Web_UI_Integration_Tests#

Overview#

Purpose of integration tests is to help developers with avoiding regressions. New tests should be written along with new Web UI functionality. It means that tests will be written by developers and therefore the test framework has to be developer friendly. Selenium WebDriver browser automation technology was chosen for this task. It offers wide range of language binding and doesn’t enforce any specific testing framework. These features allow to implement tests using python and python nose framework, a framework which is used by server unit/integration tests.

Combination of Web UI design patterns and generic programming language allowed to abstract clicks and key presses to common Web UI tasks. New tests can be written very easily and quickly by using these tasks. Another benefit is that it makes the tests robust. A change in one Web UI widget doesn’t cause many changes all around the tests but it only requires to fix the code which drives the particular widget.

Infrastructure#

Test infrastructure consists of parts as follows:

FreeIPA server: Test requires FreeIPA server installed.
Selenium server: A machine with installed browsers and selenium-server Java application. Browsers may also require a webdriver. Webdriver is mediator between selenium-server and a browser. Starting Selenium 3.0 Firefox requires its own webdriver called Geckodriver.
Test runner: Test runner executes python nose tests. They can be executed either in-tree or from a test package.

All parts can run on their own machine or they can share one (not tested).

FreeIPA Server Configuration#

Web UI differs on various FreeIPA server configuration. For purpose of integration tests, as basic configuration is consider a default FreeIPA installation with DNS support. The differences from the basic configuration will be called capabilities and currently they are defined as follows:

no_dns: IPA server is installed without DNS: --setup-dns option is missing
no_ca: Dogtag is not configured. Can be done by defining: --http-cert-file --http-pin --dirsrv-cert-file --dirsrv-pin More in CA-less documentation.
has_trusts: Trust support is enabled: ipa-adtrust-install was run.

Selenium Server Configuration#

The most important part is to run the selenium server. If your distribution doesn’t have it packaged, download it at 1.

Run:

java -jar selenium-server-standalone.jar

Firefox#

Starting Selenium version 3.0 Firefox requires its own Geckodriver. It might be downloaded as tar archive here. After downloading it has to be unpacked and then put on $PATH or in directory which already is in $PATH to be runnable.

Geckodriver automatically stores logs into ‘geckodriver.log’ file placed in directory from which tests are run. It is useful to set ‘geckodriver_log_path’ variable in ui_test.conf file and set there file where user has write access. Otherwise tests might fail with Permission denied error because they are unable to write to log file.

Chrome/Chromium#

download repo file and install browser
download chromedriver according to platform at 2
put chrome driver in directory included in $PATH

Internet Explorer#

download IEDriverServer.exe. Note: 32 version seems to work better even on 64bit Windows.
put IEDriverServer.exe in directory included in $PATH
disable Protected Mode in IE (Internet Options/Security) 3
download FreeIPA server CA cert and put it into root authorities.

X virtual framebuffer#

If one wants to run test without classical X-system started, one can use xvbf.

Installation on Fedora:

yum install xorg-x11-server-Xvfb

Run:

export DISPLAY=:99
/usr/bin/Xvfb $DISPLAY -ac -noreset -screen 0 1400x1200x8 > /dev/null &

Make it quick#

To avoid doing all the configuration by hand, attached script configures Fedora server for you.

It:

prepares repo files for Chrome and Chromium
installs Firefox, Chrome, Chromium and xvfb
downloads and installs selenium-server
downloads and install chrome driver

Test Runner Configuration#

Selenium client library for Python is required to run the tests. All tests are skipped when the library is not installed.

Installation on Fedora:

pip install selenium

`pip` is required instead of `dnf install python-selenium` until Fedora has more recent version(3+) of python-selenium.

Test runner requires to be configured. There two ways:

configuration file
environmental variables

They can be combined but either one is sufficient. Configuration file is loaded first, then then configuration is overwritten by that in environmental variables.

Configuration file#

Is located in $HOME/.ipa/ui_test.conf. It’s a YAML file, therefore it requires to have YAML Python library installed. Configuration file is not used if the library is not installed.

Install yaml on Fedora:

dnf install PyYAML

Example of configuration file:

# Current FreeIPA server configuration
# ====================================
ipa_admin: admin
ipa_password: Secret123

ipa_server: DEV.EXAMPLE.COM
ipa_ip: 10.10.10.10
ipa_domain: example.com
ipa_realm: EXAMPLE.COM

# Uncomment when IPA is installed without CA
#no_ca: True

# Uncomment when IPA is installed without DNS server
#no_dns: True

# Uncomment when IPA is installed with trust support
#has_trusts: True

# Active Directory configuration
ad_domain: addomain.test
ad_dc: dc.addomain.test
ad_admin: Administrator
ad_password: Secret123
ad_dc_ip: 10.10.20.10
trust_secret: Secret123

# certificates
host_csr_path: /home/username/.ipa/test.csr
service_csr_path: /home/username/.ipa/test_srvc.csr
# Geckodriver setup:
# =================
# log file has to be somewhere, where user has rights to write into file
geckodriver_log_path: /home/me/.ipa/geckodriver.log

# Web driver setup:
# =================
# Selenium server is on localhost or remote machine.
# Allowed: ['local', 'remote']
type: remote

# Browser to test with
# Allowed: ['chrome', 'chromium', 'firefox', 'ie']
browser: chrome

# host needed when type == 'remote'
# Allowed: hostname or IP address
host: testrunner.mydomain.test

# Screenshots
# ===========
save_screenshots: True
# directory where screenshots should be saved
screenshot_dir: /home/me/tests

Environmental variables#

Environmental variables are mapped to configuration options according to following table. Environmental variable names are designed to be similar with the ones in server integration tests.

Environmental variable	Configuration option
MASTER	ipa_server
ADMINID	ipa_admin
ADMINPW	ipa_password
DOMAIN	ipa_domain
IPA_REALM	ipa_realm
IPA_IP	ipa_ip
IPA_NO_CA	no_ca
IPA_NO_DNS	no_dns
IPA_HAS_TRUSTS	has_trusts
IPA_HOST_CSR_PATH	host_csr_path
IPA_SERVICE_CSR_PATH	service_csr_path
AD_DOMAIN	ad_domain
AD_DC	ad_dc
AD_ADMIN	ad_admin
AD_PASSWORD	ad_password
AD_DC_IP	ad_dc_ip
TRUST_SECRET	trust_secret
SEL_TYPE	type
SEL_BROWSER	browser
SEL_HOST	host
FF_PROFILE	ff_profile

Running tests#

Test can be run either in-tree or from test package. Selenium is quite chatty so it’s recommended to run the test with less verbose debug level like --logging-level=INFO

In tree#

All Web UI tests:

./make-test --logging-level=INFO ipatests/test_webui/

Particular module:

./make-test --logging-level=INFO ipatests/test_webui/test_module.py

Particular test:

./make-test --logging-level=INFO ipatests/test_webui/test_module.py::class_name::method_name

Test package#

All Web UI tests:

ipa-run-tests --logging-level=INFO test_webui

Particular module:

ipa-run-tests --logging-level=INFO test_webui/test_module.py

Particular test:

ipa-run-tests --logging-level=INFO test_webui/test_module.py::class_name::method_name

Writing tests#

tests are located in-tree in ipatests/test_webui directory
common Web UI tasks and assertions are located in ipatests.test_webui.ui_driver.UI_driver class
task usually contains assertions to ensure that all is happening as it should

Simple test example:

from ipatests.test_webui.ui_driver import UI_driver
import ipatests.test_webui.data_user as user

class test_example(UI_driver):

    def test_find(self):
        """
        Test search on user search facet
        """
        # navigate to app and log in
        self.init_app()

        # common assertions are already included in UI_driver methods
        self.add_record(user.ENTITY, user.DATA, navigate=False)
        self.find_record(user.ENTITY, user.DATA)

Attachments#

Selenium server environment preparation script:

#!/bin/bash
#
# 1) Install browsers: Firefox, Chrome, Chromium
# 2) Install Selenium server
# 3) Install Selenium Chrome driver
# 4) Install Selenium Gecko driver
# 5) Install Xvfb

CHROME_REPO=/etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo
CHROMIUM_REPO=/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-chromium-stable.repo
CHROME_DRIVER_PATH=/usr/bin/chromedriver
GECKO_DRIVER_ARCH=geckodriver.tar.gz
GECKO_DRIVER_PATH=/usr/bin/geckodriver
SELENIUM_TMP_DIR=~/selenium
SELENIUM_SERVER_DIR=/opt/selenium

# this must match exact filename in http://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/$SELENIUM_VERSION
URL="https://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com"
SRC="$(curl $URL)"
MAIN_VERSION=$(echo "$SRC" | grep -oP '[\.0-9]*(?=/selenium-server-standalone)' | awk '{max=$1;if($1>max) {max=$1};} END {print max}')
SUBVERSION=$(echo "$SRC" | grep -oP "(?<=$MAIN_VERSION/selenium-server-standalone-$MAIN_VERSION\.)[0-9]" | awk '{max=$1;if($1>max) {max=$1};} END {print max}')
SELENIUM_VERSION=$MAIN_VERSION.$SUBVERSION
SELENIUM_JAR=selenium-server-standalone-${SELENIUM_VERSION}.jar

# Chrome driver version
CHROME_URL="http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com"
CHROME_SRC="$(curl $CHROME_URL)"
CHROME_DRIVER_ARCH=chromedriver_linux64.zip
CHROME_MAINVERSION=$(echo "$CHROME_SRC" | grep -oP "[\.0-9]*(?=/$CHROME_DRIVER_ARCH)" | grep -oP "[0-9]*(?=\.)" | sort -h | tail -n1)
CHROME_SUBVERSION=$(echo "$CHROME_SRC" | grep -oP "[\.0-9]*(?=/$CHROME_DRIVER_ARCH)" | grep -oP "(?<=$CHROME_MAINVERSION\.)[0-9]*" | sort -h | tail -n1)
CHROME_DRIVER_VERSION=$CHROME_MAINVERSION.$CHROME_SUBVERSION

# Gecko driver version
GECKO_VERSION=`curl https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/latest 2>/dev/null | egrep -o 'href="[^"]*"'`
GECKO_VERSION=`echo "$GECKO_VERSION" | sed 's/href="//' | sed 's/"$//' | awk -F"/" '{print $NF}'`
GECKO_URL="https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/download/$GECKO_VERSION/geckodriver-$GECKO_VERSION-linux64.tar.gz"

# Install dependencies for this script
sudo yum install -y wget unzip

# Chromium repo
if [ ! -f $CHROMIUM_REPO ]
then
    echo "Adding Chromium repo"
    sudo wget -O $CHROMIUM_REPO http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/spot/chromium-stable/fedora-chromium-stable.repo
fi

# Chrome repo
if [ ! -f $CHROME_REPO ]
then
    TMP=`mktemp`
    echo "Adding Chrome repo"
    cat > $TMP <<EOL
[google-chrome]
name=google-chrome - 64-bit
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
EOL
    sudo cp $TMP $CHROME_REPO
    rm $TMP
fi

# install browsers and virtual display
sudo yum install xorg-x11-server-Xvfb firefox chromium google-chrome-stable -y


mkdir -p $SELENIUM_TMP_DIR
sudo mkdir -p $SELENIUM_SERVER_DIR

# Download Chrome driver and selenium server
# Chrome driver page: http://code.google.com/p/chromedriver/downloads/list
# http://code.google.com/p/selenium/downloads/list
# NOTE: chrome driver 2.0 works only with Chrome/Chromium version >= 27
# NOTE: starting Selenium version 3.0 firefox requires its own driver called Geckodriver
pushd $SELENIUM_TMP_DIR > /dev/null
    if [ ! -f $SELENIUM_JAR ]
    then
        echo "Downloading Selenium server"
        wget "$URL"/$MAIN_VERSION/$SELENIUM_JAR
    fi

    if [ ! -f $SELENIUM_SERVER_DIR/selenium-server.jar ]
    then
        echo "Installing Selenium server"
        sudo cp $SELENIUM_JAR $SELENIUM_SERVER_DIR/selenium-server.jar
    fi

    if [ ! -f $CHROME_DRIVER_ARCH ]
    then
        echo "Downloading Chromedriver"
        wget $CHROME_URL/$CHROME_DRIVER_VERSION/$CHROME_DRIVER_ARCH
        unzip $CHROME_DRIVER_ARCH
    fi

    if [ ! -f $CHROME_DRIVER_PATH ]
    then
        echo "Installing Chrome driver"
        sudo cp chromedriver $CHROME_DRIVER_PATH
        sudo chmod a+x $CHROME_DRIVER_PATH
    fi

    if [ ! -f $GECKO_DRIVER_ARCH ]
    then
        echo "Downloading Geckodriver"
        wget -q -O $GECKO_DRIVER_ARCH $GECKO_URL
        tar -xvzf $GECKO_DRIVER_ARCH
    fi

    if [ ! -f $GECKO_DRIVER_PATH ]
    then
        echo "Installing Gecko driver"
        sudo cp geckodriver $GECKO_DRIVER_PATH
        sudo chmod a+x $GECKO_DRIVER_PATH
    fi
popd > /dev/null

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