1. Getting Started with Browser Based Testing
Thursday, August 6th, 2015

2. Outline
Intro Overview of BDD/Behat Getting started (writing our first test) Pitfalls Conclusion

3. Intro Who am I? Rex Lorenzo CCLE Lead Developer at UCLA
Size of team. Moodle developer since 2011.

4. Overview
What is BDD
How?
Why

5. The Dream

6. What is Behat?
PHP BDD Gerkins Selenium

7. What is Behat?
Converts English to Automated browser tests

8. How do you use it?
Scenario: Seeing a welcome message Given I log in as “teacher” When I follow “My Course” Then I should see “Welcome to My Course”

9. How does it work?
Let’s look at the code!
Hint: Regular expressions

10. Getting started Live Demo Running a script Layout of a test
Writing a test

12. Pitfalls Selenium & Firefox versions Slow Discourages UI changes
Do not auto-update FireFox
Slow
Careful with xpath & hope for 2.9
Discourages UI changes
Selenium % slower:
FireFox 38 not working with Selenium

13. Conclusion

14. Related links
Moodle’s Acceptance testing docs KNP Labs BDD/Behat training

15. Contact
Rex Lorenzo Github: Workshop slides