use online tools to validate YAML files for TravisCI and CodeCov before commit to test:

  • CodeCov

  cat codecov.yml | curl --data-binary @- https://codecov.io/validate
  

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  • Travis-CI, use http://lint.travis-ci.org⁠ to validate your config or use below CLI:

  curl -X POST -F "yml=`cat ./.travis.yml`"  http://lint.travis-ci.org/
  # Find below elements on page source
  # <p class="result">Hooray, your .travis.yml seems to be solid!</p>
  

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• Assert.assertEqual() will call obj.equals(), however, to check with "==", we shall use Assert.assertSame() instead.

• @Cucumber.Options() is replaced by @CucumberOptions annotation.

• Step def class must be public.

• Blinking scenarios, which passes sometimes but fails other time, is the smell of environmental(sharing), design, or, unexpected errors.

• Cucumber report is not thread-safe, we shall avoid this case multiple tests write to same report.

• How to run Cucumber with specified sequence?

  • In CLI, provide the first features in order and then the rest with whole folder.
  • With Maven, renaming feature name is needed.
  • Shall avoid this kind of dependency, which is out of Unit Test scope.

• Pay attention to @FindBy and @FindBys, @FindAll.

  • @FindBys is to narrow down the filter with multiple matching rules, AKA., to get the intersection.
  • @FindAll is to build the union set with at least one rule matched.
  • With @Find* annotation, each the factory or the constructor shall load initElements call.

• Not so important but keep in mind, the annotation @Before/@After and so on shall be imported from cucumber.api.java or cucumber.api.java.en (The Gherkin keys).

  • Make sure to import cucumber.api.java and cucumber.api.java.en;
  • Pay attention to any JUnit import and the application scope.

• Environmental Issue with network:

  • The WebDriverManager lib was configured to download latest nightly Firefox driver but the network will blink if we keep on downloading many times in a short while;

  • Set properties value to force cache will resolve it:

    wdm.forceCache=true
    

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• Coverage

  • Coverage measured on codecov.io cloud service;
  • Regarding coverage a tool to discover opportunities to enhance test;
  • Avoid taking coverage percentage itself as an explicit target.

• The dev and test env:

  • Dev env on MBP with IntelliJ IDEA CE, Maven, JUnit, Selenium WebDriver, Firefox (stable and nightly), Chrome;
  • Test with Travis-CI and CircleCI, Ubuntu 14, Chrome.
  • Local Jenkins on MBP (managed by Brew Services).

• The tips with Jenkins and testing with latest chrome-driver and chrome on 32bit Linux:

  • Google Chrome browser terminated the 32bit Linux supports from Feb 2016

    • The latest 32bit Linux (RH) version is 48

  • However, the chrome-driver has criticle issue before 2.20

    • 2.20 requests google-chrome version 53+
    • Currently the latest version is 2.27

  • WebDriverManager-Java option forceCache always caches the latest version

    • Therefore, to use an existing version rather than latest, forceCache shall be false.

  • Tried to utilize chromium-browser 32bit instead of google-chrome

    • Detect if OS arch is 32bit:
      • set chrome options with chromium-browser executable
      • set chrome-driver version to a verified value, e.g. 2.25
    • Chromium-browser latest version is 53

  • The latest chrome driver requests browser version 55+

    • Update chromium to 55 with below private channel:

    >sudo add-apt-repository ppa:saiarcot895/chromium-dev 
    >sudo apt-get update
    

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  • Jenkins embedded status offers badge link as travisCI or circle.

  • Resolved chrome tab crash issue on 32bit Linux.

  • Resolved chromium-browser hanging-up with selenium.

  • Jenkins service on 32bit Linux, http://jenkins.maxwu.me⁠

    

• Upgrading to selenium 3.1.0 - Original selenium dependency version in maven is 3.0.1 - Upgrading to selenium-java 3.1.0, the method WebDriverWait.until() cannot be resolved by javac with IntelliJ IDEA. - Fall back to 3.0.1, the same codes work well.

  • Solution: With new version 3.1.0, a missing dependency shall be manually resolved by adding:

  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
    <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
    <version>21.0</version>
  </dependency>
  
  

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⁠TODO with 1.4rc

*[ ] Change browser binary, profile, local/remote and other parameters to config YAML.

*[X] Consider Log4J to refactor the logging instructions.

*[ ] Demo of output stream test with JUnit

*[X] Demo of exception test with JUnit

*[ ] Parameterized JUnit

*[ ] Update PageBase Url/Title check with Hamcrest matcher

⁠TODO with 1.5dev

*[ ] Migrating to Docker based Test and prepare for a further project releasing App in Docker.

- Dockerfile added, however, an error under debug.

- Scenario as target to v1.5dev 

⁠About

An open source toy project to refresh Cucumber-JVM + Selenium in MIT License.

This toy project demonstrates general practices on JUnit, Cucumber-JVM and Selenium Page Object methodologies.

The Jenkins service is running on 32bit Ubuntu 14 with chromium-browser instead of chrome-browser, details could be found at http://jenkins.maxwu.me⁠

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Readers may visit http://maxwu.me⁠ for further information.