Thursday, December 01, 2011

PHPUnit_Selenium 1.1.1 has been released

Yesterday Sebastian reviewed my PHPUnit_Selenium master branch and release a new package in the phpunit PEAR channel. You can install it along with PHPUnit easily:
$ sudo pear install phpunit/PHPUnit_Selenium
Before this release, PHPUnit_Selenium was broken when used with PHPUnit 3.6.

I'm closing several more issues and I plan to cover with tests the 2K lines of code contained in the package: currently the test coverage is terrible. After the current features are covered, we can start thinking about supporting the Selenium 2 API (based on WebDriver). In any case, I will keep backward compatibility: support for WebDriver will come with another base Testcase Class.
If you want to contribute, consider providing tests for the functionality you are using. For example, the following areas are uncovered:

  • running Selenese tests
  • all the Custom Assertion methods
  • running tests in multiple browsers.

Acceptable tests comprehend an HTML page to use as a target and the actual test, written in Selenese or using PHPUnit_SeleniumTestCase. If you want your pull request to be immediately accepted, provide a test along with the rest of the code. You can take some inspiration from the existing ones in the Tests folder, which will serve as examples.

There is an undocumented, experimental feature in this release: call PHPUnit_Extensions_SeleniumTestCase::shareSession(true) in your bootstrap and the browser session will be shared between tests; a new session will be restarted only after non successful tests.
 It will be up to you to reset the state of the browser to perform new tests, and will leave the browser windows open after the end of the run: it's called experimental for a reason.

1 comment:

btully said...

Kudos, Georgio! Thanks so much for this. My Selenium tests are now much more stable thanks to this release. I owe you a beer :)

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