UI Recorder

UI Recorder is a zero cost UI test case recorder like Selenium IDE.

UI Recorder is more powerful than Selenium IDE!

UI Recorder is easy to use.

1. Official Site: http://uirecorder.com/
2. Language Switch: English, 中文
3. Change log: CHANGE
4. Video Tutorial：PC中文教程

Features

1. Support all user operation: key event, mouse event, alert, file upload, drag, svg, shadow dom
2. Support mobile native APP(Android, iOS) recorde, powered by macaca: https://macacajs.com/
3. No interference when recording: the same as self test
4. Record test file saved in local
5. Support kinds of expect: val,text,displayed,enabled,selected,attr,css,url,title,cookie,localStorage,sessionStorage
6. Support image diff
7. Support powerful var string
8. Support common test case: one case call another
9. Support parallel test
10. Support i18n: en, zh-cn, zh-tw
11. Support screenshots after each step
12. Support HTML report & JUnit report
13. Support multi systems: Windows, Mac, Linux
14. Test file base on NodeJs: jWebDriver

Screenshots

Video demo

Quick start

Install

1. Install NodeJs (version >= v7.x)

   https://nodejs.org/

   sudo chown -R $(whoami) $(npm config get prefix)/{lib/node_modules,bin,share} (Mac, Linux)

2. Install chrome

   https://www.google.com/chrome/

3. Install UI Recorder

   npm install uirecorder mocha -g

PC record

1. Init test project

   Create new folder

   uirecorder init

2. Start record test case

   edit hosts file

   uirecorder sample/test.spec.js

3. Start WebDriver Server

4. Run test case

   Run all case: source run.sh ( Linux|Mac ) or run.bat ( Windows )

   Run single case: source run.sh sample/test.spec.js ( Linux|Mac ) or run.bat sample/test.spec.js ( Windows )

5. Get reports & screenshots

   ./reports/index.html

   ./reports/index.xml (JUnit)

   ./reports/index.json

   ./screenshots/

Mobile record

1. Install & start macaca server:

   Install macaca: http://macacajs.com/

   Connect your mobile or open emulator

   macaca server --port 4444

2. Init test project

   Create new folder

   uirecorder init --mobile

3. Start record test case

   uirecorder --mobile sample/test.spec.js

4. Run test case

   Run all case: source run.sh ( Linux|Mac ) or run.bat ( Windows )

   Run single case: source run.sh sample/test.spec.js ( Linux|Mac ) or run.bat sample/test.spec.js ( Windows )

5. Get reports & screenshots

   ./reports/index.html

   ./reports/index.xml (JUnit)

   ./reports/index.json

   ./screenshots/

Documentation Translations

1. 中文使用手册

QA

How to debug test code

1. Install Visual Studio Code & open Visual Studio Code
2. Open the project root folder by vs code
3. Open test file, add break point
4. press F5 key to start, press F10 key to run next line

How to deploy WebDriver Server

1. How to run selenium standalone server?

   npm run server

2. Selenium Grid: https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/wiki/Grid2

3. F2etest: https://github.com/alibaba/f2etest

How to change webdriver host & port by env temporary, debug for local?

1. export webdriver=127.0.0.1:4444 or set webdriver=127.0.0.1:4444 (Windows)

Tip: port is not required, For example: export webdriver=127.0.0.1

How to dock Jenkins?

1. Add commands

    source ./install.sh
    source ./run.sh
   

2. Add reports

   JUnit: reports/index.xml

   HTML: reports/index.html

How to filter unstable path

1. Because some attribute values are random or unstable, we can't record a stable CSS selector
2. We can filter the attributes with a blacklist. You can type uirecorder init and then input the blacklist from the command line

Tip: blacklist is a regex, you can use it like this: /attr_\d+/

How to record common test case?

1. Record commons/login.mod.js

2. Record sample/test.spec.js

   1. please input login.mod.js in recorder start page or jump test case in page
   2. After login.mod.js loaded, then recorder other steps

3. source run.sh ( Linux|Mac ) or run.bat ( Windows )

How to record file upload?

1. UI Recorder only support native file compont, no support for Flash
2. direct click <input type="file"> or click <button role="upload">Upload file</button>, the placeholder button must mark as upload with role or data-role
3. File must save to uploadfiles/ directory

How to use vars

edit config.json

{
    "recorder": {
        ...
    },
    "webdriver": {
        ...
    },
    "vars": {
        "productId": "123456",
        "productName": "mp3"
    }
}

1. start with url: http://xxx.com/product?id={{productId}}
2. add new var with tool panel
3. update var with tool panel
4. jump url with tool panel: http://xxx.com/product?id={{productId}}
5. insert vars string with tool panel: {{productName}} or aaa{{productName}}bbb
6. expect to var string: {{productName}} or aaa{{productName}}bbb

Tip: All var string also support js template string, For example: {{productName}}, ${new Date().getTime()}, ${parseInt(testVars.a)+parseInt(testVars.b)}

How to add hover multiple or add expect after a hover?

1. Press down Ctrl or Command button
2. Click Add Hover Button, enter hover mode
3. Release Ctrl or Command button
4. Click the dom you want to hover (can add multiple)
5. Click Add Expect Button
6. Click the dom you want to expect
7. Press Esc button or click End Hover Button, exit hover mode

How to expect the value after js eval in front browser?

1. Add Expect, select type jscode

2. sync mode: return document.title

3. function mode:

    function(){
        var str = "aaa";
        return str;
    }
   

4. async mode:

    function(done){
        setTimeout(function(){
            done(123);
        }, 100);
    }
   

How to hide doms before expect?

1. uirecorder init
2. Input css selector when init Hide before expect
3. uirecorder start
4. UIRecorder will hide matched doms before expect, then you can expect the dom behind the mask div

How to record option click?

Some steps is not very important, but occasionally displayed, this steps will expect to success always.

1. Press 'Alt' button
2. Click the target DOM

How to use image diff?

1. Install GraphicsMagick

   brew install graphicsmagick (Mac)

   sudo apt-get install graphicsmagick (Linux)

   http://www.graphicsmagick.org/download.html (Windows)

2. Add expect with imgdiff

   select expect type: imgdiff

   select target element

3. Rebuild the baseline image

   source run.sh sample/test.spec.js --rebuilddiff (Mac | Linux)

   run.bat sample/test.spec.js --rebuilddiff (Windows)

Can't do when recording

1. don't change url in location bar
2. don't change focus by TAB key
3. don't use dblclick, WebDriver no support
4. don't select text by mouse, WebDriver no support
5. don't focus to background window manualy
6. don't click useless DOM, only record key steps

How develop test friendly code?

1. please dont't use random id or name
2. please name a id for DOM area
3. add label for form
4. please listen click event instead of mousedown

How to set udid to mobile test?

1. export devices=xxx1,xxx2 (windows: set devices=xxx1,xxx2)
2. source run.sh ( Linux|Mac ) or run.bat ( Windows )

How to save raw cmds json?

1. uirecorder start --raw
2. After test saved, then you can get 2 files: sample/test.spec.js, sample/test.spec.json

Other Tips

1. Mac system: localhost must place in hosts

License

UIRecorder is released under the MIT license:

The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2016 - 2017 alibaba.com

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Thanks

• jWebDriver: https://github.com/yaniswang/jWebDriver
• colors: https://github.com/Marak/colors.js
• commander: https://github.com/tj/commander.js
• inquirer: https://github.com/sboudrias/Inquirer.js
• async: https://github.com/caolan/async
• chai: https://github.com/chaijs/chai
• mocha-parallel-tests: https://github.com/yandex/mocha-parallel-tests
• Mochawesome: https://github.com/adamgruber/mochawesome