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![*** Testcases ***
Login Should Succeed When the Correct
Username and Password are Entered
Enter Username AUser
Enter Password TestPass
Click the Login Button
Login is Successful
*** Keywords ***
Setup Test
Open Browser http://zdiles.chaosnet.org/ googlechrome
Maximize Browser Window
Enter Username [Arguments] ${username}
Input Text uname ${username}
Login Is Successful
Page Should Contain Welcome](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/developingatestautomationstrategybrianbayer-160221220125/75/Developing-a-test-automation-strategy-by-Brian-Bayer-53-2048.jpg)
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Developing a test automation strategy by Brian Bayer
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.
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Developing a test automation strategy by Brian Bayer
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- 2. why are wehere?
- 3. regression testing the greatestcost of development
- 4. regression testing you havealready paid for this at least once
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- 6. why regression test? qualityensures what was working, still works
- 7. why regression test? quality risk money lostrevenue, market, contractual ensures what was working, still works deliverables, release, schedule
- 8. why regression test? aproject without thorough and continuous regression testing is like a road trip where you do not look out the window until the end of the trip
- 9. why automate? (vs.manual)
- 10. why automate? (vs.manual) TimeMoney
- 11. why automate? (vs.manual) Money
- 12. why automate? (vs.manual) Time
- 13. automation strategy what toconsider... tests are living specifications of the system
- 14. automation strategy what toconsider... ARE THE TESTS GOING TO BE USED?
- 15. automation strategy what toconsider... business needs return on investment organizational structure and culture
- 16. automation strategy business needs... determineareas of focus of the automation
- 17. automation strategy return oninvestment... limits and prioritizes the areas of focus of the automation determines at which level to automate a test determines the automation framework
- 18. determines the successor failure determines the speed, ability & openness to change determines the communication determines the ability to learn automation strategy organization and culture...
- 19. automation strategy organization andculture... determines who uses and maintains the tests determines the automation framework too
- 20. automation strategy what elseto consider...
- 21. automation strategy what elseto consider... development process and lifecycle maintenance of the tests technology stacks
- 22. automation strategy development processand lifecycle... legacy (system without tests) to greenfields
- 23. automation strategy development processand lifecycle... system under test development process methodology: waterfall agile xp ad hoc is automation development part of the same process?
- 24. automation strategy development processand lifecycle... is the automator part of the development team? how much access to the system developers?
- 25. automation strategy maintenance ofthe tests... who and how much can they maintain? how are the system developers involved?
- 26. automation strategy maintenance ofthe tests... how timely can/must tests be maintained what reporting needed to maintain tests
- 27. automation strategy finally, technologystacks... languages and technology already used unit and integration testing source code control, continuous integration devops or operations
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- 30. who is goingto use the tests?
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- 32. where to automate? https://msdn.microsoft.com “Itsessential point is that you should have many more low-level unit tests than high level end-to-end tests running through a GUI.” Martin Fowler
- 33. where to automate? UNITLEVEL INTEGRATION LEVEL GUI INTEGRATION LEVEL XPtest driven development ACCEPTANCE LEVEL BDD
- 34. ACCEPTANCE LEVEL BDD where toautomate? acceptance tests only if the business is engaged and going to use them ACCEPTANCE LEVEL BDD
- 35. where to automate? whatto consider... DRY
- 36. look for low-hangingfruit risk-based testing what computers do well, humans not so much fragility of test where to automate? what to consider...
- 37. which automation frameworkto use?
- 38. which automation frameworkto use? Gherkin/Cucumber Robot Framework Selenium Webdriver Spock/Geb JUnit Jasmine TestNG
- 39. which automation frameworkto use? what to consider... ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE AND CULTURE
- 40. which automation frameworkto use? what to consider... who is reading the tests? who is writing and maintaining the tests? balance of right tool with existing technology, knowledge, and ability to learn ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE AND CULTURE
- 41. which automation frameworkto use? what else to consider... natural language for high level specification goal is to develop tests NOT framework and...
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- 48. but JRuby (JVM),Java, Groovy, JavaScript, .NET (using SpecFlow) libraries (Selenium, Watir) Ruby has the richest ecosystem with gems gherkin/cucumber generally ruby based...
- 49. Feature: Cash Withdrawal Scenario:Successful withdrawal from an account in credit Given my account has been credited with $100 When I withdraw $20 Then $20 should be dispensed And the balance of my account should be $80 Given /^my account has been credited with (#{CAPTURE_CASH_AMOUNT})$/ do |amount| my_account.credit(amount) end
- 51. also runs onJython (JVM) & IronPython (.NET) libraries (Selenium, Watir, SOAP, etc.) keyword based supports “given when then” supports tabular/data driven robot framework python based...
- 52. *** Settings *** LibrarySelenium Library Suite Setup Start Selenium Server Suite Teardown Stop Selenium Server Test Setup Setup Test Test Teardown Close All Browsers
- 53. *** Testcases *** LoginShould Succeed When the Correct Username and Password are Entered Enter Username AUser Enter Password TestPass Click the Login Button Login is Successful *** Keywords *** Setup Test Open Browser http://zdiles.chaosnet.org/ googlechrome Maximize Browser Window Enter Username [Arguments] ${username} Input Text uname ${username} Login Is Successful Page Should Contain Welcome
- 54. *** Testcases *** LoginShould Succeed When the Correct Username and Password are Entered Given I Enter Username AUser And I Enter Password TestPass When I Click the Login Button Then Login is Successful given when then
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- 57. developing in javaor grails?
- 58. groovy-based browser automationtool built on Selenium WebDriver works with JUnit, TestNG, Spock page models and jQuery selector syntax spock/geb/groovy geb...
- 59. groovy-based test andspecification framework supports “given when then” tabular/data driven spock/geb/groovy spock...
- 60. import geb.spock.GebSpec class GebHomepageSpecextends GebSpec { def "can access The Book of Geb via homepage"() { given:”One is on the Geb Home Page” to GebHomePage when: “I click the jQuery Link” highlights.jQueryLikeApi.click() then: “I should be at the jQuery Section” highlights.jQueryLikeApi.isSelected } }
- 61. import geb.Page class GebHomePageextends Page { static url = "http://gebish.org" static at = { title == "Geb - Very Groovy Browser Automation" } static content = { highlights { $("#sidebar .sidemenu").module(HighlightsModule) } sectionTitles { $("#main h1")*.text() } } }
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- 64. raw Selenium (Java) excelspreadsheet data driven scripts script capture record/playback flat files in source control other options...
- 65. which automation frameworkto use? the simplest thing that could possibly work
- 66. tests are specifications ofthe system...
- 67. how does itfit?
- 68. how does itfit... design your approach into the organization
- 69. how does itfit... find the gaps and tight squeezes
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- 73. documentation of thestrategy...
- 74. execution of thestrategy...
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