Automation Frameworks

1. Record and Playback.(Records application flow using QTP and playback) 
2. Data driven. (Data controls the automation flow through a spreadsheet/datatable)
3. Keyword driven. (Functions are mapped to Keywords)
4. Hybrid approach (Combination of Keyword and data driven)
5. Business process testing(BPT)
6. Functional Decomposition

Types of QTP Licenses

1. Seat
2. Concurrent

How to record/playback

1. Open QTP/UFT
2. Click on File > New Test
3. Click on the ‘Record’ button
4. Perform actions on the application under test
5. Click ‘Stop’ at the end of Recording session

Types of QTP/UFT Add-ins

1. Activex Controls
2. Web
3. Visual Basic
4. Java Add-in 8.2
5. Terminal Emulator for mainframe
6. .NET
7. Oracle
8. SAP Solutions
9. PeopleSoft
10. Siebel
11. Web Services
12. Etc

What is Record and Run Settings

1. Record and Run Settings window will be triggered right after the recording started for a new Test or an existing test.
2. user can see tabs based on the loaded Add-in
3. user can provide Application under test input criteria (like url, application path etc)

What are the various Recording Modes

There are 3 recording modes available

• Standard Recording: this is used for normal recording to capture user operations on the application.

• Analog Recording: this will record the exact mouse and keyboard operations.

• Low level Recording: this will record the mouse movements with respect to the coordinates on the AUT (application under test) Window.

What is Expert View

• Shows the every user actions done on the  application in the form of codes.

Active Screen view

• Every code generated after recording will show corresponding application screen on Active screen window. This will help tracking the code vs application objects.

Actions in QTP:

It’s the recorded set of codes which are logically meaningful to the application flow. E.g Customer creation flow.

Types of actions in QTP:

• Non-reusable Action – action that can be called only in the test where it is stored, and can be used only once.
• Reusable Action – action that can be called from any QTP/UFT test
• External Action – reusable action stored with another QTP/UFT test. External actions are read-only.

Object Repository in QTP/UFT:

• QTP stores the recorded object details in a specific location in the tool named the ‘Object Repository’
• Browser – page – Objects are stored in a hierarchal manner.
• Every object will have some listed set of methods as e.g button can perform Click using QTP codes.

Selenium vs Protractor

How to Set expected condition in Protractor

Angular Overview

Sikuli –Desktop UI automation tool

FindFailed exception in Sikuli

Selenium

Selenium is a web test automaton framework. Selenium uses WebDriver interface to do web ui interactions. Selenium currently used in IT industry for the test automation  of regression, functional, in-sprint, smoke test  scenarios.

Selenium features

Selenium supports Cross Browser Testing and parallel testing. The Selenium tests can be run on multiple browsers and multiple machines and multiple Operating systems. Selenium offers open source tools and supports test automation for web applications

Supports several scripting languages like Java, Python, C#, and PHP

Reporting are very easy and extensible,

Selenium uses Browser native commands. It locates and actions applied on UI elements

TestNG quick summary:

 TestNG’s is Selenium + reporting features. It is easy to generate reports using Listeners and Reporters in TestNG

 Features of TestNG includes the following,

1)      Annotations – please refer my annotation blog Annotation – TestNG’s test case priority

2)      Supports parameterization/ data driven testing

3)      Test cases can be grouped and parallel testing is allowed.

How to run selenium on linux server using Firefox binary

code sample:

String Xport = System.getProperty(“lmportal.xvfb.id”, “:1”); // setup firefox binary to start Xvfb
final File ffPath = new File(System.getProperty(“lmportal.deploy.firefox.path”, “/usr/bin/firefox”));
FirefoxBinary ffBinary = new FirefoxBinary(ffPath);
ffBinary.setEnvironmentProperty(“DISPLAY”, Xport);

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(ffBinary, null);
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
driver.get(“URL”);

How to handle the error popup on site security certificate is not trusted with chrome selenium python automation

For Chrome, add –ignore-certificate-errors in following code
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument(‘–ignore-certificate-errors’)
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options)
driver.get(‘URL’)

For the Internet Explorer, set acceptSslCerts desired capability as true:
capabilities = webdriver.DesiredCapabilities().INTERNETEXPLORER
capabilities[‘acceptSslCerts’] = True
driver = webdriver.Ie(capabilities=capabilities)
driver.get(‘URL’)

For Firefox, set accept_untrusted_certs as true

profile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile()
profile.accept_untrusted_certs = True
driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile=profile)
driver.get(‘URL’)

Summary about Jenkins, Selenium and QTP automation frameworks

1) go to https://jenkins.io and download Jenkins.war file
2) place the war file in a folder (e.g. C:\Jenkins\Jenkins.war )
3) then open command prompt (windows start menu > run > cmd will open command prompt )
4) in command prompt, go to folder C:\Jenkins\ ( command : “CD C:\Jenkins\” )  and then run command ” java -jar Jenkins.war ”
5) this will exract a folder name “.jenkins” into your user folder ( the path is usually “C:\users\”your login”\.jenkins”
6) copy “.jenkins” folder and paste to folder C:\Jenkins\, so that you have “C:\Jenkins\.jenkins” as the folder path.
7) Now you setup a Enviroment variable (to set up that go to Control panel > system > Advanced System settings )
8) then add Enviroment variable as “JENKINS_HOME” and value as “C:\Jenkins\.jenkins”

You all set to run Jenkins on your machine!

Open a browser and type “localhost:8080” to see Jenkins session.

Selenium jenkins integration

Selenium Parallel execution Options

1. Selenoid