monstrenyatko / desert

Web-Application test framework

DESERT WEB APPLICATION TESTING FRAMEWORK

Prepare environment

JDK

1. Download and Install Oracle JDK 7
2. Create system environment variable JAVA_HOME with the path to the installed JDK

Maven

1. Download Apache Maven 3.2.2 (or the latest) and extract all files from the archive
2. Create system environment variable M2_HOME with the path to the extracted files
3. Add M2_HOME/bin path to the system variable PATH

Compilation and Installation

1. Go to the project directory
2. Call: mvn install

When everything is finished you must have the desert.jar and desert-sources.jar have been installed to the local Maven repository.

Configuration

Property files

The library has the built in property file with name desert-base.properties.

Any property could be overwritten by the user defined property file desert.properties. The property file must be available in standard resources paths of your project.

Property search sequence:
desert.properties -> desert-base.properties

Properties types

• Time: Milliseconds
• Time-Out: Milliseconds
• Window dimensions: Pixels

Properties

• browser.name: Browser name
  Default: firefox
  Values: firefox, chrome, safari, internet explorer
• browser.window.width: Browser window width
  Default: 1280
• browser.window.height: Browser window height
  Default: 1024
• timeout.implicitlyWait: Sets the amount of time the driver should wait when searching for an element if it is not immediately present
  Default: 15000
• timeout.pageLoadTimeout: Sets the amount of time to wait for a page load to complete before throwing an error
  Default: 120000
• timeout.pageConstructorLatency: Sets additional latency between Making a new instance of PageObject class and Initialization of elements of the page. It gives a chance to load some parts of the page.
  Default: 300

Example

See https://github.com/monstrenyatko/desert-example