Whe are making a proposal to a client for a test automation framework and we are between MTM and Selenium. For what they need (CI process, and manual launch of testing bateryes) is better Selenium.
But in our last meeting the client's head of develop told us that they like the MTM's interface Test Center, because they could unify the automated testing and the manual testing in one interface. So I'm looking for some framework that would provide a similar interface, work with Selenium automated tests and, If possible, interact with their TFS.
Any suggestions?
Thank you a lot.
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I am totally new to the web application and automation testing.
I am learning selenium from youtube videos and developing frameworks.
while looking into the videos most of them cover only testing the Application as such.
I found very few videos which state about interacting with the database and verifying them.
I just wanted to know how will this be in real time projects?
In real time projects will they automating scenarios like configuring something in the UI, then validating it in the database, coming back to the UI and continuing the UI flow or will it be simply only verifying the UI.
I want to know more about how to do database testing.
Any info here will be of great help
Selenium is one of the best choice available in today's market when it boils down to Automation of Web Application. Selenium have support for Mozilla'a geckodriver, Google's chromedriver, Microsoft's IEDriverServer & even Safari etc. Hence Selenium is widely accepted as the best Web Automation tool as of today.
Having said that, though you too can perform Database Testing through Selenium but it's not the ideal candidate. Database Testing can include transaction rates & round-trip calculations for which there are other tools which does those work better and you may like to explore those as well. Alternatively, you can also integrate those tools in your Project Framework and work with Selenium in tandem.
Guys I need to decide feasibility of automation testing in web application. Application is developed in c#.net. Can any one guide me about factor which I need to consider for automation testing. I have some basic knowledge of Selenium WebDriver using Java, can I test web application using it? This application is leasing application it contains many calculations to calculate plan. Application also contains many reports as well as graphs to analyse enquiries as well as results.
I suggest some basic links to start with
http://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/choosing-automation-tool-for-your-organization/
http://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/answer/How-to-choose-the-best-software-test-automation-tool-for-your-team
http://www.xoriant.com/blog/software-testing-and-qa/selecting-right-test-automation-tool.html
Your approach is definitely good. You can develop a ASP.NET MVC web application in C#, setup some core business logic by classic unit test and make integration test using selenium driver.
I suggest following that you first create a lightweight skeleton of the project containing:
git repository
ASP.NET web application
continual integration with build machine (use TeamCity or similar software)
unit test testing your core business logic
integration test written in selenium driver using C# running for all common browsers with good selenium support.
Check that with every commit following happen:
build is triggered
deployment package is created
unit test are triggers
integration test using selenium driver are triggers
all reports are collected
test results are stable (same results for same build number for repeated testrun)
The background:
We have a project starting a service that gets controlled from the web interface GUI.
We're not using a specific (from a commercial point of view) web server, but an in-house created wrapper around the windows service that manages all the web interface interactions.
What we have:
Now we've started using Selenium & MSTest for testing the web interface and we're trying to get a coverage for these kind of tests, and OpenCover seemed to do the deal. The problem is that is not (or we're doing something different or wrong).
The only code coverage that I'm not getting is the one for the method used to start the windows service and all others that get called in the process (since I have all access to all the PDBs too), but afterwards nothing is covered, based on the action that take place from the Selenium's interaction with the browser.
Any hints/ideas or maybe other tools that are able to do the job (if even possible) are appreciated.
If you're running an ASP.net app, you're going to need to attach OpenCover to IIS or IISExpress to get accurate code coverage with selenium. That makes it a little hard to use MSTest with. You may want to consider moving as much logic into your services, and write unit tests against those.
Here's a quick example hot to attach open cover to IIS
OpenCover.Console.exe -target:C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\w3wp.exe -targetargs:-debug
-targetdir:C:\Inetpub\wwwwoot\MyWebApp\bin\ -filter:+[] -register:user
I try to find a service which provides a functionality that allow me to create manual tests autmation for web-based applications in simple way with visual constructor without any coding, so it could be
simple in use without any coding on selenium or another framework tool
has option to set testing in schedule mode via the web interface to perform regression testing
has ID's validation and shows possible inconsistencies
The main point is reproduce manual tester's work without using automation scripts and do it in simple way in order to a beginner will be able to work with it.
So could anyone describe his own experience ?
There are two main options I would consider
to find a service which provides a functionality that allow me to create manual tests autmation for web-based applications in simple way
First one is BrowserStack and you can record your Selenium tests using the Selenium IDE extension for FireFox. It can export the recorded steps into your favorite language (C#, Python, ect). You can execute these recorded scripts on BrowserStack by pointing the hub URL to Browserstack's Selenium hub ‘http://hub.browserstack.com/wd/hub’ along with your username and Automate key. Your 'username' and 'automate key' can be found at Account --> Automate1, after you have logged in to your account.
I would suggest, you refer to the comprehensive documentation on BrowserStack Automate. It takes you step-by-step through the product and all its features. You can select the language you are using and get started with BrowserStack Automate. If you have any more questions, feel free to email at support#browserstack.com. They will be happy to help you out.
Second option is SauceLabs and the Selenium Builder. This is the docs that will guide you. Further more you have CI integrations for Jenkins and Bamboo.
You can use Selenium IDE to create your automated tests. With this Firefox plugin, you can record a test in your browser.
Once you're done recording, you can export the test and upload it to TestingBot. There you can specify the browsers you want to run the test on. TestingBot will then run your test across all the browsers you specified.
I am new to testing, when doing some research these last few days i found 2 tools that enable testing a web application, here is what i understand so far:
Selenium provides a way to manipulate the browser, so in other terms it enables simulating user interaction on a webPage, we can write tests using PhpUnit-Selenium extension for example and it will make it possible to test our application as a real user would, after that those tests need to run on different browsers...
For TestSwarm i need to write my tests using tools such as (Qunit, Jasmine...) that are mainly focused on unit testing (not user interaction ...) and use TestSwarm server to push those tests to available browsers to run them (i think this is automatic so no need for a user to manually run theses tests)
My conclusion is that Selenium and TestSwarm are somewhat complementary as Selenium enables testing user interaction overall, and TestSwarm simplifies testing javascript cross Browser.
Am i getting this right?
I think you are on the right track, here is an excerpt from https://github.com/jquery/testswarm/issues/258
Okay, so you're using WebDriver and your test suite is a set of instructions (in what language do you have it stored now?) for the browser to execute (go to page X, click button Y, etc.).
Those are not unit tests but integration tests. They require bindings with the browser and/or the ability to execute code on the target computer. They can't be executed from within the browser (in that if I visit the url of your test suite in my browser, nothing happens as the driver instructions need to be run from outside the browser or from a plugin).
TestSwarm is not designed for these kind of integration tests, but for unit tests. A very different method that simply can't be performed by TestSwarm. Also, you wouldn't need any of TestSwarm's features for this and you'd miss things you need instead (like actual browsers and the ability to control them and extract the results). Where those browsers come from there usually is something like TestSwarm close by.
I'd recommend looking into SauceLabs and Jenkins (either self-hosted or perhaps a cloud based solution like CloudBees).
Check out:
• http://sauceio.com/index.php/2012/12/getting-the-most-out-of-selenium-with-cloudbees-and-sauce-labs/
• https://saucelabs.com/jenkins/1
• http://www.cloudbees.com/platform-service-saucelabsondemand.cb