Data-Driven Testing in Selenium

Name: Data-Driven Testing in Selenium
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Build your own data driven automation testing framework for web and mobile with Selenium WebDriver, Java, and TestNg

Created byPackt Publishing

Last updated 1/2018

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What you'll learn

Understand the idea behind the data-driven approach
See an approach to build a framework in Java for web and mobile applications
Get major solutions to make data-driven tests for JUnit and TestNG
Discover some advanced techniques to get test data from external sources
Get to know additional solutions that can help you inject test data into tests
See patterns and approaches to run tests in parallel
Get a general understanding of test infrastructure setup

Course content

5 sections • 22 lectures • 1h 58m total length

The Course Overview3:03
This video provides an overview of the entire course.
Introduction to Approaches to Be Used8:05
In this video, we define available approaches and the place of data-driven approach in the entire system. Also, we need to define the tool-set we use during the course.
Environment Setup5:24
In this video, we will make all necessary installations for our course.
Sample Test Creation6:53
In this video, we create some initial test scenarios and apply basic enhancements.
Adding Configuration7:56
Add an ability to configure tests to run under different environments with different settings.

General Idea, Overview, and Main Design6:27
Linear recorded tests are too sensitive to changes. We need to add unified structure to keep proper references to objects we interact with. Before going to the implementation, we need to define general approach, design and steps.
Wrapping Controls5:48
Simple recorded test has a lot of duplications especially when we interact with the same control multiple times. The solution is to create classes containing functionality interacting with specific control.
Wrapping Pages5:14
Pages can be represented as dedicated classes where fields reflect the control. Each page class contains functionality applied to entire page. This brings solid structure to the test framework.
Adding PageFactory6:24
Pages initialization can be either simple or complex. Having PageFactory we can initialize pages in uniform way.
Generating Screenshots3:15
Screenshots are useful to give actual application under test view especially in case of error.

General Ideas and Principles4:11
Describe major ideas and principles while data-driving tests.
Basic Data Parameters4:11
Initial tests were prepared next step is to update tests to fit major construction for data-driven testing.
Using Data Provider5:00
After basic parameterization we need deeper look at capabilities of using data providers.
Configuring Data Parameters from XML3:50
Parameters can also be provided by means of XML configuration.
Getting Data from External Resources9:16
Data input can be taken not just from specific code constructions but also from external resources and systems. In this video we will play the file, service and database as external resource.

Getting Data from Excel4:15
Excel is one of the most popular formats for the test data. So, it is important to mention the way to interact with it.
Getting Data Using Spring Dependency Injection4:16
Data can be provided using more complicated mechanisms like Spring injection where we can provide the data based on configuration.
Data-Drive Cucumber-JVM Tests10:07
Cucumber is one of the popular engine to make tests in highly readable form. Since we are building the framework for Android applications testing it is useful to demonstrate how it can be integrated with Cucumber-JVM.

Core Test Design Updates3:41
Parallel execution requires some specific design enhancements to handle global resources properly.
Setting up Selenium Grid3:28
When we talk about parallel execution with the Selenium the grid is one of the major items to appear.
Run Data-Driven Tests in Parallel3:56
Data can be provided using more complicated mechanisms like Spring injection where we can provide the data based on configuration.
Final Overview3:50
At the end of the video course it’s high time to summarize all the learning received during all previous videos. Additionally, it is useful to point out what is useful to learn next.

Requirements

Prior experience using Selenium and Java to test web-based applications is recommended.

Description

Selenium is one of the most popular engines for UI test automation. It is available for many different programming languages. At the same time, the data-driven approach is one of the most popular approaches for optimizing tests, making them compact, and easily extensible just by adding some new data.

In this course, you’ll practice the data-driven approach using Selenium, Java, and TestNG/JUnit. We’ll start with basic samples and then go through the major steps to abstract application pages using a page object model. After that, we’ll exercise different ways to make our tests data-driven.

We’ll start with basic out of the box abilities and then practice more complicated samples to operate with external data from Excel, databases, Spring injection, and more. We’ll go through various improvements to make tests run in parallel. In particular, we’ll explore different options to run data-driven tests in parallel.

At the end, you’ll discover the good practices when testing framework designs. You’ll also get a deep understanding of the data-driven approach and various ways to apply it to our tests.

About The Author :

Mykola Kolisnyk has been working in test automation since 2004. He has been involved with various activities including creating test automation solutions from scratch, leading test automation teams, and working as a consultant with test automation processes.

During his working career, he has had experience with different test automation tools such as Mercury WinRunner, MicroFocus SilkTest, SmartBear TestComplete, Selenium-RC, WebDriver, Appium, SoapUI, BDD frameworks, and many other different engines and solutions. He has also had experience with multiple programming technologies based on Java, C#, Ruby, and so on, and with different domain areas such as healthcare, mobile, telecoms, social networking, business process modeling, performance and talent management, multimedia, e-commerce, and investment banking.

Who this course is for:

This video course is for software quality assurance/testing professionals, software project managers, or software developers with prior experience using Selenium and Java to test web-based applications.

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Introduction and Setup5 lectures • 31min

Adding Page Objects5 lectures • 27min

Data-Drive Tests5 lectures • 26min

Advanced Data-Driven Implementations3 lectures • 19min

Parallelize Tests4 lectures • 15min

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