Selenium Reads & QA Tools Post

Good Reads

• Ten Steps of Selenium Automation Framework
• Selenium Automation Framework Example
• PRACTICE AUTOMATION ON DEMO LIVE SITE - ONLINESTORE.TOOLSQA.COM
• Selenium Interview Questions Part-1
• Selenium Interview Questions Part-2
• Updated the Getting Started With Selenium WebDriver free course
• Thoughts on a Selenium interactive exploratory test and debug tool
• Automation Frameworks With Example (Selenium)
• Design Patterns in Automation
• TestNG; accessing a Custom Annotation
• EvilTester - Testing Videos
• Selenium Training Session Videos
• Java Parallel Runs - BrowserStack - Good Tutorials
• Browser Stack Tutorials - Screenshots
• How to run parallel tests with Selenium WebDriver and TestNG
• Learn the Basics of Selenium at uTest University
• Selenium Automation Hybrid Framework
• LOGGING SELENIUM 2 EVENTS IN TWIST
• A few concepts and misconceptions about Selenium
• PageObject Pattern - Why, How and More
• PAGE OBJECT PATTERN
• Page Object Pattern | Selenium - Part I
• Page Object Pattern | Selenium - Part II
• Selenium Best Practices
• Through the eyes of sonar: Exception handling
• Java Selenium WebDriver example: how to create custom locators dynamically
• Http profiler using Selenium to track omniture calls
• Selenium WebDriver : Handling mouseover events
• How to capture popup windows using selenium.
• Simulating shopper abandonment in JMeter
• Selenium - WebDriver common errors
• Selenium extensive learning list
• Testing framework using Maven, TestNG and Webdriver
• How to select which TestNG suites to run in Maven Surefire plugin

PhantomJS

• Performance testing with PhantomJS

Tools / Useful Scripts

• Crawling all SQL Server tables and columns for a specific value

Fitnesse

• Parallel execution of Fitnesse tests

Sikuli

• HOW TO INTEGRATE SIKULI SCRIPT WITH SELENIUM WEBDRIVER
• Sikuli + webdriver examples with java programming

Mobile Automation

• Mobile Test Automation – a few questions to ask
• iOS Automation with Appium & Selenium
• Appium Test Automation tool for Native iOS Applications

Jmeter

• Advanced Load Testing with Apache JMeter
• Siege for Windows is a HTPP Load Testing and Benchmarking Utility
• ANALYTICS WITH JMETER
• LoadStorm v2.0 Now with Transaction Response Timing – What does this mean for you?
• Web Performance of Ecommerce Applications

Windows Testing

• White: Windows Desktop Applications Automation

More Tools

• Awaitility is a small Java-based DSL for synchronizing asynchronous operations
• DBFit

Happy Learning!!!

Web Test Automation Fundas - One Liners

Below notes are based on my personal learning's from project's I have worked on. This presentation from Bindu - Design Patterns in Automation Testing is the inspiration for this post.

Learning Tip #1 - Page Object - Create Class for Each Page in a website. Ex- HomePage, SearchPage Each Page will have a class on its own. These classes will have methods to simulate the functionality. All example posts on Developing Automation Framework in my blog is based on Page Object pattern

Learning Tip #2 - Factory Pattern - You will still have a single class for each page in your website. When you support multiple locales Factory Pattern is useful to simulate the method based on the locale specified in Test Run. Please refer this earlier post on Data Driven Testing and Design patterns. Example for Factory Pattern is provided in the example

Learning Tip #3 - Data Driven Testing - Running the same test for different Data Sets. Basically Automation Framework should be configurable to run against dynamic data sets (not limited to fixed data sets). Although this is a continuous challenge but this is achievable

Learning Tip #4 - Validation Procedures - Validating data need to be performed using independent Service Calls / DB Queries / Prepared Expected Results output. Use of XML to read configurable parameters, storing DB queries of different DB platforms (DB2, MSSQL, MYSQL..) would help to dynamically fetch queries based on the platform tests are executed


More Reads http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/DesignPatterns
Page Object Pattern and how to use Selenium

Happy Re-Learning!!!

Selenium Web Test - Automation Framework - Best Practices

[Next Post for Selenium Based Test Automation Framework]

This post is based my question in stackoverflow site. These questions help us learn best practices while developing an automation framework.

Summarizing Discussion Points

• Page Object test design pattern is a good approach in building automation framework. Based on it only I have written example posts
• Don't use the Selenium IDE generated code as Automation Framework base
• Build a very good underlying framework architecture and refactor it as you keep updating the suite
• Learn Design patterns and Apply it wherever applicable
• 3 layer test automation framework is very good. I feel convinced with this approach.
• GUI Level Testing
• Methods Level Testing
• Database Checks

Posting below list of good reads on Test Automation

• Selenium - Page Object Pattern
• Selenium WebDriver: Page Object Pattern and PageFactory
• Verifying email configuration using Selenium
• ANT build for Selenium Java Project
• Selenium Grid I.O Configuration
• Selenium-ANT-TestNG (SAT) Framework
• Selenium Tutorial to set up a Selenium Grid
• Common Test Patterns and Reuse of Test Designs - Summarizes Test Data and Operations based on Application Type. Good read to arrive at Test Data, Test Scenarios, Edge Case Scenarios.
• Quality in the Test Automation Review Process and Design Review Template - Very Good Article on documenting and sharing Test Automation Framework Code, Architecture and Implmentation Details
• Test Automation Design Pattern  - Approach for building UI Automation Framework
• Test Harness Design Patterns -Summarizes passing data in Flat Files, Excel, XML
• Lightweight UI Test Automation with .NET - Good Article on WinForm Test Automation
• Silverlight UI Automation Testing using Prism 4.0
• UI Automation Verify (UIA Verify) Test Automation Framework
• .NET Based Test Automation Framework Available in Code Plex
• How to implement UI testing without shooting yourself in the foot
• Selenium RC Java Patterns: Watch this Space
• Testing a JavaEE database application
• Building a GUI test automation framework: Structuring the project
• Click on Dynamic Objects at Dynamic Positions in Selenium

Integration Test Principles - Notes from the post

• Configuration should be minimal (Pointing to a different Db to run a test)
• Test cases should be independent (Select and run few cases)
• Tests should be efficient
• The test suite should clean up after itself (Good to clear logs/data)

Please feel free to check my learnings for Developing Test Automation Framework using Selenium.

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