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Web services

Demand of Web services is already high in the new internet era since applications are built in different technology / databases and connected through internet. So communication between is only possible through a commonly accepted media which are Web services

Web services are XML format based services which use media as HTTP to communicate and it is loosely coupled where there no hard binding with client.

WSDL

WSDL is a document in XML format which describes a web service and defines which transactions are available and data should be structured to send to those transactions.

WSDL (Web services description language) helps client to initiate the correct web service

Webserver client needs WSDL to initiate Web services and Web server providers generates WSDL.

UDDI

UDDI is the online directory which has all the WDSL available and all web services client gets that from UDDI.

Web services has two implementations.

1. SOAP

2. REST

SOAP

SOAP is the XML based implementation for web service and it has 3 main components which are

a. Envelope – represents root elements

b. Header – stores authentication, routing id for web service transaction.

c. Body – stores all data which are intended to transfer to webservice client.

SOAP uses HTTP as media for transferring data. Format used in XML.

REST

REST is more flexible implementation as it uses text format and media other than HTTP as well.

API testing using UFT

UFT is a software automation tool. Apart from automation test scenarios it supports API testing. Following AP testing are supported.

Web service

REST

In UFT user can create a new API project by clicking File > New > Test..

Select the API Test type

Then navigate to tool box in the left

Click on Network once it’s exploded,

Drag HTTP Request to Test flow

Right click and select the properties

Fill the URL, select HTTP method as GET

Also you can configure the checkpoints.

December 2, 2017February 23, 2020

Maven TestNG framework with reporting features and switching pages

1. Setup a Maven project in Eclipse with POM file as below

Refer the Post-Man plugin highlighted below in yellow

Refer the reporting directory path highlighted below in yellow

POM file sample as below – you can copy paste this contents for any Maven TestNG project.

<groupId>MavenProject</groupId>

<artifactId>MavenProject1</artifactId>

<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>

<groupId>junit</groupId>

<artifactId>junit</artifactId>

</dependency>

<groupId>org.testng</groupId>

<artifactId>testng</artifactId>

</dependency>

<groupId>com.relevantcodes</groupId>

<artifactId>extentreports</artifactId>

</dependency>

<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>

<artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>

</dependency>

<groupId>net.sourceforge.jexcelapi</groupId>

</dependency>

<groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>

</dependency>

</dependencies>

</dependency>

</dependencies>

</dependencyManagement>

<build>

<!– Suirefire plugin to run xml files –>

<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>

<artifactId>maven–surefire–plugin</artifactId>

<!– TestNG suite XML files –>

<suiteXmlFile>testng.xml</suiteXmlFile>

</suiteXmlFiles>

</configuration>

</plugin>

<!– Post-Man plugin –>

<groupId>ch.fortysix</groupId>

<artifactId>maven-postman-plugin</artifactId>

<id>send an email</id>

<phase>testEmail</phase>

<goals>

<goal>send-an-email</goal>

</goals>

<!– From Email address –>

<from>[email protected]</from>

<!– Email subject –>

<subject>Test Report</subject>

<!– Fail the build if the mail doesnt reach –>

<!– host –>

<mailhost>smtp.gmail.com</mailhost>

<!– port of the host –>

<!– Email Authentication(USername and Password) –>

<mailuser>[email protected]</mailuser>

<!– To Email address –>

<receiver>[email protected]</receiver>

</receivers>

<!– Report directory Path –>

<directory>C://Projects//Eclipse//workspace//Mavenproject//Reports</directory>

<!– Report file name –>

</includes>

<!—as mentioned above Regular Expression **/*.html to send all the html files reports–>

</fileSet>

</fileSets>

</configuration>

</execution>

</executions>

</plugin>

</plugins>

</build>

</project>

2. Setup a Page factory package where all the object locators are stored. E.g. code like this below.

package ProjectPageFactory;

import java.io.File;

import java.io.FileInputStream;

import java.io.FileOutputStream;

import java.io.FileReader;

import java.util.Iterator;

import java.util.List;

import java.util.NoSuchElementException;

import static org.testng.AssertJUnit.assertEquals;

import java.io.FileInputStream;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;

import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.support.CacheLookup;

import org.openqa.selenium.support.FindBy;

import org.openqa.selenium.support.PageFactory;

import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select;

import org.testng.annotations.BeforeSuite;

import org.testng.annotations.BeforeTest;

import org.testng.annotations.Test;

import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.WebDriverWait;

import org.testng.annotations.Test;

public class yourFirstpageofApplication { // this is were you can build the locators repository.

WebDriver driver;

@FindBy(linkText=”LocatorHyperlinkTextName”) // type the Locator Hyperlink Text Name

@CacheLookup // use CacheLookup for any non dynamic objects , this will improve exection performance.

WebElement Hyperlink1;

@FindBy(xpath=”html/body/form/divXXXXXXX/xxxx”)

// @CacheLookup – do not use CacheLookup for any dynamic objects

WebElement objectName1;

2. Setup a test script code that communicates to Pageobject repository

public class applicationPageName extends initialiseDriver // refer step 3 for initialiseDriver example.

{

//WebDriver driver;

yourFirstpageofApplication AppObj;

@Test(priority = 1)

public void Excel() throws Exception

{

AppObj = new yourFirstpageofApplication(driver);

AppObj.ordinqclick(); // this will navigate to PageObject repository code and do action on application.

Note: Basically both classes (Test scripts and Pageobject repository script) will communicate.

3. Reporting code

package TestscriptProject;

import java.io.File;

import java.io.FileInputStream;

import java.util.List;

import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;

import org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.testng.annotations.AfterClass;

import org.testng.annotations.AfterTest;

import org.testng.annotations.BeforeTest;

import org.testng.annotations.Test;

import org.testng.asserts.SoftAssert;

import com.relevantcodes.extentreports.ExtentReports;

import com.relevantcodes.extentreports.ExtentTest;

import com.relevantcodes.extentreports.LogStatus;

import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFRow;

import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFSheet;

import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFWorkbook;

import PageFactoryProject.ApplicatonPageScriptClass; // make sure you import that to this class

public class orderInquiryPage extends driverInitialise

{

//WebDriver driver;

yourFirstpageofApplication AppObj;

ExtentReports report;

ExtentTest logger;

@Test(priority = 1)

public void Excel() throws Exception

{

report = new ExtentReports(“./Reports/OrderInquiryReport.html”);

logger = report.startTest(“csvFile”);

logger.log(LogStatus.INFO, ” test case started”);

//Pass the test in to report

logger.log(LogStatus.PASS,”Test verified Pass for particular functionality”);

//End of the test

report.endTest(logger);

//clear the data in report

report.flush();

4. Switching between child window/page and parent window/page

To switch to a child window or page

public void childWindowHandle()

{

childHandle = driver.getWindowHandles().toArray()[y].toString(); // y = 1

driver.switchTo().window(childHandle);

}

To switch to a parent window or page

public void parentWindowHandle()

{

parentHandle = driver.getWindowHandles().toArray()[x].toString(); // x = 0

driver.switchTo().window(parentHandle);

}

December 2, 2017May 17, 2020

Cucumber Scenario data table and Scenario Outline data table

What is TestRunner in Cucumber?
Cucumber – Behavior driven development (BDD)

Cucumber Scenario data table and Scenario Outline data table

1.Cucumber Scenario data table

Sample feature file contents as below:

Feature: Login and Logout Action

Scenario: Successful Login with Valid Credentials

Given User is on Application Home Page

When User Navigates to Application LogIn Page

And User enters UserName and Password and click submit button

|UserName|Pwd |

|abc | 123 |

Then Message displayed as Login Successfully

Corresponding Selenium script contents as below:

@When(“^User enters UserName and Password and click submit button$”)

public void user_enters_UserName_and_Password_and_click_submit_button(DataTable table) throws Throwable {

// Write code here that turns the phrase above into concrete actions

List<List<String>> data = table.raw();

driver.findElement(By.id(“IDTokenA1”)).sendKeys(data.get(1).get(0));

driver.findElement(By.id(“IDTokenB1”)).sendKeys(data.get(1).get(1));

driver.findElement(By.name(“Login.Submit”)).click();

// throw new PendingException();

}

2.Cucumber Scenario Outline data table

Sample feature file contents as below:

Scenario Outline: Login functionality for a website.

Given User navigates to Login page

When user enters Username as “<username>” and Password as “<password>”

Then login should be unsuccessful

Examples:

| username | password |

| ABC | 123 |

Corresponding Selenium script contents as below:

@When(“^user enters Username as \“([^\”]*)\” and Password as \”([^\”]*)\”$”)

public void user_enters_Username_as_and_Password_as(String arg1, String arg2) {

driver.findElement(By.id(“IDTokenA1“)).sendKeys(arg1);

driver.findElement(By.id(“IDTokenB1“)).sendKeys(arg2);

driver.findElement(By.id(“Login.Submit“)).click();

}

3.TestRunner sample code

package cucumberTestRunnerTest;

* cucumberTestRunner sample code below

import org.junit.runner.RunWith;

import cucumber.api.junit.Cucumber;

import cucumber.api.CucumberOptions;

@RunWith(Cucumber.class)

@CucumberOptions(~~format~~={“pretty”}

,features = “Feature” // refer the above feature file sample

,glue={“stepDefinition”} // note: need to create a package stepDefinition and create a regression scriptclass

,dryRun = false)

public class TestRunnerTest {

}

Note: JUnit runner uses the JUnitframework to run Cucumber using annotation – you could see in the above code that single empty class with annotation.

4.Maven pom.xml file sample needs the following dependencies if you want to use Maven for build automation.

<groupId>junit</groupId>

<artifactId>junit</artifactId>

</dependency>

<groupId>info.cukes</groupId>

<artifactId>cucumber-java</artifactId>

</dependency>

<groupId>info.cukes</groupId>

<artifactId>cucumber-junit</artifactId>

</dependency>

<groupId>info.cukes</groupId>

<artifactId>cucumber-testng</artifactId>

</dependency>

</dependencies>

5.If you do not want to use Maven for build automation, you can attach the following jars to your project Java Build path.

cucumber-java

cucumber-core

cucumber-junit

cucumber-jvm-deps

cucumber-reporting

gherkin

junit

mockito-all

cobertura

6.Regression test case script will be like this (refer the Test runner sample code point #3 above)

package stepDefinition;

import java.util.List;

import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;

importorg.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import cucumber.api.DataTable;

import cucumber.api.PendingException;

import cucumber.api.java.en.Given;

import cucumber.api.java.en.Then;

import cucumber.api.java.en.When;

public class RegressionTest { // refer the Test runner sample code point #3 to see how the this code is mapped

WebDriver driver;

// run TestRunner.java file and get the out put from Console and copy/paste below:

@Given(“^User is on Application Login Page$”)

public void user_is_on_Application_Home_Page() throws Throwable {

// Write code here that turns the phrase above into concrete actions

driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();

driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

//throw new PendingException();

}

7. If you do not want to use the DataTable from feature file, always you can pull the data from XLS file using the logic below.

package yourpagename;

import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFRow;

import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFSheet;

import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFWorkbook;

import java.io.File;

import java.io.FileInputStream;

importjava.util.List;

importjava.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

importorg.openqa.selenium.By;

importorg.openqa.selenium.WebElement;

importorg.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver;

importorg.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select;

importorg.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

importorg.testng.annotations.AfterClass;

importorg.testng.annotations.AfterTest;

importorg.testng.annotations.BeforeTest;

import org.testng.annotations.Test;

import Package.AnyotherClass; // if needed

public class AnyotherClassPage extends InitialClass

{

//WebDriver driver;

AnyotherClass ObjectName;

@Test(priority = 1)

public void Excel() throws Exception

{

ObjectName = new AnyotherClass (driver);

ObjectName.objectclick();

System.out.println(“Started executing Test Cases”);

// load excel file

File filePath = new File(“C:\\xxxxx\\ExcelFileName.xls”);

FileInputStream FS = new FileInputStream(filePath);

HSSFWorkbook WB = new HSSFWorkbook(FS);

HSSFSheet sheet = WB.getSheetAt(0);

int rowcount = sheet.getLastRowNum() – sheet.getFirstRowNum();

int colcount = sheet.getRow(0).getLastCellNum();

int a =0 ;

System.out.println(“Number of rows” + rowcount);

System.out.println(“Number of columns” +colcount);

for(int b=1;b<rowcount;b++)

{

HSSFRow row = sheet.getRow(b);

//for(int j=0;j<colcount;j++)

//{

//HSSFCell cell = row.getCell(j);

String excelCell1 = row.getCell(a).getStringCellValue();

String excelCell2 = row.getCell(a+1).getStringCellValue();

System.out.println(“XLS Values are — “ + excelCell1 + “—“ + excelCell2);

//}

ObjectName.NewMethod1(excelCell1);

ObjectName.NewMethod2(excelCell2); // code continues … …

What is TestRunner in Cucumber

TestRunner is a program used in Cucumber to access Feature file as copied in the picture below.

Feature file is something that has user requirement scenarios written in English which gives more readability and understandability of the requirement which is called Gherkin language.

So any roles in the company like Tester, developer, end user, and techno functional person can read it and understand it. Also this will reduce the complication in terms of missing requirement or misrepresenting or misunderstanding requirements between different roles like Developer , tester, and end user,

In order to link Cucumber with Selenium WebDriver, you need to start a Java project in eclipse IDE.

Then, add both Cucumber and Selenium jar files

Write test runner code and execute the same . Please refer BDD testing details on Selenium Cucumber

Sample Test runner code:

Testrunner

**Automaton testing using Cucumber – Behavior driven development (BDD)**

Application behavior is the main focus on BDD. The requirements are written in English which gives more readability and understandability of the requirement.

So any roles in the company like Tester, developer, end user, and techno functional person can read it and understand it. Also this will reduce the complication in terms of missing requirement or misrepresenting or misunderstanding requirements between different roles like Developer , tester , end user etc.

Gherkin is a business readable language, refer below for an example. Below feature file is integrated with Selenium and are having user stories as below.

Please refer below – “feature, Scenario, Given, When, And, Then “are the Keywords below to understand on how to write a feature file…

**What is Feature file in Cucumber test and how to create a feature file.**

Feature file is a part of Cucumber framework and it contains descriptions in English language.

Follow below path to create a feature file

create feature file

**One sample transaction as below:**

**One sample transaction example as below:**

sample feature file transaction

December 2, 2017February 23, 2020

4 Dimensional Arrays in Java

Sample code for 4 Dimensional Arrays in Java

package javaArrays;

import java.util.Scanner;

public class FourDimArray {

public static void main(String[] args) {

int a[][][][] = new int[5][4][3][2];

int i,j,k,l, num = 1;

for (i=0; i<5; i++)

{

for(j=0; j<4; j++)

{

for(k=0; k<3; k++)

{

for(l=0; l<2; l++)

{

a[i][j][k][l] = num;

num++;

}

for(i=0; i<5; i++)

{

for(j=0; j<4; j++)

{

for(k=0; k<3; k++)

{

for(l=0; l<2; l++)

{

System.out.print(“a[“ +i+ “][“ +j+ “][“ +k+ “][“ +l+ “] = “ +a[i][j][k][l]+ “\t”);

}

System.out.println();

}

System.out.println();

}

System.out.println();

}

November 30, 2017February 23, 2020

Summary on Cloud, Machine learning, Artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies

Salesforce

Salesforce.com is an American cloud computing company.
Salesforce offers Software as a Service (SaaS) platform which helps in Customer Relationship Management.
It has a multi-tenant architecture and subscriptions.

The following are the application clouds in Salesforce CRM.

Sales Cloud
2. Service Cloud
3. Marketing Cloud
4. Data cloud
5. App Cloud
6. Analytics Cloud
7. Community Cloud

Salesforce also offers Platform as a Service (PaaS) using Force.com sites.

People involved in Salesforce Implementation
1. End User ( Customer)
2. Administrator
3. Developer
4. Consultant

The following are the list of Salesforce Certifications.

Certified Administrator
2. Certified Advanced Administrator
3. Certified Sales Cloud Consultant
4. Certified Service Cloud Consultant
5. Certified Force.com Platform App Builder
6. Certified Force.com Platform Developer I
7. Certified Force.com Platform Developer II
8. Certified Technical Architect

What is Apex?

Apex is a programming language for salesforce (only).
Object Oriented Program, in which the data types have to defined.
Allows developers for flow execution in force.com platforms.
Enables developers to add business logic to most system events including button clicks, related record updates and visualforce pages.

Datatypes in Apex

Primitives

Apex primitives include the following datatypes.

Integer
Boolean
Decimal
Double
Date
Date Time
Time
String
Long
ID- Any valid salesforce.com Id.

sObjects
Any object that can be stored in force.com platform database.
sObject variable unlike primitive variable refers to row of data in salesforce. That is a complete record as a variable.

Hadoop MapReduce

Hadoop MapReduce is the main core components of Hadoop and is a programming model Hadoop MapReduce helps implementation for processing and generating large data sets, it uses parallel and distributed algorithms on a cluster. Hadoop MapReduce can handle large scale data: petabytes, exabytes.
Mapreduce framework converts each record of input into a key/value pair.

What is Blockchain and cryptocurrency

To understand more about Blockchain and crypto currency, lets explain about current Banking system works.

Current Banking systems : when a user does an online or ATM transaction , the centralized banking ledger verifies and confirm the authenticity of accounts. For that work, every bank or third party sites charges to user.

Blockchain is not like banking centralized ledger but this software uses a decentralized ledger across the thousands of computers and every transactions are updated in each and every ledger. That means everyone is aware of the transactions rather than a centralized bank stores all information and charges for that. There are volunteering systems who does this effort of maintaining all ledgers for block chain.

Block chain uses cryptography mythology to protect the ledger information so that no one can modify or destroy this.

Block chain concept is utilized by Crypto currency , online voting system, signature system, agreement systems etc.

Top 20 cryptocurrency 2017

bitcoin BTC
ethereum ETH
bitcoincash BCH
ethereumclassic ETC
litecoin LTC
einsteinium EMC2
dash DASH
ripple XRP
bitcoingold BTG
zcash ZEC
eos EOS
qtum QTUM
syscoin SYS
neo NEO
monero XMR
vertcoin VTC
iota IOT
powerledger POWR
omisego OMG
santiment SAN

November 30, 2017June 13, 2020

Summary about Jmeter and performance testing

Jmeter recording

How to create Jmeter scripts?

Recording Jmeter scripts using Jmeter’s HTTP(S) Test Script recorder. There are two ways

1) Manually adding scripts ( Test plan >> Tread Group >> Add>> Sampler >> HTTP Request )

2) Recording using Jmeter’s HTTP(S) Test Script recorder

How to record Jmeter scripts using HTTP(S) Test Script recorder

Prior doing that we need to configure browser and learn about the Proxy setup

Jmeter to Application server communication need to be routed through a browser Proxy for this recording purpose. For that you may need to select the Browser (here we can use Firefox browser”

1) Navigate to Firefox >> Tools >> options >> Advanced >> Network >> Settings

2) Select Manual Proxy configuration >> HTTP Proxy = localhost & Port = 8080

How to run Jmeter in Jenkins

steps:

Jenkins setup and performance plugin setup:
1) copy performance plugin into Jenkin’s home directry before you start the test.
2) to do that – you can download the performance plugin “performance.hpi” from the site https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Performance+Plugin
3) how to find the home directry of jenkins – to do that you can navigate to jenkins home page (localhost:8080) and then
4) click on “Manage Jenkins” and then click on “Configure system” the you will notice “Home directy” path in there.

Configure Jmeter and create a basic script in Jmeter:
5) download Jmeter Binary zip file from Jmeter site http://jmeter.apache.org/download_jmeter.cgi
6) unzip it and go to the “bin” directory of the Jmeter folder, wherre you will notice “user.properties” file.
7) open the file in notepad or notepad++ or any other text editor
8) add a line “jmeter.save.saveservice.output_format=xml” to that. Save and close the “user.properties” file
9) create a Jmeter script and make sure you can run it in non GUI mode i.e either in DOS mode or using shell scripts in MAC (note down the commands used in respective OS and it could be used in Jenkins job setup)
Note: for windows command line run, you can use the following commands

C:\[JMETER BIN directory]\jmeter.bat -Jjmeter.save.saveservice.output_format=xml -n -t C:\[JMETER script “.jmx” file] -l Jmeter_test_results.jtl

Note 1: For detailed topics on Jmeter scripts creation , please visit Jmeter , Jmeter recording

setup Jenkin’s job to run Jmeter scripts
9) go to Jenkins home page (localhost:8080) and then click on “New Item” on “Freestyle project”
10) in the “New item” page, give some name in the item name field and go to below to section “Build” and add build step
11) add build step can be either a) “execute windows batch command” for windows or b) “Execute shell” for MAC
12) provide your command in there and save.
13) Click on “Build now” which would call the Jmeter (jmx) file and run the program
14) after the run, you can verify the Jenkins console to review the results.

November 30, 2017May 17, 2020

Summary about Jenkins, Selenium and QTP automation frameworks

How to run Jenkins locally

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 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.

Automaton testing using Cucumber – Behavior driven development (BDD)

Application behavior is the main focus on BDD. The requirements are written in English which gives more readability and understandability of the requirement.

So any roles in the company (Tester, developer, end user, and techno functional person) can read it and understand it. Also this will reduce the complication in terms of missing requirement or misrepresenting or misunderstanding requirements between different roles (Developer /tester / end user)

Gherkin is a business readable language – refer below for an example. Below feature file is integrated with Selenium and are having user stories as below.

Please refer below – “feature, Scenario, Given, When, And, Then “are the Keywords below to understand on how to write a feature file.

What is TestRunner in Cucumber

In order to link Cucumber with Selenium WebDriver, you need to start a Java project in eclipse IDE.

Then, add both Cucumber and Selenium jar files

Write test runner code and execute the same . Please refer BDD testing details on Selenium Cucumber

Selenium jenkins integration steps are as below:

Jenkin related steps:
1) start jenkins by running command in DOS prompt (detailed steps in here )
2) then make sure you are able to access url : localhost:8080
3) then you need to configure jenkins to run the selenium scripts – for that click on “Manage Jenkins”
4) then click on Configure systems
5) Find out the jdk files are installed (usually in C:\ program files … folder path) and copy paste the path in JDK section “JDK Installations” in ” Configure systems” which you are already in.
6) Give JDK name “JAVA_HOME” and provide Java path below in the next field.

Selenium related steps:
3) Open eclipse IDE and start new Java project
4) make sure you added selenium jars (Selenium server standalone jar file which you can download add to new project) to support selenium framework for your automation testing.
5) then create a simple selenium script – make sure it is running and completing successfully in Eclipse.
6) Also create a xml file give a name “Xml1.xml” Make sure Run “Xml1.xml” as “TestNG Suite” is working fine in Eclipse. Also notedown the xml file path in selenium project. create a lib folder in that and add all jar files which are required.

Commmand prompt:
7) navigate to that project folder in command prompt and set all required classpath like bin and lib etc which are already in xml file folder in selenium project which you got from selenium project in eclipse.
8) then type command “Java org.testng.testNG Xml1.xml” which will display results in command prompt/DOS screen
9) now create a batch file “Batch1.bat” which contains the above command and also a command for compiling as e.g “java -cp bin;lib/* org.testng.testNG Xml1.xml”

Jenkins setup to build and run the file:
10) in Jenkins, create a “new item” with selection of “Freestyle project”
11) then select “Advance options” and put the Selenium project home directory path in there.
12) the build trigger section, select Batch file execution option in there, then put the batch file name “Batch1.bat”
13) click and save the new item
14) click on “Build Now” and verify the “Console output”

How to configure Hub & Node machines for selenium parallel test execution

Configuring Hub machine

1) Start the command prompt/DOS prompt

2) Navigate to the folder location where the Selenium server jar file is kept.

3) Type java –jar selenium-server-standalone-[VERSION].jar –role hub

Note: [VERSION] is the one your downloaded version of selenium-server-standalone Jar file.

Selenium Hub

4) Now type: http://localhost:4444 in browser

Your will see the below screen

5) Now type: http://localhost:4444/console in browser

Configuring Node machines

Follow the same steps 1 to 2 in node machines

Then type,

Java –jar selenium-server-standalone-[VERSION].jar –role node –hub http://yourHUBmachineIP:4444/grid/register

How to run selenium tests in Jenkins

Jenkins configuration:

To run selenium scripts in Jenkins, Jenkins needs to started.

To make Jenkins server start, please use the following command in the Jenkins folder of your machine when Jenkins.warfile is downloaded from internet…

“java -jar jenkins.war” in DOS / command prompt mode.
Then you need to bring the browser up and type “localhost:8080” to see jenkins web UI ready.
Then navigate to Jenkins >> Manage Jenkins and click on “Configure system”
Then scroll down to see the “JDK installations” section in the pag
There you enter “JAVA_HOME” for “JDK name” field.
Provide the Java-JDK file folder path for “JAVA_HOME” field.

Note: Java-JDK file folder path is usually “C:\Program files\Java\JDK….”

Note: Disable “Install Automatically” check box else it will update with new Java versions and your selenium program might get conflicts

Selenium script development:

create a package and class in Eclipse
and then create a small test script – like print some message based on UI or Browser title name etc
you could create a TestNG project
Then TestNG.xml file will be created in Eclipse

Note: to get the XML folder path in project home directory, you could go to Eclipse project and right click to see properties.

Note: you also need to put all the jar files required for selenium testing under the lib folder(you may need to create”lib” folder)

Just to test your TestNG scripts are working, you can navigate to Project home directly (XML located) through DOS/Command prompt and then type as below:

Note: before that you need to set class path as bin directory of Project home folder. Command : “set classpath=C:\Selenium\project\bin;” as an example for binary file

Note1: similarly lib files, Command : “set classpath=C:\Selenium\project\lib\*” as an example

or command: set classpath=C:\Selenium\project\bin;C:\Selenium\project\lib\*;

Then execute testng.xml file through command prompt

command : java org.testng.TestNG testng.xml

Batch file creation for Jenkin execution

Create a batch file using notepad – steps

Type the below contents in Notepad without quotes.

‘ java -cp bi;lib/* org.testng.TestNG testng.xml ‘

2) save the notepad as “runSelenium.bat” which will create a bat file. Place it in project home directory.

Jenkins job creation:

Open Jenkins, then click on “New item”
Enter item name as “JenkinSeleniumTest”
Select “Freestyle project” , click Ok
Then click on “Advance” button under the “Advance projects options”
Then select “Use custom workspace”, then give the project home directory path in “Directory” field.
Then “Add build setup” under “Build” and select “Execute Windows batch Command”
Then type “runSelenium.bat” in the command field, click apply and save it.
Then in the “JenkinSeleniumTest”, then click on “Build Now” which will call the batch file and then Selenium script internally.
Verify the “Console output” in “JenkinSeleniumTest” which will show the Selenium execution results.

How to send email at every build with Jenkins

Jenkins default configuration setting allows to send email notification for build failure, someone breaks the build etc.

To send email for every build Install Email-ext plugin.
Once it is installed, click on Configure System
Then in “Jenkins Location” section & “Extended E-mail Notification” – enter your email ids
In “E-mail Notification” section, enter the SMTP server name to “SMTP server”
Click “Advanced”, Click “Use SMTP Authentication” to enter required information
verify “Test configuration by sending test e-mail”
Configure a project to send email at every build
Click “Add post-build action” and then Click “Editable Email Notification”
Go to “Advanced Settings” to “Add Trigger”
then Click “Always” , Save

Qtp script to close all open browsers ..

Call CloseAllBrowsers_ExcludingALM()

Function CloseAllBrowsers_ExcludingALM()
‘To ceclare Variables
Dim objDes, objList, objIndex

‘To Create Object Description for all opened browsers opened.
Set objDes=Description.Create
objDes.Add “micClass”,”Browser”

‘To get all the opened browsers objects from Desktop
Set ObjList=Desktop.ChildObjects(objDes)

‘Indexing always starts from “0”
For objIndex=0 to objList.count-1
‘To cverify the name of the browser is “HP Application Lifecycle Management”
If lcase(objList(objIndex).GetROproperty(“name”))<>”HP Application Lifecycle Management” then
‘Close the Browser
objList(objIndex).close
Exit For
End If
Next

Jenkins reset user password :

First stop the Jenkins service if you are already running jenkins

Go to the folder where jenkin’s config.xml file is stored (generally C:\jenkins\.jenkins\config.xml)

Open config.xml file using notepad++ or any text editor

Search for <useSecurity>true</useSecurity> and change that to <useSecurity>false</useSecurity>, Save the file.

re-start Jenkins service (using Java -jar jenkins.war in commandline)

You should not be seeing login prompt but directly accessing Jenkins home page when you type localhost:8080 in browser.

QTP integration with Jenkins

Create a “.vbs” file as below and save the file as “AOM.vbs” in C:\QTP\VBS folder.
In Jenkins create Job, Select ‘Execute Windows Batch Command’ in Build Step. Enter below command.
and then use that in Jenkins.
Note: To learn how to create a Jenkins job or how to start Jenkins – please refer create a Jenkins job and Run Jenkins locally in my site.
Below code is the “AOM.vbs” which is called by Jenkins Job.
Call QTP()
Public function QTP()
‘Create Quick test pro(QTP/UFT) object
Set objQTP = CreateObject(“QuickTest.Application”)
objQTP.Launch
objQTP.Visible = True
‘to open QTP Test
objQTP.Open “Test file path “, True
Set objResults= CreateObject(“QuickTest.RunResultsOptions”)
objResults.ResultsLocation = “Result path of qtp” ‘Set the results location
‘to run qtp script results
objQTP.Test.Run objResults
‘to close QTP
objQTP.Test.Close
objQTP.Quit
End function

November 30, 2017May 17, 2020

Summary on Web testing and mobile apps

What is the difference between Web Layer (Presentation Tier) vs Application Layer (Logic Tier) vs Database Layer (Data Tier)

Presentation Layer is the interface to outside world e.g. web site.
Application Layer is a framework to create the interface to the Web site or Presentation Tier
Database Layer is the database and associated logic needed to query details.

Web Layer (Presentation Tier)

Contains Virtual Machines and Physical Machines with OS can be Windows, UNIX or Linux

Contains Apache web Server, Apache tomcat, Sun Java Web Server or MS Internet Information Services (IIS)

Application Layer (Logic Tier)

Contains Virtual Machines and Physical Machines with OS can be Windows, UNIX or Linux

Contains Apache tomcat, Red Hat JBoss, BEA Web Logic or IBM WebSphere app server

Database Layer (Data Tier)

Contains Virtual Machines and Physical Machines with OS can be Windows, UNIX or Linux

Contains SQL or Oracle

How to Use WhatsApp in a Web Browser?

1) Go to web.whatsapp.com in a web browser on a computer.
2) Then, on your iOS/Android/Windows mobile phone, open WhatsApp and press the Options on top right corner side
3) then press WhatsApp Web from the options.
4) use iOS/Android/Windows mobile phone to scan the QR code shown on the browser on your computer.

Headless web browsers

headless web browsers or programs are used to stimulate the browsers where there is no GUI is used for browser actions,

If you want to do browser operations or collect data from UI, there programming concepts will be used.

headless web browsers are listed as below,

HtmlUnit – No GUI browser for Java programmers and its pure java implementation, Open source programs. JavaScript support/DOM emulated. mainly used for used for testing purposes or to retrieve information from web sites.

Spynner – Programmatic web browsing module having AJAX support for Python

Ghost – it is a webkit web client written in python. it is WebKit-based. JavaScript supported and Open source.

Watir-webdriver- it an open source Ruby library for automating tests. Complete JAva script Support via Browsers

Twill – Allows users to browse the Web using command-line interface . Supports automated testing on web applications and Open source.

Awesomium – is Chromium-based. and supports JavaScript and provides HTML-powered interfaces.

ZombieJS – Open source headless testing using Node.js. JavaScript support/emulated DOM.

SimpleBrowser – Open source web browser engine designed for automation tasks. It is built for .Net framework and No JavaScript support.

November 29, 2017March 13, 2020

Successful test automation

Successful test automation approach – simplest way to build cost effective automation frameworks which can give better ROI.

To maximize automation benefits in terms of best output and cost effectiveness is by implementing best matching framework based on your product line.

When an organization plans for cost effective automation frameworks, they can always consider 2 types of frameworks to start having maximized results with less effort and cost. Basically optimizing your efforts and get better ROI relatively in less time.

User acceptance testing – Find out a Behavioral driven development (BDD) framework – either cucumber selenium or Robot Framework. I will explain about Cucumber Selenium framework in this article and will explain the reason for including one BDD Framework for your automation. With the help of Business team, identify the most critical applications and most critical functionalities. Once you have BDD framework is ready, you can make sure it is running every day and sending our reports using Jenkins integration. Which will make your automation is ready to Join the DevOps culture. As most of the companies like google, amazon etc have already adopted DevOps while ago.

Regression testing – You can follow any regular automation approach and adopting DevOps, continuous testing, monitoring and reporting. You can opt data driven or keyword or hybrid based on your expertise and application type.

Let me give an example when you consider the type 1 which is BDD for acceptance testing.

The very reason for BDD is that it can utilize business user’s collaboration in automation. This is the easiest way to get business team’s association on your automation efforts.

In my opinion, when you compare within different BDDs, cucumber has upper edge as opposed to Robot Framework as simplicity in it that will help business user involve easily.

As an e.g. cucumber frameworks need feature file and typical feature file example will have user scenarios as below,

Feature: Login Action

Scenario: User successfully Login to application with valid user id and password

Given User is on application login prompt page

When User enters User name and password

Then Message displayed as Login is successful

Scenario Outline: data parameter test

When User navigates to application search screen

Then user input “<InputInfo>” as “InputVal”

Examples:

| InputInfo |

| ABC1 |

| ABC2 |

In the above example you can see that a business user can simply follow the format for above 2 test cases which is written in feature file.

1) Scenario

2) Scenario Outline:

Later automation architect or engineer can develop test runner file and convert this as automation test scripts. Please refer link for more details about cucumber framework.

Benefits

User collaboration
Due to user collaboration, we can make sure all the critical application are automated
Due to user collaboration, we can make sure all the critical features in every important applications are automated
Due to Jenkins integration, you can make sure test can be scheduled for every day run, to make application as robust in terms of quality.

Summary of Web services and API testing using UFT

Web services

WSDL

UDDI

SOAP

REST

API testing using UFT

Web service

REST

Maven TestNG framework with reporting features and switching pages

1. Setup a Maven project in Eclipse with POM file as below

2. Setup a Page factory package where all the object locators are stored. E.g. code like this below.

2. Setup a test script code that communicates to Pageobject repository

3. Reporting code

4. Switching between child window/page and parent window/page

Cucumber Scenario data table and Scenario Outline data table

1.Cucumber Scenario data table

Corresponding Selenium script contents as below:

2.Cucumber Scenario Outline data table

Corresponding Selenium script contents as below:

3.TestRunner sample code

4.Maven pom.xml file sample needs the following dependencies if you want to use Maven for build automation.

5.If you do not want to use Maven for build automation, you can attach the following jars to your project Java Build path.

6.Regression test case script will be like this (refer the Test runner sample code point #3 above)

7. If you do not want to use the DataTable from feature file, always you can pull the data from XLS file using the logic below.

What is TestRunner in Cucumber

Automaton testing using Cucumber – Behavior driven development (BDD)

4 Dimensional Arrays in Java

Sample code for 4 Dimensional Arrays in Java

Summary on Cloud, Machine learning, Artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies

Salesforce

Hadoop MapReduce

What is Blockchain and cryptocurrency

Top 20 cryptocurrency 2017

Summary about Jmeter and performance testing

Summary about Jenkins, Selenium and QTP automation frameworks

How to run Jenkins locally

Selenium features

Automaton testing using Cucumber – Behavior driven development (BDD)

What is TestRunner in Cucumber

Selenium jenkins integration steps are as below:

How to configure Hub & Node machines for selenium parallel test execution

How to run selenium tests in Jenkins

Jenkins configuration:

Selenium script development:

Batch file creation for Jenkin execution

How to send email at every build with Jenkins

Jenkins default configuration setting allows to send email notification for build failure, someone breaks the build etc.

Qtp script to close all open browsers ..

Jenkins reset user password :

QTP integration with Jenkins

Summary on Web testing and mobile apps

What is the difference between Web Layer (Presentation Tier) vs Application Layer (Logic Tier) vs Database Layer (Data Tier)

How to Use WhatsApp in a Web Browser?

Headless web browsers

Successful test automation approach – simplest way to build cost effective automation frameworks which can give better ROI.