HelpIM development wiki

Stress testing HelpIM 3.1 with Selenium

Setting up Selenium IDE (firefox)

1. Download the Selenium IDE firefox extension from http://seleniumhq.org/download/ and install it.
2. Install the "Selenium IDE - Sel Blocks" extension from the mozilla add-ons.
3. Install the Selenium timer extension from: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/SEL/Timer+Extension. To install it, place it in the file pointed to by the "Selenium Core extensions" setting in the options of Selenium.
4. Optionally: install the "File Logging (Selenium IDE)" from the mozilla add-ons.

Running the stress test

Put the following script in the Selenium IDE (you can copy the html-source):

Stresstest
timerStart	total
for	i=0; i <= 300; i++	i
typeKeys	css=textarea.sendTextarea.goog-textarea.goog-textarea-focused	.
type	css=textarea.sendTextarea.goog-textarea.goog-textarea-focused	iter ${i}
keyPress	css=textarea.sendTextarea.goog-textarea.goog-textarea-focused	\13
timerStart	iter
waitForTextPresent	iter ${i}
timerStop	iter
endFor
timerStop	total

Then open a chat-window and run the script. The 300 iterations in this script should take about 5 minutes. More iterations are not very useful: it then becomes more a stress-test of the browser then of he server, because the list to find the text in, becomes longer.