Building a Test Automation Framework

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Spent a wet weekend indoors and decided to spin up a testing framework. Here is my top 11.

What’s in it?

Java 8 Maven Spring Application. + Cucumber + Selenium + Restful API Test Automation Framework + Postgres + Spring JPA. This setup included :

Restful Api call and testing using RestTemplates and a Pojo for modelling the Json.
BDD with Cucumber for Feature
Webdriver
Docker
Postgres Db
Spring JPA
Swagger Api Documentation
Rest Assured
Page Object Modelling
Saucelabs integration
Tomcat – Standard with Spring

What else should I add in here?

Unit and Integration Testing with Maven

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Here is a java maven spring application for unit and integration testing.

This example uses JUnit, hamcrest and mockito for writing unit tests and doing a bit of tdd.

BDD: Cucumber and Java

Here is another sample test app that uses Cucumber as well as Rest Assured to test a rest call that is being mocked.

All this being driven from the cucumber feature file. In this example, we use rest templates to make a call and validate it JUnit. We also use a 1-liner with rest-assured to do the same test.

Browser testing under 10 seconds

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A gain in response time while functional front-end testing is like striking oil in your backyard.

Here I used Selenide Page Object Models and Junit to fire up a chrome browser test under 10 seconds.

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The Struggle is real!

The word of the day: DIP

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Ok, its not actually a word but an acronym.

In “The Dependency Inversion Principle” (or DIP), the author states the three defining factors of “bad code”:

It is hard to change because every change affects too many other parts of the system (Rigidity)
When you make a change, unexpected parts of the system break (Fragility)
It is hard to reuse in another application because it cannot be disentangled from the current application(Immobility)

JJJJJJ – No, this is not a typo!

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Json Jackson
Json Simple
Junit 4
Junit 5
Java 8 Lambda

An example showcasing junit 5 jupiter in a springboot maven project. I hope ya’ll had a good good weekend! I had fun’ed some, I learnt some and I built this little monster here.

Be the beast

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What fixing a bug in production feels like :D

Lessons Learned: Jenkins Server Management

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Many a times in test automation we rarely talk about the importance of goodie good Jenkins Server management.

I tell ya, I spent a week putting out fires! Im a little weird so I found it exhilarating :$ but it caused a lot of jobs not to be run, therefore proving lesser confidence in tests and applications <– terrible!

Here are some lessons learned :

Expire and Clean up old builds – yes, check that box!
Dont schedule jobs with unapproved scripts.
Parallel runs … always parallel runs.
Create a uniformed approach to building jobs.
Create policies to guide and govern the above.
Set reminds to go back and clean out logs, files, builds etc.
Always(Ok most of the time) run Jenkins in a Master/Salve config

Share some of your ideas below for me to learn off!