Presentation slides from Michal Pal's talk on Incapsula's test framework "Steps" in Selenium Israel Meetup #6.

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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