28–29 Sept 2015
CERN
Europe/Zurich timezone
There is a live webcast for this event.

Automated Smoke Testing on the JVM with Geb

29 Sept 2015, 14:00
30m
31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre (CERN)

31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre

CERN

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Speaker

Joao Silva (CERN)

Description

The presentation will focus on automated smoke testing in the Java world, and how to prevent catastrophic failures from reaching the production environment. We will show how we have leveraged Geb -- a browser automation tool built on top of Selenium -- to develop a full suite of smoke tests for CERN's Electronic Document Handling (EDH) system -- a large web application with over 1 million lines of Java code, in production since 1998. Though the tool is aimed for use on the JVM, the concepts that will be presented can be applied in other languages that have wrappers for Selenium. In particular, patterns that can be used to better describe and structure functional/smoke tests, as well as how to integrate these tests with continuous integration systems, such as Atlassian Bamboo, using headless browsers (e.g. PhantomJS) or virtual frame buffers.
Availability Both days
Will you need the training center (Workshops)? No

Primary author

Joao Silva (CERN)

Presentation materials