Note on success of GUI automation

There are plenty of blogs which recommend

• When to Automate, At what stage of project execution (working feature set, stable application etc..)
• What to Automate, How to identify a test case for automation (repeatable steps, stable feature, regression cases, BVT cases etc..)

This post is a example on determining quality of automation suite. This stackoverflow answer is my motivation for this post

 

Joe Strazzere answer is simple, straight forward and portrays real world scenario. Below is snap of the answer underlined important lines in my perspective

 

 

What to focus on Automation 

• Tests focusses on basic scenarios and slowly extending to cover end to end functionality
• Execute 10~15 core functional scenarios

What not to focus on automation

• Merely focussing one existence of ids
• Testing the front end without connecting underlying layers

What is good automated test case ?

• Login to online shopping portal
• Search for products (query the DB to fetch products)
• Invoke web service involved to fetch results
• Compared returned results in UI vs Web Service Results

What is not efficient automated test case ?

• Login to online shopping portal
• Search for products which are hardcoded
• Compared returned results in UI with predetermined hardcoded results

If you find your automation tests pass and your manual test identifies bugs then it is a indicator for automation test cases improvement. What matters is Quality not Quantity !!

 

Happy Learning!!! 

Telerik Test Studio Webinar

There are lot of test Tools available in market. I attended Telerik Test Studio session. The tool is focussed on Microsoft Platform (Web Testing WPF/Silverlight). Session was useful to understand Product Portfolio, features

Notes from the Session

• Overview and benefits of test automation covering rerunning test cases, reduce test execution efforts, eliminate human error etc..

Test Studio

• Inbuilt Scheduling Engine
• Performance Test Support
• Integration withing TFS
• Cross browser testing support
• Microsoft Platform focussed test product (WPF/Silverlight)
• Data Driven Testing Support

More Details - Link

 

Express Edition Features

• Available as a VS plugin
• Generate unit test cases which can be run using NUnit, XUnit, MbUnit

Demo

• Record and playback of Web Test was demonstrated in the session
• This made me to remember VSTT web test record and play back feature

It would be interesting to download and Evaluate Telerik Free Testing Framework

Documetation on Test Framework

Comparision between VSTT and Test Studio

Telerik Webinars

 

Happy Learning!!

Tool Developer Notes - Part III

[Previous Post in Series - Tool Developer Notes - Part II]
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Adding few more interesting notes based on learning's

Tip #1 - Working with DateTime Picker in C#. Requirement was to write in specific format. Provided below is an example using WinForms Application

For the Submit button try out the sample code for Setting date, Adding Duration

        private void btnSubmit_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            int duration = 0;
            DateTime CurrentTime;
            String CurDate;
            duration = Convert.ToInt32(txtDuration.Text);
            CurrentTime = dTPTimeSet.Value;
            for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
            {
                CurDate = CurrentTime.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm");
                MessageBox.Show(CurDate);
                CurrentTime = CurrentTime.AddMinutes(duration);
            }
        }


Tip #2 - Check if string is GUID. Tweaking the code from Stackoverflow question

public static bool IsGuid(string guid)
        {
            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(guid))
            {
                Regex regex = new Regex(@"^(\{{0,1}([0-9a-fA-F]){8}-([0-9a-fA-F]){4}-([0-9a-fA-F]){4}-([0-9a-fA-F]){4}-([0-9a-fA-F]){12}\}{0,1})$");
                return regex.IsMatch(guid);
            }
            return false;
        }

Tip #3 - Loop through all files in a directory

How to loop through all files in a folder using C#

Tip #4 - Last File Created time in a directory
using System.IO.DirectoryInfo we find last file created time in a directory

string Folder = @”C:\Test”;
DirectoryInfo dinfo = new DirectoryInfo(Folder).GetDirectories("*", SearchOption.AllDirectories).OrderByDescending(d => d.LastWriteTimeUtc).First();
//Find the Last File Created Time in Directory
DateTime LastCreatedTime = dinfo.LastAccessTime;

Happy Learning!!!

Good Reads - Basics Cloud Computing

Earlier we looked at NOSQL, BigData. For beginners looking for Cloud Computing fundamentals below bookmarked articles are very good basic reading material to get started with Cloud Computing

Basics

• From GetCloudReady.com, very good ebook Demystifying the Cloud
• Private Cloud Architecture - Part 1: Introduction and Definitions
• Private Cloud Architecture - Part 2: Principles
• Private Cloud Architecture - Part 3: Concepts
• Private Cloud Architecture - Part 4: Patterns
• How to: choosing between lightweight and traditional ESBs
• Taking .NET applications to the Cloud
• The Canonical Cloud Architecture
• Cloud Computing - Why Cloud?
• Cloud computing - software as a service
• Cloud computing - Delivering IT as a service
• Top 5 Questions Posed on "Cloud Computing" [Part 1/3]
• Top 5 Questions Posed on “Cloud Computing” [Part 2/3]
• Top 5 Questions Posed on “Cloud Computing” [Part 3/3]
• Step by Step Guide to Create First Windows Azure Application
• Windows Azure

Case Studies

• Slide 24 of presentation is very good representing Netflix Cloud Vs DataCentre Architecture

Happy Learning!!!