Smart automated testing with Testar, a hands-on workshop (English/Dutch)
Details
What is it?
Friday the 15th of November, Tanja Vos, Pekka Aho and Fernando Pastor will give us a presentation and workshop about Testar. A tool that is able to independently navigate through your application in a fully automated fashion. Testar uses the api of your application for this and automatically recognizes and interacts with all elements on your websites.
The workshop will be given in English or Dutch depending on what the audience prefers.
Program:
- 16:30 Door opens and drinks
- 17:00 Workshop starts
- 18:00 Lets have dinner!
- 19:00 Continue the workshop
- 21:00 Drinks and snacks!
Want to know more?
TESTAR (https://testar.org/) is an open source tool for automated testing through graphical user interface (GUI). The tool is being developed in the context of the TESTOMAT (https://www.testomatproject.eu) and DECODER (https://www.decoder-project.eu) projects. TESTAR is based on automated exploration of the GUI by emulating an end user interacting with the widgets, such as buttons, menus and text fields. The main idea is that the user does not have to define the test cases, TESTAR automatically generates and executes test sequences based on a structure that is automatically derived from the GUI. TESTAR can detect the violation of general-purpose system requirements through implicit oracles, for example, crashes and unresponsiveness. While the
application under test is automatically being tested for stability, crashes and undesired outputs, more test oracles can be added for testing more specific requirements of the application. Incrementally defining the requirements has been very helpful when dealing with legacy systems. While exploring the GUI, TESTAR creates and maintains a state model that can be used for optimizing the action selection strategies, automatically detecting changes between consequent versions of the system under test, and visualization of the test results. TESTAR is used in academic research of scriptless and AI-driven testing.
Want to prepare? Please! Read this:
Each participant should bring their own laptop and mouse. There are various ways to do the exercises, however the prefered way is follow the following easy steps:
- Install Oracle VirtualBox (https://www.virtualbox.org/)
- Download a ready-made VM image with Windows 10 and TESTAR from https://testar.org/download/ (the OVA image).
- Open up virtualbox and import the downloaded VM.
- You are all done!
Hands-on content
The hands-on begins with a general introduction of TESTAR and how it works. During the intro, there is still time to install the software, USB-sticks will be available if downloading takes too long. Each participant is given a hands-on manual to get started with the tool step-by-step through examples and exercises on how to use TESTAR on various kinds of systems.
Where?
You are very welcome at Zoomstede 21A in Nieuwegein. Parking is possible in the parking garage right next to the building.
Links
https://testar.org
https://www.testomatproject.eu/
https://www.decoder-project.eu/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g22fqgkqYp4