Fast and Scalable Automation Framework : “Booster”

WHITEPAPER Fast and Scalable Automation Framework : “Booster”

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Sonal Pallewar Email : [email protected] “Automation Framework” and “Why do we need a framework for test automation?”

A framework is a software solution that can be used in place of ordinary code that offers generic functions. Some of the challenges of automation are: ● Writing and maintaining test automation frameworks Booster– Linux based ● Scaling to high number of simultaneous tests in multithreaded various environments automation framework ● Reporting and analytics of large number of test results to assess test coverage and build quality ● Ease of use to extend and maintain the framework ● Rich libraries that can be leveraged for quick delivery of automation

”Booster” addresses the above challenges and is used to automate and test several web and mobile frontend applications as well as backend components by executing hundreds of simultaneous tests.

Booster is a best-ﬁt Linux based multithreaded automation framework that is fast, scalable and easily extensible. Booster also has readily available rich web, mobile, Linux libraries that can be leveraged to quickly build product speciﬁc tests without investing much time in interaction with web and mobile UI interfaces.

1 Need of Booster framework

Linux Based Booster is a Linux based framework

Supports remote execution of web tests Supports remote execution of tests in target environments with the help of paramiko python library.

Supports frontend and backend automation Consists of a rich set of Selenium, mobile and Linux libraries

Selenium Grid Supports serial and parallel execution of tests, Multi-platform support i.e. Windows, Linux and Multi-browser support i.e. Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari and also supports headless browser

Integration with CI tools Booster supports integration with Jenkins and Bamboo

2 Web Interface to manage automation suites and report test results Rich web Interface to centrally deﬁne and manage test automation. The user interface helps end users to quickly deﬁne test environments, test suites and execute tests quickly.

Containerized Deployment Easy to deploy Booster

Support for Python 3.x Booster upgraded from Python 2.7 to 3.5 addressing issues like Print statement, HTMLTestRunner had to be made compatible with respect to screenshot attachment in execution reports in case of failure, Unicode/Decode conversions, syntaxes and deprecated support for some dictionary functionalities, handled iterable objects instead of lists, handled NameError for xrange

Future Enhancements

WEB PERFORMANCE TESTING

API TEST AUTOMATION

3 Tools & Technology

Platform – Ubuntu Programming Language – Python_3.5

Multi-threading using Python thread library

UI – HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Test Data – json Django Template

Backend – Apache Tomcat, Database – MySQL Selenium Grid

4 Booster Architecture

Conﬁgurations Testdata

Conﬁg Testdata Loader Database

TESTDATA

Logs

Test Scripts

EXECUTE TEST SUITES

Selenium Grid Appium

Reports

Test Runner

TEST EXECUTOR

5 By Design

6 7 About AFour Technologies

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