The lack of technical support is a popular excuse to not have to test UIs. The fact that this excuse no longer counts, the current section of the column "Backend meets Frontend" shows how developers with Vaadin and Selenium can lay the foundations for a test-driven development.

Here you can see a minimal Version of, howto start with Selenium tests.

Under _data/ you can find a few binaries with WebDriver for Chrome. This I used for my example, but it is not needed to use exactly this one.

The example will try to read the binary file from _data/chromedriver to load the Driver binary. Check the website from Selenium, how to install it if you don´ want to use this local one.

You need an installed Chrome on your machine to run the tests.

If you have any questions -> please ping me at Twitter https://twitter.com/SvenRuppert

• german article http://bit.ly/jaxenter-003
• engl. article : not translated until now, ping me if you need it

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The complete playlist of german screencasts you can find here: http://bit.ly/vaadin-video-list-ger

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