Testing Play! Framework Web App with Netbeans + Selenium RC

Why?

• Play's selenium test is not reliable since it's flash scope is cleared every 2 seconds (means that test can be success or fail base on the loading time).
• Upload file not work

What?

• Play framework
• Netbeans (6.9)
• Selenium RC (Selenium RC Server and Selenium Client Driver)

How?

1. Create new Web Application - Call it MyAppSelenium
2. (If there's no Test Packages label) Right click on project > Properties > Sources look for Test Packages Folders . Create a new folder with test folder name (default 'test') and the same level with 'src'.
3. Right click on project > Properties > Libraries do Add Library > JUnit for both Compile Tests and Run Tests in two correspond tabs.
4. Unzip Selenium RC client driver. Right click on project > Properties > Libraries do Add JAR/Folder > select selenium client jar file (e.g. selenium-java-2.18.0.jar) for both Compile Tests and Run Tests.
5. Right click on Test Packages > New > Java class > testMyApp.java, write your test
6. Run server 'java -jar selenium-server-***.jar'
7. Run Play app 'play run myapp'
8. Right click 'testMyApp.java' > Test File(Ctrl+F6)

Done.

• Template for writing 'testMyApp.java':

import com.thoughtworks.selenium.*;
import org.junit.*;

public class testMyApp {

    static private String appServerURL = "http://localhost:9000/";

    @Test
    public void testSimple() throws Exception {

        Selenium selBrowser = new DefaultSelenium("localhost", 4444, "*firefox", appServerURL);
        selBrowser.start();
      
        //Home page
        selBrowser.open("/");
        selBrowser.waitForPageToLoad("1000");
        Assert.assertTrue(selBrowser.isTextPresent("Hello World!"));       
        selBrowser.stop();

    }
}

• Write a play.Unittest (call it 'preTest') and do following in case need to setup data for test.

Fixtures.deleteAll()

Fixtures.load('test-data.yml')

Run 'play test myapp' instead, go to http://localhost:9000/@tests, choose  'preTest' > Start. Back to Netbeans and run your test.