Creating and executing Selenium tests for web controllers

Automated web application testing is an important part of any web application development effort. Spring Roo provides supports for auto-generating Selenium tests for the Spring Web MVC controllers. In this recipe, we'll look at how to generate Selenium tests for web controllers using Roo and how to use the Selenium maven plugin to execute them.

Getting ready

Delete the contents of ch04-recipe sub-directory inside the C:\roo-cookbook directory.

Copy the ch04_web-app.roo script into the ch04-recipe directory.

Execute the ch04_web-app.roo script that creates the flight-app Roo project, sets up Hibernate as the persistence provider, configures MySQL as the database for the application, creates the Flight and FlightDescription JPA entities and defines a many-to-one relationship between Flight and FlightDescription entities. If you are using a different database than MySQL or your connection settings are different than what is specified in...