CSC/ECE 517 Spring 2015/ch1a 17 WL

Apache Camel

Background

Test automation is the use of software to control the execution of tests cases, the comparison of actual to predicted results, the setting up of test preconditions, and other test control and test reporting functions.<ref>The Testing Network, An Integral Approach to Test Activities in Large Software Projects by Jean-Jacques Pierre Henry (Aug 17, 2008), p413, ISBN 978-3-540-78504-0</ref> Test Automation is a development discipline as it uses scripting languages to instruct the tool how to interact with your application. As such careful consideration needs to be paid to

• Exception handling for bugs that occur during testing cycles(i.e, unexpected error messages during a test run).
• How the tool synchronizes with your application(e.g. if there are slow response times from your environment)
• The level of maintenance required to keep the tests up to date with changes in the application GUI(i.e, new buttons, data fields, custom controls etc)

Any test automation framework is a set of assumptions, concepts and tools that provide support for automating the major activities in the testing process. The main advantage of a framework is

• Increased Productivity
• Easy and Reduced maintenance effort
• Consistent automation development across projects
• Process driven than person driven approach
• Controlled maintenance of automation artifacts

There is a range of automation testing tools available. Some of them are licensed and few others are open sourced. QTP, Cucumber, Capybara and other tools<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_testing_tools</ref>

Description

HP UFT is generally used for GUI based Test Case Automation, it can also automate some non-GUI based test cases like database testing, webservice testing and file based operations. It offers a graphical user interface, keyboard support, multiple testing views, and scripting language. <ref>http://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/qtp-quicktest-professional-tutorial-1/</ref>

Data Driven Testing

HP Unified Functional Testing allows us to perform data-driven testing. For example, data can be output to a data table for reuse. Data-driven testing is implemented as a Microsoft Excel workbook, which is accessible from HP Unified Functional Testing. HP Unified Functional Testing has two data tables: the Global data sheet and Action (local) data sheets. The test steps can read data from these data tables in order to drive variable data into the application under test, and verify the expected result.<ref>http://www.qtp10.com/2009/07/using-global-and-action-data-sheets-in.html</ref>

Views

HP Unified Functional Testing provides two views—and ways to modify—a test script: Keyword View and Expert View. These views enable HP Unified Functional Testing to act as an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for the test, and HP Unified Functional Testing includes many standard IDE features, such as breakpoints to pause a test at predetermined places.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_QuickTest_Professional</ref>

Keyword view

Keyword View lets users create and view the steps of a test in a modular, table format. In Keyword View, users can also view properties for items such as checkpoints, output values, and actions, use conditional and loop statements, and insert breakpoints to assist in debugging a test.<ref>http://www.qtp10.com/2009/07/working-with-keyword-view-in-hp-qtp.html</ref>

Expert View

Expert view displays test code using VBScript. Designed for more advanced users, users can edit all test actions except for the root Global action, and changes are synchronized with the Keyword View.<ref>http:/