Automation Testing Framework Using Selenium Web Driver

Why Test Automation?

Test automation, as you know is to help speed up testing when it becomes tedious and time consuming. Automation can help when we test something repeatedly. Humans are prone to making mistakes while doing tedious actions.

Automation disposes of tedium and rehashed undertakings while doing the accompanying:

• Test similar tests with various arrangements of information.
• Test with same arrangement of information, on each new form, manually.
• Test, discover bugs, fix, relapse, regress – cycle of bug fixing

Advantages of Test Automation The advantages are:

• It decreases time to do tests, in this manner manual effort will be saved.
• It runs tests paralleled, along these lines reducing manual effort for testing.
• It runs tests with more than one browser, along these lines sparing manual exertion.
• It runs more tests with various arrangements of information, along these lines showing signs of improvement scope.

What is a Framework?

A system is only an arrangement of standards and structures, which makes it simple to get a suite of tests up and testing in negligible time. For instance, appoint test information in a particular envelope, store design settings in a particular record and organizer, name the tests in this layout, make bundles, etc.

The examples for non specific structure are:

• Linear
• Modular
• Data Driven
• Hybrid – which is a combination of the all three above

A test automation system essentially encourages you in building up a suite of tests, associating with the application under test, running the tests against the "application-under-test" in required request and extracting test execution results.

What is the Page Object Model?

The Page Object Model is a plan example of testing, got from the Object Oriented Programming ideas. The POM depicts the web application into the quantity of website pages being utilized, and contains the components as properties, and activities as strategies. This offers you low maintenance on the tests created.

For example, for a nonexclusive sign in page, you would need to:

• "set user name to a String value being breezed through from the test",
• "set password to a String value breezed through from the test",
• "Click on submit"

and, the over two assignments are finished. To proceed with we would need to "approve whether landing page is loaded with the set user name".

Making the test automation structure

We will now attempt to direct the client through the creation and outlining a straightforward test automation structure for running tests on web applications, utilizing Selenium webdriver, TestNG and Maven, utilizing Java programming language. This structure should enable you to run the tests from an Eclipse IDE or an IntelliJ IDE.

Tools utilized are:

• Apache Maven – Defines the project structure
• Selenium Webdriver – Test Automation tool/library
• Selenium Grid – An element to run tests on various test conditions on a system
• TestNG – Test sprinter and report engine
• Java – Language that interfaces all components