Simplifying the test

Python ispalindrome function

2023-03-22T22:54:00.004+05:30

def is_palindrome(input_string):

    new_string = ""
    reverse_string = ""

    for letter in input_string:

       if letter != " ":

            new_string = new_string + letter
            reverse_string = letter + reverse_string
 
    if new_string.replace(" ", "").lower() == reverse_string.replace(" ", "").lower():

        return True

    return False


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print(is_palindrome("Never Odd or Even")) # Should be True
print(is_palindrome("abc")) # Should be False
print(is_palindrome("kayak")) # Should be True

Python : Calculate_storage program

2023-03-16T01:06:00.004+05:30

Question : If a filesystem has a block size of 4096 bytes, this means that a file comprised of only one byte will still use 4096 bytes of storage. A file made up of 4097 bytes will use 4096*2=8192 bytes of storage. Knowing this, can you prepare a function which calculates the total number of bytes needed to…

def calculate_storage(filesize):

    block_size = 4096

    full_blocks = filesize//4096

    partial_block_remainder = filesize%4096

    if partial_block_remainder > 0:

        return (full_blocks+1)*4096

    return full_blocks*4096

Output: 

print(calculate_storage(1)) # Should be 4096 print(calculate_storage(4096)) # Should be 4096 print(calculate_storage(4097)) # Should be 8192 print(calculate_storage(6000)) # Should be 8192

Stale Element Reference exception in Selenium Webdriver

2016-06-15T18:25:00.000+05:30

There may be cases when you get exception “Element is no longer attached to the DOM”. This is due to State Element Execption.

I will show you the problem here and then it’s solution that how we can overcome with this issue.

Just take an example of Cleartrip.com where in round trip flight search, you will have to select

DepartDate and ReturnDate from date picker. Below is the code to automate same using webdriver in TestNg Framework.

Here I am giving you the complete set of code so that you run it and see what happening.

import java.util.List;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;

import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

import org.testng.annotations.AfterTest;

import org.testng.annotations.Test;

public class roundTripSearch

{

WebDriver driver= new FirefoxDriver();

@Test

public void tc01_RoundTripSearchResult() throws InterruptedException

{

driver.get("http://www.cleartrip.com/");

if(driver.findElement(By.id("RoundTrip")).isSelected() == true){}

else driver.findElement(By.id("RoundTrip")).click();

driver.findElement(By.id("FromTag")).sendKeys("New Delhi, IN - Indira Gandhi Airport (DEL)");

driver.findElement(By.id("ToTag")).sendKeys("Mumbai, IN - Chatrapati Shivaji Airport (BOM)");

driver.findElement(By.id("DepartDate")).click();

List col1= driver.findElements(By.tagName("td"));

for (WebElement box: col1)

{

if(box.getText().equals("24"))

{

box.findElement(By.linkText("24")).click();

}

driver.findElement(By.id("ReturnDate")).click();

List col2= driver.findElements(By.tagName("td"));

for (WebElement box: col2)

{

if(box.getText().equals("27"))

{

box.findElement(By.linkText("27")).click();

}

driver.findElement(By.id("Adults")).sendKeys("2");

driver.findElement(By.id("Childrens")).sendKeys("1");

driver.findElement(By.id("Infants")).sendKeys("0");

driver.findElement(By.id("SearchBtn")).click();

}

@AfterTest

public void closebrowser()

{

driver.close();

}

If you run this, you will get the error with exception:

FAILED: tc01_RoundTripSearchResult

org.openqa.selenium.StaleElementReferenceException: Element is no longer attached to the DOM

Command duration or timeout: 9 milliseconds

For documentation on this error, please visit: http://seleniumhq.org/exceptions/stale_element_reference.html

Build info: version: '2.53.0', revision: '35ae25b', time: '2016-03-15 16:57:40'

This is due to use of java script. When we select first date, it automatically open second calendar and the element is lost in way. Here I fixed this using break statement. See the code..it works fine.

import java.util.List;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;

import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

import org.testng.annotations.AfterTest;

import org.testng.annotations.Test;

public class roundTripSearch

{

WebDriver driver= new FirefoxDriver();

@Test

public void tc01_RoundTripSearchResult() throws InterruptedException

{

driver.get("http://www.cleartrip.com/");

if(driver.findElement(By.id("RoundTrip")).isSelected() == true){}

else driver.findElement(By.id("RoundTrip")).click();

driver.findElement(By.id("FromTag")).sendKeys("New Delhi, IN - Indira Gandhi Airport (DEL)");

driver.findElement(By.id("ToTag")).sendKeys("Mumbai, IN - Chatrapati Shivaji Airport (BOM)");

driver.findElement(By.id("DepartDate")).click();

List col1= driver.findElements(By.tagName("td"));

for (WebElement box: col1)

{

if(box.getText().equals("24"))

{

box.findElement(By.linkText("24")).click();

break;

}

driver.findElement(By.id("ReturnDate")).click();

List col2= driver.findElements(By.tagName("td"));

for (WebElement box: col2)

{

if(box.getText().equals("27"))

{

box.findElement(By.linkText("27")).click();

break;

}

driver.findElement(By.id("Adults")).sendKeys("2");

driver.findElement(By.id("Childrens")).sendKeys("1");

driver.findElement(By.id("Infants")).sendKeys("0");

driver.findElement(By.id("SearchBtn")).click();

}

@AfterTest

public void closebrowser()

{

driver.close();

}

Enjoy.

Capturing screen shots in webdriver TestNG framework using ITestResult interface

2016-06-10T16:26:00.001+05:30

Hello Friends,

We all know the importance of test evidences in our test delivery. While raising a defect also, we need fail evidences that helps developer to identify the issue and fix it.

Ok so now here we will see in detail, how can we capture the fail test screens in web driver using TestNG framework.

First we will create an Utility class with a method "captureScreenShot" Below see the code:

package util;

import java.io.File;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;

import org.openqa.selenium.OutputType;

import org.openqa.selenium.TakesScreenshot;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

public class utility

{

public static void captureScreenShot(WebDriver driver , String screenshotName) throws IOException

{

TakesScreenshot ts = (TakesScreenshot)driver;

File sourcefile = ts.getScreenshotAs(OutputType.FILE);

FileUtils.copyFile(sourcefile, new File("./Screenshots/" + screenshotName +".png"));

}

So we will use this method “captureScreenShot” in our test where ever required to capture screenshot.

Now let’s create a class eg. Facebook.java where we will create methods as our test cases for login validation. In addition we will create a method “teardown” where we will use “ITesttResult” interface to manage evidences. See how it done:

package testcases;

import java.io.IOException;

import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

import org.testng.Assert;

import org.testng.ITestResult;

import org.testng.annotations.AfterMethod;

import org.testng.annotations.Test;

import util.utility;

public class facebook {

WebDriver driver;

@Test

public void login()

{

driver = new FirefoxDriver();

driver.get("https://facebook.com");

driver.manage().window().maximize();

driver.findElement(By.id("email")).sendKeys("Vishal");

driver.findElement(By.id("pass")).sendKeys("Sachan");

driver.findElement(By.id("u_0_m")).click();

driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(1000, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

String actual = driver.findElement(By.className("_1tp8")).getText();

Assert.assertEqual(actual, "The password that you've entered is incorrect");

driver.quit();

}

@AfterMethod

public void terdown(ITestResult result) throws IOException

{

if(ITestResult.FAILURE== result.getStatus())

{

utility.captureScreenShot(driver, result.getName());

}

If you see we have used ITestResult interface to get the status of a method after run and using that status we apply a condition that is the result(status) of method is failed, we call the captureSceenShot method of utility class.

Here we are also saving the evidence name as its testcase(method name). So it is compete test. You can add N number of test cases in this and after every method run , 'teardown' will be executed and it used @AfterMethod annotation.

Please try this out and write in comments in case of any issue faced.

Parallel testing using @parameter in testNG_Cross browser testing using webdriver

2016-05-30T23:51:00.000+05:30

This is very common, in web testing when we need to test our application in different browsers and webdriver and testNG together has made our life easy to achieve this thing.

We all know testNG is very rich in features and one of best thing is , it allow you to do your test parallel. The parallel testing features to run your test in diff browser in same time without wasting the time. we can run same test same time in diff browsers. Let's see how we can achieve this:
We will create a testNG class e.g. "parallelTesting.java" and the xml file name say it is again "paralleltesting.xml"

Here the xml:

in this xml we have two test : 1- Test in Firefox and other is 2- Test in Chrome
and in both test we use same class "parallelTesting" .
what is noticable here is tag parameter which has name as browser and value is Firefox and Chrome for test1 and test2 respectively.

Lets take a look in to jave file.

package practiceTestNG;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.testng.Assert;
import org.testng.annotations.BeforeTest;
import org.testng.annotations.Parameters;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;

public class parallelTesting
{
    WebDriver driver= null;

    @BeforeTest
    @Parameters({"browser"})
    public void sendbrowser(String browser)
        {
            if(browser.equals("Firefox"))
                {
                driver = new FirefoxDriver();
                }
                else if(browser.equals("Chrome"))
                {
                System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","C:\\chromedriver.exe");
                driver = new ChromeDriver();
                }

        }

    @Test
    public void blogTitle()
        {
        driver.get("http://www.vishalsachan.blogspot.in");
        String title = driver.getTitle();
        Assert.assertEquals("Simplifying the test", title);
        driver.quit();

        }
    }

here we have one class with @Test annotation and another class with
@Beforetest which will take parameter as browser which will have values as Firefox and Chrome (in our scenarios).

Now run ur testsuit and u will observe that your test is run in both browser parallel. We can code change the code if we want to include more browsers. so its all. enjoy cross browser testing without much pain.
Stay tuned for more fruitful post.

Using an user defined firefox profile during webdriver test

2016-05-30T19:12:00.000+05:30

You must have observed that we we run our test using webdriver, firefox driver open an instance of browser where there are no addons, bookmarks or any other things available. This is because it uses a instance with blank/new profile every time. But what if we need to test in a predefined profile like, any test case prerequisite is that , any addon must be installed in browser, book marks , or any other setting.

We can do this by using user defined profile. To do so, follow below steps:

1- Close you browser.
2- In start go to run and type "firefox.exe -p"
3- This will open a window where your profile are listed. Here we can create , modify , delete ect profiles.
4- If you see there will a default profile. we can use that as well for our test.
5- If you need, create a specific profile as required.

Now see how we can use any profile in webdriver.

package practiceTestNG;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxProfile;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.internal.ProfilesIni;

public class fireforxProfile {

    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        ProfilesIni p = new ProfilesIni();
        FirefoxProfile fp = p.getProfile("default");
        WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(fp);
        driver.get("https://www.vishalsachan.blogspot.com");
    }

}

In above code, you see we have used 'default' profile in our webdriver. now when you run this , you test will be open in a browser where u can see your addons, bookmarks ect.

Perform mouseover function in Selenium WebDriver using Java

2016-05-24T13:12:00.001+05:30

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.interactions.Actions;

public class Test1
{

    public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException
    {

        FirefoxDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
        driver.get("http://flex.apache.org/");
        Actions action = new Actions(driver);
        action.moveToElement(driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@id='nav']/li[2]/a"))).build().perform();
        Thread.sleep(1000);
        action.click(driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@id='nav']/li[2]/ul/li[2]/a"))).perform();

     }
}

WebDriver Explicit Wait: wait for element to load

2016-05-23T15:07:00.001+05:30

If you want webdriver to wait for any element to be visible, we can use explicit wait. In simple way iof we use wait function for any given time, we can not make sure how muych time it will take to an element to get visible. Or if you give more time for wait, may be element gets visible early and un necessary your sript wait for the given time. So to manage this, we can use wait in diff way by creating instance variable of WebDriverWait class. This can be as below:

import org.openqa.selenium.By;

import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedConditions;

import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.WebDriverWait;

public class Test1 {

public static void main(String[] args)

{

FirefoxDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS); //This is implicit wait used

driver.get("http://vishalsachan.blogspot.in");

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 30);

wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfAllElementsLocatedBy(By.id("as_rst")));

driver.findElement(By.id("as_rst")).click();

}

In example above, script will wait only in that step for 30 seconds or until element visible (whatever occurs first) and will move next step.

Working with pdf in selenium webdriver java project

2016-05-16T14:52:00.000+05:30

In our test automation, sometimes we need to work with pdf file, iether verifying the text there or to copy some text and storing it to some other file or places. But in Selenium WebDriver, we don’t have any direct methods to do that.
Don't worry, we can do this using Apache PDFBox. to use this we have to import pdfbox jar file to our selenium java project. This jar, we can get from apache website. or just click here download pdfbox.jar

Simply download the latest .jar file and add to your project build path in eclipse.

we are all set to work with pdf now.
Below lets write a simple program where we will read a pdf and print the number of pages in that pdf file. also we will print the content of pdf using stripper class.

package WedriverPackage;
import java.io.File;import java.io.IOException;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;

public class workWithPDF
{
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException
    {
      PDDocument A = PDDocument.load(new File("C:/Users/IBM_ADMIN/Desktop/Recognition_vishal.pdf"));
      System.out.println("total number of pages:" + A.getNumberOfPages());
      PDFTextStripper B = new PDFTextStripper();
      System.out.println(B.getText(A));

    }
}

Handling Captcha in WebDriver

2016-05-02T16:32:00.000+05:30

As definition itself says:
"A CAPTCHA is a program that protects websites against bots by generating and grading tests that humans can pass but current computer programs cannot"

So these pages can't be automated fully. In fact Captcha itself is implemented to prevent automation. we can not completely automate the page having captcha.

While automation testing we can handle it by 3 ways as given below:
1- By disabling of captchas on test environments.
2- Hard code the captcha.
3- Handle by entering the captcha manually during execution.

3rd point can be done using below

WedriverPackage;

import java.util.Scanner;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

public class HandlingCaptcha
{
        public static void main(String[] args)
          {

               WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
               driver.get("https://www.irctc.co.in/");
               driver.findElement(By.id("usernameId")).sendKeys("vishal");
             driver.findElement(By.className("loginPassword")).sendKeys("vishal");
               Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);
               System.out.println("Enter Captcha");
               String captcha = scan.nextLine();
   driver.findElement(By.className("loginCaptcha")).sendKeys(captcha);
   driver.findElement(By.id("loginbutton")).click();
           }
}

In case anyone has any other solution, or way to handle it, please share in comments. Thanks.

Handling "Protected Mode" exception while launching IE using webdriver

2016-04-28T16:03:00.000+05:30

When we try to launch IE using WebDriver on a very first time on a fresh computer, generally we get the below error:

Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.remote.SessionNotFoundException: Unexpected error launching Internet Explorer. Protected Mode settings are not the same for all zones. Enable Protected Mode must be set to the same value (enabled or disabled) for all zones. (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)

We can avoid this using DesiredCapabilities method. The code can be:

DesiredCapabilities DC = DesiredCapabilities.internetExplorer();
DC.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver.INTRODUCE_FLAKINESS_BY_IGNORING_SECURITY_DOMAINS, true);

You can find more on this method here: DesiredCapabilities

So to run your test in IE browser here the complete code:

package WedriverPackage;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities;

public class crossBrowserTesting
{

   public static void main(String[] args)
   {

   DesiredCapabilities DC = DesiredCapabilities.internetExplorer();                                        DC.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver.INTRODUCE_FLAKINESS_BY_IGNORING_SECURITY_DOMAINS, true);

       System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver","C:\\IEDriverServer.exe");
       WebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver(DC);
       driver.get("https://www.vishalsachan.blogspot.com/");
   }
}

Handling multiple windows in selenium 2.0 (webdriver)

2016-04-27T18:19:00.001+05:30

Here I am trying to explain the concept of Handling Multiple windows in Selenium WebDriver. Selenium WebDriver has built in methods available to switch from one window to another window.
We will use :
WebDriver.getWindowHandles()
WebDriver.switchTo().window()

I am just pasting here the working code and that you can use in ur eclipse and try seeing how things works.

I am taking example of "www.timesjob.com" where you can click on links given in home page (top left side: ) to open multiple windows in webdriver.

I tried to explain the step by step action taken in code and hope this will help you understanding the code in better way.
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import java.util.Set;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

public class HandlingWindows
{

    public static void main(String[] args)
    {

        WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
        driver.get("http://www.timesjobs.com/");

/*below i m clicking to links given in home page which opening new windows*/

        driver.findElement(By.xpath("html/body/div[1]/div[3]/header/nav[1]/ul/li[2]/a")).click();
        driver.findElement(By.xpath("html/body/div[1]/div[3]/header/nav[1]/ul/li[3]/a")).click();
        driver.findElement(By.xpath("html/body/div[1]/div[3]/header/nav[1]/ul/li[4]/a")).click();

/*so till now webdriver has opened 4 windows, one parent and 3 child. Now here next statement printing the current url that is of parent window.*/

        System.out.println(driver.getCurrentUrl());

//Now using getWindowHandles method and get all handles of open window

        Set AllWindow= driver.getWindowHandles();
        String window1 = (String) AllWindow.toArray()[0];
        String window2= (String) AllWindow.toArray()[1];
        String window3= (String) AllWindow.toArray()[2];
        String window4= (String) AllWindow.toArray()[3];

// Now here we can switch to any window using switchTo()

        driver.switchTo().window(window2);
        System.out.println(driver.getCurrentUrl());
/* I am just prinmting the URL to check if window is switching or not. here you can perform any operation in current focused window*/

        driver.switchTo().window(window3);
        System.out.println(driver.getCurrentUrl());

        driver.switchTo().window(window4);
        System.out.println(driver.getCurrentUrl());

        driver.switchTo().window(window1);
        System.out.println(driver.getCurrentUrl());

       driver.quit();

    }

}
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The output is :
http://www.timesjobs.com/
http://jobbuzz.timesjobs.com/
http://stepahead.timesjobs.com/
http://www.techgig.com/
http://www.timesjobs.com/

I hope this is simple way of learning the concept and now can try advance things.

Starting a new automation testing project

2016-04-07T16:14:00.001+05:30

Initiating test automation on your project may seem challenging, or even overwhelming and this is not going to be an cake walk for sure.

I have been part of automation for legacy projects and delivered my best without much pain. But when it comes to start a new automation project , it required brain storming , home work starting from presenting the benefit to management, convincing them for adopting tools, resources ect.

I am considering two scenarios here

1- You are part of any product base company or any startup and you are owner of QA activities and you want to start with automation.

2- You are part of large projects (mainly legacy systems, or applications) where various factors comes in way to go for any automation implementation.

I would rather cover the first scenario also considering we have to setup a team as well. That means there is no automation till now and you are going to start with a new team.

Your work starts with the below questions and finding out the answers:

Have you done initial level of feasibility study to adopt the automation. This may include how we are going to be benefited. Do we have work which can be automated and fruitful doing so. Make a detail plan and present to management.
Have you identified the automation tool. If that is open sources, language you need and do you the skills and funding for same? If that is paid, how you will get license, what type of licensing is there, what about support conditions ect.
Once you have selected the tool, think about do you have skilled resources or you need trainings for them. If yes, how all those things will go. Make a Plan for this clearly.

Overall, it takes a champion, an advocate, to get automation up and running on a project, but the payoff can be worthwhile.

Once you are done with above things, next step would be to start planning. Brainstorm with your team and plan a flexible framework. Think modular. Create and use naming conventions. Plan for code and function re-use.

this is not end but this article give you starting idea about how to approach toward starting the automation in your project.

Improving a release process

2015-08-10T08:51:00.002+05:30

Dear friends,

I am back after long time and here I will try to share the experience and recommendations to improve a release process to make a quality product delivered to client. I am working in a very large integration project and all this input are based on my experiences and study. There may be chances for improvement and suggestion, so as always, I will be happy to take them as input in my comments box.

When we are part of end to end testing team where we mainly test integration of multiple systems. We put lots of effort for a bug free production go live and we invest huge amount of money and effort to make this possible. Hence we are supposed to be very practical and have to use optimistic approach. Being a test lead / manager , it our duty to lead the approach from front and help project team to make a successful build and deployment of a bug free code to production.

This all depend of test management process and team whether we give client a buggy software or a quality product. We all know now days it’s all about making our client happy with our innovative ideas and suggestion as if we are not able to do so, client have lots of options in market J

Here I will talk about additional point apart from common one which I am sure all of us using and following.

Avoid Implementing the New Features/Change Request during test release- Never stop testing for any CR in between. If you are dloing so you are compromising with quality, time and cost. Learn to say NO to management. I understand that as per the business requirements, to satisfy the external customers or at least to meet the demands of the management steering committee or sometimes the sales / marketing teams, we come to such situation, but here talk to stakeholders and justify the excuse. Ultimately it’s not your own personal work, they will for sure understand you.

CR/Features are most welcomed, but it should be properly planned and implemented before the release of the software to the testing team or in next release. And should come through proper channel in our requirement.

No oral communication among teams (Specially development and testing team)- When it comes to work, Strictly avoid this as it highly impacts the quality of the software release. This is seen that when we are old in project, we start treating people like our friends or you can say we are very used to discuss the project work verbally. Even if your manager say something related to any feature and you take that to implementation, project is in risk for sure. Make sure any requirement related stuff must come through a proper channel, via mail or document. It is not like that , your boss say to you that “hello dear, I was talking to client in bla bla call, and they agreed to implement XYZ with abc changes” and you do as you think boss……. Please don’t do this.
Return the Build to the Development Team- If the build fails in Smoke or Sanity Testing. Strictly, testing should not be continued. There should be no compromises. This will save lots of time and effort and improve the quality of the software released in the subsequent releases. Do not practice doing testing with known issues. If you are failing end to end and some one says it is known issue, and we are fixing this parallely , please try avoid continuing testing until it fix or you are very much sure that this is not impacting others areas.
Arrange session to development team by testing team- This is very common issue especially when you are working in a big integration project where number of different systems coupled together. Most of the system’s development team work within their boundary and never take interest in other systems. While it is required to all to understand the system as a whole and also this helps in reducing defect aging as many time defects just lying here and there because of not understanding the process or system as a whole. So always go for cross team sessions time by time.
Manage a test release repository- I believe this is always in place but issue comes as when the responsibilities are not defined. For example, during the test release , if any CR comes or any defect is found during review process, who will update that in requirement, who will make sure that this is communicated to all stakeholders ect. So define the roles and responsibilities for each task.
Proper estimation of testing activities- Estimate the testing effort based on the experiences and previous projects work. Always distinguish the estimation for test design and test execution. Writing test cases is totally different from executing the same. The testers should understand what to test, how to test and when to test, otherwise the efforts given to the testing cycle gets wasted, even though multiple rounds of test cycle happened.

As this is a start of talks to improve the quality of product/process, I would prefer to have great comments which will help me and others to go beyond limit.

Enjoy QTP 11 and onward, with a 30 day demo license

2013-04-12T12:36:00.000+05:30

If you are planning to adopt QTP for your project and curious about the licencing detail, here is the detail of various type of license HP introduces after launching QTP 11.

Obviously to use any tool, it require a valid license until it is not an open sources :) . in same context, QTP require a valid license. yes there is a good news that HP now allow a demo version for 30 days validity while it was 14 days earlier and that is very good thing for learning new features and hands on before going for a live project implementation.

No lets talk about various type of License , HP Introduces.

HP Introduces Different Types of License from QTP 11.0 Onwards

1) Seat License:
Seat license is specific to a computer on which QuickTest Professional is installed. For example, in case you want to open QTP on three different machines, then you would require 3 QTP seat licenses. After purchasing the license, you get a license code which is given by the vendor.

2) Concurrent License:
Concurrent license is like a floating license, which can be shared by multiple users. Taking the above example of 3 QTP users, in case they are in multiple geographies, we can buy a single concurrent license instead of buying 3 seat licenses. The only constraint is at one time only one user can open QTP and do the scripting. If the user closes QTP, the license is free to be used by some other user. Taking one more example, we can buy 6 concurrent QTP licenses for a team of 11 people. Then at a time only 6 people can work with QTP and not the complete team. The concurrent license is installed on a computer and its IP address is used by the computers who want to work with QTP.

3) Commuter license:
A QTP commuter license is a special type of concurrent license, which is used in those cases when the license server is not available. It may happen that because of some network issues, the computer with a QTP concurrent license is not able to get connected to the main license server. In that case you may request your administrator to install a commuter license on it. Commuter license is actually a type of concurrent license, which acts similar to a seat license for a particular period of time. The commuter license is valid for a maximum period of 180 days.

Siebel Architecture - a high level overview

2013-03-21T15:24:00.000+05:30

Testing of Siebel application is similar to testing of any web based application. Before we start testing of any application, it is recommended to get familiar with the application architecture. Here we will get and idea about Siebel application architecture.

This is an n-tier architecture where a Siebel web client that access the business data and a web server that interacts with web clients. There is a enterprise server which is again a logical collection of multiple Siebel servers. Other than this there a relational database and file system which stores the business data.

The figure below illustrated the typical architecture.

Here I used term Siebel web client which is one of the types of Siebel client. The Siebel client may be: Siebel Web client, Siebel Developer Web Client, Mobile web client, Wireless client etc

The Siebel web client runs in variety of environment that may be web browsers, WML devices, and PDA.

So in general term if we practically say, a request is made through web client which goes to web server that identify the request and pass this request to Siebel Server , Now Siebel server process the business data and interact with DB and file system and return the data to web server. Now web server passes completed HTML pages back to Siebel Web Clients. In between few other things also come in picture like gateway names server and load balancer.

See the below figure which state that a Siebel server consist of following entities:

Siebel Repository File (SRF)

Configuration File (CFG) and Component Parameters

Siebel Web Templates (SWT)

Server Components

For more detail of these entities, please refer my next post.

Here the physical architecture. The Siebel Gateway Name Server, Siebel Server, Database Server, and File System can be implemented on one machine or spread across multiple machines.

The Siebel Server(s) should have a high-speed LAN connection to the Database Server

Siebel Vertical and Horizontal

2013-03-07T12:14:00.000+05:30

Siebel Vertical and Horizontal concept

The main difference between both is that “Vertical Applications are specifically made for one domain and Horizontal Applications are Common which can be used for any domain”.

So basically we can say the vertical applications are designed industry wise and horizontal applications are designed field wise.

Like in my project we are working for a telecom based company and customizing the application fand that is specific to communication only. That is an Siebel e-communication application and will come in Vertical application category.

Now taking another example like Siebel call center application, as its name, it is for the call center process and the call center process is generally common everywhere. So this call center application can be customized for different domain, like for health domain, telecom, banking or any other so this will fall under Horizontal application.

Below are some examples:

Siebel Vertical

Financial Services
Banking
Insurance
Healthcare
Communications/Media/Energy
Communications
Media
Utilities
Oil and Gas
Consumer Sector
Life Sciences

Siebel Horizontal

Sales
Call Center and Service
Customer Telephony Integration (CTI)
Partner Relationship Management (PRM)
Employee Relationship Management (ERM)
Marketing
eBusiness Application Integration (eAI)
Mobile eBusiness

QC - QTP Integration-Part1

2013-01-16T13:06:00.004+05:30

Part 1- QC QTP Connection

Launch QTP.
Click on File->ALM/QC connections option. This will open HP ALM connection box
Enter Quality Center url in Server URL and click on Connect button
Enter the credentials in step 2
Enter the project login detail in step 3.
Click on Close button to close the windo
QTP and QC connection has been established

Below are few screens which will help you to get the above things.

Basic idea of Cloud computing

2012-12-24T19:07:00.002+05:30

Recently I have attended a session on Cloud Computing and I can recall few things which may useful to get familiar with this term.
Cloud computing is a general term for anything that involves delivering hosted services over the Internet. These services are broadly divided into three categories:

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS),
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A cloud service has three distinct characteristics that differentiate it from traditional hosting. It is sold on demand, typically by the minute or the hour; it is elastic -- a user can have as much or as little of a service as they want at any given time; and the service is fully managed by the provider (the consumer needs nothing but a personal computer and Internet access). Significant innovations in virtualization and distributed computing, as well as improved access to high-speed Internet and a weak economy, have accelerated interest in cloud computing.

Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
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A cloud can be private or public. A public cloud sells services to anyone on the Internet. (Currently, Amazon Web Services is the largest public cloud provider.) A private cloud is a proprietary network or a data center that supplies hosted services to a limited number of people. When a service provider uses public cloud resources to create their private cloud, the result is called a virtual private cloud. Private or public, the goal of cloud computing is to provide easy, scalable access to computing resources and IT services.

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
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Infrastructure-as-a-Service like Amazon Web Services provides virtual server instances with unique IP addresses and blocks of storage on demand. Customers use the provider's application program interface (API) to start, stop, access and configure their virtual servers and storage. In the enterprise, cloud computing allows a company to pay for only as much capacity as is needed, and bring more online as soon as required. Because this pay-for-what-you-use model resembles the way electricity, fuel and water are consumed, it's sometimes referred to as utility computing.

In the software-as-a-service cloud model, the vendor supplies the hardware infrastructure, the software product and interacts with the user through a front-end portal. SaaS is a very broad market. Services can be anything from Web-based email to inventory control and database processing. Because the service provider hosts both the application and the data, the end user is free to use the service from anywhere.

RTM- Requirement Traceability Matrix

2011-09-03T01:15:00.000+05:30

If you are asked that please check whether this particular functionality has been covered in your test cases or not ? and what are those test case?
so what first comes in mind, which document? That document is known as RTM.

A requirements traceability matrix is a document that maps the relationship between user requirements and the test cases. Means using this document we can check if your requirement is covered in your test cases and especially which test case covers your particular requirement.

The purpose of this document is same in all the cases but the format depends on you and your organization.
This document is also requested by the client in most of the cases and using this document clients insure that the coverage of the functionality is complete as end to end.

I always prefer to make this document and suggest every tester to implement same in his team whether he/she is working with a small, middle or big organization. In Big organization generally we get its implemented.

Further this document should have the trace of defect as using this document the one can track the Requirement based on the Defect id.

So if we talk about the definition of the Traceability Matrix, we can summarize above description.

“A Traceability Matrix is a document which maps the requirement with the test cases and defects as well”

Now, we can categories this document in different ways. As said above, the purpose of this document is to insure that we have tested each and every functionality. But also there are basically two different approaches to make this. First, we trace the requirement to the test cases. It’s again a kind of verification that we are building a right product. This is called Forward traceability.
Second, we trace test cases to the requirement. Its is validation activity that we are building the product right. This is called backward (Reverse) traceability.
The combination of these two is called Bi Directional traceability

So if we conclude this part as the type of traceability matrix:

“There are three types of traceability matrix. 1- Forward traceability: Mapping of Requirements to Test cases. 2- Backward traceability: Mapping of Test Cases to Requirements. And 3- Bi Directional traceability: Using both the Forward and Backward Traceability”

Till now we get to know what Traceability Matrix is and how many types of this. Now let’s discuss how it is beneficial and what the drawbacks are if we don’t use this.

Advantage of using Traceability Matrix:

1- Ensure "coverage" between different types of requirements
2- save your time that's usually spent in manually verifying coverage
3- Easy to identify the missing functionality
4- To track the requirements changes and their impact to the system
5- help client to make sure that the software is being developed as per their requirements
6- If there is any change in the requirement or on later stage the defect resolved and new things added to the system, we can easily trace the functionality and vice verse.
And many more……

So it’s obvious there may be lots of drawbacks if we don’t use like unknown test coverage. And the lead to the more defect in production.
As I always say, testing is not just to perform testing/execution, its all about a collection of documents which help you insuring the test coverage and ease the testing execution.

At last, I would like to discuss the feasibility of RTM in agile testing environment as I got good quality time working in agile environment. So I would say yes its feasible and even its 101% feasible. Use it and it make more sense in agile project 

Automation framework design and Test Design: Two separate entities

2011-07-25T15:38:00.000+05:30

Recently some one asked me that what is test framework designing? is it same as test design?

So here I would like to clear that both are separate entities. If you are working in automation project we design/create a test automation framework or work with an existing framework. Designing framework mean designing the process which execute your automation test mean we create a system in which we automate our test cases.
while test design covers that how any particular function or feature will be tested, what will the step to test, what data will be required, where to executed and when ect. this may include a test plan , test cases... Test designing is something we plan for a test execution whether its manually or using automation. Now once we decide that we will go by automation then some skills people need for this automation framework designing.

Some input to Selenium users from my past excercise

2011-04-21T23:46:00.001+05:30

Long time back when I started working on selenium, the market was rising for selenium and now I can say it is in boom. Companies are seeking good experience in selenium. As this is open sources tool, one can adopt this easily and what I found that the small companies and those working in web platform are needy of this tool.

Even from past more than 1.5 years I have not been using selenium but always keep my eyes on latest happening. Many of our blog readers asked me few common questions that what is the framework I used in selenium? and can we make our test data driven?

I decide to write this post to answer those questions and to share my past experience which may help you.

What is the framework I used in my project using selenium?

As I was working in java project, and I was not good in java programming also was new to selenium. But I was aware of the JUnit framework and some java basics so based on my findings and study, I recommended JUnit framework to be used in project for automation using selenium IDE and RC.

We used to recorded test in selenium IDE and export them in Eclipse and ran as JUnit. It has worked quite well. The Selenium tests are just treated like JUnit tests and run over the selenium server. You can further write some code to enhance your test and make them data driven. Its not a big deal for java developer to write code to connect with database and use data to your test. This way we successfully used selenium to automate few of our regression test cases.

to setup the environment you can refer my previous articles in Selenium.

One more question which people asked , can we connect database in selenium? so i would say yes, not in IDE but using RC you can. first thing, it’s not selenium who connect to database while it’s a framework or you can say you java code (taking example that you are working with junit framework) which allow you to connect with your database. This way you can connect with any database.

Please correct me if I am wrong.

I have started working on QTP , so ready to read some good stuff in QTP also.

QTP 9.2 QnA Part-II

2011-03-26T23:52:00.000+05:30

Question 16- What is Smart Identification in QTP

Answer- Due to dynamic changes in properties QTP does not recognize the object with the help of the Properties present in the object repository then QTP use the special mechanism to identify the object smartly with base filter and optional filter properties. This mechanism is known as smart identification.

Due to this script does not fail but it proceeds ahead to compare the next property

Question 17- What is synchronization in QTP?

Answer- If you do not want QTP to perform a step or checkpoint until an object in your application achieves a certain status, you should insert a synchronization point to instruct QuickTest to pause the test until the object property achieves the value you specify (or until a specified timeout is exceeded).

So as a summary we can say, Synchronization makes available specific time for an object to process prior to moving on to next step.

Question 18- What are the Synchronization methods in QTP?

Answer- In QTP Synchronization can be inserted in three different ways:

1- By adding Synchronization Point. To add a synchronization point, Place cursor in desired location>keep tool under recording mode>Insert menu>Synchronization point >show the object >click ok>select property name & Value (True)>enter >click ok>Stop recording.

2- Increasing Default Checkout Time. To do this go to File menu--> Setting--> Run Tab--> Change timeout --> Click Apply--> Click OK.

3- Wait statement- pause the test for fixed time specified in the wait statement.

Syntax: Wait(time in seconds)

Question 19- Explain the checkpoints in QTP.

Answer- A checkpoint is a step that compares two values and reports the result. It captures the expected result of an Object while recording and compare with the expected results during run session. It returns the pass or fails status accordingly.

In QTP 9.2 following are checkpoints:

1- Standard Checkpoints: - It checks the state of an object property, such as button, checkbox, radio button, and combo boxes ECT. A Table check point can be created by inserting standard check point on table object. And in same way a page checkpoint can be created by inserting standard checkpoint on page object. And also an Image checkpoint can be created by inserting a standard checkpoint on an image object.

2- Text Checkpoints: - It checks the text displayed on your application or web page. Suppose you want to check this text "Host is created successfully", you can also create customized checkpoint like you can configure that checked text is "created", before text is "Host is" and after text is "successfully”.

3- Text Area Checkpoints: - It checks the text displayed on your application or web page on specific area. You can check existence of the text string on a particular area.

4- Bitmap Checkpoints: - It does a pixel to pixel comparison of an image or part of an image. Bitmap check point is rarely used, and mostly used on graphics websites and applications.

5- Database Checkpoints: - It checks the content of data base accessed by your application. You can check the whole database which resides in your web page using this checkpoint.

6- Accessibility Checkpoints: - Accessibility Checkpoint recognizes the areas of your Web Site that may not conform to the World Wide Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility guidelines.

7- XML checkpoints (From Resource):- It checks the data content of XML documents in XML files or XML documents in Web pages and frames.

XML checkpoint (From Resource) - It is supported for all add-in environments. (web,vb,ActiveX)

XML checkpoint (From Application) - It is supported for only web add-in environment.

Question 20- What is difference between an image checkpoint and bitmap checkpoint.

Answer- Image checkpoint verify the properties of an Image in a web page..like the location of the Image in a web page is correct or not. Alos this is supported in web environment only.

Where Bitmap checkpoint verify the variation of the object between new build and old build. And this is supported in all testing environment.

Question 21- How we can identify if any checkpoint is failed.

Answer- A Failed checkpoint is indicated in the TEST Results with a red X. The TEST RESULTS will show the expected value and actual value of the property or properties Checked.

Question 22- What is use of regular expression in QTP?

Answer- Regular expressions enable QuickTest to identify objects and text strings with varying values. You can use regular expressions when:

1- Defining the property values of an object in dialog boxes or in programmatic descriptions

2- Parameterize a step

3- Creating checkpoints with varying values

For example, you can use a regular expression if you want to create a text checkpoint on a date text string, but the displayed date changes according to the current date. If you define the date as a regular expression, the checkpoint checks that the captured text string matches the expected date format, rather than checking the exact date value.

You can use regular expressions only for values of type string.

Question 23- What are the different types of parameters used in QTP?

Answer-

1- Input parameters: - Input parameters enable you to run a test using different sets of input values. Means, it allow you to replace a static value with dynamic placeholder (parameter). The values of input parameter are inputs into application from external data sources.

2- Output Parameters: - Enables you to to capture output values from the application at run-time. You can get a value from the application and store it in the QuickTest test Results. You can later use this value as an input to a variable. Capturing a value during run-time and using it as an input variable in your test is called data correlation.

3- Random Number parameters: - The random number input Parameter generates random numbers and uses them as input value for a parameter. By default, the random number ranges between 0 and 100.

4- Environment parameters: - ENVIRONMENT Parameters enable you to insert a value in your Test from an environment variable list. The value of an environment Parameter remains the same during the test playback, regardless of the number of Iterations, unless you change the value.

Question 24- What is an action and what types of actions are used in QTP?

Answer- Action is nothing but a piece of code/script written Test some part of functionality in the Application under test. Combination of Actions can be called as a test. These actions can be used in other tests if they need.

There are three types of action used in QTP:

1- Reusable action:- This can be used in any test by calling it into that test. Tester should create an action as Reusable if he thinks this can be used in other tests.

2- Non Reusable action:- This can be used in a single test. By default actions are non-reusable.

3- External action:- External Actions are those which are called from External Test and these Actions are Read-only. While re usable action can be called and modifies in a test.

Question 25- What is recovery scenario in QTP?

Answer: - While executing your scripts you may get some UNEXPECTED errors. To "recover" the test (and continue running) from these unexpected errors you use Recovery Scenarios.

Recovery scenarios are useful when it is difficult to predict at which step the errors can come or when we are confident that the error will not come in the QTP script, whereas it can be anywhere outside the QTP Script.

In order to handle such situations QTP comes to our rescue by creating recovery scenarios and associates them with the particular tests.

The Recovery Scenario Manager presents a structured wizard which helps us in defining the recovery scenario, like detailed definition of the unexpected event and the operations required to recover from the exception during the run session.

The events for we can use recovery scenarios:

1- Application Crash

2- Pop Up Window

3- Test Run Error

4- Object State

Question 26- What constitute Recovery Scenarios?

A recovery scenario consists of the following:

1- Trigger Event- The event that interrupts your run session. For example, a window that may pop up on screen, or a QTP run error.

2- Recovery Operations- The operations to perform to enable QTP to continue running the test after the trigger event interrupts the run session. For example, clicking an OK button in a pop-up window, or restarting Microsoft Windows.

3- Post-Recovery Test Run Option- The instructions on how QTP should proceed after the recovery operations have been performed, and from which point in the test QTP should continue, if at all. For example, you may want to restart a test from the beginning, or skip a step entirely and continue with the next step in the test.

QTP 9.2 QnA Part-I

2011-03-26T23:50:00.000+05:30

Question 1- What are the Benefit of automation testing

Answer- As a summary automation testing offers following advantages which manual testing does not

1- Reusability

2- Consistency

3- Productivity

Question 2- What is the general workflow of QTP

Answers- step by step workflow is:

1- Prepare the automation test environment

2- Record user action to generate the basic test

3- Enhance the automation test for play back and testing

4- Run test/multiple test

Question 3- What is keyword view and Expert view in QTP?

Answer- keyword views shows exact recording of the applications (in tabular format) and the interface divided into

1)item

2)operation

3)value

4)documentation

while in expert view VB Scripting is displayed.

Question 4- To which environments does a QTP support?

Answer- Quick Test Professional supports functional testing of all enterprise environments, including Windows, Web,..NET, Java/J2EE, SAP, Siebel, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Visual Basic, ActiveX, mainframe terminal emulators, and Web services.

Question 5- What is Add-in manager in QTP?

Answers- When you launch your QTP, you will find an option called "add-in-manager" there you can load your add-in. It depends on your license that what the list of add-in coming there. By default in QTP 9.2 three Ad-ins comes and these are: ActiveX, Visual Basic and Web. IF none of the add-ins are checked in the Add in Manager of QTP then Standard Windows Environment will be loaded by default.

Question 6- Why do you select Allow Other Mercury Products To Run Tests And Components?

Answer- If you want to run test from QC test lab you need to enable this option.

Question 7- What access permissions do the test and testers to have?

Answer-

• Database

• Host systems

• Input/output data

Question 8- What are the different framework we can use using QTP?

Answer- There are different types of framework we use in QTP.

1. Datadriven framework

2. Keyword driven framework

3. Module driven framework

4. Hybrid driven framework

1- Datadriven framework- This frame work is used when an application is test with multiple sets of data. The data is passed to the scripts from data files like excel files, csv files, ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) and ADO (ActiveX Data Objects) objects

In other words, The Execution of an automation program on a software build with multiple test data is called as "data driven testing"

2- Keyword driven framework- Keyword-driven testing is a testing methodology where every action to be performed is described by a keyword. All these keywords defines the object, the action works with. These keywords are also called actions or commands.

The keywords based testing is a kind of alternative of scripting.

Question 9- What are different modes of recording in QTP?

Answer- there is three modes of recording in QTP

1- Normal

2- Analog

3- Low level

1- Normal Mode- It’s a default recording mode. It is also called Context Sensitive Recording. In QTP we generally use over 95% of recording in this mode only.

It is used to record the operations on standard GUI objects. For each and every operation it generates script. In this mode QTP learns the properties of an object and stores them in the object repository for object identification at run time.

2- Analog Mode- In this we can records the exact mouse and keyboard operations performed in relation to either the screen or the application window.

3- Low level Mode- This mode enables you to record on any object in your application, irrespective of QTP recognizes the specific object or the specific operation.

Question 10- What are the different run modes in QTP?

Answer- there is three run modes

1- Verify: - to save the results of the test run to compare and verify with the future runs of the same test

2- Debug: - to save the results as he is yet to finish the script or he is testing his QTP coding logic

3- Update:- to update the expected results while running the test, say for example while recording the script the calendar date was 10/20/2002 and while executing the test it is a different date (system date), then the test should be run in the update mode other wise the test would fail because of the changed properties of the object.

Question 11- What is the concept of object and in QTP?

Answer- In general Object is an instance of a class and each object has properties and methods. Now in QTP all these objects are stored in a Object repository. There are some predefined object stored are called slandered objects and can not be changes or modified.

There are two types of Object

1- Test Object :- A test object is an object which created by QTP in the test correspond to actual object in the application. This stored information will be used by QTP at the time of run session to identify and check the object

2- Run time Object:- Now the real object in the application on which the method are performed at the time of run, are called Run time objects.

Question 12- What is the object repository in QTP?

Answer- Object repository is the storage space for Objects. OR works as interface between application and tool. Any OR generally consists of:

1- Logical Name- A name given to the object

2- Physical description- The object detail or u can say the properties of the object which is used to identify this object during run time.

Question 13- What are the two types of repository in QTP?

Answer- In QTP there are 2 object repositories, they are

1.Shared Object Repository (Global Object Repository)- A shared object repository stores test objects in a file that can be accessed by multiple components (via their application areas) in read-only mode.

The extension for such OR is “.tsr” -- Test Script Repository

2.Local Object Repository (Per-action repository)- A local object repository stores objects in a file that is associated with one specific component, so that only that component can access the stored objects.

By default it’s a local object repository. Whenever we create an action, an object repository is created by default for this action.

The extension for such OR is “.mtr” -- Modular Test Repository or mercury test repository

Question 14- What is Object spy and how it is used?

Answer- Object spy is used view the run & test time object properties & methods of the application under test.

To select object spy navigate to tool bar and select object spy or In the Object Repository Window Click the Object Spy Icon. Once spy is selected a hand will come. Once you click on an object all the properties of the object is listed in the Object Spy Window

Question 15- How Quick Test Recognizes Objects?

Answer- QTP recognizes all objects in the Application under test using the set of mandatory properties that it stores for all Test Objects while recording. If QTP is not able to recognize the objects using the set of mandatory properties it uses another set of properties called the assistive properties. Incase the assistive properties are also not enough to uniquely identify an object QTP resorts to using the ordinal identifiers for the object that are properties like the index location and time of creation of the object. If all this fails, QTP resorts to the smart identification mechanism.

Configuring Selenium RC with TestNG using eclipse

2010-09-05T19:59:00.003+05:30

Recently I was trying Selenium RC with TestNG using eclipse. I found it little tough without any proper step by step documentation. I took help of my collegues and completed. In fact I am not using this tool in my project but I always try to find time to work with selenium. After all you can not stop your learning :)
This tool is pretty good and rapidly taking place in market.

Any way I had successfully ran a sample test case using TestNG in eclipse with selenium RC. While it was starting but decided to post one article on “Configuring Selenium RC with TestNg using eclipse” to help testers those who want to start with same. I also maintain my blog as a database for self reference. So if you find it beneficial for you, you can write few words and if not then you can ignore :(

Finally here, step by step process to configure and run your first java test using TestNG and selenium RC in eclipse

1- Install JRE http://www.java.com/en/download/
2- Download eclipse http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
3- Download TestNG http://testng.org/testng-5.14.zip
4- Download selenium RC http://seleniumhq.org/download/
5- Launch you eclipse

The workspace, you can select any working directory. In my case it’s “Selenium_Project”

Now clicking on Ok button, it will launch eclipse.

6- Install TestNG plugin

Go to help->install new software

Click on add. This will open a small window where you need to put location “http://beust.com/eclipse”.

Click on OK. You will see that an entry is added there. Now tick that box and click on next.

7- Add project

Click File->new->Java project

Give project name and finish

This will create project “MyProject”

8- Add TestNG jar to library

Select MyProject and then Go to (menu bar) project->properties->Java build path->Libraries

Click on add external JARs and add TestNG jar file (testng-5.14.jar) from folder which you get after downloading TestNG in step#3.

9- Add Selenium RC jar to library

Add selenium Jar file same way we have added testNG jar. Selenium jar file can be found in the “selenium-java-client-driver-1.0.1” folder which you get after downloading it in step#4.

10- Add Class file

In MyProjectt right click on scr folder then new->class

Name the class (e.g Login) and finish.

Now add your test code here under this class. As in my previous article I had mentioned that you can simply record your test using IDE and pick java code and use here. For more detail refer : http://vishalsachan.blogspot.com/2010/06/hi-folks-sorry-for-bieng-inactive-from.html

11- Run test

Run your clas file as TestNG

Ohh i forget one step here. before executing test/running class file you need to start selenium server. thia is similar to every time so i am just copying it from my previous article.

To start the selenium test server, first go to the location where your JRE is placed. For example
C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\
and then Run the command java -jar selenium-server.jar
here it is supposed that you have placed your selenium -server.jar file in same location. In case if you have placed it in other location you can run it in following way:

C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\java -jar jar “E:\SELENIUM\selenium-remote-control-1.0-beta-1\selenium-server-1.0-beta-1\selenium-server.jar”

This will start you selenium server.

Thanks.