Test Automation Ecstasy

How to generate HTML report with inbuilt screenshots? Lot of automation testers would come across this path while trying to integrate their automation solution with some test management tool or trying to send the execution report to management team. The main issue we face here is that we need to attach the screenshots also while sending or uploading into another tool. What would you think if we can convert the image into bytes and store it inside the HTML itself? Yes. You are right. We can attach the screenshots and report statements in one single html file and easily we can attach or send it to anybody. Function convertImageToBytes(strScreenshotFilePath)   Dim streamInput, bytesStream, oDOM, tmpElement      Set streamInput = CreateObject("ADODB.Stream")   Set oDOM = CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")     streamInput.Open   streamInput.Type = 1  ' adTypeBinary   streamInput.LoadFromFile strScreenshotPath   bytesStream =...

Most of us should have heard about the term BDD - Behavious Driven Development. In this post, I would like to give some intro about familiar BDD framework called Cucumber and why we need BDD. Why BDD? Once people started moving to Test Driven Development (TDD), it helped a lot interms of reducing the bugs in development stage itself as every feature was developed by creating smaller unit tests, making it FAIL and coding the functionalities to make it PASS. But eventually, the BAs and testers are not able to follow these testing practices and thus gap in communication which lead to lot of mis-understanding the features/requirements. So, experts wanted a framework which should take inputs like normal people speaking English and should run the tests based on those requirement. Also this requirement will support as documentation of features to understand by testers/BAs/devs. Thus BDD was born. BDD keywords: Given, When, Then and And Example: Scenario: Login to Facebook ...

Based on the knowledge gathered from QA and DevOps experts, presenting a simple graphic which represents how actually the CONTINUOUS delivery works. Also this will help to differentiate each from other.

As current agile development process keep on expecting more testing with continuous integration stuff, I am going to give brief summary about how we can integrate the CI process with Jenkins. Pre-Requesties: 1. Your Selenium project 2. Your Selenium and TestNG lib locations 3. Jenkins installed. Ensure IIS in your machine installed and you can access Jenkins Dashboard using  http://localhost:8080/ Before creating a job under Jenkins, try to run your selenium tests from command line. Selenium - CommandLine: Let's say, you have project called SeleniumProject under C:\Eclipse folder. Assume you have all your JAR files (Selenium Jars, TestNG Jars, etc) under C:\Eclipse\JARs  folder. Now you can prepare your command. 1. Go to Project location cd "C:\Eclipse\SeleniumProject" 2. Execute your testng.xml suite by setting the requied class path. java -cp "bin;..\JARs\*" org.testng.TestNG testng.xml -cp means class path bin - bin path to look into cl...

While doing automation on UI, we will face lot of scenarios like Object not identified as expected type and will scratch our head how to simulate such object set, click, etc. We have some options to simulate actions on such controls using WScript.Shell or Mercury.DeviceReplay The only thing, we need to instruct the those APIs at whichposition exactly it need to perform the actions. You can do with absolute poistion: x = yourObject . GetROProperty ( " abs_x " ) + ( yourObject . GetROProperty ( " width " ) / 2 ) y = yourObject . GetROProperty ( " abs_y " ) + ( yourObject . GetROProperty ( " height " ) / 2 ) Set MerRply = CreateObject ( " Mercury.DeviceReplay " ) MerRply . MouseClick x + 5, y, LEFT_MOUSE_BUTTON You can use relative position: x = yourObject . GetROProperty ( " width " ) / 2 y = yourObject . GetROProperty ( " height " ) / 2 yourObject . Click x, y, LEFT_MOUSE_BUTTON If ...

'######################################################################################## 'This is navigate through the full page and taking individual screenshot of visible area '######################################################################################## Function TakeScreenshot Dim intScrolls, intScroll, strScrollPos Set pgApp = Browser ( " " ) .Page ( " " ) intScrolls = Round ( pgApp . RunScript ( " document.documentElement.scrollHeight / (screen.height) " ) , 2 ) If intScrolls < 1 Then intScrolls = - 1 pgApp . RunScript " window.scrollTo(0, 0); " Wait 1 Browser ( " " ) .CaptureBitmap " C:\screenshot0.png " , True For intScroll = 0 To intScrolls If Environment . Value ( " Browser " ) = " CHROME " Then strScrollPos = " scrollY " Else strScrollPos = " document.documentElement.scrollTop " End If If p...

While starting a new project or proof of concept or after new QTP installation, we would face the issue in identifying objects as QTP built objects like WinList, WebEdit, etc.; instead everything will be identified as WinObject. Here are some steps to ensure you did the environment setup RIGHT before start automating. Did you enabled required Add-ins only while launching Did you selected "Record >> Record and Run Settings" -  This should be based on what type of application you are working with Windows app - Windows >> Record and run test on any windows applications. Web app - Web >> Record and run test on any open browser. Did you tried to launch UFT/QTP and then AUT. If its web, ensure browser zoom level set to 100% Try disabling the protected mode in IE for web. Launch UFT and AUT using RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR Also see the Object Identification Methods if you are interested.