When we talk about UI automation for browsers, the default tool which comes to mind is Selenium. There are different wrappers around selenium like protractor, Nightwatch , selenium webdriver etc. All of them are build on top of selenium and have all advantages /disadvantages of selenium. All of the control browser by executing remote commands through Network. We will most probably need additional libraries, framework etc to make full use of selenium. ...

In previous blog post, we saw how to use BDD format for writing test cases in postman. Most important part of writing tests in postman is understanding various features available. Let us explore various options available . The examples specified in postman documentation, have lot of information about how to setup postman bdd, use chai http assertions, create custom assertions and use before and after hooks. Please import them into postman and try that by yourself to familiarise with postman BDD. Below is only few examples from them. ...

In Previous blog post,we discussed about how to use postman and how to use collections using newman and data file. If you haven’t read that , please have a read through first . In previous examples, we discussed about writing tests/assertions in postman. We followed normal Javascript syntax for writing test cases including asserting various factors of response ( like content , status code etc). Eventhough this is a straightforward way of writing, many people would like to use existing javascript test library like Mocha. They can use postman - bdd libraries. ...

Gulp is a toolkit for automating painful or time-consuming task in your development workflow, so you can stop messing around and build something. Gulp can be used for creating a simple task to run automated test cases. Firstly, we will create package.json file for this project. This can be done by below command from project folder. It will prompt you to enter a list of information required for creating package.json file ...

TeamCity is a java based build management and continuous Integration server from JetBrains. Very often , we will have to extract various metrics from TeamCity for tracking and trend analysis. TeamCity provides versatile api for extracting various metrics which can then be manipulated or interpreted as we need. Below are basic api calls which can be used for extracting mertics. Please note that TeamCity api is powerful enough to do much more than extraction of data. However, for this blog post, I am focussing on metrics extraction part alone. All of these are GET request to TeamCity api with a valid user credentials ( use any id/password which can access TeamCity) ...

What is Accessibility testing ? It is a kind of testing performed to ensure application under test is usable by people with disabilities. One of the most common accessibility testing for web applications is to ensure it is easily usable by people with vision impairment. They normally use screen readers to read the screen and use key board to navigate. Web Content Accessibility Guideline (WCAG) list down guidelines and rules for creating accessible website. There are various browser extensions and developer tools available for scanning web pages to find out obvious accessibility issues. aXe is one of the widely used extension. Details of aXe can be found here. Once browser extension is installed, you can analyze any web page to find out accessibility issues. They also have a javascript API for aXe core . ...

In previous blog post, I have explained about how to create a json response in mountebank. You can read about that here and here. Recently , I had to test a scenario about what will happen to application if downstream API response is delayed for some time . Let us have a look about how we can use mountebank to simulate this scenario. Mountebank supports adding latency to response by adding a behaviour. You can read about that here . Let us try to implement the wait behaviour in one of the previous examples . This is a slight modification of the files used as part of examples mentioned here and here. You can clone my github repo and look at “ExamplesForWaitBehaviour” for the files. ...

I was not active in this blog over past one month due to multiple reasons - both personal and professional. Following are some highlights over past one month. ISTQB Test Automation Engineer As mentioned in previous post, I had a chance to attend ANZTB SIGiST conference in August 2017. There were some good talks about various certifications offered by ISTQB/ANZTB. ISTQB Test Automation Engineer was one among them. I decided to give that a try . Spend some time over past one month to prepare based on the syllabus and I gave it a shot. Fortunately, I passed the exam with good marks ...

An agile retrospective is a meeting held at end of a sprint to analyse their ways of working over past sprint and identify how to become more effective and then adjust accordingly. This is a ritual which belongs to team and criticism is given for facts/output and not for people. Retrospective creates an environment where the team feels safe and comfortable, which will allow them to talk freely about their thoughts and let go their frustration. ...

Today I had a discussion with a project manager about stake holder expectations about value delivered from regression test automation and how to manage stake holder expectation. The discussion soon spanned on to challenges in automating manual test cases and candidates for automation testing. Expectation Vs Reality Management Stakeholders always visualize test automation as a silver bullet for fixing all pain points.They envision automation tests to be quicker, cheaper and effective in identifying all defects. Automation test cases are expected to be run on a button click and with 100% pass rate (except for valid bugs). Needless to say, that expectation is about having complete test coverage for automation scripts. Thinking is always geared towards reducing manual testers based on automation progress rather than having focus on improved quality of final product, faster time to market etc. ...