Explain Fabasoft app.test - Web Functional/ Regression Test Tool

About Fabasoft app.Test

- Fabasoft distribution GmbH has developed a web testing tool called the fabasoft app. Test.

- It can be used to create tests based up on the patterns that are effective in reducing the complexity of the java and HTML applications.

- These tests do not contain any CSS and XPath expressions but they do contain statements that are meaningful and can be easily understood. 

- The features of this tool can be extended by connecting with it the eclipse plug–in that is a point–and-click editor. 

- This plug–in can be used for designing effective patterns for web sites. 

- Fabasoft app. Test supports web browsers such as Mozilla firefox, internet explorer, and safari and so on. 

- In all these browsers, tests can be recorded using the above point–and–click recorder.

- The recorded test scripts than can be replayed immediately after recording in the other browsers and there is no need for modifying those scripts.

- The tool is even capable of generating various reports in formats such as PDF or html, documentation of the errors consisting of various dumps and screen shots. 

- It supports various platforms such as:

1.   Win

2.   Linux

3.   Mac OS – X

Features of Fabasoft app.Test

 

Some of the characteristic features of this web testing tool are:

1.   Recorder

2.   Multi – browser support

3.   Script and dialog error handler

4.   Documentation of the errors along with screen shots

5.   Various dumps

6.   Several reports in formats such as pdf and html.

- If you have opted for using fabasoft app. Test, you can just sit back and relax and let the tool take on the testing process. 

- The tests that are created with fabasoft app. Test are easy to understand and there is no requirement of the programming skills.

- It can be considered to be the next generation web testing. 

- You can teach fabasoft app. Test about your application in just a few clicks. 

- The fabasoft app. Test can test the application further for omissions and errors. 

- The tool is quite easy to install and use.

- Large scale web sites are developed through standards such as content management systems (CMS) including red dot, liferay, joomla and so on. 

- Since these web sites represent the reputation of the companies, it is important that they should remain highly accessible all the time and free of errors. 

- The web developers often end up looking for GUI testing tools for testing their sites. 

- Fabasoft app. Test can be used for the automated testing of the web applications no matter what technology has been used for building these applications such as ASP, PHP, flash, JavaScript and so on. 

- The fabasoft app. Test can be taught about the structure of the application to be tested. 

- Once done with this, you can start with the recording of the test and obtaining reports. 

- It ensures that your application is can run on all the platforms and web browsers. 

- Stay automatically informed about the status of your application testing. 

- You get to know about a problem as soon as it is encountered and solve it well in time.

1.   Fabasoft app. Test studio

2.   Point and click recorder

3.   Multi browser support

4.   Control specification designer

5.   Internationalization of the tests

6.   Test player

7.   Console player

8.   Remote agent

9.   Commander

10. BIRT report support

11. Html reporting

What are key technologies supported by Maveryx? - Part 2

In this part of the article we shall discuss about the remaining 3 key technologies of the Maveryx automated testing tool:

5. Extensibility: 

- The plug–in system of the Maveryx is quite extensible.

- It can be made richer by customizing. 

- Maveryx allows the users to customize the default functionality and other specific desired capabilities using individual plug – ins.

- A number of plug–ins for a number of reasons are supported by the Maveryx tool. 

- Few of those reasons have been listed below:

a) For adding support dedicated to the complex as well as custom GUI controls.

b)  For adding test actions such as APIs that are proprietary.

c)  For adding new algorithms for matching.

d) For integrating the maveryx with a number of other tools like bug tracking tools, SCM tools and so on.

- Maveryx has got it all: the reliable and easy to use testing environment and intuitive testing functionality to help you create the best test project. 

- Maveryx holds a collection of powerful but easy to use java APIs that help in creating better regression and functional test cases. 

- Since Maveryx is an open source tool so you have the power of modifying it or extending it any way to fit your requirements. 

- Plug–ins are the things that help you in this regard. 

- They can be installed and removed at any times. 

- Maveryx has been designed so as to allow the mechanisms and hooks that help in enhancing the frame work without calling for any major changes in the infrastructure of the system. 

- Extensions can be made in either of the two ways:

Ø  By adding a new functionality or

Ø  By modifying an existing one

- Programming interface is another thing that helps with the extension of the maveryx tool. 

- By installing core plug–ins, you enhance the capabilities of the Maveryx making it to adapt your specific requirements or your organization’s specific requirements. 

- Customizing Maveryx increases its functionality and increases the speed of the testing process.

6. Eclipse plug–in

- Maveryx comes with a separate plug – in for the eclipse tool. 

- It consists of the software tools that can be deployed to make use of the java eclipse IDE, thus granting the developers and software testers with an ability of designing, building and executing the automated test scripts using the Maveryx testing tool.

- This plug–in provides assistance to the software testers who are using Maveryx in the creation of the new test classes for test projects and generation of the java code via Maveryx’s frame work.

7. Test Reporting: 

- When you execute a test case, you do not have to worry about generating the metrics. 

- Maveryx does it all for you through its test reporting key technology. 

- It automatically generates the metrics. 

- Plus, it also puts all the detailed reports at your fingertips.

- The results of the tests execution are also displayed automatically. 

- Actually, all this is done in coordination with the eclipse plug–in.

- The plug–in in turn makes use of a number of Maveryx’s reporting features for the creation of the reports and live charts during the execution process of the tests.

- The plug–in only creates the finalized test reports that give an explanation regarding the results of the tests through visual aids such as charts, tables, statistics and so on.

The maveryx software testing tool has got a number of other features such as:

- Test logging capabilities

- Automated verification points

- Multi – application testing

- Distributed application testing

- Error handling feature that is customizable

- Multilingual testing

- Keywords

What are key technologies supported by Maveryx? - Part 1

Maveryx’s unique key technologies are what that makes it so useful. There are 7 of them and we shall discuss about only 4 here.

1. No GUI Maps: 

- Maveryx is an automated testing tool that it does not makes use of GUI maps for locating the GUI objects.

- It carries out the analyzation and the identification of the GUI objects to know their properties at the time of the scripts execution without taking help from a GUI map. 

- When a test is run, a scan is carried out by the Maveryx software and it takes some of the snap shots of the interface of the application under testing or AUT. 

- Maveryx then processes each of the snap shots using an advanced GUI objects finder. 

- This object finder then recognizes the object and locates it so that you can straightaway start writing the test cases and you don’t have to wait. 

- Automated scripts can be developed early by the testers during the software development life cycle. 

- This is done in parallel with the development of the application. 

- However, the test scripts are developed only when the application is ready to be tested. 

2. GUI objects finder: 

- This advanced finder identifies as well as locates the objects very well that have been embedded in the scripts during the run time itself using many of its pattern – matching capabilities. 

- A number of searching algorithms are used by Maveryx for the recognition and the location of the objects during the execution session of the tests. 

- These algorithms remain applicable even for the objects to which changes have been made since the creation of the tests and partial descriptions have been encoded in to the test scripts. 

- It also carries out a search for the run – time objects that seem to match the test object fully or partially.

Below mentioned are the matching algorithms that are supported:

- Exact: This algorithm lets you search for a test object that is exactly same as the one mentioned in the test scripts.

-  Case insensitive: This algorithm is somewhat same as that of the first one but ignores the case.

- Partial: This algorithm lets you find a match based up on the partial data.

- Wild card: Using this algorithm you can match objects using the common regular expressions.

- Levenshtein distance: This algorithm lets you perform approximate matching through some fuzzy logic and edit distance.

- Thesaurus searching: This algorithm lets you find related terms be it in broader terms or in narrow terms or conceptual in a vocabulary called ‘wordnet’.

- Google translation: This algorithm is best suited for internationalization testing or multilingual testing and it lets you find translations.

   With so many algorithms the objects finder has proved to be quite effective in cutting down the time and effort made by the testers in maintaining the scripts. It also provides all the facilities to the testers to write the automated tests from the partial, lacking and unstable specifications. Further the testers are also enabled to automate the test cases that have developed resilience against frequent changes that are made to the interface of the application thus avoiding the need for the continuous rework on the scripts. 

    

     3. Data driven testing: 

    This maveryx implements through Microsoft office excel spreadsheets as well as XML files.  A number of data bases are also supported by the maveryx tool.

   4. Keyword driven testing: Using excel spreadsheets Mavryx creates data tables which it uses for developing test cases. Test actions or the keywords are stored in the spreadsheets and XML files. 

Explain Maveryx? For what purposes it is designed?

About Maveryx Testing Tool

- Maveryx has been developed as a GUI, Regression testing and automated functional testing tool for applications written in java. 

- But Maveryx is different from the other automated GUI testing tools in the way that it does not make use of GUI maps for the creation and execution of the automated tests. 

- The recognition of the GUI objects to be tested takes place at the time of the execution. 

- This is done using an advanced GUI objects finder. 

- Fuzzy and exact matching algorithms are supported by this search engine. 

- Such algorithms are also used in the identification of the test objects present in the application user interface. 

- With GUI maps, the automation process cannot be started early and so this search engine avoids GUI maps thus enabling the automation process start before the application is actually made available for testing. 

- On the other hand, possibility for deriving the tests from requirements that are either partial or lacking is achieved through approximate matching. 

- Approximate testing also allows for the scripts that have resilience against the frequently changing nature of the application. 

- Many of the software quality assurance teams deploy Maveryx primarily for carrying out automated testing in agile and traditional environments as well. 

- Data driven testing is also supported by the Maveryx for java applications. - It also supports a number of platforms such as:

1. Windows
2. Linux
3. Mac

- Maveryx does not use GUI maps for objects recognition rather it locates the objects at the run time directly when the scripts execution is in progress. 

- While the Maveryx runs a test, simultaneously it also carry out a scanning of the interface of the application under test or AUT and also searches for controls as well as the objects that require manipulation. 

- The GUI objects finder carries out an unique identification process for every test object. 

But what powers this advanced search engine?

- It is powered by a set of algorithms inclusive of the approximate as well as exact matching. 

- This technology makes it possible to get a closest match between the objects in AUT and GUI object encoded in the test scripts. 

- GUI object finder can perform this operation even if the full operation regarding the GUI object is not available. 

- The scripting language used by the Maveryx is of course the java. 

- It is because of this that Maveryx can be integrated with any of the java IDE such as netbeans, eclipse and so on. 

- Further, it can also be integrated with testing framework such as the IBM rational functional tester, JUnit and so on.

- In addition to the above mentioned testing methodologies, it also allows for using the keywords and verification points so that the test coverage can be increased, script reuse can be promoted and number of automated tests can be increased. 

- Various key technologies employed by the Maveryx are:

1. No GUI maps
2. GUI objects finder
3. Data driven testing
4. Keyword driven testing
5. Extensibility
6. Eclipse plug in
7. Test reporting

- Few characteristics features of maveryx are:

1. Test logging capabilities
2. Automated verification points
3. Multi – application testing
4. Distributed application testing
5. Error handling feature that is customizable
6. Multilingual testing
7. Keywords

- Metrics regarding the test cases are generated automatically by the Maveryx software.

- It also produces detailed reports with results.

- A number of reporting features are available with the eclipse plug – in of the Maveryx using which live reports and performance charts can be created during the run time of the test. 

- It also helps in the production of the final reports accompanied by statistics and table charts. 

What smaller projects are contained in Watir projects?

About Watir

- Web application testing in Ruby often known as ‘watir’ belongs to the family of the open source family of tools for automation of the web browsers. 

- This tool is available under BSD license and consists of ruby libraries that can be used for automating the web browsers. 

- The tool possesses the ability for driving the web browsers such as Mozilla firefox, internet explorer, opera, safari and chrome. 

- Further, watir has been even made available in the form of RubyGems gem. 

- The credit for the primary development of this tool goes to Brett Pettichord and his colleague Paul Rogers.

Functionality of Watir

- The functionality of watir has been divided in to three main smaller projects. 

- Actually, watir consists of a number of smaller projects but we shall discuss the 3 major ones namely:

1. Watir – classic
2. Watir – webdriver
3. Watirspec

About Water–classic

- This project of watir is based on the fact that the OLE (i.e., object linking and embedding) capabilities come in – built with the ruby package.

- With such capabilities it becomes easy for watir–classic to drive the browsers pro-grammatically.

- One thing to be noted about the water – classic is that its way of operation is quite different from the way the other HTTP based test tools operate. 

- The other HTTP based testing tools operate via the simulation of the browsers. 

- The web browsers are directly driven by the water – classic using the OLE protocol. 

- The implementation of this protocol is done over the COM (component object model) architecture.

- Inter-process communication is possible due to COM such as in IE and ruby. 

- Further, dynamic object creation as well as manipulation is also possible with such architecture. 

- This is termed as OLE automation by Microsoft. 

- The manipulating program has been termed as the automation controller. 

- Technically this can be explained as follows: The internet explorer serves as the server and caters to the automation objects and exposes their methods. The ruby program then serves as the client that carries out the manipulation of the automation objects. Water – classic can be put in to the gemfile or can be installed manually.

About Water–webdriver

 

- This project has been developed as a modern version of selenium based water API. 

- The selenium 2.0 has been taken to be the reference implementation of the specification of the webdriver.

- Selenium 2.0 is the selenium webdriver. 

- Water API has been implemented as a wrapper around the selenium webdriver by Jari Bakken.

- The selenium 2.0 is what from which the water – webdriver has been derived and has been built up on the html specifications. 

- This implies that the water webdriver always maintain compatibility with the world wide web consortium specifications that already exist. 

- Webdriver is quite an elegant way for using webdriver with ruby. 

- Ruby 1.9.3 is perfectly supported by the watir – webdriver but nonetheless it works well with its old versions also. 

- When you start with watir ruby will take your commands and the spath selectors are absent here. 

- Even though the xpath selectors are supported by watir, its API is so awesome that the need for using the xpaths is totally eliminated. 

- Using watir web driver increases your efficiency as well as productivity. 

- In addition to this, the quality of the scripts execution increases by a thousand times.

About Watirspec

- This is the third major project of watir and can be considered to be its API’s executable specification such as ruby has rubyspec. 

- The performance of watir is better with watirspec and also improves the compliance with the watir – webdriver. 

Explain Watir (Web application testing in Ruby)?

Watir stands for Web application testing in Ruby and was developed as an open source that would provide Ruby libraries by Paul Rogers and Bret Pettichord. The software is licensed under BSD and contains all ruby libraries that would be required for the automation of the web browsers. The software is known to drive a number of web browsers namely:

1. Internet explorer
2. Mozilla firefox
3. Chrome
4. Opera
5. Safari

The software has been made available especially for ruby as the ruby gems. Watir is comprised of several smaller projects which define its functionality:

1. Watir–classic: Ruby has got built – in OLE capabilities that can be used by water classic for driving the IE pro grammatically. The way of operation of water classic is different than that of the other HTTP based based testing tools.
2. Watirspec: This one is watir’s executable specification.
3. Water–webdriver: The reference implementation of the web driver specification is the selenium 2.0. the roots of the water web driver can be traced to the HTML specification.

- This automated test tool uses ruby as the scripting language for driving the above mentioned web browsers. 

- You can call it a tool kit for developing effective automated tests and run them against the browsers. 

- Watir can be used for driving the web applications which can be looked up as HTML pages while browsing. 

- However, Watir is not known to work with the following:

1. Active X plug – in components
2. Java applets
3. Macromedia flash and other plug – in applications.

- Before you use watir for your application you need to determine whether it will work for it or not. 

- To do so just right click on the object and check for the view source menu.

- If the HTML source for the object is available it can be well automated using watir otherwise not. 

- There are certain prerequisites for using watir which are that you need to have knowledge about the following:

1. HTML
2. Programming basics including simple control structures.
3. Ruby: this is required if you put water to a really good use.

- Watir works well for all the windows platforms including windows 2000, server 2003, XP and vista and it can be run on versions 6 and 7 of internet explorer. 

- Using Ruby 1.8.5 – 24 or 1.8.6 – 26 is recommended. 

- For installing ruby and water you need to log on as the administrator. 

- There are two ways for installing watir:

1. From behind a proxy and
2. From behind a firewall

- The tests written using watir are quite easy to read as well as maintain and exhibit simplicity and flexibility.

- The way watir drives the web browsers is the same as done by people. 

- It performs clicking operations such as clicking on links and buttons, forms filling operations and so on. 

- Results are also checked by watir. 

- Ruby, like other programming languages provides your application with the ability to do the following:

1. To connect to data bases
2. To read from spreadsheets and data files
3. To export the XML files
4. To restructure your code so that it can be converted in to a reusable library.

- Watir is free open source tool and therefore no money expenditure in using it. 

- Ruby is a full featured modern programming language which lets watir support all the web applications no matter by what technology it has been developed. 

- Watir provides support to a number of browsers on different platforms. 

- Though the tool is quite powerful it is extremely simple and easy to use. 

- For using watir, it is recommended that you install the IE developer tool bar. 

What is TOSCA Test suite? Explain the architecture of TOSCA?

TOSCA test suite is another software tool in the line of tools for automated execution of the regression and functional testing. But what makes it different from the other tools in the same category is the TOSCA’s following features:

1. Integrated test management
2. Graphical user interface (GUI)
3. A command line interface (CLI)
4. Application programming interface (API)

History and Evolution of TOSCA

- The developer of TOSCA is TRICENTIS technology and consulting GmbH which is an Austrian company based in Vienna. 

- The year of 2011 saw the inclusion of TOSCA in magic quadrant’s report (developed by Gartner Inc.’s) as a visionary. 

- In year 2011 the TOSCA test suite were recognized as the second most widely used test automation tool by Ross report in New Zealand and Australia. 

- The tool was further recognized by the scientific community when it was presented at two important international conferences namely:

1. Euromicro SEAA and
2. IEEE ICST

- Since then TOSCA has been awarded a number of awards for its web and customer support. 

- TOSCA is software testing tool that serves purposes of numerous other tools such as:

1. Test management tool
2. Test design tool
3. Test execution tool
4. Data generation tool for regression and functional testing

Architecture of TOSCA

The architecture of TOSCA is composed of the following:

1. TOSCA commander: This is the test execution tool of TOSCA which can be used for the creation, administration, execution and analyzation of the test cases.
2. TOSCA wizard: This is the model building tool of TOSCA which can be used for building application model and storing related info in to modules that are essentially XML – GUI maps.
3. TOSCA executor: This TOSCA tool is responsible for the execution of the test cases and displaying the results obtained in the TOSCA commander.
4. TOSCA exchange portal: This TOSCA portal is the place where the exchange and use of the special modules, TOSCA commander components that have already been built and extensions by the customers takes place.
5. TOSCA test repository: This has been made integrated by the TOSCA is responsible for holding the assets. A number of users can access the repository at the same time.

Functionality of TOSCA

Business Dynamic Steering

- The model–driven approach is the concept behind the TOSCA commander.

- This approach focuses in making the whole test dynamic in nature rather than just making the input data dynamic. 

- You can drag and drop the modules and enter the actions and values for validation in order to create the test cases. 

- Making the whole test dynamic is of great advantage for enabling the business – based description of both the automated and manual test cases. 

- This lets the non – technical users (SMEs) to design, automate, maintain and specify the test cases.

- TOSCA supports the following technologies for automation of software tests:

1. Application development environments such as  powerbuilder and gupta.
2. Programming frameworks and languages such as .net, Delphi, WPF, visual basic and java swing/ AWT/ SWT.
3. Host applications (5250, 3270)
4. Web browsers including Mozilla firefox, opera and internet explorer
5. Single – position application programs such as MS excel and outlook
6. Key application programs including Siebel and SAP
7. Protocols and hardwares including Flash, SOAP, USB execution and ODBC

- TOSCA is supported on the following platforms:

Ø  Windows vista Service pack 2

Ø  Windows 7 (both 32 and 64 bit)

Ø  Windows XP service pack 2 and plus.

- The data bases supported are:

Ø  DB v 9.1

Ø  Oracle 10g

Ø  Microsoft SQL server 2005

- TOSCA is being used by 300 customers all over world. 

What are Selenium components?

Selenium is a portable testing frame work developed by Jason Huggins for automated testing of the web applications. It is specifically a recording and play back tool which eliminates the user’s task of learning a test scripting language. This tool makes use of its own development language popularly known as selenese.

There are 3 major platforms for selenese namely linux, windows and macintosh.

Components of Selenium

The selenium software testing frame work is composed of certain components about which we shall discuss in this article. Following are the components:

1. Selenium IDE: This the selenium’s own integrated development environment dedicated to the creation of the selenium’s tests. This component needs to be implemented as an extension to firefox. Using this IDE, the scripts can either be automatically recorded or edited manually with the help of the IDE’s auto-completion support. It also possesses the ability to quickly move the commands around. However the scripts recorded are in selenese language. This language provides commands basically for two purposes:

a)   For retrieving data from commands to know what actions are to be performed on the web browser such as clicking, linking, selecting an option and so on.

b)   For retrieving data from the result of the actions performed by the commands.

       Its features are:

     a)   Recording and playback tool

     b)   Intelligent field selection

     c)   Autocompletion

     d)   Walk through tests

     e)   Debugging and setting break points

     f)    Saving tests in a number of formats

     g)   Selenium user extension

     h)   Automatic assertion of the page title.

2. Selenium client API: It is not necessary for the tester to develop tests in selenese  only rather he can write tests in any other programming language. The tests thus written will be communicated to selenium through the calling methods provided by selenium client API. Selenium provides this client for the following languages:

   a)   Java

   b)   C#

   c)   Python and

   d)   Ruby

3. Selenium remote control or selenium RC: This component is actually a server implemented in java which retrieves commands via HTTP for a particular browser. With this selenium component it has been made possible to write automated tests regardless of the the programming language for a web application and integrating it with the unit test frame works which already exist. Selenium project comes with client drivers for the following languages in order to make writing tests and easier task:

     a)   PHP

     b)   Python

     c)   Ruby

     d)   .net

     e)   Java and

     f)    Perl

The java driver provides support for the java script also through the rhino   engine. Nowadays a new selenium remote control server is required for launching the HTML test cases which requires for a different port for each of the parallel run. This is in contrast with the PHP and java test case since these require only one continuously running selenium remote control. The selenium B and driven selenium were re-factored by Paul Hammant to develop selenium RC. This also saw the re – implantation of the wire protocol in each of the language ports. After re-factoring, an intermediate daemon processing was done between the browser and the driving test script. As a result driving remote browsers and reducing the need of porting every code statement became possible. Thus the driven selenium was completely taken over by the selenium remote control.