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 | givenOnTheTeamOptInPage_whenTheGetAccessButtonIsClicked_thenTheOptInsPopupsWorkFine daily This test verifies optin popups in the following article - https://www.baeldung.com/rest-with-spring-for-teams-kinsta-test |
| 2 | givenOnTheHomePage_whenPageLoads_thenJavaWeeklyLinksMatchWithTheLinkText daily Verifies that the Java weekly issue links in the homepage point to correct URLs |
| 3 | givenOnTheHomePage_whenPageLoads_thenItContainsCategoriesInTheFooterMenu daily Verifies that the CATEGORY menu is available in the homepage footer |
| 4 | givenOnTheHomePageUrlWithoutWWWPrefix_whenUrlIsHit_thenItRedirectsToWWW daily If we hit http://baeldung.com, it should redirect to http://www.baeldung.com |
| 5 | givenOnTheHomePage_whenHomePageLoaded_thenNoSevereMessagesInBrowserLog daily This test looks for JS error in the browser console falling in server category |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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/ |
| 8 | givenTheArticleWithSeries_whenArticleLoads_thenPluginLoadsProperly daily Verifies the series plugin on the following page - http://www.baeldung.com/spring-security-registration |
| 0 | 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 |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | givenThePageWithGoogleAnalytics_whenPageLoads_thenPageHasAnalyticsCode daily This test looks for the Google Analytics code in the following page - http://www.baeldung.com/rest-with-spring-course |
| 12 | givenBaeldungFeedUrl_whenUrlIsHit_thenItRedirectsToFeedburner daily Baeldung feed URL - http://www.baeldung.com/feed/ should redirect to http://feeds.feedburner.com/Baeldung |
| 13 | 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/ |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | 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/ |
| 16 | givenOnTheHomePage_whenPageLoads_thenItHasOneAboutMenuInTheFooter daily The test verifies that exactly one ABOUT menu is available in the footer of homepage |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | givenAllArticlesURLs_whenArticleLoads_thenItReturns200OK weekly Loops over full list of posts and verifies that 200OK is returned |
| 19 | givenAllPagesURLs_whenPageLoads_thenItReturns200OK weekly Loops over full list of pages and verifies that 200OK is returned |
| 20 | givenAllArticleList_whenArticleLoads_thenItHasSingleShortcodeAtTheTop twice-a-month This Test verifies that a single short code is available at the start of every post |
| 21 | givenAllArticleList_whenArticleLoads_thenItHasSingleShortcodeAtTheEnd twice-a-month Test verifies that a single short code is available at the start of every page |
| 22 | givenAllTheArticles_whenArticleLoads_thenArticleHasNoEmptyDiv twice-a-month This test loops over all the articles and looks for empty div in code samples. |
| 23 | givenAllTheArticles_whenArticleLoads_thenImagesPointToCorrectEnv twice-a-month Verifies that the images in the posts point to live env |
| 24 | givenAllThePages_whenPageLoads_thenImagesPointToCorrectEnv twice-a-month Verifies that the images in the pages point to live env |
| 25 | givenAllArticles_whenTheArticleLoads_thenTheMetaDescriptionExists twice-a-month This test verifies that all posts have meta description defined |
| 26 | givenAllPages_whenPageLods_thenTheMetaDescriptionExists twice-a-month This test verifies that all pages have meta description defined |
| 27 | 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) |
| 28 | 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 |
| 29 | givenAnArticleWithTheDripScript_whenTheArticleLoads_thenTheArticleHasTheDripScrip daily Verifies the Drip script on https://www.baeldung.com/spring-cache-tutorial |
| 30 | givenAPageWithTheDripScript_whenThePageLoads_thenThePageHasTheDripScrip daily Verifies the Drip script on https://baeldung.com/spring-tutorial |
| 31 | givenOnTheCoursePage_whenThePageLoads_thenAGeoIPApiProviderWorks daily This test loads http://baeldung.com/learn-spring-security-course/ and verifies that any of the following messages is logged in the browser console: VAT Calc Notice: geoIP API provider is set to ipdata VAT Calc Notice: geoIP API provider is set to ipinfo.io VAT Calc Notice: geoIP API provider is set to ipapi.com |
| 32 | givenOnTheCoursePage_whenThePageLoadsInEUCountry_thenTheVATPricesAreShown daily This test loads http://baeldung.com/learn-spring-security-course/ with EU proxy and verifies that VAT prices are available |
| 33 | givenTheGitHubModuleReadme_theArticlesLinkedInTheGitHubMouduleLinkForwardTotheSameGitHubModule monthly This test verifies that articles linked in GitHub READMEs link forward to the same GitHub module. The test also documents no of articles linked from READMEs. As of now, the test scans only tutorials (https://github.com/eugenp/tutorials) repo. |
| 34 | 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. |
| 35 | givenAllTheArticles_whenAnArticleLoads_thenMetaOGImageAndTwitterImagePointToTheAbsolutePath twice-a-month This test verifies that mage links in the og:image and twitter:image parameters are absolute. The rest runs on all the posts |
| 36 | givenAllThePages_whenAPageLoads_thenMetaOGImageAndTwitterImagePointToTheAbsolutePath twice-a-month This test verifies that mage links in the og:image and twitter:image parameters are absolute. The test runs on all the pages |
| 37 | givenOnTheBaeldungRSSFeed_whenTheFirstUrlIsHit_thenItPointsToTheBaeldungSite daily This test verifies that the first link in the Baeldung RSS feed ( https://www.baeldung.com/rss/ ) points to the www.baeldung.com |
| 38 | givenOnCoursePages_whenAPageLoads_thenItContainsImportantAnchors daily This test verifies that the LSS and RWS course pages contain following anchors: #table #master-class #certification-class |