Is it possible to import/use scripts which has been generated in Firefox's Selenium-IDE plugin into Selenium WebDriver?
In Selenium IDE, open the test case you wish to export to Webdriver
From the Selenium IDE File menu, select "Export Test Case As..." and select the variant which matches your webdriver configuration.
Yes, there is a 'Export Test Case' (if exporting a single test case) option in the File menu of the IDE. This will have the languages it can be exported to.
I think what he wants is for there to be a way to "drive" and control IDE scripts from a third party application. There is no way to do this as far as I know. Actually, it would be useful to do this because IDE scripts cannot setup data or act conditionally very well. On the other hand, general purpose programming languages are much better at performing these tasks but aren't very suited to actually performing the browser manipulation. Plus, exporting the scripts every time there is a change can be very labor intensive.
It seems there is no automatic way to import Selenium's data into WebDriver. I'm going to write a convertor myself.
Thank you all any way :)
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We use gradle as our build tool and use the idea plugin to be able to generate the project/module files. The process for a new developer on the project would look like this:
pull from source control.
run 'gradle idea'.
open idea and be able to develop without any further setup.
This all works nicely, but generally only gets exercised when a new developer joins or someone gets a new machine. I would really like to automate the testing of this more frequently in the same way we automate our unit/integration tests as part of our continuous integration process.
Does anyone know if this is possible and if there is any libraries for doing this kind of thing?
You can also substitue idea for eclipse as we have a similar process for those that prefer using eclipse.
The second step (with or without step one) is easy to smoke test (just execute the task as part of a CI build), the third one less so. However, if you are following best practices and regenerate IDEA files rather than committing them to source control, developers will likely perform both steps more or less regularly (e.g. every time a dependency changes).
As Peter noted, the real challenge is step #3. The first 2 ones are solved by your SCM plugin and gradle task. You could try automating the last task by doing something like this
identify the proper command line option, on your platform, that opens a specified intellij project from the command line
find a simple good enough scenario that could validate that the generated project is working as it should. E.g. make a clean then build. Make sure you can reproduce these steps using keyboard shortcuts only. Validation could be made by validating either produced artifacts or test result reports, etc
use an external library, like Robot, to program the starting of intellij and the running of your keyboards. Here's a simple example with Robot. Use a dynamic language with inbuilt console instead of pure Java for that, it will speed your scripting a lot...
Another idea would be to include a daemon plugin in intellij to pass back the commands from external CLI. Otherwise take contact with the intellij team, they may have something to ease your work here.
Notes:
beware of false negatives: any failure could be caused by external issues, like project instability. Try to make sure you only build from a validated working project...
beware of false positives: any assumption / unchecked result code could hide issues. Make sure you clean properly the workspace, installation, to have a repeatable state and standard scenario matching first use.
Final thoughts: while interesting from a theoretical angle, this automation exercise may not bring all the required results, i.e. the validation of the platform. Still it's an interesting learning experience and could serve as a material for a nice short talk, especially if you find out interesting stuff. Make it a beer challenger with your team when you have a few idle hours to try to see who can implement the fastest a working solution ;) Good luck!
Within Selenium IDE for Firefox, under Options -> C# / NUnit / Webdriver, there is a button 'Source' to view the conversion formatter.
It is displayed in read-only format.
Is it possible to get access to this file in order to customise the export process?
Sorry if this seems like a trivial question, I've found plenty of people complaining about not being able to perform various tasks online and a few responses that indicate that custom export is supported, but I can't seem to find a way to access the file to perform the work.
Thanks
I think I found a solution to this problem.
Though you can't customize any of the built in exports, like C# / NUnit / Webdriver, you can create a completely new exporter. I'd recommend modifying an excising one.
Get the source exporter you would like to modify. Ex Options->Options->Formats->C#/NUnit/Webdriver->Source. And copy it to a text editor.
Edit this code.
Options->Options->Formats->Add(button) and paste your new exporter.
I think you have to copy and paste the text, there is not file upload.
This worked for Selenium IDE 2.5.0
Hope this helps!
EDIT: In addition to my answer above, it may be easier to just write your own parser for the Source of your IDE Test.
The source is read-only because it has been provided by a Selenium IDE Plugin.
The source is usually helpful if you want to make a very simple formatter. Usually a better way is to create your own customised version of the formatter and package it in a plugin. Take a look at the source itself and the plugin tutorial at http://docs.seleniumhq.org/projects/ide/plugins.jsp
You can find some more information and slides about Selenium IDE plugins on my blog.
Cheers,
Samit Badle
Selenium IDE Maintainer. Twitter: #samitbadle
Blog: http://blog.reallysimplethoughts.com/
When developing a Node.js application in Eclipse, you usually import your own modules with functionality tied to exports (append functions) or module.exports (allows popular object literal notation).
But how do you set this up for code completion in files where you import your module?
Module
As you can see in the outliner, Eclipse is "aware" of the function:
Yet importing the module as tools doesn't make it's functions available:
I also tried the oldskool //#import tools.js but it doesn't seem to work like this.
How do I get code completion for my own functions in my project?
#Jey Keu: this question has some suggestions towards our mutual dream of code completion, namely:
Amateras plugin
JSDT editor
Aptana Plugin
SPKET plugin
VJET plugin
But it was closed by a bunch of people who know nothing about Eclipse. Profiling is the basis of code completion. But they think profiling is unicorns and rainbows and therefore not constructive.
I think, depending on your specific development needs, that VJET is your best bet. If you can get it to work without destroying every other function within Eclipse, please share your wizardry in this question.
http://eclipse.org/vjet/
Are there good GUI builder for Perl GUI libraries, especially for WxPerl?
For Wx:
WxGlade
Any Wx tool that generates XRC files.
For Tk:
Zooz
SpeTcl
wxDesigner is the only one I know. I have never used it though.
It's still fairly new, but the Padre editor has an in-development Padre::Plugin::FormBuilder plugin that takes a wxFormBuilder project file and generates pure-Perl dialog classes.
Check out wxformbuilder. You can design your GUI there and generate an XRC file which wxPerl can then be configured to load.
There is The GUI Loft for Win32::GUI, but of course it's not portable off of Win32.
Of the GUI editors that I have tried briefly, wxGlade seems the most natural to use, but it still doesn't seem to have the "drag and drop" functionality that I grew to love when working with Java in Eclipse or Netbeans. Don't get me wrong, I love Perl, but would still really like to see a nice WYSIWYG GUI editor.
I would recommend simply using web-based interfaces for everything. If you went with this approach, you could even run a local (i.e. on a Desktop) web server for "standalone" applications.
In like manner, ActiveState decided to focus on Web-based development instead of continuing work on their GUI editor
I have a mini-compiler written using flex, bison, and C++.I want to use it in eclipse
like using java compiler, but I don't know anything how to do that, so I want some help and some advice.
Thanks
"Create a commercial-quality Eclipse IDE" could be helpful.
If your goal is to have a full-up integration (error highlights, code assist, etc) you have a really big job ahead of you. Start by reading the JDT and C++ implementations.
If you want to edit in a plain editor and just trigger a build, the cheap solution is to make an ant build script that can do the job. However, any command-line can be run as an external builder.