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Is Bamboo a good platform for building automated testing?

David Parks

Can someone give me an overview of what it looks like to use bamboo to schedule, or continuously run PHPUnit test and Selenium functional tests?

I'm investigating automated testing options for a PHP website.

Bamboo looks interesting, there are many features we're not ready for yet, but would love to be able to grow into.

For now we'd like to think about:

(1) Unit testing (PHPUnit probably)

(2) Functional automated tests (Selenium possibly)

(3) Load testing (JMeter probably)

#3 isn't so important to automate, but I can see creating some nightly testing or continuous automated testing of the #1 (Unit tests), and #2 (Functional tests).

Then probably continuing on to automated release management.

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Przemek Bruski

At Atlassian, we run Selenium tests (and other Web UI functional tests based e.g. on HTMLUnit) on every commit made to the repository. For example, Bamboo is developed in that way.

PHPunit is supported out of the box and there's a plugin for JMeter.

There's not much difference between running these tests and running unit tests or testless builds. You can run builds for every commit, or schedule builds to be triggered at sepcific times (e.g. nightly). If you have some specific questions, feel free to post them here.

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Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

I'd say yes. I've not used Bamboo a lot myself, but there are teams here using it to run Selenium and JMeter tests (amongst others). They seem very happy with it. I don't know about PHPUnit - I don't see why not, but haven't seen it used.

Przemek Bruski

At Atlassian, we run Selenium tests (and other Web UI functional tests based e.g. on HTMLUnit) on every commit made to the repository. For example, Bamboo is developed in that way.

PHPunit is supported out of the box and there's a plugin for JMeter.

David Parks

What I don't really have a feel for yet is how "Running Tests" looks in Bamboo. I guess I just need to spend some time POCing it on my own, but I was hoping you can just give me a short example of what your processes look like in regard *only* to the testing aspect.

I expect that we would implement functionality iteratively, and we would start with setting up nightly automated testing and run that for a while before moving on to other features. I want to know (feel like) this is a workable use case for Bamboo.

ReneR

a short example of what your processes look like

is your question one of technical details about Bamboo? Technical details about testing frameworks for PHP? Or Workflow patterns and approaches for how to implement Test Driven Development or folding Unit and Functional testing into your Development process?

It's a bit hard to "translate" exactly which "processes" you're talking about...

David Parks

My question is really about workflow patterns and approaches to implementing testing (initially folding unit testing & functional testing in, and later test driven development). I haven't yet set up and run tests of Bamboo, so this question is precursor to setting up a POC in our environment.

mike p_aoxtgc

Can anyone let me know a way to test a web application automatically without having a code or build? but with only user login, password and URL. I think it may be a UI Test.

Please let me know weather bamboo can able to do this kind of test.

Jeyanthan I

You may use tools like Selenium to automate UI testing. This external Browserstack link gives you an idea on how to configure with Bamboo.

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