The document provides an overview of test automation training which includes discussing when to automate testing, the benefits of automation, code driven testing, test frameworks, popular automation tools like Selenium, and GUI testing. It outlines the agenda for the training which will cover test automation fundamentals, a Selenium demo, and a brief Selenium training. The training will discuss unit testing, test frameworks, popular tools like Selenium and how to get started with Selenium by using the Selenium IDE plugin for Firefox.

1. Test Automation Training
By Unmesh Ballal

2. Agenda
When to automate?
Benefits of Automation
Code Driven Testing
Test Framework
Test automation tools
GUI testing
Brief training on Selenium
Demo of Selenium
Test Automation Charter

3. When to automate?
No GUI Changes – code stable
Time spend on manual testing is too much
Automating early can be time consuming
Manual testing limitation
Data is pre-defined

4. Automation benefits
Manual test case is included in testing for automation
Platform and OS independence e.g. Web, mobile
Data driven capability (Input Data, Output Data, Metadata)
can be expanded
Easy debugging and logging
Extensible & Customizable by integrating with other tools
Availability of reliable test case driver (Ant or Maven)
Ability to integrate with the developers' workflows.
Support unattended test runs
Support distributed execution environment across multiple
platform and OS

5. Code driven testing
What is a unit test?
A feature of agile development
Unit test cases are written before code is written
more reliable because the code coverage is better
Run anytime

6. xUnit architeture
Test case
Test fixtures (test context) or preconditions
Test suites
Test execution
public class TestAdder {
public void testSum() {
Adder adder = new AdderImpl();
// can it add positive numbers?
assert(adder.add(1, 1) == 2);
}
}

7. Framework approach
Framework consists of
Test Suite
Test cases
And Test library
Selenium Driver
Supports Firefox
Additional steps are required to use Chrome Driver,
Opera Driver, Android Driver and iPhone Driver

8. Popular Test Automation tools
Selenium – open source
QTP
Rational Robot

9. Graphical user interface (GUI) testing
Record and playback
Reading values and asserting
Web application has HTML tags for each controls such
as
Buttons
Checkbox
List
Etc
Values can be get and set on controls

10. How to start using Selenium
Installing Selenium IDE as firefox add-on.
Install firebug
Install selenium driver (optional)
Selenium IDE concepts
Recording
Adding verifications and asserts
Clicking a link - click or clickAndWait commands
Entering values - type command
Selecting options from a drop-down listbox - select command

11. Selenium Commands
Command, Target, and Value entry fields categories
Actions, Accessors and Assertions
Actions - Command manipulators such as click, select. E.g. clickAndWait
Accessors – examine the state of the application and store the results in
variables. E.g. storeTitle
Assertions - e.g. verify if checkbox is checked
“assert”, “verify”, and ” waitFor”
Script Syntax
a locator for identifying a UI element within a page.
a text pattern for verifying or asserting expected page content
a text pattern or a selenium variable for entering text in an input
field or for selecting an option from an option list.

12. Selenium command examples
verifyText //div//a[2] Login
goBackAndWait
Welcome to My Home
verifyTextPresent
Page
type id=phone (555) 666-7066
type id=address1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM4GldTw_Cw

13. Test Automation Charter
Objectives
Write manual test cases that are automatable
Develop Selenium expertise
Add project experience
Able to test automation on
Web applications
Mobile apps
iOS, iPhone, Android

14. Questions?