Presentation at Berlin Selenium Meetup. 24 Jan 2018

1. How to build scalable and maintainable
test automation solution for Web / API /
Mobile projects

2. About me
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Tech / Team Test Automation Lead
15+ years in software development
TestAutomation for Web / API / Mobile / BI
Dmitriy Romanov
dmitriy.romanov@gmail.com

3. About Bonial International
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• 18 IT agile teams
• 3 big international markets
• Stable product portfolio
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• 18 IT agile teams
• 3 big international markets
• 10+ active products

4. Bonial Products
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5. Bonial Products
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6. Bonial Products

7. Bonial Products
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• Monolithic To Modularized application migration

8. Bonial Products
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9. Bonial Products
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10. Bonial Products
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11. TAF Team
Products family

12. What makes automated tests good ?
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13. What makes automated tests good ?
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14. What makes automated tests reliable ?
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15. What makes automated tests easy to use ?
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16. What makes automated tests easy to use ?
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17. What makes automated tests easy to use ?
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18. What makes automated tests easy to use ?
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19. What makes automated tests easy to use ?
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20. What makes automated tests easy to use ?
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21. What makes automated tests easy to use ?
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22. Implementation
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23. TAF Team
Products family

24. Company TAF Technologies Stack
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25. GEB browser wrapper
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26. GEB browser wrapper
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Navigating Content

27. GEB browser wrapper
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Asynchronicity

28. GEB browser wrapper
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Asynchronous content DSL

29. Appium mobile wrapper
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Asynchronous content DSL

30. REST-Assured - Java DSL for easy testing of REST services
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31. Test Framework
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32. Build Tool
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Apache Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project
object model (POM), Maven can manage a project's build, reporting and documentation from a central piece
of information.

33. Test run reports
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34. Test run reports
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35. Test run reports
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36. Cross run reports / Statistics
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37. TAF Team
Business modelling
• Same brochure data looks (slightly) different on different stages
• Conformation test data. Single point of “truth”
• Efficient way to communicate between application parts
• Hide underlying complexity
Brochure
Model
Portal
CMS
Database
API
Mobile
APPs
Test
Definition
External
(Excel,
CSV)

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API -> Model

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Test – Product – Core project layers
Tests
Test Data
Page objects, models, builders (DSL)
Test Runner (local, grid, parallel)
Configuration management (environments, browsers)
DB / API access
Reporting (screenshots, macro steps) / Statistics / Logs

41. TAF Team
Test – Product – Core project layers
Tests
Test Data
Page objects, models, builders (DSL)
Test Runner (local, grid, parallel)
Configuration management (environments, browsers)
DB / API access
Reporting (screenshots, macro steps) / Statistics / Logs

42. TAF Team
Where to get proper Test Data
Automated
through UI
Direct DB
access
Test Data
API
Hardcoded
values
Manual
through UITest Data

43. Page
a bonial.com company TA project structure
4
3
a bonial.com company
Core
CMS-
core
API-
core
Scarlett
mobile-
core
portal-
core
CDP
cms-test
mobile-tests
portal-web-tests
mobile-api-tests
content-api-tests
scarlett-tests
store-landing -tests
cdp-tests
e2e-content-monitor

44. TAF Team
Conclusions
Choose your tech. stack right
Break-down to needed abstraction
Be SOLID keep DRY

45. TAF Team
Conclusions
Keep test / data / flows separate
Stay aligned with main project
Sync up from time to time

46. TAF Team
Conclusions
Think globally, act locally
Do changes on needed level of abstraction

47. TAF Team
Thank you!

48. The Global Network for Location-
based Shopping Information