While exploring different selenium forums , I have
observed that ,Many test engineers asks the question “Is it mandatory to use any unit testing tool (Java : testNg,Junit or
dotNet: Nunit Or python :PyUnit) with selenium for running the tests ”
If someone will ask this to me I will answer it as a
‘NO’ ,we can run our selenium tests in a suite without using TestNg/Junit/Nunit
or any other unit testing tool.
How can we
run selenium tests without using TestNg,Junit or any Unit testing tool.
Simply write a client class with main method as follow
and give the call to methods that you want to execute in a suite.
public class SeleniumClient {
public static void main(String[] args) {
SeleniumTest testClient = new SeleniumTest();
testClient.LoginToApplication("loginName", "loginPassword");
boolean isSuccessfullyLoggedIn = testClient.VerifySuccessfulLogin();
}
}
What is a
drawback of doing this ?
Testwriter has to explicitly call his methods to get it
executed in a suite which is a big overhead for him.
What is a
best way to achieve this i.e executing selenium tests in a suite using any unit
testing tool ?
For
the Eclipse plug-in, we suggest using the update site:
- Select Help / Software updates / Find and Install.
- Search for new features to install.
- New remote site.
- For Eclipse 3.4 and above, enter http://beust.com/eclipse.
- Make sure the check box next to URL is checked and click Next.
- Eclipse will then guide you through the process.
Once you have configured testNg
with your eclipse there are two ways to run the tests in a suite :
You can either write testNg class as per
the documentation given here
Or You can write a testNg.xml as per
your need to run the tests in a suite, mentioned here
How to use TestNg features while
integrating it with selenium.
I observed many automation teams are integrating
selenium with testNG.While doing this exercise of integrating Selenium with lot
of questions comes in mind of automation engineer,here I am trying to answer
few of the use cases that I come across while using selenium with testNg.
How to
classify selenium tests in different groups using testng ?
Requirement
1 : If I have a requirement to categorize all my automated
tests in 3 different groups
“Smoke Test” ,”Critical Test” and
“Regression Test” how can I Differentiate this tests in different group.
@Test(groups = { "Smoke Test" })
void testMethod1() {
>>>>>Method
definition>>>>>>>>
}
@Test(groups = { "Critical
Test" })
void
testMethod2(String... b) {
>>>>>Method
definition>>>>>>>>
}
@Test(groups = { "Regression
Test" })
void testMethod3(int a, int b) {
>>>>>Method
definition>>>>>>>>
}
Now I have to execute only
Smoke test, how to handle it with testNg.xml
<groups>
<run>
<include name="Smoke Test"/>
</run>
</groups>
Requirement
2 : I have 100 tests
automated out of that I have to exclude the tests which is having a product
bug.
@Test(groups = { "Product Test", "Smoke Test" })
void testMethod1() {
>>>>>Method
definition>>>>>>>>
}
@Test(groups = { "Product
Test", "Critical Test" })
void testMethod2() {
>>>>>Method
definition>>>>>>>>
}
@Test(groups = { "Product
Test", "Regression Test", "Bug" })
void testMethod3() {
>>>>>Method
definition>>>>>>>>
}
I
don’t want to execute the tests which are already having a product bug,
remaining all tests needs to be executed.
<groups>
<run>
<include name="Product
Test"/>
<exclude name="Bug"/>
</run>
</groups>
What is a
SoftDependancy and HardDependancy in TestNg ?
Most
of the time we need to deal with 2 type of dependencies ,
1. Hard Dependency: If there are two methods and method2 needs to
be executed only if method1 is passing then this is a Hard Dependency.
@Test(groups = { "Product Test" })
void startUp() {
System.out
.println("this method will be responsible for all the prerequisites ");
}
@Test(groups = { "Product Test" }, dependsOnMethods = { "startUp" })
void hardDependantTest() {
System.out.println("Perform actual test execution code.");
}
Here
hardDependantTest()
will get executed only if startup() gets passed.
2. Soft Dependency: If we bother only with the sequence of the
test, means method2 needs to be executed only after method1, irrespective of
its execution status pass or fail ( mehtod2 needs to be executed even after
method1 fails)
@Test(groups = { "Product Test" })
void testMethod1() {
System.out.println("Perform actual test execution code.");
}
@Test(groups = { "Product Test" }, dependsOnMethods = { "testMethod1" }, alwaysRun = true)
void testMethod2() {
System.out.println("Perform actual test execution code.");
}
More complex part related to selenium and testNg will get covered in next blog !!
