I have alexa skill and I want to test a lot of users connection, I want to use JMeter, bit I don't sure is it required to tests skills. How do you do load testing for Alexas skills and is it required?
How do you do load testing for Alexas skills?
You can do load testing for your skill's backend HTTPS endpoint which generates the responses for your skill. From your tool hit the endpoint with different varieties of requests, various sessionAttributes values and intents according to your skills use case and testing configuration/load. If the skill supports account linking, test with that scenario also.
is it required?
In order get your skill certified/published, No.
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I am trying to submit the form which has text values and recaptcha for security reasons. How can we handle recaptcha to submit the form using Jmeter?
Any help!
CAPTCHA is an acronym which stands for
Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
So most probably you will not be able to do this quickly and easily
reCAPTCHA is a Google service which is yet another implementation of the Turing test. Your JMeter test must focus solely on your application features, 3rd-party services, images, scripts, etc. must be out of the scope, in other words you must exclude external resources from your JMeter test
So I would recommend asking your application developers or devops to turn off the CAPTCHA challenge for the duration of the load tests (or for the test environment in total) as it does not add any value, just makes automated and load testing almost impossible.
Just in case you're a Google engineer load testing reCAPTCHA - you can use machine vision libraries like OpenCV in conjunction with neural network implementation from JSR223 Test Elements in order to recognize the images do what is needed to bypass the challenge. Just be aware that one of protection mechanisms checks will not allow to pass the CAPTCHA if you react too fast which is not compatible with load testing at all.
I would like to know the difference between end-to-end and website test in java web application,If we are testing the features of an website then it could be stated as end-to-end test right?
My second question is if i want to do end-to-end test which the best tool ?
selenium or cucumber ?
I am not able to conclude my self which tool to use.My requirement is as follows
1)Test webapplication automatically by giving the required fields,and also it should interact with my service and database for retrieving information in my UI.
Please help me.I am sorry if its a stupid question !!!
Answering all of your questions one by one :
End-To-End Testing : End-to-End Testing is a testing methodology which is used to validate whether the flow of an application is performing as designed from start to finish.
Website Testing : Web Testing is the name given to the software testing methodology that focuses on web applications. Website Testing can be catagorized as Basic Functionality Testing of the site, Security Aspects of the Web Application, Accessibility to intended users and Performance Aspects as well.
Best Automation Tool for End-To-End Testing : Each and every automation tool have its advantages and disadvantages. Selenium-Cucumber is one of the widely used combination for Behavior Driven Development (BDD). But as a pure End-To-End Automation candidate Protractor is widely used.
Overall using Selenium you can perform Web Application Testing by giving the required fields and also interact with the services and data retrieved from database on your UI.
You're quesiton will probably be removed from here since it doesn't fit the standards stack overflow requires but here's an answer in case it sticks around.
End to end testing concerns program flow from start to finish. If you have a system that is solely a website then they could be considered equivalent. If your project has a website and runs batch processes in the background, sends emails, etc. based on data entered into the website or actions users of the site take, then they're not really equivalent because testing your website isn't going to test that the mail server is configured properly or that your nightly batch runs properly.
There is no single tool to handle end to end testing. At best you'll have an amalgamation of various tools to handle testing but more than likely there will be some manual testing involved - it's all going to depend on your application.
You could for example: script selenium to enter orders into a site, then have a scheduled console application run overnight that verifies the end of day accounting handles the orders properly, you would manually check outlook to verify you received your order confirmation, and then come up with a way to verify the orders get sent to the fulfillment system.
As you can see by the example for that use case you're unlikely to find a general purpose tool that can handle all of that out of the box.
I am a new to REST API automation project, as part of that I have learned using jayway rest assured instead of jersy client. Now, the problem is I am able to use protocol methods and getting response to parse and checking required data is not.
Now,
I want to explore more to implement project setup like a pro, by using structured java classes or by using any class designs.
I want to use this project for load testing
I want to learn parameterization, i.e., First request's response may be input to 4th request (ex: login token id used for subsequent requests)
I also want to know how to feed data as input from external files
Note: I have searched for sample projects on other channels but they are not as per my requirement and I spent time to understand those project but going over my head, couldn't able to understand their style of implementation :(
Well, there are several things that you need to learn/understand:
It is not about design patterns, them you should learn in any case to consider yourself as a good developer or software engineer in test
REST Assured - is indeed for API testing, yes, but not the best
choice, or even, is the last choice for load/performance testing
Haveing request based dependencies, more sound like component testing or end-to-end testing which is usually also the last choice
and have to be as minimum as possible
Load/performance tools that you can choose and learn by your preferences are (not a full list, but ones that I used to use)
Blazemeter
Gatling
Jmeter
I don't know about testing but I would like to have a clear picture on how is API testing different from other testing methods.
API testing will not include UI as regular testing have
API testing requires basic networking knowledge such as what is the use of GET, POST, PUT, etc commands used.
API testing includes having knowledge of how various html elements work. For example, If I press a button, what will be the next function call. We need to know how 'button' element works
In API only API functions are tested, but in regular testing all the elements are tested
There are different tools used in API testing. POSTMAN is one of them
In API Testing we test Backend functionality while in Regular testing we check UI + Functional testing.
API Testing is helpful in testing Core Functionality.It helps us to reduce the risks.
Steps to Test API Manually:-
To use API manually, we can use browser based REST API plugins.
a)Install POSTMAN(Chrome) / REST(Firefox) plugin
b)Enter the API URL
c)Select the REST method
d)Select content-Header
e)Enter Request JSON (POST)
f)Click on send
g)It will return output response
Steps to start API Automation using REST
in general API testing is made for not doing many similar actions, when we can easily measure the result.
For example if you app button is not on the right place, it is hard to measure using code.
Another example is when you write a library for collections you can say just once:
CheckIntersect method:
result = mylibrary.getIntersection([1,2,3,4], [3,4,5,6])
if result != [3,4]
postTestError("CheckIntersect [1,2,3,4], [3,4,5,6]" + result.ToString() )
In this case you can easily measure the result, and not have a fear of you can't even find the problem in code.
I would like differentiate API vs. Other Testing instead looking into technical details.
API: Testing point of view the API is so important because, we can prepare independent test cases that are separate files. This makes our test approach relatively simple.
For better understanding, "Web API is typically done as HTTP/REST, nothing is defined, output can be eg. JSON/XML, input can be XML/JSON/or plain data. There are no standards for anything => no automatic calling and discovery."
API is a simple interface using HTTP protocol.
Other Testing:
Other testing like GUI, Regression, Unit, etc. Testing is absolutely essential for any application has to be in user friendly. The end user should be comfortable while using all the components should also perform their functionality with utmost clarity. Different Functional and GUI Testing can refer to just ensuring that the look and feel and Functional usability of the application is acceptable to the user.
Conclusion:
API can be:
Developed by one company, used by another company, and hosted by a third company Such involvement of several companies is a business cases for independent testing of API.
Example: Weather information API Developed and Tested by One & Accessed by many.
General Testing is testing each and every feature of the application from UI like web or mobile .
But,
API Testing is to verify the JSON Request to Server and Response from the Server .
If the application is using API all the content and Features based on the API Response from the Server .
For Example In FB app Profile screen, if the name is wrong ,
you can check from UI that general Testing, The same thing you can
Check it from API Response from the server , like below.
{"name":"Dharma","friends":450}
I want to simulate our whole checkout process under load. This essentially involves running a number of POSTs in sequence, where the client is storing a unique cookie for each sequence that allows the session to be preserved. Can anyone recommend a software or service that meets these conditions?
This sort of thing could be very easily, effectively and freely accomplished using Apache JMeter. You can either record the journey using JMeter's proxy or simply add the requests manually.
To simulate cookies add a Cookie Manager to the testplan. For any other tokens or session ids that need to be correlated you can use a Regular Expression Extractor.
There are lots of options for this kind of test. Free/open-source tools will require a bit more work on your part but are otherwise free. Tools like ours (Load Tester 5) will get the job done much quicker, but there is a cost for the software. If your organization does not have much experience with load testing and are on a tight schedule, you might want to bring in outside help to help you meet your deadline and learn the process (we offer services as well!).