Functional Browser Automation Testing for Newbs
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The document discusses functional browser automation testing using F# and Selenium, emphasizing the benefits of functional programming such as improved readability, maintainability, and easier testing. It shares personal anecdotes and case studies illustrating the advantages of functional programming over traditional methods, including code simplicity and efficiency. The talk encourages developers to adopt functional programming practices for better UI testing and broader test automation strategies.
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Functional Browser Automation Testing for Newbs
- 1. FUNCTIONAL BROWSER AUTOMATION TESTING FOR NEWBS Bryan Arendt @ctrlshiftbryan Canopy F#
- 2. THIS TALK Intro Story Problem Why Functional Programming & Functional Concepts Why Functional Stories F# Selenium & Why Automated Testing Canopy
- 3. THIS TALK Intro Story Problem Why Functional Programming & Functional Concepts Why Functional Stories F# Selenium & Why Automated Testing Canopy
- 4. HISTORY OF BRYAN ARENDT Commodore 64 + Basic (1989) Guitar (1995) OSU (1999) The Sun (2002) Quit Day Job (2005) First Heard of F# (2013) Code Mash (2016)
- 5. THIS TALK Intro Story Problem Why Functional Programming Functional Concepts Why Functional Stories F# Selenium & Why Automated Testing Canopy
- 6. THE PROBLEM(S) How do we learn how to be a more functional programmer(s)? How do we reduce complexity of automated browser testing?
- 7. THIS TALK Intro Story Problem Why Functional Programming & Functional Concepts Why Functional Stories F# Selenium & Why Automated Testing Canopy
- 8. WHY FUNCTIONAL? Readability and maintainability A function accomplishes a specific task given its arguments. The function does not rely on any external state Easier testing and debugging They can be tested in isolation Reduce Code = Reduce Bugs Easier reiterative development the code is easier to refactor, changes to design are often easier to implement
- 9. THINKING FUNCTIONALLY Take parameters Transforms values Returns new values
- 10. FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING CONCEPTS Immutability Expressiveness Types & Values Pure Functions
- 11. FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING CONCEPTS Immutability Expressiveness Types & Values Pure Functions
- 12. IMMUTABILITY Values and State cannot be changed once created Removes side effects Removes changing state
- 13. VALUES INSTEAD OF VARIABLES Instead of changing the value of an existing variable, create a new variable with the specified initial value. In functional programming we bind a value to a name.
- 16. FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING CONCEPTS Immutability Expressiveness Types & Values Pure Functions
- 17. EXAMPLE OF EXPRESSIVENESS We are going to explore the idea of being terse or expressive. I’m going to have some help from two people…
- 18. “There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.” Phil Karlton
- 19. Function f Var x
- 20. UNCLE BOB
- 21. NAMES Variable Names Variables with large scope should be long, and small scope should be short. Variables scope should be proportional with their length of names. Variable names like I and j are just fine if their scope is five lines long. Function Names The longer the scope of a function, the shorter its name should be. Functions that are called locally from a few nearby places should have long descriptive names, and the longest function names should be given to those functions that are called from just one place.
- 23. IN FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING Functions are commonly named f Variables are commonly named x
- 24. FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING CONCEPTS Immutability Expressiveness Types & Values Pure Functions
- 25. TYPES & VALUES Every function is a value Every value has a type Entire programs can be type checked for correctness
- 26. PASSING A FUNCTION TO A FUNCTION
- 27. FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING CONCEPTS Immutability Expressiveness Types & Values Pure Functions
- 28. PURE FUNCTIONS: REMOVING SIDE EFFECTS Kris Jenkins – What is Functional Programming? http://blog.jenkster.com/2015/12/what-is-functional- programming.html Two types of inputs and outputs
- 29. NORMAL
- 30. HIDDEN
- 31. “SIDE-EFFECTS ARE THE COMPLEXITY ICEBERG”
- 32. “SIDE-EFFECTS ARE THE COMPLEXITY ICEBERG”
- 33. FUNCTION W/ HIDDEN INPUT
- 34. PURE FUNCTION
- 35. REVIEW FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING CONCEPTS Immutability Expressiveness Types Pure Functions
- 36. THIS TALK Intro Story Problem Why Functional Programming & Functional Concepts Why Functional Stories F# Selenium & Why Automated Testing Canopy
- 37. WHY FUNCTIONAL – STORY 1 Rachel Reese http://rachelree.se/rewriting-from-c-into-f/ I rewrote into F# a super simple data transferring app from C#
- 38. C# -> F# 70% less time! - F# 2 minutes 25% less code! – 140 lines to 103 Bug - processing tremendously more data than needed (F# made this apparent) Bug Couple Hours -> 7 Minutes – fixing C#
- 39. WHY FUNCTIONAL – STORY 2 Does the Language You Use Make a Difference (revisited)? http://simontylercousins.net/does-the-language-you-use-make-a- difference-revisited/ Simon Tyler Cousins @simontcousins
- 40. WHY FUNCTIONAL – STORY 2 Develop an application to evaluate the revenue due from Balancing Services contracts Existing solution implemented in C#
- 41. PROBLEMS not all of the contracts had been implemented – too complex hard to maintain the large code base impossible to test without live data low confidence in the numbers it produced failed to evaluate the contracts in near-real-time
- 42. DESIGN PRINCIPLE Stay safe, Stay functional. In particular, we have an immutable domain model and persistence store. Pure functions are used to work with this domain model.
- 46. Simon Tyler Cousins @simontcousins
- 47. HOW CAN WE ALL DO THIS? How can we convince this guy?
- 48. THIS TALK Intro Story Problem Why Functional Programming & Functional Concepts Why Functional Stories F# Selenium & Why Automated Testing Canopy
- 50. F# Mostly Functional Leverage .Net Environment We can call a compiled C# .Net program or library from F# very easily Nuget!
- 51. C# MOST POPULAR FEATURES Generics / Type parameterization Lambda Expressions Delegates Type Inference (limited)
- 52. F# Functional Imperative Haskel, OCaml F# C# C Multi-paradigmFunctional Imperative
- 53. MIXED PARADIGM LANGUAGES If C# is a object oriented language that supports and includes some functional concepts F# in the inverse. Then F# is a functional language that supports object oriented concepts
- 54. LOOKING FOR AN EXCUSE TO USE F#
- 55. CANOPY - F#RICTIONLESS WEB TESTING one goal in mind, make UI testing simple: • Solid stabilization layer built on top of Selenium. • Quick to learn. Even if you've never done UI Automation, and don't know F#. • Clean, concise API.
- 56. THIS TALK Intro Story Problem Why Functional Programming & Functional Concepts Why Functional Stories F# Selenium & Why Automated Testing Canopy
- 57. WHY AUTOMATED TESTING? Regression Test More Like A User (High Level) Combinatorial Testing Exact Requirements Many Browsers
- 58. WHAT IS SELENIUM? A Unified API for Browsers WebDriver Server/Grid IDE (For Recording)
- 59. SELENIUM ARCHITECTURE Library- [C#][Ruby][Java][Python][...] Navigate to a Page Send Keystroke Click on Elements Read Information WebDriver API Rest Based Web Service WebDriver Executable translates API calls each browser has its own web driver Chrome and IE each have separate executables Firefox and PhantomJS are built-in
- 60. THIS TALK Intro Story Problem Why Functional Programming & Functional Concepts Why Functional Stories F# Selenium & Why Automated Testing Canopy
- 61. CANOPY F# Canopy F# .Net C# Nuget WebDriver REST Api WebDriver Executable
- 64. OPEN LIBRARIES AND START A BROWSER
- 65. DEFINE A TEST
- 66. THE &&& FUNCTION
- 67. INFIX FUNCTION Prefix notation: + 3 4 Infix notation: 3 + 4
- 69. NO BRACES
- 75. THIS TALK RECAP Intro Story Problem Why Functional Programming & Functional Concepts Why Functional Stories F# Selenium & Why Automated Testing Canopy
- 76. LEARN MORE
- 78. FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING @ CODEMASH Programs that Write Programs: How Compilers Work Thursday 4:45 PM Indigo Bay Functional Programming Basics in ES6 Thursday 4:45 PM Zambezi A Developer’s Journey from Object Oriented to Functional Programming Friday 11:00 AM Zambezi Erlang, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let Things Fail Friday 2:45 PM Orange
Editor's Notes
- #5: Ever since I was 10 I knew I wanted to be a software developer. Probobably not too different from a lot of people in this. Room. In addition to loving programming I had a hobby of playing guitar in bands. Moved to OSU music introduced me to people. Programming did not. Played in different bands and made musician friends. Joined a band with some friends of previous bands, moved to LA and got signed by Warner Brothers. Still did some programming in things like flash.
- #20: Is this good naming? The conventional thought is No. http://blog.ploeh.dk/2015/08/17/when-x-y-and-z-are-great-variable-names/
- #21: Some of you have Some haven’t
- #23: Remove noise. This is a much more expressive way of conveying the same information. So when you here that F# is expressive think of this. Don’t we want to do the same things with our programming?
- #27: Show module 3
- #48: Bill Lumbergh
- #55: Bill Lumbergh
- #56: Canopy is our excuse
- #64: This is canopy’s “Hello World”