Difference between revisions of "QA/test automation guide"

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VCLAuto [Planning]

Introduction

VCLAuto is a Java library for OpenOffice UI/functional testing like VCL TestTool. VCLAuto can be used with JUnit. The project is under developing and will be released in Apache OpenOffice 4.0.

There are a lot of testing codes in the OO project, e.g. junit/cppunit test, qadevooo and smoketestoo_native. Why do we need the library? Generally, unit test code (pure junit/cppunit test) is executed in the build process before OO is created. It's low-level and used to verify if the source code is right before they are linked to a real product. It's a white-box testing. If you want to verify a function/method/interface is correct, put your test code in unit test. qadevooo & smoketestoo_native uses UNO API/Macro to perform testing. To run them, a real OO product must be available. It's middle-level and used to verify if UNO api and business model work correctly. It's a gray-box testing. User interaction is not involved in this testing. It can't fully simulate a user behavior or check if GUI is correct. For example, check if user can draw a shape by dragging, check if OO automatically capitalize the first letter after typing a word, check if a button's checked when user change the selection, etc. Vclauto is high-level black-box testing. It performs testing more like a real user. It generates keyboard/mouse events, does GUI actions and gets information from the GUI to validate the function.

Code

Write UI testing case like the following:

public class UITest {
 
  @Before
  public void setUp() throws Exception() {
    initApp();
  }
 
  @Test
  public void test() throws Exception() {
    // Create a new text document via main menu
    startcenter.menuItem("File->New->Text Document").select();
    typeKeys("Hello OpenOffice");
    writer.menuItem("Edit->Select All").select();
    // Copy the text
    typeKeys("<$copy>");
    assert("Text is inputted successfully.", "Hello OpenOffice", App.getClipboard());
  }
 
  @After
  public void tearDown() throws Exception() {
 
  }
 
}

Use Apache Ant to Run Testing and Generate Report

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