Incapsula, a subsidiary of Imperva, provides a cloud-based security solution for online businesses, offering features like DDoS protection and load balancing. The QA team employs an internal automation tool using Java and JavaScript, focusing on regression testing with no manual testers. Future developments include enhancements for visual testing and performance metrics.

1. Automation @ Incapsula
Michal Pal, QA Team Lead at Incapsula

2. About Incapsula
• Incapsula, a subsidiary of the data security company
Imperva (NYSE:IMPV), offers a cloud-based solution
that enables online businesses of all sizes to enjoy
enterprise-grade website security, performance and
availability. Through an application-aware global
CDN platform, Incapsula provides any website or
web application with best-of-breed Security, DDoS
Protection, Load Balancing & Failover solutions
• SaaS
• Weekly Deployment
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3. Incapsula Testing Methodology
• Internal automation tool development (based on Java and js)
• No manual testers (!)
• Only regression testing
• Database replication on testing environment
• Environments - Staging, QA and Production
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4. STEPS - Incapsula Automation Tool
• Play Framework
• Java Infrastructure
• JS Test Flows
• Json - Environment variable
• Database - mysql
• Run Suites - Internal development (Web)
• SVN - Subversion Control
• Jenkins - cron jobs and deploy steps
• Bugzilla
• Spirent -Avalanche
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5. Before Diving In - Why Steps
• Lessons and conclusion from other
known testing tools and environments
• There is no silver bullet solution
• Changing and Improving without any
dependencies
• Stable infrastructure -adding new tests
is fast and easy
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shhhh - just wait until they
sign the contract before you
start talking about the way
things really work…

6. Steps Is Easy
• Steps uses javascript which is a known
and simple language - adding new tests
is fast and easy
• Jquery proved to be more stable than
any Selenium.findelement
• Stable infrastructure -Java with
minimum changes (only new utils that
can’t be written in js)
• Steps -Includes MAIL, WEB, HISTORY -
Meets ALL OUR NEEDS !
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7. Steps Architecture
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8. Steps Architecture
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9. How does it work? Project Organization
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10. Selenium in Steps
Steps uses Selenium to:
• Open and close browsers
• Navigate and get URLs
• Eval Jquery
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Let’s have a drive… of Selenium Webdriver

11. Test in Steps
• Txt File
• Test cases (js)
>Testing UI and on other clients (mail,
ssh, bot clients, etc..)
>Test case holds multiple related tests
>Test cases are separated by titles
>Test cases may call java function
• Test cases titles - describe the flow and
appears in the results reports
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12. Live Demo - Steps how does it work
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13. Live Demo - Dashboard and Mail
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14. What’s next?
• Tools for visual testing
• Different Browsers
• Bugzilla to Dashboard
• Performance Tests
• Report Graphs
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15. Questions?
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