Hands-On Functional Test Automation: With Visual Studio 2017 and Selenium

ISBN-13: 9781484244104 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 252 str.

Chaminda Chandrasekara; Pushpa Herath

Spis treści

Chapter 1:  Understanding the Concepts

Chapter Goal: Give the conceptual idea of test automation, providing the reasons for adopting recommended practices, while setting proper test automation approach, in practical terms. Define where test automation is applicable and how to effectively integrate it with software delivery lifecycle.

No of pages: 10

Sub -Topics

1. Introduction to Test Automation (What is automation? Where to use it? How to use it?)

2. Importance of Integrating Test Automation with CI/CD Pipeline

3. ROI of Automation Testing

4. Dealing with Testing in Future Software Industry Trends

Chapter 2:  Getting Started with Selenium and Visual Studio

Chapter Goal: This chapter provides, hands on step by step lessons, on preparing your development environment to start test automation developments. Additionally, guidance to setup third party frameworks which can help to enhance the test automation development experience are discussed.

Each lesson will comprise of following sub sections

• Lesson Goal

• Prerequisites

• Step by Step Walkthrough

• Summary (including brief conceptual explanation)

No of pages: 25

Sub - Topics

Lesson 1. Setup Selenium Automation Framework with Visual Studio in C#

Lesson 2. Setup Selenium Automation Framework with Visual Studio in python

Lesson 3. Setup Open MAQS Framework with Visual Studio in C#

Lesson 4. Setup Open Specflow Framework with Visual Studio in C#

Chapter 3:  Function Testing for Web Applications

Chapter Goal: You will get step by step guide on functional testing using selenium with C# and python to test web applications. Further enhancements to the functional testing will be provided with third party frameworks. 

No of pages : 60

Sub - Topics: All aspect of web app testing lessons 

Lesson 1. Create a Test Project with Selenium and C#

Lesson 2. How to Capture Web Elements 

Lesson 3. Web Element Commands 

Lesson 4. Handle WebDriver Waits 

Lesson 5. Automation Code Example with C# - functional Test

Lesson 6. Automation Code Example with Python -Functional Test

Lesson 7. Automation Code Example with MAQS Framework with C#

Lesson 8. Automation Code Example with Specflow Framework with C#

Chapter 4: Function Testing for Windows Apps

Chapter Goal: This chapter provides, hand on lessons on functional testing using Coded UI with C# to enable test automation for windows apps.  Third party testing tools for enhancing the windows app testing are discussed.

No of pages: 50

Sub - Topics:  

Lesson 1. Create a Test Project with CodedUI and C#

Lesson 2. How to Capture Windows Elements

Lesson 3. Element Commands

Lesson 4. Handle Element Waits

Lesson 5. Coded UI Test builder-Record and Playback

Lesson 6. Automation Code Example with Coded UI  with C#

Lesson 7. Using Sikuli for windows app testing

Lesson 8. Using Winium for windows app testing 

Chapter 5: Data Management in Functional Testing

Chapter Goal: This chapter, gives step by step lessons on how to manage test data for functional testing. Setting up prerequisite data for test scenarios discussed in detail allowing creating more granular level test cases to enable parallel testing capabilities in test automations.

No of pages: 25

Sub Topics: 

Lesson 1. Manage Test Data Using Configuration Files

Lesson 2. Create Test Data Using Scripts

Lesson 3. Initialize and cleanup test data for all test

Lesson 4. Initialize and cleanup test data for an individual test

Chapter 6: Integrating Functional Testing to Deployment Pipelines

Chapter Goal: This chapter gives you guidance on setting up the automation tests with release pipelines focusing on VSTS/TFS. Detailed step by step guides will be provided on setting up test client environments in Azure or on-premises and utilizing them for test executions.

No of pages: 60

Sub - Topics:  

Lesson 1. Setup Agent Pools and Queues

Lesson 2. Setting up deployment groups

Lesson 3. Create Azure VMs as test clients

Lesson 4. Setup Test Agents and Test Clients

Lesson 5. TFS Release Management – Create Build and Release Definition

Lesson 6. Integrate Test Automation to Deployment Pipeline

Lesson 7. Using unified test agent

Chapter 7: On-Prem Load Testing with Visual Studio

Chapter Goal: In this chapter, you will learn how to setup performance tests and utilizing them to implement load testing. The lessons will provide step by step guidance on setting up test rigs for on premises load testing scenarios and IaaS cloud base scenarios. Additionally, this chapter discuss the capabilities of VSTS and Visual Studio to enable cloud-based load testing by providing step by step guidance.

No of pages: 60

Sub - Topics: 

Lesson 1. Writing performance tests

Lesson 2. Using data with performance tests

Lesson 3. Configure Test rig

Lesson 4. Create Load Test Project

Lesson 5. Identify and Setup Different Counters

Lesson 6. Create Cloud Based Load Test with VSTS

Lesson 7. Enhancing Cloud Based Load test with Visual Studio

Lesson 8. Analyze Result Charts

O autorze

Chaminda is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Visual Studio ALM and Scrum Alliance Certified ScrumMaster®, and focuses on and believes in continuous improvement of the software development life cycle. He works as a DevOps consultant for Jabil Circuit Sdn. Bhd. Chaminda is an active Microsoft Community Contributor (MCC), well recognized for his contributions in Microsoft forums, TechNet galleries, and Wikis, and contributes extensions to Visual Studio Team Services/TFS, in the Microsoft Visual Studio marketplace. He also contributes to other open source projects in GitHub.   

Pushpa is a senior test automation engineer at Datavail Lanka (Pvt) Ltd. She has many years of experience in QA automation. She is an expert on functional test automation using Selenium and Coded UI. Pushpa blogs on technology at. Pushpa has experience with Microsoft tools (C#, VSTS/TFS, SQL Server, and Azure) and open source tools (MAQS open framework and Sikuli).

Blurb

Get started with functional testing of both web apps and Windows apps using different test frameworks. This book will take you on a deep dive into integrating functional automation testing with deployment pipelines. 

Hands-On Functional Test Automation contains step-by-step lessons that will give you an understanding of how to do functional test automation using Selenium with C# and Python. Also, you will learn how to enhance your test automation development with third-party frameworks. You will configure test clients, run functional tests through VSTS release management, and carry out performance and load-testing to gain a good understanding of how to configure a test rig for testing in on-premises environments as well as how to do cloud-based testing.

Each lesson comprises an introduction to the related concepts to help you understand how things work. This will broaden your knowledge so you can implement test automation in the correct way. At the end of each lesson alternative options and other enhancement possibilities are discussed to allow you to do further exploration. 

You will:

• Implement functional test automation of Windows and web applications
  
• Use Visual Studio for load and performance testing 
•  Configure and run cloud-based load testing
• Integrate testing with deployment pipelines