List of an ideas concerning test automation. Based on my and other people’s experiences. Engineering practices for test automation Use tools to speed up testing Always pay technical dent Self-service infrastructure — everything must start (tests, or environments) with one button Self documented tests — everything has to be in the code, documentation becomes obsolete …

Our framework already can execute Web and API automated tests, understand Gherkin notation and store test results in an HTML file. The last step, is to automate test execution itself. We will create an AzureDevops pipeline to execute automated tests manually on schedule. Create Build For the demonstration purposes, we will use…

In this article we will utilize listeners implemented in the previous article and add reporting capabilities to the framework. We will use ExtentReports library for the HTML reports and Log4j2 for the console and file logging. As usual, code from this article can be found here. Add log4j2 and ExtentReports dependencies First of all, add…

The following articles will focus on an extending functionality of the automation framework. We are going to start from a basics — listeners. As usual, code from this chapter can be found here. Listeners According to definition, an event listener is a function that waits for an event to occur. Why…

In this article we will add API test to the previously created Web automation tests. Code from this chapter can be found here. Also read previous article about Web automation or introduction article about test automation framework. Add Rest Assured dependencies As an API client, we will use a java library called RestAssured. We…

In this article we will add web automation tests to the previously created foundation. Detailed overview you can found at the previous article. Code from this chapter can be found here. Add Selenium dependencies First of all, add selenium dependencies to the pom.xml file: Download gecko and chrome drivers Download chromedriver from here and geckodriver from here…

In this article we will write simple automated tests with the Cucumber library. The code from this article is located here.

This article starts the series of tutorials which share my experience in implementation of test automation frameworks. DISCLAIMER 1: Presented implementation is far from the Best Practices, but works for me and my team very good for a long time across different projects. DISCLAIMER 2: These articles are not BDD…