Acceptance testing/Browsers

Drivers

There are Selenium drivers (http://docs.seleniumhq.org/projects/webdriver/) to run acceptance tests in different browsers:

• Firefox - https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/FirefoxDriver
• Chrome - https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/ChromeDriver
• Safari - https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/SafariDriver
• Internet Explorer - https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/InternetExplorerDriver
• PhantomJS (Webkit) - http://phantomjs.org/release-1.8.html
• Android - https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/AndroidDriver
• IPhone - https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/IPhoneDriver

Each driver should be downloaded and Selenium .jar should be started specifying the path to the driver; depending on the driver there could be other requirements.

Examples

 # Linux (firefox by default + chrome)
 java -jar /opt/selenium-server-standalone.jar -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver=/opt/chromedriver

 # OSx (firefox & safari by default + chrome)
 java -jar /Users/moodle/Downloads/selenium-server-standalone.jar -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver=/Users/moodle/Downloads/chromedriver

 # Windows (started using git bash) (firefox by default + chrome + internet explorer)
 java -jar /c/seleniumdrivers/selenium-server-standalone.jar -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver=/c/seleniumdrivers/chromedriver.exe -Dwebdriver.ie.driver=/c/seleniumdrivers/IEDriverServer.exe

Compatibility

Not all the drivers can execute all of Moodle's step definitions; we tagged the step definitions that are using feature not supported by all browsers or that should be considered:

	File uploads (@_upload)	Switch window (@_switch_window)	Switch frame (@_switch_iframe)
Firefox	Yes	Yes	Yes
Chrome	Yes	No	Yes
Internet Explorer	Yes	Yes	Yes
Safari	Yes	No	Yes
PhantomJS	No	No	Yes