Blog Watch

This project contains UI tests for baeldung.com

Overview

The project uses Selenium framework, Crawler4J and REST Assured for UI tests . The tests can be run in GUI or headless mode. UI browser has been configured with Firefox using gecodriver and tested with Firefox 56.0 (64 bit) on Windows. Headless mode works with PhantomJS and HtmlUnit browsers.

Running Tests from the IDE

The default configuration executes tests with headless mode in windows environment and target URL is https://www.baeldung.com. The configuration can be changed using following properties:

• spring.profiles.active - environment variable to either "headless-browser" and "ui-browser"
• target.env - environment variable should be set to "win" or "linux" for headless browser
• base.url - to target base URL, for example http://www.baeldung.com

These can be set as environment variables via the Eclipse run configuration.

Running Tests Using Maven

Three Maven profiles are available for running tests:

• headless-browser-windows
• headless-browser-linux
• ui-brower-windows

The target URL for all profiles is https://www.baeldung.com. The can be changed using following property

• base.url - to target base URL, for example http://www.baeldung.com

Headless Browser selection

Available headless browsers

• PhantomJS (default)
• HtmlUnit

Headless browser can be configured using following system property

• headless.browser.name

Updating List of Posts and Pages

Run UpdateArticlesAndPagesLinks#updateLinks test for updataing list of articles and pages.

JUnit Tags

Following tags are available for running tests selectively. Refer Java docs in GlobalConstants.java for details

• hourly
• daily
• weekly
• bi-monthly
• monthly

Launch Mode

Set environment variable "LAUNCH_FLAG" to either true or false to set launch mode. Default is false

On Jenkins

The tests are running here, on Jenkins

Tests

The tests which are crossed out are disabled.

Sr.	Test Name
1	givenOnTheJavaWebWeeklyPage_whenSubscriptionPopupLoads_thenItContainsSubscriptionElements hourly
2	givenOnTheRwSTeamOptInPage_whenTheGetAccessButtonIsClicked_thenTheOptInsPopupsWorkFine every 30 minutes This test verifies optin popups in the following article - http://www.baeldung.com/rest-with-spring-for-teams-opt-in
3	givenOnTheHomePage_whenPageLoads_thenJavaWeeklyLinksMatchWithTheLinkText daily Verifies that the Java weekly issue links in the homepage point to correct URLs
4	givenOnTheHomePage_whenPageLoads_thenItContainsCategoriesInTheFooterMenu daily Verifies that the CATEGORY menu is available in the homepage footer
5	givenOnTheHomePageUrlWithoutWWWPrefix_whenUrlIsHit_thenItRedirectsToWWW daily If we hit http://baeldung.com, it should redirect to http://www.baeldung.com
6	givenOnTheHomePage_whenHomePageLoaded_thenNoSevereMessagesInBrowserLog daily This test looks for JS error in the browser console falling in server category
7	givenOnTheMicroservicesGuidePage_whenOptinPopupIsLoaded_thenItContainsImages daily This test verifies that the images are displayed properly on Download Guide popup in following URL - http://www.baeldung.com/spring-microservices-guide
8	givenArticleWithPopup_whenPopupOpens_thenPopupHasCloseButton daily This test checks that the pop-up, the one which auto lods, has close button on the following page - http://www.baeldung.com/rest-with-spring-series/
9	givenTheArticleWithSeries_whenArticleLoads_thenPluginLoadsProperly daily Verifies the series plugin on the following page - http://www.baeldung.com/spring-security-registration
10	givenTheArticleWithPersistenceEBookDownload_whenPageLoads_thenFooterImageIsDisplayed daily This test checks that the image is displayed properly in the EBook download widget available at the end of following page - http://www.baeldung.com/hibernate-spatial
11	givenTheArticleWithGoogleAnalytics_whenArticleLoads_thenArticleHasAnalyticsCode daily This test looks for the Google Analytics code in the following post - http://www.baeldung.com/persistence-layer-with-spring-and-hibernate
12	givenThePageWithGoogleAnalytics_whenPageLoads_thenPageHasAnalyticsCode daily This test looks for the Google Analytics code in the following page - http://www.baeldung.com/rest-with-spring-course
13	givenBaeldungFeedUrl_whenUrlIsHit_thenItRedirectsToFeedburner daily Baeldung feed URL - http://www.baeldung.com/feed/ should redirect to http://feeds.feedburner.com/Baeldung
14	givenTheCategoryPage_whenPageLoads_thenItContainsNoindexRobotsMeta daily For testing that the category pages should have a robots meta tag with noindex. Following URL is tested - http://www.baeldung.com/category/series/
15	givenThePagesWithBlankTitle_whenPageLoads_thenItDoesNotContainNotitleText daily This test verifies that the pages which have no title set do not show invalid title - No Title. The test runs against a list of following five pages. http://www.baeldung.com/java-weekly-sponsorship/ , http://www.baeldung.com/webinar-rest-with-spring-thank-you , http://www.baeldung.com/webinar-api-security-thank-you , http://www.baeldung.com/webinar-api-discoverability-thank-you , http://www.baeldung.com/webinar-cqrs-thank-you
16	givenTheTagArticle_whenArticleLoads_thenItContainsNoindexRobotsMeta daily Verifies that the tag pages should have a robots meta tag with noindex. Following URL is tested - http://www.baeldung.com/tag/activiti/
17	givenOnTheHomePage_whenPageLoads_thenItHasOneAboutMenuInTheFooter daily The test verifies that exactly one ABOUT menu is available in the footer of homepage
18	givenOnTheCoursePage_whenPageLoads_thenTrackingIsSetupCorrectly daily Verifies tracking on the course pages. Tracking details are here - https://github.com/eugenp/blogwatch/blob/master/src/main/resources/blog-url-list/coursePagesBuyLinks.json
19	givenTheArticleWithFixedWidget_whenArticleLoads_thenStopIDIsConfiguredCorrectly daily This test verifies that the stop ID value is set as footer in the fixed widget settings. Post tested - http://www.baeldung.com/java-classloaders
20	givenThePageWithFixedWidget_whenPageLoads_thenStopIDIsConfiguredCorrectly daily This test verifies that the stop ID value is set as footer in the fixed widget settings. Page tested - http://www.baeldung.com/spring-tutorial
21	givenTheArticleWithTheStickySidebar_whenTheArticleLoads_thenTheContainerClassProptertyIsConfiguredCorrectly daily This test verifies that the Container Class property is set to #Content in the Sticky Sidebar plugin . Post tested - http://www.baeldung.com/java-classloaders
22	givenThePageWithTheStickySidebar_whenThePageLoads_thenTheContainerClassProptertyIsConfiguredCorrectly daily This test verifies that the Container Class property is set to #Content in the Sticky Sidebar plugin. Page tested - http://www.baeldung.com/spring-tutorial
23	givenOnTheHomePage_whenTheSurveyStarts_thenTheSelectValueIsPostedToTheDrip weekly This test verifies that the drip survey is working fine.
24	givenAllArticlesURLs_whenArticleLoads_thenItReturns200OK weekly Loops over full list of posts and verifies that 200OK is returned
25	givenAllPagesURLs_whenPageLoads_thenItReturns200OK weekly Loops over full list of pages and verifies that 200OK is returned
26	givenAllArticleList_whenArticleLoads_thenItHasSingleShortcodeAtTheTop twice-a-month This Test verifies that a single short code is available at the start of every post
27	givenAllArticleList_whenArticleLoads_thenItHasSingleShortcodeAtTheEnd twice-a-month Test verifies that a single short code is available at the start of every page
28	givenAllTheArticles_whenArticleLoads_thenArticleHasNoEmptyDiv twice-a-month This test loops over all the articles and looks for empty div in code samples.
29	givenAllTheArticles_whenArticleLoads_thenImagesPointToCorrectEnv twice-a-month Verifies that the images in the posts point to live env
30	givenAllThePages_whenPageLoads_thenImagesPointToCorrectEnv twice-a-month Verifies that the images in the pages point to live env
31	givenAllArticles_whenTheArticleLoads_thenTheMetaDescriptionExists twice-a-month This test verifies that all posts have meta description defined
32	givenAllPages_whenPageLods_thenTheMetaDescriptionExists twice-a-month This test verifies that all pages have meta description defined
33	givenArticlesWithALinkToTheGitHubModule_whenTheArticleLoads_thenTheGitHubModuleLinksBackToTheArticle twice-a-month Almost every post has a link to GitHub module containing the working code. The test verifies that the linked GitHub module links back to the post. The test looks for a back-link in the, 1- URL linked from the Article 2- Master module (immediate child of /master) 3- Immediate parent of initial(1st) URL, 4- Immediate child of main repository (/eugenp or /Baeldung)
34	givenAllTheArticles_whenAnArticleLoads_thenTheAuthorIsNotFromTheExcludedList twice-a-month Loops over all the post and verifies that the author is not from the restricted list. Here is excluded list - https://github.com/eugenp/blogwatch/blob/73b841bedeee0803cc7ee0ae0c28d0d70161805b/src/main/resources/blog.properties#L14
35	givenAnArticleWithTheDripScript_whenTheArticleLoads_thenTheArticleHasTheDripScrip daily Verifies the Drip script on https://www.baeldung.com/spring-cache-tutorial
36	givenAPageWithTheDripScript_whenThePageLoads_thenThePageHasTheDripScrip daily Verifies the Drip script on https://baeldung.com/spring-tutorial
37	givenOnTheCoursePage_whenThePageLoads_thenAGeoIPApiProviderWorks daily This test loads http://baeldung.com/learn-spring-security-course/ and verifies that any of the following messages are logged in the browser console: VAT Calc Notice: geoIP API provider is set to ipinfo.io VAT Calc Notice: geoIP API provider is set to ipapi.com
38	givenOnTheCoursePage_whenThePageLoadsInEUCountry_thenTheVATPricesAreShown daily This test loads http://baeldung.com/learn-spring-security-course/ with EU proxy and verifies that VAT prices are available
39	givenTheGitHubModuleReadme_theArticlesLinkedInTheGitHubMouduleLinkForwardTotheSameGitHubModule monthly This test verifies that articles linked in GitHub READMEs link forward to the same GitHub module. As of now, the test scans only tutorials(https://github.com/eugenp/tutorials) repo.
40	givenTheGitHubModule_theModuleHasANonEmptyReadme monthly This test verifies that GitHub modules have non empty README. A README not linking to an article is also considered empty. As of now, the test scans only tutorials(https://github.com/eugenp/tutorials) repo.