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Here's the typical testing pyramid - it shows that UI tests will not replace any other tests (manual tests or Acceptance/Integration tests) but will complete our test setup.

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The Tests

Location

Our ui tests are placed in the ce-bundle/magnolia-integration-tests/tests because all the required setup (install and start an author and public instance) is already there.

Running the tests

Caution:

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titleCaution

Some of those tests are ver< sensitive - when running them on your local machine, make sure to not do anything else while they're running. e.g. don't switch to any application or type anything. This can be enough to make some of the UI tests fail.

 

Automated run

We use Selenium for testing our ui. The UITest will be part of magnolia-integration-test/tests and use its test-webapp & test-public-webapp. UITests are only triggered if you specify the corresponding profile (uitest). As specifying a profile no longer invokes the default profile (jetty6-standalone) you have to pass this one as well.

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Code Block
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titlelaunch uitests
..../magnolia-integration-tests/tests mvn clean install -P ui-tests,jetty6-standalone

 

Manual run

If you want to run the ui tests manually from within your IDE you can start the author and public tests instance with

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