Canoo Webtest Tutorial

What is Canoo Webtest?

If you  are looking for a open source test automation tool then Canoo Webtest is one of them. It's simple,fast and easy to setup . If you are looking for test automation for your project this is definitely one of the tool worth trying.

System requirement 

• Java 1.5 or higher.
• Ant 1.7.0 or higher.
• Eclipse to create test cases (optional).
• Version Control (optional).

Installation 

 Download latest build http://webtest.canoo.com/webtest/build.zip.

Sanity check

• JAVA_HOME is set properly 
• MAVEN_HOME is set properly

Set up Canoo  Webtest 

• Extract the build jar to a folder (D:/Canoo)
• Configure System path  (PATH=%PATH%;D:/Canoo/build/bin) 
• Now open a command prompt  and type webtest . It should looks like below

Create a Canoo Test Project

Now your system is ready for canoo test and start writing canoo tests . Canoo provide utility to create a Canoo project with all the required skeleton.

Open command prompt and go to your Canoo home folder (D:\Canoo) and type :

   webtest -f build/webtest.xml wt.createProject  

Give a name for your Canoo project .

This command will create a Canoo project with the required skeleton and also provide few default test sets for your learning .

Running Canoo Test cases

Now Canoo project is ready  to run . Just go command prompt  and go to your Canoo project home page and type:

               
           webtest

You should see something like :