Functional Testing made easy with SWTBot for Developers and Testers

1. Functional Testing made easy
with SWTBot for Developers
and Testers
Aurelien Pupier - @apupier
Studio Development Leader
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2. What is SWTBot?
Java Framework for SWT automated UI tests
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And also…

3. SWTBot – General workings
• Encapsulate UI components
• Send SWT Events to simulate User interaction
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4. SWTBot – Sample
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bot.textWithLabel(“Name *”).setText(“userName”);
bot.comboBox().select(“Text”);
bot.textWithLabel(“Default value”).setText(“john”);
bot.button(“Finish”).click();

5. SWTBot – Advantages
• Easy to understand for developers
• Easy to write first shot
• … Even a recorder
• Access to Java API for assertions
• Test code coverage
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6. SWTBot limitations (1/5)
• Underlying components knowledge
– Widget types
– Eclipse wording
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Table or List?
Combo or CCombo?

7. SWTBot limitations (2/5)
• Same widget at different place
– SWTBotConstants.SWTBOT_WIDGET_ID_KEY
– production code modified
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8. SWTBot limitations (3/5)
• UI Thread synchronization  Robustness hard:
– Correct implementation of waitUntil required
– (even if Conditions provided)
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9. SWTBot limitations (4/5)
• Java code not accessible for Java/Eclipse beginners
– For all previously mentioned reasons
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10. SWTBot limitations (5/5)
• Maintenance of tests:
– Requires to be close to production code
• Message updated (to fix a typo)
• UI updated (from Combo to CCombo…)
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11. SWTBot conclusion
SWTBot is an handy test tool
for developers
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12. What about testers?
• How to let testers writing Functional tests?
– Do not care of implementation details
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13. Application Oriented API
‘Page Object Pattern’
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14. Application Oriented API
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15. Page Pattern sample (1/2)
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new BotDataDialog().
.setName(“userName”)
.setType(“Text”)
.setDefaultValue(“john”)
.finish();
bot.waitUntil(Conditions.shellIsActive(Messages.newVariable));
SWTBotShell shell = bot.activeShell();
bot.textWithLabel(Messages.name_mandatory).setText(“userName”);
bot.comboBox().select(“Text”);
bot.textWithLabel(Messages.defaultValue).setText(“john”);
bot.button(IDialogConstants.FINISH_LABEL).click();
bot.waitUntil(Conditions.shellCloses(shell));

16. Page Pattern sample (2/2)
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new BotDataDialog().
.setName(“userName”)
.setType(“Text”)
.setDefaultValue(“john”)
.finish();
bot.waitUntil(Conditions.shellIsActive(Messages.newVariable));
SWTBotShell shell = bot.activeShell();
bot.textWithLabel(Messages.name_mandatory).setText(“userName”);
bot.comboBox().select(“Text”);
bot.textWithLabel(Messages.defaultValue).setText(“john”);
bot.button(IDialogConstants.FINISH_LABEL).click();
bot.waitUntil(Conditions.shellCloses(shell));

17. What decided us?
• Successful implementation with Selenium and
Chinese QA team
• Code mess
– Big static utility classes…
– Sometimes right utility class hard to find
• Robustness issue
– CI infra updated  ~10% of UI tests unstable
• Half-day for one test
• Invite QA testers to join the party
• Same tooling Development/QA
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18. Observed benefits
Eases writing…
… and maintaining Functional Tests
… for Testers AND Developers
– New UI test: Half-day  1 hour
– More factorized code
– Robustness
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19. Feedback on implementation
• Setup time ~3 weeks
• On the fly
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20. What’s next?
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21. What’s next?
• BDD
– Get stake holders and user advocates to join the party
– Talk about using Cucumber with SWTBot
• RedDeer
– Reuse the Eclipse components
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