Web testing for Ninjas with Splinter

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Splinter is a Python DSL that wraps Selenium, PhantomJS and Zope Test Browser and pip install splinter gets you a browser object that can visit pages, click links, fill forms (forms.fill accepts a dict), type slowly to trigger AJAX, switch iframes, and run against remote Selenium via Sauce Labs for parallel IE/Windows runs. Tests wait for elements, can eval JS, but file uploads don’t work over remote agents and screenshots live in Selenium not Splinter. Pro tips: avoid XPath/CSS and assert user-facing text, IDs or names.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 2:21Ruby 3s Testing. There's a Ruby tool called Capybara. Python has a similar tool, called Splinter.
3. 4:06Abstractions aren't evil Abstractions enhance understanding. Abstractions are a thinking tool. Even 'leaky'abstractions are useful if you know where the leaks are.
4. 4:56Acceptance tests operate your app just like a user does. This makes acceptance testing as important for delivery as unit testing is for development.
5. 6:49Installing Splinter Requires Python 2.5 - 2.7 $ sudo pip install splinter
6. 9:49Demo Basic Setup & Operation
7. 13:13Splinter interprets a webpage holistically. Relative structure and assumed uniqueness prevents your tests from adapting to change
8. 20:57Specifying Browser Using alternative browsers is a simple matter of installing any dependencies and specifying it
9. 21:10Firefox Splinter The Default, firefox support includes extentions pip install selenium
10. 22:14Selenium can connect to a remote server, giving you access to multiple platforms & instances
11. 25:01Greatest Test Maintainability is achieved through isolation and generality. Your tests should be treated like code.

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