WSO2Con Asia 2014 - Effective Test Automation in an Agile Environment

This is the presentation that Mr. Duong Phan and Mr. Vu Duong shared at KMS's public seminar on Saturday, June 15, 2013.

Key Concepts: The structure of a Test Framework, its components, and the process to create one will be presented. A Test Framework provides a means to automate tests fast and guarantee their extended existence. It makes the automation process straightforward and systematic, simplifies the error debugging procedures, makes the testware tolerant to all kinds of object changes and reliable in an unstable test environment. The presentation is not an illustration of a specific test framework implementation, but rather a description of the features that should be mandatory attributes of any test framework. Learning Objectives: How to present the testware internally as a hierarchy of test sets (structural level), use cases (functional - scenario level), test cases (the scenario steps with verification), test actions (the interface "action" words). How to present the testware externally as a set of configuration files, scripts, libraries.How to separate the business action words from the interface action words and the respective drivers.How to create debug logs that allow to identify the source of a failure in minutes.

Automation testing involves automating manual testing processes using software tools to execute test scripts and compare expected and actual results. There are different types of automation frameworks including data-driven, keyword-driven, modular, and hybrid frameworks. Implementing an automation framework involves 10 steps: identifying the testing scope and needs, evaluating tools, designing the framework, developing and populating test data, and configuring schedulers.

Testing frameworks provide an execution environment for automated tests. The main types are modular, data-driven, and keyword-driven frameworks. Modular frameworks organize tests into independent scripts representing application modules. Data-driven frameworks store test data and expected results in external files to reduce code duplication. Keyword-driven frameworks use external files to store test actions and data. Hybrid frameworks combine advantages of the different approaches. While frameworks work with waterfall models, agile methodologies benefit more from test-driven development and behavior-driven development which integrate testing throughout development.

This is a presentation given at the Hangzhou Scrum Forum 2009, sponsored by Perficient, China. The topic is how to incorporate automated functional testing into an agile project, and also some best practices, tips, and warnings. www.perficient.com

The document discusses test automation frameworks and the page object model pattern. It recommends treating automated testing as software development with principles like separation of concerns. The page object model pattern models pages as objects and allows tests to interact with pages through page object classes. Data driven testing is also discussed where test data is stored externally in spreadsheets or databases and passed into tests.

Automation Framework - gFast: generic Framework for Automated Software Testing - QTP Framework The Most sophisticated frameworks in Automation Testing is Designed with highly experienced Automation Consultants of Heyday Software Solution for all the areas. This makes us to make the impossible things to make possible very fast with our proprietary framework "gFAST".This is a QTP Framework About gFAST: generic Framework for Automated Software Testing **************** Developed on Quick Test Professional supporting all Platforms(addin's) with KeyWord Driven Framework. Key Features **************** * Better ROI * Internationalization Support * Supports Multiple Projects/TestSuites/TestCases * 24/7 Automatic Regression Tests Running Facility * Generates Email Reports * Generates Test Logs * Simple way to Create Test Cases(without any new QTP Scripts development) * Easy to Create Test Cases with Test Cases Generator * Easy way to Create Tests With Excel/Text files facility) * Easy to Maintain.(Whole Framework will Have 3 QTP script Files -Driver and Two Controllers and Libraries.) * Screen Capturing on Error for Each of the Test Cases * Global Configuration Files * Multiple Browser windows support * Easy to build automation for the Projects Our Frameworks: Selenium Framework WATIR RUBY Framework Silk Framework Winrunner Framework QTP Framework Generic Automation Framework Perl Automation Framework

This presentation introduces Test Automation and gives overview of the tasks involved. For more info visit blog.rockoder.com

it is about test automation methodologies which you should know before starting to automate your test cases.

This document discusses key factors for ensuring the success of a test automation framework (TAF). It outlines various elements that should be considered when setting up a TAF, including supporting different application types like web, mobile, and APIs. Important TAF features that are described include being keyword/data-driven, handling test flows and errors, and generating execution and historical reports. The document also provides recommendations for integrating the TAF with continuous integration systems for scheduling tests, notifications, load balancing and distributed execution to save time.

The document discusses test automation, including its objectives, benefits, misconceptions, and challenges. It provides a checklist for test automation implementation, covering criteria for choosing an automation tool, defining requirements, designing the architecture, creating test data, implementing coding standards, and maintaining automated tests. The key goals are to understand test automation concepts, what it takes to implement effective automation, and techniques to emphasize maintainability.

The document discusses a test automation framework (TAF) that helps perform automated testing effectively. It has several key features including being keyword-driven, product-independent, tool-independent, and compatible with continuous integration frameworks. The TAF workflow involves initialization, development, usage, and maintenance phases. The TAF architecture consists of test scenarios that run via the TAF core and output results to various formats.

The document discusses developing a test automation strategy and considerations for regression testing, automation, and frameworks. It addresses why regression testing is important, factors for the automation strategy like business needs and ROI, and frameworks to consider like Cucumber, Robot Framework, and Spock. The strategy determines test maintenance and fits within the organization, development process, and technology stacks.

This document provides guidelines for effective test automation at IBM Global Services. It discusses that automation is viewed as a silver bullet but can also frustrate if not implemented properly. The document recommends starting simple and increasing complexity as skills grow. It provides considerations for automation, such as tests that are long, repetitive, and non-subjective. The document outlines 10 guidelines for automation, including establishing standards, separating what from how, using a six phase process, and defining required skills. It also discusses functional decomposition and keyword-driven methodologies and provides an overview of automation tools.

Intelligent test automation has become an important subset of the software testing process. It is the key enabler of many advanced deployment and development processes.

Centralized Test Automation using Hybrid Model 1) The document discusses a centralized test automation framework using a hybrid model that incorporates both keyword-driven and data-driven approaches. 2) A key benefit of the hybrid framework is that it allows data-driven scripts to leverage the libraries and utilities of the keyword-driven architecture, making the scripts more compact and less prone to failure. 3) The centralized framework encapsulates components like function libraries and scripts so that users only have access to the scripts relevant to their testing, preventing access to the entire framework.

Provides overview of Software Functional Test Automation, What tool you should use? What are the benefits? How to select tool that best fit you? Compiled after going through 50 plus slides from internet

The document discusses effective test automation practices in an agile environment. It outlines the benefits of automated testing such as early feedback, safety net for manual tests, and ability to run tests unattended. It presents success stories from companies like Google, Ebay, Facebook, and Amazon on their extensive use of automated testing. The document also covers test automation techniques like the test pyramid, WSO2's test automation framework, continuous integration, and continuous delivery. It emphasizes the importance of selecting the right tools, processes, and team for successful test automation.

This presentation is answering the questions: how to build an effective test automation framework, select the right tools and organize to whole process?

Learn through Experience -- We differentiate our training and development program by delivering Role-Based training instead of Product-based training. Ultimately, our goal is to deliver the best IT Training to our clients. In this training, attendees learn: Introduction to Automation • What is automation • Advantages of automation & Disadvantages of automation • Different types of Automation Tools • What to automate in projects • When to start automation. Scope for automation testing in projects • About open-source automation tools Introduction to Selenium • What is selenium • Why selenium • Advantage and Disadvantages of selenium Selenium components • Selenium IDE • Selenium RC • Selenium WebDriver • Selenium Grid Selenium IDE • Introduction to IDE • IDE Installation • Installation and uses of Firepath, Firebug & Debug bar • Property & value of elements • Selenium commands • Assertions & Verification • Running, pausing and debugging script • Disadvantages of selenium IDE • How to convert selenium IDE Scripts into other languages Locators • Tools to identify elements/objects • Firebug • IE Developer tools • Google Chrome Developer tools • Locating elements by ID • Finding elements by name • Finding elements by link text • Finding elements by XPath • Finding Elements by using CSS • Summary Selenium RC • What is selenium RC • Advantages of RC, Architecture • What is Eclipse/IntelliJ, Selenium RC configure with Eclipse/IntelliJ • Creating, running & debugging RC scripts Java Concepts • Introduction to OOPs concepts and Java • Installation: Java, Eclipse/IntelliJ, selenium, TestNg/JUnit • operators in java • Data types in java • Conditional statements in java • Looping statements in java • Output statements in java • Classes & Objects • Collection Framework • Regular Expressions • Exception Handling • Packages, Access Specifiers /Modifiers • String handling • Log4J for logging Selenium Web Driver with Java • Introduction to WebDriver • Advantages • Different between RC and WebDriver • Selenium WebDriver- commands • Generate scripts in Eclipse/IntelliJ. Run Test Scripts. • Debugging Test Script • Database Connections • Assertions, validations • Working with Excel • Pass the data from Excel • Working with multiple browser • Window Handling, Alert/confirm & Popup Handling • Mouse events • Wait mechanism • Rich Web Handling: Calendar handing, Auto suggest, Ajax, browser forward/back navigation, keyboard events, certificate handling, event listeners TestNg/JUnit Framework • What is TestNg/JUnit • Integrate the Selenium Scripts and Run from TestNg/JUnit • Reporting Results and Analysis • Run Scripts from multiple programs • Parallel running using TestNg/JUnit Automation Framework development in Agile testing • Introduction to Frame W

This document discusses test automation concepts and tools. It defines a test case as specifying inputs, execution conditions, testing procedures and expected results for a particular test objective. Automation testing uses automation tools to execute test case suites, enter test data, compare results and generate reports. The benefits of automation testing include earlier defect detection, faster testing and increased coverage. Common automation tools discussed are Selenium for web testing, TestNG/JUnit for unit/functional testing, and Appium for mobile app testing. The document concludes with an offer to demonstrate how to create a basic automation test.