
package com.smartgwt.client.docs;

/**
 * <h3>Using Selenium Scripts (Selenese)</h3>
 * <a href='http://seleniumhq.org/' target='_blank'>Selenium</a> is a powerful and popular tool
 * which can be used to test your Smart GWT applications.  <p> <i>For an overview of Automated
 * Testing in Smart GWT, see the documentation {@link com.smartgwt.client.docs.AutomatedTesting
 * here}.</i> <p> Selenium executes tests against your running application in a browser emulating
 * user interaction and asserting various conditions. Selenium provides a record/playback tool for
 * authoring tests without learning a test scripting language - we refer to these as Selenium
 * scripts or <i>Selenese</i>.  You must be familiar with <a href='http://seleniumhq.org/'
 * target='_blank'>Selenium</a> and use of <a href='http://seleniumhq.org/projects/ide/'
 * target='_blank'>Selenium IDE</a> before proceeding.  Refer to the documentation on the Selenium
 * site. <P> <b>Note that Selenium IDE 3 for Firefox Quantum has been released, but only recently
 * added plugin APIs that should eventually allow us to add support for our our custom locators
 * and commands (replacing our JavaScript user extensions from Selenium IDE 2.9).  For now, if you
 * want to write Selenese as this section describes, you must use Selenium IDE 2.9, which can be
 * installed in  <a href='https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/'
 * target='_blank'>Firefox 52 ESR</a>, the extended-support release of Firefox which is still
 * receiving updates at the time of this writing.</b> <P> Selenium supports the concept of <a
 * href='http://seleniumhq.org/docs/02_selenium_ide.html#locating-elements'
 * target='_blank'>Locators</a> in order to specify the element you'd like a given Selenium
 * command to target. For example Selenium supports XPath based locators and DOM ID based
 * locators. XPath based locators are extremely fragile due to complexity of certain  highly
 * nested DOM elements you need access to combined with the fact that XPath support varies across
 * browsers and  so your tests might not work across different browsers.  <P> Use of Selenium with
 * Smart GWT applications is no different than using Selenium to write and run test cases with 
 * any other application with the exception of one caveat: Smart GWT occasionally renders a
 * different DOM structure  depending on the browser for performance or rendering the UI such that
 * it appears identical across various browsers.  As a result using DOM ID or DOM XPath based
 * locators with Smart GWT applications is not advisable.  <P> Instead Smart GWT supports a new
 * Selenium locator which is an XPath-like string used by Selenium to robustly identify  DOM
 * elements within a Smart GWT application. Smart GWT locators for Selenium are prefixed by
 * "scLocator=" and have a  readable XPath-like value even for cells in ListGrid's or TreeGrids.
 * Typically these locators will not be hand-written and  are generated by <a
 * href='http://seleniumhq.org/projects/ide/' target='_blank'>Selenium IDE</a>, Selenium's test
 * recording tool. One primary locator is based on the ID of the Smart GWT widget and has the
 * syntax <b>ID=&lt;Canvas ID&gt;</b>. This simplifies the task of  writing tests if you know the
 * ID of the Canvas. For reference, the scLocator syntax for ListGrid cells and DynamicForm 
 * FormItems can be found at the end of this document. <P> <b>You can automate the process of
 * running Selenium tests and saving or reporting results using {@link
 * com.smartgwt.client.docs.TestRunner TestRunner}.</b> <P> <b>Setup Instructions</b> <P> Smart
 * GWT ships with two Selenium user extension Javascript files:  <P> <ul> <li> user-extensions.js
 * <li> user-entensions-ide.js </ul> <P> These extensions (found in the   <code>selenium/</code>
 * directory) augment the Selenium tools to support Smart GWT locators. To integrate these
 * extensions with Selenium,  follow the steps below: <P> <ul> <li> Confirm that the Selenium IDE
 * has been installed. <li> Copy the user extension files listed above to a common location on
 * your test client machine. <li> Open the Selenium IDE and click the Options ==&gt; Options...
 * menu item. On the General tab enter the path to these extension  files in the corresponding
 * fields: Selenium Core extensions and Selenium IDE extensions. Refer to the Selenium Documention
 * on <a
 * href='http://seleniumhq.org/docs/08_user_extensions.html#using-user-extensions-with-selenium-ide'
 * target='_blank'>user extensions</a>  for more information. <li> Go to the WebDriver tab and
 * ensure that the "Enable WebDriver Playback" checkbox is unchecked. <li> Close and restart
 * Selenium IDE to load the new extensions. </ul> <P> That's it, we're done configuring the
 * environment. <P> Note: Tests recorded using Selenium IDE can be played back programmatically
 * (e.g. from a test harness) using <a
 * href='../../../../../server/javadoc/com/isomorphic/webdriver/SeleneseRunner.html'
 * target='_blank'>SeleneseRunner</a>, a simulation tool that executes Selenese against Smart
 * GWT's WebDriver wrappers.  This is required because Selenium 3 no longer supports executing
 * Selenese using custom user extensions, as it no longer contains much of the Selenium RC code
 * base. <P>  <P> <b>Recording Selenium tests with Selenium IDE</b> <P> Once you have your
 * application running in Firefox, open Selenium IDE from the Tools ==&gt; Selenium IDE menu
 * option. If the Selenium IDE is in record mode, then clicking or carrying out other operations
 * like typing in a text field with automatically record the  appropriate Selenium commands with
 * the Smart GWT locator. In most cases there's no need for you to manually enter the locator, 
 * the recorder does this for you! In fact, not only do the provided user extension files record
 * your clicks, drag operations, and  typing in the browser--they also try to ensure that your
 * script executes each operation only when the Smart GWT widgets it depends  upon exist and are
 * ready to be interacted with.  This ensures that when the test script is executed, then even if
 * one or more triggered  operations are asynchronous (delayed), it behaves as expected. <P> In
 * the screenshot below, note the <b>waitForElementClickable()</b> operation above the click
 * operation; it was added automatically by our  user extensions as the click itself was recorded:
 * <P> <img src="skin/user-guide-images-selenium/selenium-ide-example.png" width="1017px"
 * height="853px"> <P> Sometimes users may also want finer grain control of what Selenium command
 * is created instead of having the Selenium IDE recorder  do this automatically. For example if
 * you want to verify the value of a particular cell in a ListGrid. Instead of typing in the 
 * command "verifyTable" and manually enter the Smart GWT Locator (scLocator), you can simply
 * right click on the table cell or any  other Smart GWT widget and the most suitable Selenium
 * commands will appear in the context menu along with the scLocator path for  the clicked
 * element. See image below. <P> <img
 * src="skin/user-guide-images-selenium/selenium-ide-example-verifyText.png" width="1211px"
 * height="737px"> <P> <b>Solving Ordering Issues in Selenium Scripts</b> <P> Fundamentally, the
 * reason we add <b>waitForElementClickable()</b> calls before each click is to deal with
 * asynchronous Smart GWT operations. Many operations on widgets or the network are asynchronous,
 * and a correctly coded test should wait for such operations to  complete as opposed to inserting
 * an arbitrary delay or using Selenium's <b>setSpeed()</b> function. Using such delays runs the
 * risk of  the test failing if replay occurs on a loaded machine or slow network, and also makes
 * the test run slower than needed.  <P> Asynchronous operations include: <P> <ul> <li> any actual
 * network operation, <li> any DataSource operation (even for a clientOnly DataSource), <li> any
 * situation where a widget can be marked "dirty" (see notes at <b>Canvas.isDirty()</b>), and then
 * asynchronously  redraw itself - this includes API calls like <b>ListGrid.setData()</b>,
 * <b>Canvas.setContents()</b> as well as user interactions like  ListGrid sort or filter,
 * regardless of whether the data is already present, <li> re-layout that occurs as a result of a
 * size change or new member being added to a Layout or subclass of Layout (eg SectionStack,
 * Window) </ul> <P> The following operations are synchronous and don't require waiting: <P> <ul>
 * <li>draw()ing any widget that has no parent - but note adding a widget to an already-drawn
 * Layout is asynchronous, as above </ul> <P> You may encounter cases where you have to manually
 * insert a <b>waitForElementClickable()</b> or <b>waitForElementNotPresent()</b> to get a script
 * to behave properly.  Looking at the Smart GWT Showcase Example (Grids / Filtering / Advanced
 * Filter), suppose  we wanted to filter by country names containing "Za" and wait for the filter
 * step to complete before proceeding.  Since the  ListGrid initially contains many entries and
 * Zaire is not among them, it is not visible and thus we can solve the original  problem by
 * manually adding a <b>waitForElementClickable()</b> on the locator for Zaire's ListGrid entry:
 * <P>
 * &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>scLocator=//ListGrid[ID="filterGrid"]/body/row[pk=216||countryCode=CG||215]/col[fieldName=countryCode||0]</b>
 * <P> Before the filter operation is issued, the locator is not clickable because the record is
 * not visible: <P> <img src="skin/user-guide-images-selenium/manual-wait-clickable-before.png"
 * width="767px" height="327px"> <P> When the filter operation completes, Zaire and the other
 * search results become visible and the <b>waitForElementClickable()</b>  returns successfully
 * allowing the next script command to execute: <P> <img
 * src="skin/user-guide-images-selenium/manual-wait-clickable-after.png" width="763px"
 * height="328px"> <P> Finally, suppose you wanted to do another filter operation to look only at
 * countries (from the previous search results) with  populations under 30 million.   Since Zaire
 * is above this limit, it will be missing from the search results and you could  wait for the
 * filter operation to complete by adding a <b>waitForElementNotPresent()</b> on same locator that
 * we previously used  for <b>waitForElementClickable()</b>. It will return true and allow the
 * script to proceed when the filter operation completes: <P> <img
 * src="skin/user-guide-images-selenium/manual-wait-not-present.png" width="762px" height="317px">
 * <P> <b>Waiting on Pending ListGrid Operations</b> <P> There are cases where
 * <b>waitForElementClickable()/waitForElementNotPresent()</b> will not work--for example if
 * you're performing  a sort that's rearranging existing elements on the screen, or if you're
 * performing a filter operation where you're not sure of the results and thus cannot use the
 * approach from the previous section.  In such a situation, you may need to add a 
 * <b>waitForGridDone()</b> command into your script to ensure the pending operations are complete
 * before you hit the next command. <P> The <b>waitForGridDone()</b> command guarantees it will
 * not complete successfully unless all of the following potential pending  operations on the
 * widget are complete: <P> <ul> <li> any fetch or filter operation (the result of applying
 * criteria), <li> any sort operation (the result of apply sort specifiers), <li> the flush of
 * pending FilterEditor criteria to the parent ListGrid, and <li> the saving of any newly edited
 * rows. </ul> <P> This command should be able to block a Selenium script until the ListGrid
 * specified in the locator reaches a stable drawn state with  no pending activity.  So for a
 * ListGrid names 'filterGrid', all you'd need to add to ensure all pending operations on it have
 * completed is the command: <P>
 * &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>waitForGridDone("//ListGrid[ID='filterGrid']");</b> <P> <P>
 * <b>Waiting on All Pending Network Operations</b> <P> Because of the
 * <b>waitForElementClickable</b> commands which are automatically inserted during recording, your
 * scripts will automatically wait for the completion of any network operations that block
 * interactivity (via showPrompt, which is enabled by  default). However in some cases you may
 * want to wait for all pending network operations to complete, even if they don't block user
 * interactivity. <P> To do this, use <b>RPCManager.requestsArePending()</b> in combination with
 * <b>waitForCondition()</b>. So, the JavaScript in your <b>waitForCondition()</b> operation would
 * be: <P>
 * &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>!selenium.browserbot.getCurrentWindow().isc.RPCManager.requestsArePending()</b>
 * <P> When the call returns, you'd know that any previously initiated network operations--such as
 * filter/sort operations on DataSources--are  complete. <P> <b>Automatically Waiting on All
 * Pending Network Operations</b> <P> If you need the functionality from the section above to wait
 * on all pending network operations, but don't want to add extra calls to
 * <b>waitForCondition()</b>, you may switch on automatic enforcement of the condition that
 * <b>isc.RPCManager.requestsArePending()</b> is false.  There are two ways to do this: <P> <ul>
 * <li> Set the property <b>isc.AutoTest.implicitNetworkWait</b> to true on the page under test
 * after the ISC modules are loaded, or <li> Add the Selenium command
 * <b>setImplicitNetworkWait(true)</b> to your selenium script in Selenium IDE. </ul> <P> Like
 * other Selenium IDE commands with a single argument, you'll want to use
 * <b>setImplicitNetworkWait()</b> by passing <b>true</b> (or <b>false</b>) in the Target field of
 * the Selenium IDE GUI (right under command). Without any modifications, the default value  for
 * <b>isc.AutoTest.implicitNetworkWait</b> of <b>false</b> will prevail. <P> <b>Keystroke
 * Capturing</b> <P> Our Selenium Extensions will automatically record the following type of
 * keyboard activity in Smart GWT widgets, on a keystroke-by-keystroke basis:<ul> <li>typing at
 * widgets other than text items (e.g. ListGrids), including normal printing characters,
 * navigation keys (up, right, etc.), or modifier sequences (e.g. Ctrl-V) <li>typing of printing
 * characters in masked text items</ul> Unmasked text items are handled differently - we don't
 * record individual keystokes, but instead record the complete text as a "type" command when we
 * get a "change" event for the element.  This event is normally sent when you exit a text item by
 * clicking elsewhere or tabbing into the next form item.  However, in certain situations the
 * event may not be sent - one is when the text item is a managed {@link
 * com.smartgwt.client.docs.AutoChildUsage auto child} of another form item (e.g. {@link
 * com.smartgwt.client.widgets.form.fields.MultiComboBoxItem}).  In this case, you can tap Alt
 * (Option on Mac) to manually insert a "type" command with the right value. <P> <b>Recording
 * Movement-Driven Interactions</b> <P> Our Selenium Extensions provide the capability to
 * automatically record click-based interactions with the target page, and keystrokes (under
 * certain circumstances).  However, we don't automatically capture interactions based solely on
 * movement, such as when a nested menu flyout is triggered by moving the mouse over the menu item
 * of an existing menu. To avoid problems:<ul> <li>If you're trying to record interactions with
 * menus or submenus of a ListGrid, the recommended approach is to use a right mouse click (i.e.
 * "context menu" command) interaction to record the opening of the initial menu, rather than
 * clicking on the HeaderMenuButton that's shown on the header buttons. For the submenus, it's
 * recommended to click on the  appropriate (parent) menu item to properly record what's needed,
 * even though the child menu is already visible from your mouse movement. <li>To manually record
 * a "mouse move" operation over the current element, you can simply press the Alt key (Option on
 * Mac).  (See also "KeyStroke Capturing" above for behavior over text items.) <li>If you find
 * yourself often having to add commands manually (other than through the above mechanism), you
 * may be approaching the situation incorrectly.  In that case check the <a
 * href='http://forums.smartclient.com' target='_blank'>forums</a> to see if it's a common
 * problem. </ul> <P> <b>Capturing Logs</b> <P> Capturing of client and server-side logs can be
 * switched on by providing appropriate options to {@link com.smartgwt.client.docs.TestRunner},
 * but a few Selenium commands are provided to provide direct control over logging on a per-script
 * basis.  If server logging has been configured as "some," then server logs won't be captured for
 * a given script unless you add the captureServerLogs() Selenium command after the open command;
 * switching the mode to "all" will force server logs to be collected for all Selenium scripts,
 * and no captureServerLogs() command is then required. <P> To configure logging levels, you can
 * use the commands <b>setClientLogLevel(category, level)</b>, or <b>setServerLogLevel(category,
 * level)</b>.  For example: <ul> <li><b>setClientLogLevel("AutoTest","ERROR")</b>, or
 * <li><b>setServerLogLevel("com.isomorphic.rpc.RPCManager", "INFO")</b> </ul> Note that when
 * entering the above examples into Selenium IDE, you need neither parentheses nor quotes, as
 * everything is considered a string and there are fixed slots for each. <P> <b>Disabling the
 * Selenium Smart GWT URL Query String</b> <P> By default, our user extensions automatically add a
 * special URL variable, <b>sc_selenium</b>, to open command urls to allow  JavaScript to detect
 * it's being driven by Selenium in case special logic should be used.  In the unlikely event that
 * this causes a  problem with your code or page loading and you don't need the feature, you may
 * eliminate this special URL variable by changing
 * <b>Selenium.prototype.use_url_query_sc_selenium</b> from <b>true</b> to <b>false</b> in
 * user-extensions.js. <P> <hr> <P> <b><u>Common scLocator syntax</u></b> <P> For more information
 * on how locators are formed and how to influence them, see the {@link
 * com.smartgwt.client.util.AutoTest AutoTest} class in  the Smart GWT JavaDoc.  <P> <b><u>List
 * Grid cells</u></b> <P> <b>//ListGrid[ID="itemList"]/body/row[itemID=1996||itemName=Sugar White
 * 1KG||SKU=85201400||1]/col[fieldName=SKU||1]</b> <P> <ul> <li> This assumes the ListGrid has an
 * explicit ID <li> the 'body' part might be 'frozenBody' if the field in question was frozen <li>
 * row[......] identifies the row (record) <li> itemID= - that's the primary key field from the
 * dataSource the grid is bound to <li> itemName= - that's the title field value for the record
 * <li> SKU=... - that's the cell the user clicked's value <li> 1 - that's the index of the row
 * (rowNum) <li> col[.....] - identifies the column in the grid <li> fieldName=... - field name
 * for the field the user clicked <li> 1 - that's the index of the column </ul> <P> <b><u>Form
 * Items</u></b> <P>
 * <b>//DynamicForm[ID="autoTestForm"]/item[name=textField||title=textField||value=test||index=0||Class=TextItem]/element</b>
 * <P> This example is the data element (text entry box) for a text field  <P> <ul> <li> this form
 * has an explicit ID <li> item[...] identifies the item <li> name (field name, if set) <li> title
 * (title, if set) <li> value (current value if set) <li> index (index in the form items array)
 * <li> Class (SC class of the item - in this case TextItem) after the "/" we identify the part of
 * the item in question options here include: <li> "element" - the data element <li> "canvas" -
 * for CanvasItems - points to the canvas embedded in the item <li> in this case the xpath might
 * continue to contain, for example children of the canvas or elements within it (cells in a
 * listGrid, etc) <li> "textbox" - the "text box" - this is the area where content is written out
 * for items without a 'data element' - like header items <li> "[icon=&lt;...&gt;]" - the icon
 * element -- "&lt;...&gt;" would contain the "name" of the icon </ul> <P> <hr> <P> <b><u>Special
 * scLocator usage</u></b> <P> <b><u>Verifying icon/image loading</u></b> <P> If you manually add
 * <b>/imageLoaded</b> to the end of the locator generated for a {@link
 * com.smartgwt.client.widgets.Button} or {@link com.smartgwt.client.widgets.Img}, then {@link
 * com.smartgwt.client.util.AutoTest#getElement AutoTest.getElement()} or {@link
 * com.smartgwt.client.util.AutoTest#getValue AutoTest.getValue()} can be used to verify whether
 * the icon (in the case of a <code>Button</code>) or image (for  an <code>Img</code>) have been
 * loaded succesfully. <P> Examples:<ul> <li><b>//Button[ID="cssButton"]/imageLoaded</b>
 * <li><b>//IButton[ID="stretchButton"]/imageLoaded</b>
 * <li><b>//ImgButton[ID="imgButton"]/imageLoaded</b>
 * <li><b>//Img[ID="photo"]/imageLoaded</b></ul> <P> <b><u>Verifying DrawItem attributes</u></b>
 * <P> If you record a locator to a {@link com.smartgwt.client.widgets.drawing.DrawItem}, by
 * default its value will be the {@link com.smartgwt.client.widgets.drawing.DrawItem#getTitle
 * title}, or the {@link com.smartgwt.client.widgets.drawing.DrawLabel#getContents contents} for a
 * {@link com.smartgwt.client.widgets.drawing.DrawLabel}.  However, other attributes, as listed
 * below, can be queried by adding a trailing suffix.  (Those appearing as links call the
 * associated getter rather than accessing a property directly.)  Note that not all properties
 * listed are available on all {@link com.smartgwt.client.widgets.drawing.DrawItem}s, and that if
 * multiple values are present, they will be separated by a single space when the Framework passes
 * them to Selenium. <ul> <li><b>src</b> <li><b>rotation</b> <li><b>fillColor</b>,
 * <b>lineColor</b> <li><b>top</b>, <b>left</b>, <b>width</b>, <b>height</b> <li><b>lineWidth</b>,
 * <b>lineOpacity</b>, <b>fillOpacity</b> <li><b>{@link
 * com.smartgwt.client.widgets.drawing.DrawItem#getCenter center}</b> <li><b>{@link
 * com.smartgwt.client.widgets.drawing.DrawItem#getBoundingBox boundingBox}</b> <li><b>{@link
 * com.smartgwt.client.widgets.drawing.DrawItem#getResizeBoundingBox resizeBoundingBox}</b> </ul>
 * <P> Examples:<ul> <li><b>//DrawRect[ID="myRect"]/width</b>
 * <li><b>//DrawTriangle[ID="bigTriangle"]/resizeBoundingBox</b> </ul> <hr> <P> <b><u>Best
 * Practices</u></b> <P> <ul> <li> <b>Maximize the test browser window to avoid offscreen
 * widgets</b>: Some browsers will not respond to events on widgets  that are not visible in the
 * browser pane (scrolled out of view or clipped off). To avoid having to manually add script
 * commands to  scroll such widgets into view, it's recommended to use Selenium's
 * <b>windowMaximize()</b> command which will force the browser to  occupy the entire screen. <P>
 * Note that currently some browsers will respond to events on offscreen widgets (IE will, Firefox
 * will not) however, web standards  are unclear on whether this should be allowed and the
 * behavior may change in the future, so best practice is to maximize for all  browsers. <P> <li>
 * <b>Use setID() judiciously to ensure stable locators run-to-run</b>: When setID() is not used
 * to supply a unique component ID, locators will sometimes incorporate automatically generated
 * IDs which have a sequence number (eg isc_Object_355). If your test  has unpredictable execution
 * order (for example, two simultaneous network operations take place and either may complete
 * first,  and both generate UI components on completion) then these IDs will not be stable from
 * run-to-run. They will likewise not be stable  if you test part of an app and then embed it in a
 * larger app and try to use the same script. <P> Use setID() selectively to avoid this problem.
 * Generally, it makes sense to use setID() on all top-level (parentless) widgets - at  this
 * point, locators for children that do not have a unique ID will be based on the parent's ID plus
 * a relative path. This relative  path will not incorporate auto-generated IDs and will generally
 * continue to work even if the interior layout of the parent is  significantly rearranged (such
 * as adding a new intervening container widget). </ul> <P> <hr> <P> <b><u>Known
 * Limitations</u></b> <ul> <li> Selenium intermittently fails to generate an scLocator with the
 * "type" command on some FormItems. If this occurs, you can  manually enter an scLocator into the
 * target field, or use the drop down to select an alternative locator strategy (such as locating 
 * a text input element by name). <li> Support for multi-select for SelectItems with selection
 * mode "grid" (non-default) </ul> <P>
 */
public interface UsingSelenium {
}
