Testing Beyond the UI: The Testing Pyramid

Problems with UI Tests

We've been using Selenium WebDriver with Java to write automated browser tests for our eCommerce application ever since the new Fitbit-Boston was formed two years ago.

We have tests for our web application emulating how online customers purchase goods, how customer service agents place orders, such as "Create a standard order containing a year long FitStar subscription and a Fitbit Blaze, with a billing address in the US and a shipping address in Canada, with overnight shipping, paying with a Discover Card".

New Home for Adventures in Automation!

Adventures in Automation has a new home! 

 The new domain is http://www.tjmaher.com. The Blogspot domain was getting a bit unwieldy.

 First time here? Check out last week's post: Adventures in Automation is One Year Old!

Thoughts on the Second Annual 'State of Testing' Survey Results released by Sauce Labs

What is the relationship at your company between DEV and QA like:

• Artist and Art Critic?
• Or Writer and Copyeditor?

According to Sauce Labs' Second Annual 'State of Testing Survey' released a few days ago, testers are more than likely to find the latter instead of the former.

Why? In a word: Agile.

Code Review Request, Please! Automated Test Framework in Selenium WebDriver / Java

Hello! Thank you for stopping by! I have a favor to ask, if you don't mind...

Code Review Request

Are you familiar with writing a test automation framework in Selenium WebDriver / Java? If so, I was wondering if I could please ask a favor from you?

Adventures in Automation is One Year Old!

Adventures in Automation is now one year old!

What a difference a year makes. When I started this blog a year ago, I was still just another unemployed manual QA Engineer attempting to make the transition to automation. It had been ten years since I studied Software Engineering back in grad school. Could I convince an employer to hire me as an automated tester, if I could prove that I knew my stuff in regards to quality assurance? I had taken a few online courses in WebDriver and posted some code samples to GitHub. Would that be enough?

Automate Amazon: Sketch of Possible Data Driven Tests with TestNG

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Background: Our Automation Framework

This section is going to be a little bit different than the others, more experimental.

With previous sections, I wrote how we actually created an automated framework at my workplace... as of December 2015.

With this section, I am going to talk about how you could possibly do data-driven testing with TestNG, without showing a running system. On my local environment, I had some trouble with the setup with running tests in parallel. I can talk about how to modify your @Test, how to set up a testsuite for TestNG.

Webinar: Joe Colantonio talks about Test Automation Trends for 2016

Test Automation Trends for 2016 and Beyond

Staying Employable In Changing Times

Sauce Labs Webinar
1/12/2016: 2:00 pm: 
Joe Colantonio, TestTalks.com

Coding isn't the hard part of my role of being a brand-new automation engineer. Although I'm in my forties getting into development for the first time, I am actually doing okay -- in spite of always stressing out about the fact that grad school was a decade ago. I’ve now been writing automation scripts in Java and WebDriver for a year coming this March. Do anything for a year and you start becoming more comfortable with it.

It's keeping up with the latest trends in automated software testing, now that is the hard part!

Automate Amazon: Writing a Shopping Cart Test

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Finally! We have the testing framework written!

Now it is time to write a simple test to check to see how we could develop some tests to use this framework.

Let's call our test method in the PurchaseOrderTest class "test_CreatePurchaseForSingleProduct". Our test can be:

1) Go to the Product page, and check the price of a product, such as the mass market edition of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy  

2) Add the Product to an empty Shopping Cart 

3) Verify the price in the Shopping Cart Review page is the same as the product.

Automate Amazon: Initializing Login and Cart

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While drafting the tests to handle adding products to the shopping cart, I came across two problems:

• I kept on on finding that I was logged into my personal Amazon.com account instead of the test account. 
• From one session to the next, Amazon kept remembering what I had in my shopping cart the test before. 

Before the test is run, we need to initialize the login session, and clear all items found in the cart.

Automate Amazon: ProductEnums and ProductObjects

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What good would a shopping cart test be without adding any test products? Let's investigate how to get to the product items on Amazon.

What our Directory Structure Will Look Like

After we store Url and Product locations in Enums, add to the the Actions classes, create a Book pojo to store values of a Book product, and add the ProductsPage page object, our test structure could look like this: