Automated Testing for Web-based Systems on Embedded Devices - Lauro Moura, Igalia

Automated Testing for Web-based Systems on Embedded Devices - Lauro Moura, Igalia
Every day, embedded devices are becoming more powerful and capable of running more elaborate applications. Among these applications are Web-based ones, enabling to leverage features from the Web APIs to the embedded context, either through a generic browser running a traditional Web application or through a customized Web engine tightly integrated within the system.
But such capabilities usually bring new challenges, like testing user interactions with the application using the embedded device's specific I/O methods, such as gestures, or inspecting Web application internals with JavaScript. In this context, using a browser automation framework such as WebDriver, which is a W3C standard supported by WebKit Web engine, allows testing Web-based applications on such devices as if the user were actually using it, alongside running custom JS code.
In this session, we will cover why we need browser automation for testing on certain types of embedded devices, with a focus on WebDriver as the proposed tool to achieve that goal. We will also discuss WebDriver's main features and limitations, as well as other possible approaches and frameworks that could be considered for this kind of task.