WebPuppet - A Tiny Automated Web UI Testing Tool

Queirós, Ricardo

doi:10.4230/OASIcs.ICPEC.2022.10

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Applied computing → Computer-managed instruction
Applied computing → Interactive learning environments
Applied computing → E-learning

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User Interface Testing
Web development
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One of the most important phases in the Web development cycle is testing. There are several types of tests, different approaches to their use and a wide range of tools. However, most of them are not open source, require coding and do not have a pedagogical nature. This article introduces WebPuppet as an automated Web UI testing tool. The tool is distributed as a small Node package and can be easily integrated into any learning environment in the web development domain. In addition, it does not require coding in any language, just use a very simple domain-specific language that will generate a test script to run in client applications. In order to exemplify its use, a simple test scenario based on a login page is presented.

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Ricardo Queirós. WebPuppet - A Tiny Automated Web UI Testing Tool. In Third International Computer Programming Education Conference (ICPEC 2022). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 102, pp. 10:1-10:8, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022) https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.ICPEC.2022.10

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Ricardo Queirós

CRACS - INESC-Porto LA & uniMAD, ESMAD/P. Porto, Portugal

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WebPuppet - A Tiny Automated Web UI Testing Tool

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