Ask HN: What sort of automated functional testing setup do you have?

#1

Post by arpitrai » Wed, Jul 16, 2014, 11:58 AM UTC

Just wanted to get an idea, what sort of an automated functional testing setup do companies generally have?

Among other things:

- Is there any alternative to Selenium based automated testing or is Selenium the most popular way of doing automated functional testing?

- Have you set up a Selenium grid in-house or integrated with Sauce Labs / BrowserStack etc.? Is it costly to do so in-house?

- Do you test across how many different combinations of OS and browsers?

- Is testing only on headless browsers very common?

- Do you test on both desktop and mobile browsers?

- Is your setup integrated with a CI tool?

Re: Ask HN: What sort of automated functional testing setup do you have?

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Post by hashtesting » Wed, Jul 16, 2014, 6:23 PM UTC

Selenium based for desktop browsers. Appium + Selendroid for viewing on mobile. We don't use headless browsers. VMs installed on a couple of machines take care of the different operating systems.

Jenkins manages the continuous integration and deployment bit.

Re: Ask HN: What sort of automated functional testing setup do you have?

#3

Post by oweiler » Thu, Jul 17, 2014, 7:39 AM UTC

We use geb which is a Groovy DSL around Selenium which makes for very readable test descriptions.

http://www.gebish.org/