Installing CubicTest
Have you ever been in need of an advanced testing tool that makes it easy to:
- Test your web-applications by interacting with them as an human user would do
- Let you define test-steps by drawing simple flow-chart-like diagrams
- Auto-draw the test-steps by recording your actions from the browser window
- Automatically re-execute so-recorded texts against a web-browser
In just one day I wrote a complete test-plan and linked each one of the tests planned to a testcase created with CubicTest.
And not only I "wrote" the tests by simply recording my activities inside the browser, but I also left CubicTest the task of executing them automatically, presenting me with the exact step where the failures occurred.
This way I obtained a "real" test-plan, consisting of human-readable, auto-generated and repeatable acceptance-tests.
Something I could easily bundle into an Eclipse application that could be used by my customers when they will try out my project.
Here's how to install CubicTest:
- Download and install Eclipse at http://download.eclipse.org
- Add the following update site to Eclipse: http://boss.bekk.no/cubictest/update/ (or download it from http://boss.bekk.no/cubictest/download.html)
- Select the CubicTest plugins and install them
- When asked whether to apply the changes or restart click "Apply Changes" and then manually shut-down Eclipse
- Open the eclipse.ini configuration file (/path/to/eclipse/eclipse.ini or C:\Program Files\Eclipse\eclipse.ini) and add the following line:
- Start Eclipse
- Follow the tutorials provided by the CubicTest Team and start using it
On Linux: -DfirefoxDefaultPath=/path/to/firefox_installation/<firefox_executable>
On Windows: -DfirefoxDefaultPath=C:\path\to\firefox_installation\firefox.exe
Let me know if you like this tool (by clicking the title of this post and leaving me a comment).
Hi, Can I able to use IE instead of firefox for recording the scripts?
Gobi said...
March 23, 2009 3:35 PM
I'm checking this possibility: I think we must verify whether a Selenium plugin exists for IE.
If yes, then the answer to your question will be "yes" as well.
Look for the updates, I'll post them here as a comment and as a new blog-post as well.
Nicola Orritos said...
March 24, 2009 10:15 AM
Hi Gobi. I just found we are unlucky: as stated in the official CubicTest tutorial "the recorder requires that Firefox or Opera is installed". See this page for further informations: http://seleniumhq.org/about/platforms.html#browsers.
Best regards,
Nicola Orritos
Nicola Orritos said...
March 24, 2009 10:29 AM
You are correct the the recorder does not work in IE, but you can run the tests in the IE browser.
The browser can be changed in the testname.att.launch file that is created the first time you run the test. I found this in the same directory as the testname.att file.
There is also a property in the test-project.properties file. I think this will change the default browser for future Run As configurations that you create, but I've not tested that.
Also, I think you can just duplicate your .launch file and have one for each browser you want to test with so that you don't have continually change them to switch browsers.
FYI. I'm running eclipse 3.5 with CubicTest 1.9.6
Hope this helps
Doug Hanks said...
July 25, 2009 12:29 AM