The application that I test consists of multiple integration components distributed across different platforms. The system integration test scenarios cover creation of transactions from GUI, validating data in DB, checking remote paths for file creation, file transfer to other paths etc. Can someone suggest a good automation framework( Open source if available) to write automation script for such integration scenarios? I have worked with Selenium primarily for GUI automation but the current scenario involves automation beyond GUI( DB queries, services, checking XML file creation in remote paths etc).Kindly suggest.
I think for other stuffs you have mentioned to automate is done through any service side scripting language like Java, PHP, etc.
For DB queries you can go with java abstraction library or by using simple JDBC connection and functions.
For Services testing: You can use services testing framework like for Java use Jersey, etc.
For checking XML file creation: It can be validated through simple java streams handling functions.
And for Remote paths validation: It can be handled through Java FTP library.
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Is there any way to automatically run regression/functional tests on Nifi flows using Jenkins pipeline ?
Searched for it, without any success.
Thanks for your help.
With the recent release of NiFI-1.5.0 and NiFi-Registry-0.1.0, the community has come together to produce a number of SDLC/CICD integration tools to make using things like Jenkins Pipeline easier.
There is both Python (NiPyAPI), and Java (NiFi-Toolkit-CLI) API wrappers being produced by a team of collaborators to allow scripted manipulation of NiFi Flows across different environments.
Common functions include interaction with integrated version control, import/export of flows as JSON documents, deployment between environments, start/stop of flows, etc.
So, we are working quickly towards supporting things like an integrated wrapper for declarative Jenkins Pipelines, and I would add it is being done fully in public codebase under the Apache license, so we (I am the lead NiPy author) would welcome your collaboration.
How to make an external program control Tridium Niagara framework? I see two options; Which one is correct:
1) Niagara allows addition of 3rd party code to provide an API, and someone else has already done that and we can use it.
2) Niagara allows 3rd party code to do API but we have to write our own.
Niagara installations can be configured to process many different network control protocols driven by an external process across the network, for example by BACnet. The Niagara instance can be configured internally in many different ways to respond to control from across the network.
Niagara 4.x prominently features Web GUIs, including Javascript client widgets and server Javascript, or the server can respond to the Web GUI activity with its other configuration and scripting methods.
For any real complexity beyond the bundled network drivers or HTTP, 3rd party modules coded in Java are used. These would typically be coded as Niagara drivers, processing data over serial or sockets.
Niagara's APIs are mostly open. But Niagara is a complex environment. Completing Tridium's week-long developer training/certification is typically required to produce a proper module.
There are some external API's that Tridium built into AX. oBIX and Bajascript.
I've written external oBIX programs in both Java and Python to pull data from a remote Jace. You'll have to add the oBIX service and export the points you want to see.
Bajascript is a javascript library Tridium uses to interact with the system as well. I believe they released Bajascript 2.0 not to long ago. http://www.bajascript.com
If those don't do what you like, you'll more than likely need to write your own API to handle it.
I am testing one Desktop based client server application. I want to perform a Security test of that application.
Can anybody explain me which points i can consider while performing Security Test of the Desktop application?
Testing of desktop application is easier than web application as there are less users than web applications.
Followings are two important point that you need to keep in mind during security testing of desktop application
• Test user’s rights and roles-authorized person should allow to login
• Test security of data or information stored in application.
Security testing on Desktop application is not that much easy task, in market we can't find the proper free tools like web application tools
for java based desktop application use JavaSnoop tool and proxy tool
for .Net based desktop application use echo-mirage and proxy tools
the test cases are quite simple
1. System testing: verification of registries, files and logs
2. Static testing: de-compile the files and do code-review, Gendarme tool is perfect
- do memory dump analysis
3. Dynamic testing: verify the communication
i hope this will help you
We have written clients in different programming languages (Java, .NET/Silverlight, Flash, Javascript) that communicate with a server, as our target is to support various technologies on client side. The functionality they are supposed to perform is the same.
One of the main challenges we are having now is finding a simple and effective approach for testing this variety of client technologies against the server. Currently we use maven, hooked with many maven plugins such as JSTestDriver, Flexmojo, NPanday and others which we have developed by our own to do this. Is there any better approach?
Any help would be appreciated, whether it is recommendation for available frameworks/tools or innovative ideas to do this.
Thanks
What you need is a clean design, otherwise everything is a mess and you have to test everything together.
Your server should have an interface with other systems (Browsers, desktop applications, mobile apps) and then test thoroughly this API. You can do that by using the appropriate framework, depending on technology used for the server. This should be your main test effort and then try to keep API stable, so that for every new version of the server you just run a regression test.
Meanwhile you can test the client applications alone by creating a mock server that uses the same API.
Last one would be your integration test where you run a live version of your server and your client application and you run integration tests.
expect is a good framework for testing program-external text interfaces such as client-server interaction. It operates with tests formulated in Tcl on a purely black-box logic level.
I tried to automate an application available under Citrixl Program Neightbourhood using QTP 9.5, but QTP does not identify the objects inside the application. Can we automate citrix application using QTP?
What are different tools available to perform automation testing on Citrix applications?
I have used Scapa Technologies for Citrix ICA or Terminal Services testing. Scapa provides an automation tool that is installed on the Citrix server. Then it has a controller that launches the citrix session, communicates with the server and starts the automation tool which calls your automation script. It actually runs on the server so it can interact with the applications controls.
QTP supports Citrix only if it is installed on the Citrix machine, it doesn't support working via the client.
For technical reasons this is because QTP needs to be able to listen to windows messages and load its DLL's into some applications which it cannot do from a different machine.
Traditional tools generally do not work with applications running in remote desktop applications. The interfaces needed aren't available. Probably your only option is an image-based tool like Eggplant.
The difficulty with Citrix automation is that the applications are streamlined to the client computer as an image, thus you can not access to the UI tree of elements.
UiPath can automate very easy Citrix applications (also desktop or web) by using some image automation specific techniques like
clicking relative to an image
using OCR for text scraping
using keyboard hotkeys
click relative to a OCRed text
Here's a full tutorial showing different Citrix (or virtual desktops) automation techniques for
data entry
OCR data scraping
clicking and typing relative to an image or text
UiPath has an SDK that can be used from code.
The default will be to create visual automation (workflows) directly from UiPath Studio.
Note: I work at UiPath. You should also try other visual automation tools like Automation Anywhere, WinAutomation, QTP, Selenium, etc, use them side by side and choose the one that suits better your needs.
For what it's worth, I have automated a CITRIX application just as you described for a large telecommunications firm in the early 2000s. I did this by getting deep inside the Windows SendMessage APIs and an optical character recognition package. You would probably be astonished by how much data was moved from one system into another using my team's CITRIX/screen-scraping "robots." I came upon this question because I was reminiscing about this project and wondering if there was still a need for this type of solution in this day and age.
As Motti said You can't automate via Citrix client. In general Citrix client is hard to automate. I know that someone at my work played with it and he managed to catch some communication and objects that could be useful to automate tests via Citrix, but that would be separate development project to create such solution that could be very limited.
Via citrix QTP object recognition is totaaly different. QTP on remote machines works on objects based on location and reference so it is almost impossible to automate.
As per my experience this type of setup can be best handled using the Image recognition and/or OCR capable testing tools like eggplant but its not really suggested to have testing environment which includes Citrix. Another option could be to install an automation tool like AutoIT within the Citrix machine and trigger the scripts using the other tool (maybe Selenium but I am yet to try that out).