Our web application codes are stored on SVN instead with TFS. We are trying to set up our automated UI testing.
These are following tools our team are considered to use.
- Microsoft Test Manager (Create Test cases associate with User stories)
- Coded UI (Connect to TFS and Microsoft Test Manager)
- Selenium (Automated UI coded)
- Team Foundation Server 2015 (Test cases and User stories)
Web Application with URL
We only want to configure automated UI testing for our website. Is there any way to run the set up the automated testing without build through TFS?
Thank you and any feedback is appreciated.
So here is the thing,
Coded Ui is not a connector to TFS & MTM it by itself an automation
framework/tool like selenium
You don't need both Selenium & Coded UI for your automation. You only need either of it
If all you want is to get started with automation for your application, you can do it just with a version of visual studio which has Coded Ui. (The latest supporting version is Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise edition)
See this like to know How to create Coded Ui Tests , see this link to know how to Run a Coded Ui Test
It's based on your workflow. Whether your app/code is on-premises or in the cloud, you can automate build-deploy-test workflows and choose the technologies and frameworks, then test your changes continuously in a fast, scalable, and efficient manner. And just as Prageeth said, Coded Ui is an automation framework/tool just like selenium.
In TFS either code ui or selenium test more like continuous testing. The workflow is such as bleow:
First make sure that your app still works after every check-in and
build using TFS. Find problems earlier by running tests
automatically with each build. When your build is done, review your
test results to start resolving the problems that you find.
Add some related tutorials for your reference:
How to run Code UI in TFS: Executing Automated tests in Build vNext
using Test Plan, Test Suites
How to run Selenium in TFS: Get started with Selenium testing in a
continuous integration pipeline
If you insist on without building from TFS, you could also use the Code UI function with VS on local.
You can setup Test controller and Test Agent VMs in MTM test lab. This will allow you to execute your automated tests on Test Agent directly in MTM. Otherwise, you can execute Coded UI tests locally in Visual Studio.
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How can I execute a test via command in a way that the test run is shown with all its results in TestCafé Studio afterwards?
I'm using:
npx testcafe [browser] [TestCafe file]
The test is executed but the results are only visible in the console. Is there a way to fully integrate it in TestCafé Studio?
BTW: Why isn't there a tag for [testcafestudio] – the product is not that new ;-)
EDIT: I'll take a little further out: We would like to switch from TestCafé to TestCafé Studio to increase the number of people who can maintain and create individual tests in QA. Some tasks could then also be handled by employees with somewhat lower HTML skills. In addition, we would like to keep the connections we are used to, so that the tests are still triggered at certain times or manually via a Jenkins pipeline (Jenkins-->VIX-->CMD-->TestCafé Studio). Depending on the configuration of the respective test run, different branches would be used for the TestCafé Studio project via Git. The test results are read, parsed, and written to a database after the test run is complete. In addition, I would like to see the atomatically triggered calls available in TestCafé Studio, as it is very convenient to navigate directly to the failed tests.
Is it not yet possible to start tests in TestCafé Studio via CMD?
TestCafe Studio stores reports in its own format while TestCafe stores reports in various different formats that are inconsistent with the IDE format.
You can run tests in the TestCafe Studio itself. Are you running your tests in CI? If so, what CI are you using and why does not its reporting system meet your requirements? If not, could you please clarify why you are required to run tests outside the TestCafe Studio IDE?
I am working using TFS to create test case. I have a automated test written in Robotframework with Selenium2Library.
I'd like to be able to associate these tests with test cas in test. Is it possible to link the automated test cases with the test case in TFS, and if so, how is it done?
The web Test page does not support to run automatic tests associated with test cases in TFS.
You can achieve the same goals using the Build & Release features in Team Foundation Server (TFS). (https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/docs/test/lab-management/use-build-or-rm-instead-of-lab-management). Simply integrate Selenium testing into a continuous integration/continuous delivery pipeline.
Instead of build, suggest you use a step in a release pipeline. Take a look at this question:How can i run automated selenium tests using TFS build 2015?
More detail steps about how to integrate with TFS please go through the official tutorials from MSDN: Get started with Selenium testing in a CD pipeline
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.
Our department uses Visual Studio 2008 Team System, and we have a build server that integrates with our TFS source control server. It pulls the source code, builds the solution and runs the unit tests, just as we might do from within VS, and emails a report. The build server is setup using MSBuild and MSTest as the primary tools. All very sweet.
On our development machines we also run a set of selenium unit tests, and I want to include this in the test suite on the build server. I have been told that 'this is not possible using MSBuild/MSTest', but I am at a loss to understand why.
Does any one have experience of running selenium tests (they are just conventional test methods written in C#) who might be able to advise me on whether this is possible and what the gotchas are? Thinking about it, apart from giving the browser access to the desktop when the server is not logged in, once MSBuild has handed off a test list to MSTest it's exactly the same process as on our develop machines.
TIA
I know it's 3 years on, but someone might drop in on this post and not see an answer. This is possible todo.
In a similar fashion how you'd run unit test, in the build definition using default template you need to specify the name of the UnitTest DLL and ensure Run Unit Test is not disabled. Also ensure that the build is building your Automated UI Test solution.
Simples.
I have been creating codedUI tests for a website in VS2010.
What I would like to do is add these tests to our build process as a form of gated checkin. So if new code produced failed tests then it this code rejected.
does anyone have any experience or know of any resouces regarding this setup.
Thanks in advance
If you are using TFS for your builds you can easily integrate the tests into your build process. If you are using something else for your build process you will need to have MSTEST installed on the build server and another machine to run the tests as an agent.