Web Application Monitoring

Web Transaction Device Driver provides great opportunities in web application monitoring. Testing and monitoring web applications performance is carried out by executing scripts. An ability to control a browser and create test scripts is provided by Selenium.

Selenium is a portable software testing framework for web applications.

Web application monitoring tool is implemented as a Device driver, so to get started you need to create a Web Transaction Device. In the process of adding a Device you need to specify a script that will be executed at each synchronization.

Launch of the test script requires Mozilla Firefox 42.0 or earlier to be installed next to Iotellect Server.

Script Creation

An ability to create test scripts is provided by Selenium IDE. It is implemented as a Mozilla Firefox Add-On, and allows recording, editing, and debugging scripts.

Detailed documentation for Selenium IDE can be found on the website http://www.seleniumhq.org/docs/.

Selenium IDE needs additional configuration after it has been installed. Enable experimental features: Options -> Options... -> Enable experimental features.

Then set a new header and footer for Java / JUnit 4 / WebDriver format, go to: Options -> Options... -> Formats -> Java / JUnit 4 / WebDriver.

Set the header to:

import org.openqa.selenium.support.events.EventFiringWebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import com.tibbo.linkserver.plugin.device.web.transaction.Screenshot;
public class WebTransactionClass {
  private String baseUrl = "${baseURL}";
  public void test (EventFiringWebDriver driver, Screenshot screenshot) throws Exception {
And set the footer to:
  }
}

These settings allow to convert recorded actions to a format compatible with the Iotellect Server. Now you can record actions.

After an action has been recorded you should obtain a script source of the appropriate format, go to: Options -> Format -> Java / JUnit 4 / WebDriver. Then copy a script source from Source tab of the Selenium IDE and save it to Script property of the Device settings.

An example of a test script:

import org.openqa.selenium.support.events.EventFiringWebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import com.tibbo.linkserver.plugin.device.web.transaction.Screenshot;
public class WebTransactionClass {
  private String baseUrl = "http://example.com/";
  public void test (EventFiringWebDriver driver, Screenshot screenshot) throws Exception {
    driver.get(baseUrl + "/");
    driver.findElement(By.linkText("Technology")).click();
    screenshot.takeScreenshot(driver);
    driver.findElement(By.linkText("Industries")).click();
    driver.findElement(By.linkText("Solutions")).click();
  }
}

Script execution results are stored to Actions and Screenshots Device settings at each synchronization.

Web transaction driver provides easy way of screenshots taking. You can insert the following line to the script to take a screenshot: screenshot.takeScreenshot(driver);

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