Using Selenium for automating tsting of reports generated through Tableau server

[Swarnim Kulshreshtha]

Is it possible to use Selenium to automate the testing of reports generated through Tableau server on a website? Little background on the architecture - SQL Server table will have all the data which will be fed into the Tableau extract, from there Tableau dashboard will create reports that will be published on a ASP .Net web application.

If this is not possible through Selenium, please suggest some other test automation tool for this purpose.

[Thomas Sundberg]

Hi!

On 1 February 2016 at 08:02, Swarnim Kulshreshtha <swarn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it possible to use Selenium to automate the testing of reports generated
> through Tableau server on a website? Little background on the architecture -
> SQL Server table will have all the data which will be fed into the Tableau
> extract, from there Tableau dashboard will create reports that will be
> published on a ASP .Net web application.
>

You seem to be refering to something that is served from a webserver
as html. Selenium would work for you in that scenario.

/Thomas

>
> If this is not possible through Selenium, please suggest some other test
> automation tool for this purpose.
>

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[Swarnim Kulshreshtha]

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for the reply. The reports are not html. It is a BI application where the analytical reports are served from Tableau server.

[David]

Well, what do you view the final reports in (or with)? If it's within a browser, what is the content that's served in the browser (HTML, Java applet, Flash, etc.)? Depending on the answer, you may or may not be able to validate with Selenium

And also, even if possible with Selenium, charts and graphs, dashboards, are generally tricky to validate with automation because of the graphical aspect of it, even if it's SVG. You can validate properties (like color, width, height, text, CSS styles, etc.) but you can't easily validate if the graphic "looks" right or not in the browser with Selenium.

[sharmar...@gmail.com]

Hi David, 

               I have same scenario where tableau reports are showing on a webpage and its displayed using HTML canvas tag.

Now when i try to inspect any of the element inside graphs/charts it is not allowing to go any further then Canvas tag.

would it be possible to use selenium with any other approach?

~Ravindra

[Surendra Thilakasiri]

I'm also having the same issue with Tableau automation..

[Udit Tiwari]

Did you find any solution for this, is there any API to work with Tableau from Selenium?

On Monday, February 1, 2016 at 12:52:07 PM UTC+5:30, Swarnim Kulshreshtha wrote: