We are doing POC in RPA tools, where we have to make use of our existing selenium automated scripts which is done using c#, is there any possibility to invoke the selenium scripts in RPA tool>
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Is there any way to make a browser recording in IntelliJ IDEA, how it is possible in Katalon Studio or Selenium IDE?
Katalon Studio is a test automation product that includes a web recorder and an Eclipse-based code editor (as well as some other stuff like API testing tool, object repository, etc.).
IntelliJ IDEA is an integrated development environment.
So they don't have the same purpose as Katalon Studio is a software that combines many functionalities, one of them is a part of an integrated development environment.
One thing you can do is to use Selenium IDE to record a script and then export it to one of the following programming language / testing libraries:
C# + NUnit
C# + xUnit
Java + JUnit
JavaScript + Mocha
Python + pytest
So you can export it to a Java/JUnit script and open it in IntelliJ.
Now I am using Selenium (Java + Maven + Jenkins + TestNG + GitHub) with Microsoft Test Manager (Test Management Tool) for UI Automation. Microsoft Test Manager provides the APIs to integrate/map the manual tests from test manager to automated tests from Selenium.
Now we are planning to use LeanFT with Selenium (with LeanFt we can use Selenium, .Net- Visual Studio or UFT) for UI automation and HP QC (Test Management Tool).
Here I want to know:
How to integrate LeanFT Selenium with HP QC or How to map manual tests from HP QC to automated tests in LeanFT Selenium? (If you are using QTP/UFT you can open the manual test in QC and click on QTP/UFT icon to create related automated test).
Which tool can be used for SCM or Version Control, git and GitHub or LeanFT provides in built support for java code also? (In case if you are using QTP, no need to use external SCM).
From where to run the tests, from Jenkins or QC (In QTP + QC integration, you can run tests directly from QC also)?
Let me try to answer your questions:
Which version of HPE ALM(QC) you use? Is it already the new gig called ALM Octane? In case you have an older version you need to think about VAPI-XP Tests. This is the generic test type for everything that HPE QC doesn't support out-of-the-box. Newer versions of HPE ALM however support LeanFT as a Test Type. Here is the offical doc on test types for the latest version and here a little tutorial.
Unlike UFT, LeanFT is just the Test Automation Framework, it does not come bundled with an IDE (Which I personally consider good) - so depending on the IDE you use to develop code (eclipse, intellij, visual studio) - you can and should use any plugin that supports it. Definitely git is an easy and good pick.
Jenkins has plugins to trigger UFT Tests from QC or the FileSystem and then pick-up results automatically. In the case of LeanFT as mentioned it neither comes bundled with an IDE or Test Execution Engine so you can use JUnit, TestNG or any other execution engine to achieve this. For doing full Continuous Integration; QC is not that good (HPE seemed to abandon development there) so it is definitely Jenkins. The new Gig(Octane) did not even try to build an own CI System but just wrapped Object models of existing ones into it's own pipeline representations. For integrating with QC, you may have to write some scripting / utilities to upload stuff to QC using the OTA API - which is the client side Automation Framework of HPE QC
Below are the tutorials for OTA API if you need them
https://sumeetkushwah.com/2015/03/19/connecting-almqc-using-hps-otaopen-test-architecture-api/
And here is a github project with alot of examples and wrapper functions
https://github.com/sumeet-kushwah/ALM_OTA_Wrapper
Best place to run tests is from jenkins as suggested by Bela. Below is the article detailing that process
https://sumeetkushwah.com/2015/03/24/implementing-ci-using-jenkins-and-uft/
I have just started learning about test automation in Selenium and found out that most online tutorials would tell you to run the test suite inside an IDE together with a test framework such as TestNG (with testng.xml) and a build tool such as Maven.
When you are working in a software company and told to build a test framework and run automated tests, I don't believe you actually need to fire up your IDE every time you want to execute your test suite. So, my question is, what is the typical setup a software company follows to 'automate' running your test automation scripts?
Software companies are following agile practices and wanna keep up with industry practices. In real projects, CI & CD are used to continuously integrate, deploy and test the software.
Tests are written by SDET using test automation frameworks. While developing test scripts test developers use IDEs like eclipse. However, tests are executed over Jenkins as a job, after required frequency/event.
For example, after every code deployment, Jenkins can automatically trigger your sanity suite, and run regression bi-weekly.
The process' are automated now-a-days with stakeholders demanding agility.
One can invoke selenium java project from command line via .bat file in Jenkins, or using ant/maven as build tools.
IDEs are seldom used to run tests in real world.
I want to start my automation project from scratch, as per requirements I have to use Behavior Driven Approach for testcase authoring and selenium for Automation. please suggest best suited framework.
You can check open source QMetry Automation Framework for web (selenium-webdriver) and mobile (appium) automation. It has all the features driver management, parallel execution, run configuration you want and many more like data-driven testing, data-bean, locator repository, integration with third party tools (CI, Test Management tools etc).
It support BDD, keyword-driven and coded (TestNG test) approach for authoring test cases. So you can opt bdd for test authoring.
You also will find inbuilt bdd steps ready to use for selenium webdriver and rest-webservices with the framework.
You can start by downloading blank project from git which uses ANT and IVY. If you want to use maven you can download qaf-blank-project-maven.
For getting started follow step-by-step-tutorial
I want to automate testing of java based applications, not exactly portals though.
RFT 7 version that we have is not compatible with latest version of Firefox, so we need another tool, preferably open source.
Please suggest some replacement for Selenium and RFT. The purpose is automation of Functional testing.
I think you meant "Web applications", since that's what Selenium is for.
I suggest Sahi Open Source: works with many browsers, OS independent. I've never used it though, so can't give you a proper review.
Both RFT (Rational Functional Tester) and Selenium is used for Functional & Regression test of web. RFT is commercial & Selenium is open source/free tool.
There are some other free tools that you can try. Such as
TestProject
Sahi
Watir