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.
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I am trying to scrape the car details from this site using Selenium: https://www.autoscout24.ch/de/autos/alle-marken?vehtyp=10
Approximately every 30 pages I have to verify that I am not a robot,
even though I have included in my code:
driver.implicitly_wait(20)
Is there any way to overcome this?
CAPTCHA is meant for those reasons. There is no co-relation with it being removed due to use of waits in Selenium script. The use of CAPTCHA is to detect that bots/automated systems are not crawling the web page.
Unless you disable it, I don't think that it is the right approach to automate it. Although you may find some tutorials on web to overcome it, but they are very patchy and do not cover all the use cases.
2 options come to mind on how to solve your issue, which one you'll choose depends on what you need.
Option 1 will be cheaper and probably easier, but you can just make your script wait when the Captcha is detected, and play a sound when it's shown so you can manually do the captcha yourself, after the captcha has been dealt with you can let the script continue doing it's thing.
The second option would be to use a captcha solving service, you would need to pay a little but would not need to manually do anything.
I'm not a robot
The "I'm not a robot" checkbox, commonly known as reCAPTCHA v2 is one of the security measure in practice for implementing challenge-response authentication. CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) mainly helps to protect the applications and the systems from spam and password decryption by asking to complete a simple test that proves it's a human and not a computer trying to access into a password protected account. In short CAPTCHA is implemented to help prevent unauthorized account entry.
So neither of the wait mechanism Implicit wait or Explicit wait would be of any help to avoid CAPTCHA
Solution
An ideal approach would be to disable the CAPTCHA for the AUT (Application Under Test) within Testing / Stagging environment and enable it only in production environment.
References
You can find a couple of relevant detailed discussions in:
How does reCAPTCHA 3 know I'm using Selenium/chromedriver?
How can I bypass the Google CAPTCHA with Selenium and Python?
We have a web project and the main business flow is going through the chain of processes (conveyor). We don't have any automatic tests for front. So, to test we use our "hands".
What I want to do is to create some auto test that goes through every step and every window that I do always using hands from my browser.
Any suggestions?
P.S. I don't have an access to frontend app. All I have is the running app on my browser :)
In my experience with quizzes/wizards, such using gamification logic and transitioning from screen to screen - I had to properly plan my efforts.
test that goes through every step and every window
Is easy to go way overboard with all possible paths, resulting in combinatorial explosion. As general advice, try limit the really critical scenarios and cover first those. It is quite likely that the conveyor engine, follows same basic (business) rules and just combines them to produce the flows. In other words, bugs are most likely to be found in the codified domain logic, than the mechanics behind them.
Since this is an Angular app and we all know how pesky Selenium is with it. I would go with Protractor as it is built to handle
native events and browser-specific drivers to interact with your application as a user would
and
supports Angular-specific locator strategies
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 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 am load testing a product that requires a very secure 2 factor login.
In my load testing tool you only deal with scriptet web traffic, and have no UI, JS or CSS available.
The 3 web forms I need to get through takes the user input, encrypts it - and bakes into something that looks like Base64 - it is then sent by post method. I need to be able to send this data directly from my tool. I have tons of test data, but the login mechanism is a centralized, closed service so I have no insight here.
Is this even possible to get through ? I know in theory I can automate and script anything that flows through the Internet, but I can not see a way here.
I thought about writing a small application that launches before the test, that uses the UI to punch the data, but I'm not even sure this is possible with VS2013 load tests, and considering the incredible amount of logins I need to do this will be a challange.
Any thoughts ?