Automation best practices w/ Java workshop

In this automation best practices workshop you will learn the latest and greatest tools and techniques to drastically improve your testing!

We will focus on a holistic approach of risk mitigation by doing:

• functional web testing,
• visual testing,
• performance testing,
• and many other things in between 😁

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🧠You will learn to

• Create a framework for doing comprehensive web testing
• Use industry-standard best practices such as page objects
• Create functional browser tests using Selenium
• Code visual e2e tests using Screener
• Run in massive parallel (100s of tests in < 5 min)
• Automatically get robust test reports with logs + videos

🔧Technologies you will use

1. Sauce Labs
2. Selenium
3. Sauce Visual
4. Junit
5. Java
6. Maven

Table Of Contents

• Introduction to workshop
• Local environment setup
  • If you can't setup local, then use Gitpod
• E2E browser tests
• Atomic tests
• Visual e2e tests
• Parallelization
• Front-end performance
• Conclusions

Requirements

This is NOT a beginners course and you will not learn Java testing fundamentals here. However, you will learn a number of amazing skills, techniques, and tools to help you test web applications

• At least 1 year of Java programming
• Deep understanding of Selenium WebDriver
• Deep understanding of OOP
• Java 8 installed
• Java IDE installed
• Git
• Maven installed

Your Instructor: Nikolay Advolodkin

• 🔭 I’m the founder of Ultimate QA
• 🏢 I’m a Sr Solutions Architect at Sauce Labs
• 🌱 I’m currently working on Sauce Bindings
• 💬 Ask me about environmentalism, veganism, test automation, and fitness
• 😄 Pronouns: he/him
• ⚡ Fun fact: I'm a Ukranian, Russian, Jew that was born in Uzbekistan and raised in US 🤯
• 📫 Follow me for testing and dev training
  • Java Testing Tips Weekly
  • Testing Training on Youtube
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter to know about all my events

Setup

Sign up for accounts

1. Free Sauce account
2. Request Demo Screener account. !Request ASAP before the workshop as it's a manual process to add users.

Get your username and api key

1. Save your Sauce Labs Username and Access Key by going to the Sauce Labs user settings page
2. Save your Screener API Key by going to the API key page in your Screener settings
   1. Need to sign up for demo account before

🏮 If you don't get an API key before the workshop, please use one of these🏮

SCREENER_API_KEY:

34c95634-56fc-446e-b68e-20530262e3f4

fe5a0636-fde5-4209-a597-403a76f1b505

6b3cc9f4-4578-413c-b5cc-ed7d1b417981

6b3cc9f4-4578-413c-b5cc-ed7d1b417981

8368adee-4463-4aa4-a441-6e6c58d67665

Local environment setup

1. Sign up for a free GitHub account
2. Fork this repository

• Make sure you are logged into GitHub
• Click the Fork in the upper right of the GitHub.
• Give the repo a ⭐ while you're here 🤩

3. Clone your fork of the repository to your machine. Must have Git installed

git clone URL_OF_YOUR_FORK

Setup environment variables on your system

• Mac/Linux
• Windows

Navigate to the directory of where you cloned your repo

cd YOUR_FORK_DIR/automation-best-practices/workshop

Run sanity tests

mvn test -Dtest="SanityTest#functionalWorks" -X

Click here to see an example console output.

    Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 54.305 sec

    Results :

    Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0

    [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    [INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
    [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    [INFO] Total time:  56.063 s
    [INFO] Finished at: 2021-11-03T16:03:20-04:00
    [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

✅👏Environment setup is complete if tests passed

If you weren't successful at setting up you local env, then use the Gitpod approach👇

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Gitpod setup

ℹ Gitpod lets you run an entire Dev environment from a browser! You can use this approach if you don't know how to setup a local Java environment.

1. Sign up for a free GitHub account

2. Fork this repository

   • Make sure you are logged into GitHub
   • Click the fork in the upper right of GitHub
   • Select your username as the location to fork the repo

3. In the browser address bar, prepend the GitHub url (https://github.com/USERNAME/automation-best-practices-java) with https://gitpod.io/#

   • The resulting url should look as follows:

     https://gitpod.io/#https://github.com/USERNAME/automation-best-practices-java

4. Once the Gitpod.io URL is loaded, you will need to sign in with the GitHub account you created earlier

5. Once the development environment is loaded, you should see 'Ready to test!' in the Terminal window in the lower portion of the window, run the following commands in that Terminal to set your SAUCE_USERNAME, SAUCE_ACCESS_KEY, and SCREENER_API_KEY:

ℹ️ You can get your Sauce Labs Username and Access Key by going to the Sauce Labs user settings page

ℹ️ You can get your Screener API Key by going to the API key page in your Screener settings

eval $(gp env -e SAUCE_USERNAME=<sauce_username>)
eval $(gp env -e SAUCE_ACCESS_KEY=<sauce_access_key>)
eval $(gp env -e SCREENER_API_KEY=<screener_api_key>)

Replace <sauce_username>, <sauce_access_key>, and <screener_api_key> with your credentials

Once you have run those 3 commands, you can run the following commands to test your environment variables:

echo $SAUCE_USERNAME
echo $SAUCE_ACCESS_KEY
echo $SCREENER_API_KEY

Run sanity tests

mvn test -Dtest="SanityTest#functionalWorks" -X

Click here to see an example console output.

    Tests run: 2, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 54.305 sec

    Results :

    Tests run: 2, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0

    [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    [INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
    [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    [INFO] Total time:  56.063 s
    [INFO] Finished at: 2021-11-03T16:03:20-04:00
    [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

✅👏Environment setup is complete if tests passed

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