Using Sikuli IDE to test a Google Chrome Extension
3 January, 2011 § 1 Comment
On Christmas Eve I decided to start working on my first publicly available Google Chrome extension. I blogged previously about it, but today I wanted to cover how I test that the extension is working.
The extension allows a user to take a YouTube video and bring it to the full window size of the browser. This creates a full screen that will not exit when another window is clicked on.
To use the extension, there is a “page action” that is located in Google Chrome’s address bar. When clicked, the video will either expand or contract. After the initial release, I made public the manual test cases for the extension. When I found time later, I automated them with Sikuli.
Here is a video of the test cases being run:
I have uploaded the Sikuli test case files to the project website as an example on unit testing with Sikuli.
Previously, I’ve used Selenium IDE for web-based testing and I know of some coworkers that use AutoHotkey. Have you ever used an app like these for unit testing?
JAWS 
Hey Jared! That is great how you got testing to your project so you can make changes and determine arithmetically whether you broke a feature! I’ve been interested in unit tests however haven’t been very active with them. So I try to stay out of any such testing that is more UI based (i.e. isn’t just code-testing) tests. Great to see that it is working out for you!