FAQ - Madcow

I have a page that is secured behind a username and password, what now?

You can specify the username and password attributes on each environment in your madcow-config.xml. For example:

<environment name="TEST" username="test" password="p4ssw0rd">
    <invokeUrl>
        <ADDRESSBOOK>https://madcow-test.4impact.net.au:8280/madcow-test-site-2</ADDRESSBOOK>
    </invokeUrl>
</environment>

This will use the username “test” and the password “p4ssw0rd” when prompted to upon opening the https://madcow-test.4impact.net.au:8280/madcow-test-site-2.

Alternatively you can try inlining that information using URL conventions…

<environment name="TEST">
    <invokeUrl>
        <ADDRESSBOOK>https://test:p4ssw0rd@madcow-test.4impact.net.au:8280/madcow-test-site-2</ADDRESSBOOK>
    </invokeUrl>
</environment>

My page re-direct is not followed on a page when using HTTPS, what now?

If the website being redirected to has a non-supported certificate then you’ll need to import the certificate into your local Java JDK using keytool.

Linux:

keytool -importcert -alias "website-cert" -keystore "$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security/cacerts" -file website.cert{code}

Mac OSX:

sudo keytool -importcert -alias website -keystore `/usr/libexec/java_home`/lib/security/cacerts -file website.cert

The default keychain password is ‘changeit’

How can I comment out a part in my test?

To add single line comment to a test simply prepend a # to the front of the line.

# this is a useful test

Comments are useful for explaining what the test is doing.

What is a good text editor to use to edit my .Grass Files?

We would recommend something like TextPad or Notepad++ on Windows or Sublime Text 2 on Mac OSX. Just associate your favourite text editor with the .grass file extension.

How can I tell what version of Madcow I’m using?

By simply running…

./runMadcow.sh -v

you can see the madcow version you used to run against. It is also included in the footer of each of the madcow test results pages.

How can I tell what version of Webdriver Grid Server I need?

As of writing this version 2.33 was the recommended version that Madcow 2.0 would prefer to use.

How can I run Madcow on my CI Server?

As well as producing a beautiful madcow-report showing test execution steps. Madcow also produces a industry standard junit xml and html report. Simply setup your Continuous Integration (CI) build server to execute something along the lines of: (depending on your build tool’s OS)

./runMadcow.sh -a -e DEV

which will run all the tests against the configured DEV environment in your madcow-config.xml.

Then you have to simply point your CI build tool to look for junit style test results in the /results/junit-report/ folder and you will get beautiful test result build server integration. Probably a good idea to get that whole results directory archived with each build too, to ensure you keep copies of the details madcow results as well!

I want to see the source code and get involved and contribute!

Great because Madcow 2.0 is fully open source under the Apache 2.0 License!

So simply head over to our github page. http://www.github.com/4impact/madcow or hit us up on facebook! All contributions are welcome!