Conductor

Getting Started

Using maven, include it as a dependency:

<dependency>
  <groupId>io.ddavison</groupId>
  <artifactId>conductor</artifactId>
  <version>3.0.2</version>
</dependency>

Create a Java Class, and extend it from io.ddavison.conductor.Locomotive

Drivers

Drivers should be put in the resources folder of your project in a subdirectory called drivers, and be named like this:

Mac

chromedriver-mac-32bit

Windows

chromedriver-windows-32bit.exe

Linux

chromedriver-linux-32bit

So as an example, your project structure could be:

Project
| src
|   main
|     java
|       TestClass.java
|     resources
|       drivers
|         chromedriver-mac-32bit
|         chromedriver-windows-32bit.exe
|         chromedriver-linux-32bit
| pom.xml

Currently, six browsers are supported and they are Firefox, HTMLUnit, Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari, and PhantomJS

Goals

The primary goals of this project are to...

Take advantage of method chaining, to create a fluent interface.
Abstract the programmer from bloated scripts resulting from using too many css selectors, and too much code.
Provide a quick and easy framework in Selenium 2 using Java, to get started writing scripts.
Provide a free to use framework for any starting enterprise, or individual programmer.
Utilize the power of CSS!

Actions

You can perform any action that you could possibly do, using the inline actions.

click(By)
setText(By, text)
getText(By)
hoverOver(By)
check(By)
uncheck(By)
navigateTo(url)
goBack()
isPresent(By)
getAttribute(By, attribute)
etc.

In-line validations

This is one of the most important features that I want to accentuate.

validateText
validateTextNot
validateChecked
validateUnchecked
validatePresent
validateNotPresent
validateTextPresent
validateTextNotPresent

All of these methods are able to be called in-line, and fluently without ever having to break your tests.

Switching Windows

Another nice feature that is offered, is the simplicity of window switching in Selenium.

switchToWindow(regex)
waitForWindow(regex)
closeWindow(regex)

All of these functions take a regular expression argument, and match either the url or title of the window that you want to interact with.

Switching Frames

switchToFrame(idOrName)
switchToDefaultContent()

Implicit Waiting

In addition to the Selenium 2 implicit waiting, the AutomationTest class extends on this concept by implenting a sort of waitFor functionality which ensures that an object appears before interacting with it. This rids of most ElementNotFound exceptions that Selenium will cough up.

See a working example of what a test script written using this framework might look like.

Pull requests

If you have an idea for the framework, fork it and submit a pull-request!

conductor-framework/conductor