We are looking at cucumber for our automation test framework because everyone including business people can understand it.
We use Angualr JS frontend and Java REST backend. Our team that is going to write the step definitions likes Ruby so we want to stick with Ruby for that.
Also we would like to use Maven to tie this process into our build process.
Will cucumber be a good fit given that story above ?
Hui Peztherez, from my prospective cucumber is a great choice, using it with the same architecture expect for Angular.
We are using Maven too, and it's so useful to orchestrate them with Jenkins, using maven to run the tags..
mvn test -Dcucumber.options="--tags #smoke"
ref: https://cucumber.io/docs/reference/jvm
Also Jenkins have several plugin to report the Cucumber Analysis, so useful for testers, and in the end, we are now working about the HPQ server integration with a plugin called Bumblebee (this part is still under development for both sides, our and bumblebee)
Another good choice is Ruby, you can take the step definition so easily defined with Ruby...
We also have a integration with Selenium for the front end side, and it works as well...
So go further!
We are using Cucumber in Java with gradle in past, It was in Maven and It works fine. We have framework for UI and API, In UI we used WebDriver to write step definition and In API, We used RestAssured to write step definition. You can do same thing in Java what you can do in Ruby.
Maven for Java Cucumber :
http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/info.cukes/cucumber-java/1.2.4 - Please add other dependency as per requirement.
Jenkin Plugin : https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Cucumber+Reports+Plugin
Will cucumber be a good fit given that story above ?
- Yes It is good fit. I will request you to show POC(Proof of concept) to management. I had experience in past that management have no clue about BDD and they have very hard to time to understand coverage. We did very deep dive to provide all information to them. It is very important to answer following question to management
BDD report is providing accurate test converage idea to management ?
Everyone in team is able to write feature file and able to provide same quality of feature file
Feature file and BDD report will be starting tool for check test converage
Thank you.
Please be aware that Cucumber is a BDD framework that can be used on top of a browser automation framework like Selenium WebDriver/Watir/Protractor they are two distinct things. Most of them implements Selenium WebDriver's protocol.
My only concern is for you using Maven in that project setup, I know that you can run ruby code in a JVM by using JRuby. But I'm not sure which plugin you'd use to trigger that from Maven.
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Iam using Selenium Cucumber Maven framework with Junit. How can we run cucumber feature files in parallel from Command line. I am very thankful if you guys help me. Please help me with a solution.
Have a look at this article https://automationrhapsody.com/running-cucumber-tests-in-parallel/
First of all you need to write (or generate) runner classes for each feature file. Next configure the maven-surefire-plugin to run tests in parallel. If you are using maven-failsafe-plugin look at https://maven.apache.org/surefire/maven-failsafe-plugin/examples/fork-options-and-parallel-execution.html for the configuration.
Be careful in which setup you run the tests. I would recommend you to setup a selenium grid with one master and multiple slaves to avoid hardware restrictions and of course concurrency issues.
We use Cucumber with selenium in a maven project to automate our functional tests and Jenkins for the continuous integration,
Now we start to use AngularJS front-end in the project
I'm not sure if it's a good idea to start using Protractor ?
if yes how can we use'it in the same maven project along side with cucumber?
Protractor is not java based. You need to use Javascript/nodejs in order to run Protractor. Normally in nodejs, there are separate task runners or build tools, such as Grunt/Gulp/Webpack. There might be a way you can leverage to run protractor with maven: https://github.com/greengerong/maven-ng-protractor
IMHO if your application is pure angular application, protractor can provide you some level of conveniences, if your application is in the middle of migration, I rather stay with what you have right now, to me, it doesn't provide much business value on migration from selenium to protractor.
I have a system thats highly reliant on various web APIs. I would like to run my API specific tests at least once per day to make sure all API's are still playing nicely and alive. I have a set of unit tests (just plain rb files that test API calls for expected data) and would like to run these every 24 hours. If something breaks, I would like to take an action (e.g. email or sms me).
How best to setup automated Ruby tests and parse the result? Can I just setup a cron job to handle the .rb files? How would I take an action and detect programmatically if the tests are failing? Maybe there is some kind of continuous integration solution for RUby that can handle this?
I've just gone through the process of setting up Hudson CI as my integration server, using this amazing tutorial from Dr. Nic. It installs through a gem, coming pretty much preconfigured, and was extremely simple to get working.
I'm using rspec and cucumber, and Hudson runs all tests when it sees a new commit on my git repository. If all tests pass, it merges the code into my master branch. If any test fails, it holds its horses and sends me an email.
EDIT:
I also want to give ten thumbs up to the ChuckNorris plugin for Hudson. Agile doesn't get better than pair programming with Walker, Texas Ranger.
Ruby has Test::Unit built-in, RSpec, ZenTest, shoulda, cucumber and probably many more tools to help test. Being built-in, Test::Unit is used a lot and is the target to be beaten by the other tools.
ZenTest and RSpec can do continuous testing: You make a change and save a file and they'll see it and run the test suite. I like that because then I know the state of things right away.
I haven't used cucumber, but have used the rest. I heard cucumber's emphasis is on integration testing but that might have been the commenter's feelings rather than by design of the developers. The list of tutorials for cucumber is interesting browsing. In particular there's webrat: Automated Acceptance Testing with RSpec or Cucumber.
Any of these could be wired up with cron to run periodically; Just treat them as you would any other set of command-line apps.
It should be easy to tie in web-testing too, but you'll have to identify the gems/modules needed and write the glue code. I haven't had need for such a beast as I'd go at it using Mechanize and/or one of the other HTTP gems plus Nokogiri to ransack the pages.
Is there a facility similar to SeleniumGrid that I can use to run webrat (or other, similar framework) browser automation tests in parallel across a farm of coordinated agents?
Coordinated via TeamCity with rake?
Edit: We're looking at using cucumber+webrat to do functional and acceptance testing as described in Testing ASP.NET Web Applications
I've worked on just this project actually. If you're working on rails, check out http://github.com/sgrove/spec_storm . It's only setup to run rspec + selenium tests in parallel, but it can be extended to others depending on the demand. And of course if you have any questions, I'm more than happy to help out. The more people using it, the happier I am :D
I'm interested in using the Lightweight Testing Automation Framework (LTAF) to create integration tests for my web application. However, I need it to be run on the build server. Does anyone know if this can set up to do this?
There does not seem to be a whole lot of information on the web on this right now :-)
There's a blog post (Lightweight Test Automation Framework – Automated Build Support) that describes how to implement the runner as a console application, it can then be integrated into a build server fairly simply by redirecting the build output and setting the return code appropriately.
The author posted the code used in the article, you can download it from here.
I don't have experience with LTAF, but found this nice article:
First steps with Lightweight Test Automation Framework
Quoting the author (Steve Sanderson, from the comments):
Lightweight Test Automation Framework
can be invoked with query string
parameters (to specify which tests to
run) and can emit a log of the results
to a text file, so it would be
possible to integrate it. However,
this is certainly not as easy as using
Selenium RC which as you say works
through a traditional test runner.