1. Selenium 2
for PHP(Unit)
Fabrizio Branca
T3DD12

2. Fabrizio Branca
System Developer
AOE media
Wiesbaden
TYPO3 & Magento
Twitter: @fbrnc
Blog: http://www.fabrizio-branca.de

3. You?!
• Who has any experience with automated
testing? (PHPUnit,…)
• Who has used Selenium 1?
• Who has used Selenium 2 / Webdriver?

4. http://www.flickr.com/photos/dieselbug2007/414348333/

5. Testing
• Unit testing
• Performance testing
• Load testing
• Integration testing
• Acceptance testing

6. What is Selenium?

7. Selenium’s Tool Suite
• Selenium IDE
• Selenium 1
(aka. Selenium RC or Remote Control)
• Selenium 2
(aka. Selenium Webdriver)
• Selenium-Grid

8. Selenium Architecture

9. Selenium + WebDriver
2004: 2006:
Selenium WebDriver
(Jason Huggins, (Simon Stewart,
ThoughtWorks) Google)
2009:
Selenium 2

10. Why Selenium 2?
• New possibilities
– File uploads
– Browser functions (back/forward)
– Switch between urls
– Control mouse
• Different behaviour
– Typing into input boxes
– Interacting with invisible elements
– Viewport

11. Selenium 2
• Firefox
• HTMLUnit
• IE
• Chrome (needs extra driver)
• iPhone / iPad
• Android
• …

12. Selenium Server
• Download:
http://seleniumhq.org/download/
• Launch:
start java -jar C:ProgrammeSeleniumselenium-server-standalone-2.20.0.jar

13. Rest API
• http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/Js
onWireProtocol
• Json over HTTP

14. PHP Api
• Selenium 1: PHPUnit_Selenium
(Sebastian Bergmann)
• Selenium 2
– REST-Service (Json over HTTP)
– Implementations:
• PHPUnit_Selenium
• https://github.com/chibimagic/WebDriver-PHP/
• http://code.google.com/p/php-webdriver-bindings/
• https://github.com/facebook/php-webdriver
https://github.com/robocoder/php-webdriver
https://github.com/fbrnc/php-webdriver

15. php-webdriver
• „A very thin wrapper of WebDriver“
• Server API (Json over HTTP)

16. „Menta“ – Selenium Framework

17. Why „Menta“?

18. Menta
• Selenium Testing Framework
• Connects to Selenium 2
• Build on top of php-webdriver
• Developer friendly api to raw Selenium
commands
• Drop-In replacement for PHPUnit-
Selenium
• https://github.com/fbrnc/Menta

19. Menta
• Requires PHP 5.3 (using closures)
• Session management (incl. close on CTRL+C and
fatal php errors)
• Event/Observer
• Configuration Management
• Create Suite Utility
• Listeners
– HTML report (incl. Screenshots)
– Verbose text report
• Components
• Abstract PHPUnit Testcases
• Selenium1 facade

20. Components
• PageObjects
• http://www.typo3-media.com/blog/window-driver-page-object-
selenium-tests.html
• Other general purpose components
– WebServiceApi (Magento)
– Curl
– HTML/CSS/JS Validator
– Imap

21. Configuration
• PHPUnit
• default.xml + phpunit.xml
• Menta bootstrap.php

22. File structure

23. Selecting elements
$element = $this->getSession()->element(array(
'using' => WebDriver_Container::XPATH,
'value' => '//ul/li'
);
# ... or ...
$helper =
Menta_ComponentManager::get(
'Menta_Component_Helper_Common');
$element =
$helper->getElement('css=#menu li.first');

24. Interacting with elements
• $element->click();
• $this->getSession()->click();
• $this->getSession()->buttondown();
• $this->getSession()->buttonup();
• $this->getSession()->touch();
• $this->getSession()->moveto();

25. Session Management
• Capabilities
• Menta_SessionManager
• ->getSession($forceNew = false);
• ->activeSessionExists()
• ->closeSession()
• Automatic closing sessions on errors and
end of tests

26. Implicit Wait
• Implicitly waiting for elements that are not
available yet

27. Screenshots
• Explict screenshots
• Automatically taking screenshots on errors
and failing tests and embed them into html
report (on client side)

28. Demo

29. CI integration
Build Install on
Unit tests
package latest
Selenium Install on
QA
tests deploy
Load Install on Install on
tests stage production

30. Verbose Result Printer

31. HTML Result

32. Further reading
• http://www.qaautomation.net/?p=365
• http://www.qaautomation.net/?p=498
• http://css.dzone.com/articles/selenium-2-
php-code
• http://rostislav-
matl.blogspot.de/2011/03/moving-to-
selenium-2-on-webdriver-part.html

33. Questions?
Twitter: @fbrnc
Blog: http://www.fabrizio-branca.de