Test Automation Framework with Selenium WebDriver
This blog post on creating and using a test automation framework is expected to help anyone with some know-how on Java and Selenium get started with the ever popular “Page Object Model” based test automation framework.
Why Test Automation?
Test automation services, as you know is to help speed up testing when it becomes monotonous and time consuming. Automation can help when we test something repeatedly. Humans are prone to making mistakes while doing monotonous actions.
Automation gets rid of monotony and repeated tasks while doing the following:
Test the same tests with different sets of data
Test with same set of data, on every new build, manually
Test, find bugs, fix, regress, find bugs, fix, regress – cycle of bug fixing
Benefits of Test Automation The benefits are:
It reduces the time to do tests, thus saving manual effort
It runs tests parallelly, thus reducing manual effort for testing
It runs tests with more than one browser, thus saving manual effort
It runs more tests with different sets of data, thus getting better coverage
What is a Framework?
A framework is just a set of rules and structures, which makes it easy to get a suite of tests up and testing in minimal time. For example, assign test data in a specific folder, store configuration settings in a specific file and folder, name the tests in this template, create packages, etc.
Generally a test automation framework
is built for a specific application. But frameworks can be generic as well. The examples for generic framework are:
Linear
Modular
Data Driven
Hybrid – which is a combination of all three above
A test automation framework simply helps you in developing a suite of tests, connecting with the application under test, running the tests against the “application-under-test” in required order and extracting test execution results.
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