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GUI for end-to-end tests

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I'm helping an organization that has a website with some moderate-level complexity, past the point of just a bunch of static web pages but not to the point where they have a developer on staff.

To catch anything that breaks as they make website updates, I'd like to set up some automated end-to-end tests to run daily to do things like fill out a form and make sure that it takes the user to the right page, and check a dashboard to make sure it shows the right information. I could write Selenium tests, but I'd prefer to do something that they can maintain and update themselves in the future without writing code.

Are there any tools that would let a user "record" interactions with a website (or easily program them from a visual interface) and set expectations for the result, and then allow the user to schedule the test to be run on a regular basis?

Thanks!
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Yes there are, they are called low-code or no code software testing solution. I've used both https://www.testim.io/ and https://reflect.run/ but honestly there are a lot of them.

So for example with reflect I can record a web application, set assertions (either based on text or on a visual element) and then I can run them either on a set schedule or based on some event like an API call.
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User is able to change profile picture. Dev's automated unit test: As its name suggests, unit test is normally a functional test of a single function, e.g. test against a unit to a bigger picture. User is able to change profile picture may consist of a number of functions (units), for examples: a function that receives a mouse click from a user and passes on this clicking action to a function that scans a folder for all available user pictures. Both of aforementioned functions will be tested independent of each other. In general, a unit test is a type of white box testing, devs know their own functions inside out; they cheat-testing their functions on the most basic level, using raw data (for example, a flag variable to represent a mouse click) as test inputs and test results of unit tests are normally raw data too. QA's automated functional test: The subject under test for QA is normally not a function, testings carried out by QA are normally black box testing in nature, e.g. QA do not have knowledge on function level and they have no access to source code, they QA test is a product of some kind. QA pretend to be end-users, they develop automated tests to mimic real life scenarios. They can use Selenium to mimic a mouse click on a real button to initiate a change in profile picture. QA testing is of a higher level than unit testing. In conclusion: There is no absolute black-white boundary between dev's automated tests and QA's automated tests. There is nothing stops dev's from developing end-user and black-box automated tests, in industry, occasionally, devs do do this; I have met QA performing unit tests as well. The reason why devs focus on unit testing and QA focus on end-user scenario testing is that it is usually natural, convenient, efficient and comfortable for them to follow such a workflow; devs know their codes the best, they can apply unit tests faster and better while QA take care of the assembled product. Of course, if in a certain contextual environment, when we will be better off to have devs do end-user testing and QAs do unit testing, I am sure people will adapt it.
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As others have said, if there isn't a consistent definition of what constitutes top priority across all teams, there will be disagreement over what constitutes a top priority bug. That said, I have a few thoughts to offer: Will this bug break core functionality if it is introduced to production? If the answer is "yes" then priority should be higher. Does this bug have a workaround that an end-user can employ? If the answer is "yes", then priority should be lower. Does this bug occur in a high-traffic or high-visibility part of the application? If the answer is "yes", then priority should be higher (even if it's just a spelling mistake: presentation bugs lead users to think the software is lower quality because if the developers "don't care" about presentation, what else don't they care about? - perceptions matter a lot in this field). What is the severity and probability of the bug? A severe bug (say, one that wipes user profiles) that is highly likely to occur will have a much higher priority than an equally severe bug that's very unlikely to occur. How soon does your team plan to release the functionality that's related to the bug? If you're planning on releasing soon, that will increase the priority of the bug. I'd suggest that you document all these factors, then discuss the bug with your lead developer to come up with a mutually agreed-on priority. It's possible that even if this is an application breaking bug it won't occur in the production environment (I've seen those, and they do get a much lower priority because they don't go to production. I've also seen situations where something works perfectly in the development and test environments but is broken in production).
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Depends on the goal of the test. I like to differentiate test goals, for example between: Pure Functional, Tests which check if the functionality works in general. This should work on a stable pipeline, simple and fast for quick feedback loops. Browser/OS/Device compatibility, tests to garantuee it works on multiple different devices. Now you need to figure out where the risks are and how many of whichs tests you want to automate and run on each change. But I would want the results of my stable, so not to many different agents and certianly not random agents with different configurations. Any changes should be thought out and chosen for the specific goal. Or else you will keep getting random flaky tests that you need to analyze.
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Is it of value to e2e test something in an iframe that is supposed to be in an iframe? Well, yes. You want to test that it works as expected. I would probably suggest doing the bulk of any testing directly against the framed content itself and only test it in a frame for any interaction that may occur and that it works as expected in the first place, that navigation within a frame works etc. As for the other issue, why can you not simply build a test site with the content framed -- locally or on a live test site you control? That would allow the tests to more naturally mimic the 3rd party production site.
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There is a possibility that there are found more than one webelement which are matching the xpath criteria. A way to find it out is use findElements with xpath and check the count of list. when we use findElement the first match is returned, which could be an element which is not workable or the link. When you use partialLinkText it knows it has to find a link and match with partial text. please check this. hope it helps.
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The CI/CD service for Azure is called Azure DevOps. Here you can setup a pipeline that builds, deploys and tests. The recent (03/15/2019) Azure DevOps documentation describes how to run Selenium tests in a pipeline.
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Looks like it should be fixed in the next geckodriver version. For more details check here.
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There are several ways you can achieve what you want to do. Basically you want to write the result of your tests in a file. For this you can use spreadsheet (XLSX) or CSV or even simple text files. To write your data in a XLSX file you can use Apache POI. Here is a reference link to help with this. You can use OpenCSV library to write the data to a CSV file. Here is a reference link. Or you can use Log4j to log all event's and steps executed in the code.
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This is a just your test data generation strategy. As with any strategy, it will have a balance between: Maintainability cost x execution time; Test code simplicity x test code flexibility; It will be a contextual decision on how and when to do X or Y. A good strategy to discover the best approach is to follow the DTSTTCPW principle: "Do the simplest thing that could possibly work". The implementation action will give you a better understanding of each problem. And with that, you may decide to refactor your solution. E.g., given that you have test that requires 10 questions to be created. If you have a flow that creates a question using Selenium, simply use it. Then analyse what you get: Maybe the remaining part of this test takes 5 times the test data creation time - or maybe it takes 1/4 of the time to create the test data. In the first case, working on an API script maybe not the best approach; on the second one, it maybe the best approach. Other point you may consider on the above is the stability of the procedure to create the question with Selenium and the stability of the API. Which one can you rely the most, in order to decrease maintenance cost?
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Most testers run into this kind of problem sooner or later, especially if you are a contractor. From my personal experiences, a contractor tester is different from a permanent tester in several ways: Contractors are less trusted as you move from one client to an other, you have less time to earn your colleagues' trust. In general, people develop trust over time. Contractors cost more than a permanent employee for a given period. In New Zealand, a contractor will cost around 800 dollars a day, while permanent employee costs a third of it. Higher cost means more expectation. Your situations are: Missing test scripts, this should not be a problem, tell your manager to ask the girl you sent your test scripts to. If she is no longer working there, they can dig it up from their email server. So few test cases on Jira, I am assuming the test cases on Jira are about the second phases? As you were still working on the first phase when you were told to work on the second phase (I understand there was little to be done in the second phase). Tell your manager as you have told us, that is the only solution. Please remember one thing, communication is the key. If you had communicated with your manager when you realized there was not much to be done for the second phase, you would have avoided getting into this situation.
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The terms in software world doesn't usually have a well regulated definition , it is more about understanding the concept and having an organised approach to testing than testing what ever comes to our mind. so don't need to break your head over these definitions , just remember the below One of the reliable definitions you can refer is from ISTQB glossary: https://glossary.istqb.org/app/en/search/ Unit Test A test level that focuses on individual hardware or software components. so you can define what is component in anyways , it can be a class , an package, a library and so on. Going too deep and finding the smallest component is not worth it so we considers a class or library as a unit and tests all the methods in the object works fine depending on your project. Integration testing : https://glossary.istqb.org/en/term/integration-testing-2#:~:text=integration%20testing,between%20integrated%20components%20or%20systems. Testing performed to expose defects in the interfaces and in the interactions between integrated components or systems. Here again you can define what to integrate . so imagine you have 10 components and each component is integrated with each other components . So if you try to test all this combinations , then you will spend all your time in testing than in developing something so we don't test all the integrations we will test the integrated system as a whole , so in integration test we are testing a system of integrated components works fine, or the interface (API) that allows this integration works fine. in the latest version of definition we have : https://glossary.istqb.org/app/en/term/integration-testing-3 A test level that focuses on interactions between components or systems. they have removed the interface part , but i will like stick on to first definition as it makes more sense. System Testing A test level that focuses on verifying that a system as a whole meets specified requirements. Again system can be defined only by you on the context of your project . For example if your working with multiple agile teams. Each teams responsibility is to provide a delivery that is considered as a system for them eg furniture is a system sitting on it , jumping on it is part of system testing in your case if database is part of your team then DB+API+UI is your "system" , you will make sure this works as a whole. but if your responsibility is to develop API+UI your system is (API+UI) not DB System integration testing A test level that focuses on interactions between systems. eg Moving the chair into a house/room , so your checking how two system the "house" and "chair" works together in your case: if DB is handled by some other team , you are checking how "DB+API+System" work together Summary: Don't worry much about definitions , testing is highly context depended. The definition of component/unit, systems, integration etc changes according to your project You don't have to dissect your product into so many minute components , but to many reusable component , and test its re-usability. Don't worry too much on component integration because in lower level of abstractions there will be too many integrations you cannot test them all and you don't have to Tests the interfaces this interactions and tests the system as whole Concentrate more on business use case than just functionality
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It is not possible to copy test cases from test lab to test plan. Actually test lab doesn't have any test cases, it only has a reference to test plan's test cases. So only way to copy test cases is from test plan to test plan.
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The first thing that came to my mind was Spotify's Model-Based Testing, it doesn't describe your case exactly but looks like you can use a similar method. Build a model of your constraints and let a tool run through the combinations. Also try and evaluate Microsoft's PICT tool as the source for your constraints model description, it has the added benefit that if some parameters are known to be independent of each other the tool will help you decrease the number of needed tests

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