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Java Automated Testing

Let's start with making sure Java is available on your system.

For Windows:
  • You can download Java for Windows from Java.com
  • Run the installer and follow the setup wizard to install Java.
For Linux:
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sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jre
For macOS:

Java should already be present on macOS by default.

Example

With TestingBot you can easily run your automated tests with any Java test framework, here's a simple example without any assertions:

Download the java bindings (selenium-java-*.zip) and include these in your project library.

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import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.Platform;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver;

import java.net.URL;

public class JavaSample {

  public static final String KEY = "KEY";
  public static final String SECRET = "SECRET";
  public static final String URL = "https://" + KEY + ":" + SECRET + "@hub.testingbot.com/wd/hub";

  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
  	DesiredCapabilities capability = new DesiredCapabilities();
	capabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.BROWSER_NAME, "chrome");
	capabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.BROWSER_VERSION, "latest");
	capabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.PLATFORM_NAME, "WIN10");

	Map<String, Object> testingBotOptions = new HashMap<>();
	testingBotOptions.put("name", "Testing Selenium");
	capabilities.setCapability("tb:options", testingBotOptions);


	WebDriver driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL(URL), caps);
	driver.get("https://testingbot.com");

	System.out.println(driver.getTitle());
	driver.quit();
  }
}

This test will start an IE browser on Windows in our cloud, go to Google, and search for TestingBot. It will then output the title.

This test does not make any assertions or verifications, but it's a quick intro in how to run a Java test on TestingBot.

Make sure to always stop your test (driver.quit()), otherwise it will continue running, leading to a timeout.

Configuring capabilities

To run your existing tests on TestingBot, your tests will need to be configured to use the TestingBot remote machines. If the test was running on your local machine or network, you can simply change your existing test like this:

Before:
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FirefoxDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
After:
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WebDriver driver = new RemoteWebDriver(
	new URL("https://key:secret@hub.testingbot.com/wd/hub"),
	DesiredCapabilities.firefox()
);

Specify Browsers & Devices

To let TestingBot know on which browser/platform/device you want to run your test on, you need to specify the browsername, version, OS and other optional options in the capabilities field.

1. Select a Platform
2. Select a browser
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Testing Internal Websites

We've built TestingBot Tunnel, to provide you with a secure way to run tests against your staged/internal webapps.
Please see our TestingBot Tunnel documentation for more information about this easy to use tunneling solution.

The example below shows how to easily run a Java test with our Tunnel:

1. Download our tunnel and start the tunnel:

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java -jar testingbot-tunnel.jar key secret

2. Adjust your test: instead of pointing to 'hub.testingbot.com/wd/hub' like the example above - change it to point to your tunnel's IP address.
Assuming you run the tunnel on the same machine you run your tests, change to 'localhost:4445/wd/hub'. localhost is the machine running the tunnel, 4445 is the default port of the tunnel.

This way your test will go securely through the tunnel to TestingBot and back:

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import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.Platform;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver;

import java.net.URL;

public class JavaSample {

  public static final String KEY = "KEY";
  public static final String SECRET = "SECRET";
  public static final String URL = "http://" + KEY + ":" + SECRET + "@localhost:4445/wd/hub";

  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
  	DesiredCapabilities capability = new DesiredCapabilities();
	capabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.BROWSER_NAME, "chrome");
	capabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.BROWSER_VERSION, "latest");
	capabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.PLATFORM_NAME, "WIN10");

	Map<String, Object> testingBotOptions = new HashMap<>();
	testingBotOptions.put("name", "Testing Selenium");
	capabilities.setCapability("tb:options", testingBotOptions);

	WebDriver driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL(URL), caps);
	driver.get("https://testingbot.com");

	System.out.println(driver.getTitle());
	driver.quit();
  }
}

Run tests in Parallel

Parallel Testing means running the same test, or multiple tests, simultaneously. This greatly reduces your total testing time.

You can run the same tests on all different browser configurations or run different tests all on the same browser configuration.
TestingBot has a large grid of machines and browsers, which means you can use our service to do efficient parallel testing. It is one of the key features we provide to greatly cut down on your total testing time.

Please see our Parallel JUnit documentation for parallel testing.

Queuing

Every plan we provide comes with a limit of parallel tests.
If you exceed the number of parallel tests assigned to your account, TestingBot will queue the additional tests (for up to 6 minutes) and run the tests as soon as slots become available.

Mark tests as passed/failed

To see if a test passed or not in our member area, or to send additional meta-data to TestingBot, you need to use our API.

TestingBot has a Java client for using the TestingBot API.

Once included with your tests, you can send back test status and other meta-data to TestingBot:

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import com.testingbot.testingbotrest.TestingbotREST;

@After
public void tearDown() throws Exception {
	TestingbotREST r = new TestingbotREST("key", "secret");
	Map<String, String> data = new HashMap<String, String>();
	data.put("success", "1");
	data.put("name", "My Test");
	r.updateTest(driver.getSessionId(), data);
	driver.quit();
}

Other Java Framework examples

  • JUnit

    JUnit is a unit testing framework for the Java programming language.

  • Parallel JUnit

    By running multiple JUnit tests at the same time you can cut down on overall test time.

  • TestNG

    TestNG is a framework similar to JUnit and NUnit, which supports some additional commands and features.