TEST AUTOMATION FRAMEWORK FOR CERP APPLICATION USING EXTENT REPORTS

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1 International Journal of Technical Innovation in Modern Engineering & Science (IJTIMES) Impact Factor: 5.22 (SJIF-2017), e-issn: Volume 4, Issue 7, July-2018 TEST AUTOMATION FRAMEWORK FOR CERP APPLICATION USING EXTENT REPORTS PRIYA K Assistant Professor, Information Science and Engineering, MVJ College Of Engineering, Bangalore, India Abstract: Software testing is a process of executing a program or application with the intent of finding the software bugs where in you will be identifying the correctness and quality of software program. The motivation behind this product testing is to check whether the product fulfils the particular prerequisites, needs and desires for the client. The main focus in this paper is on the automation testing, wherein it simplifies the work of testers by automating the execution of test scripts with the help of automation tools like Selenium WebDriver, as a result of which the reports are generated by default, so it doesn t contain any graphical representation about the results. Hence the main idea behind this paper is to focus on the use of Extent Reports in combination with Selenium WebDriver, Maven, TestNG which gives us the graphical representation using Pie charts and customized results. IndexTerms - Automation testing, Maven, TestNG, Extent Reports I. INTRODUCTION Selenium is a free (open source) mechanized testing suite for web applications crosswise over various programs and stages. It is very like HP Quick Test Pro (QTP now UFT) just that Selenium centers around automating web-based applications. Testing done utilizing Selenium instrument is typically alluded as Selenium Testing. Selenium isn't only a solitary device however a suite of software's, each taking into account distinctive testing needs of an association. It has five segments: Selenium IDE Selenium Remote Control (RC) Selenium Grid Selenium 2.0 Selenium WebDriver Figure 1: Selenium Architecture IJTIMES-2018@All rights reserved 699

2 Selenium IDE: Is an automated testing instrument, and it is discharged as a Firefox Plug-in. It is extremely basic and simple to introduce and it is utilized to make the test scripts. This device is subject to a record and it is likewise known for altering of the recorded contents and replay sets of browser interactions as test cases. Selenium Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is the least difficult structure in the Selenium suite and is the most straightforward one to learn. It is a Firefox module that you can introduce as effortlessly as you can with different modules. In any case, on account of its effortlessness, Selenium IDE should just be utilized as a prototyping apparatus. Selenium RC or Remote Control: Selenium RC was the fundamental Selenium venture for quite a while before the Selenium WebDriver blend raised Selenium 2, the most current and all the more capable instrument. This is the primary automated web testing apparatus that enabled clients to utilize a programming language they incline toward. Selenium Grid: Selenium Grid is a server that enables tests to utilize internet browser occurrences running on remote machines. It permits the Selenium RC answer for scale for vast test suites and for test suits that must be kept running in different conditions. Distinctive tests can be kept running in the meantime on various remote machines. Selenium Grid is an apparatus utilized together with Selenium RC to run parallel tests crosswise over various machines and diverse programs all in the meantime. Parallel execution implies running numerous tests at once. Selenium WebDriver: It additionally gives a domain-specific language (Selenese/WebDriver) to compose tests in various well known programming languages, including Java, C#, Groovy, Perl, PHP, Python and Ruby. It is the freshest expansion to the Selenium toolbox. This gives all kind of magnificent highlights, including a more durable and items situated API and in addition a response to the impediment of the old implementation. The WebDriver ends up being superior to both Selenium IDE and Selenium RC in numerous perspectives. It actualizes a more current and stable approach in automating the browser's actions.. WebDriver, not at all like Selenium RC, does not depend on JavaScript for Automation. It controls the program by straightforwardly communicating with it. Selenium 2.0: The essential new element in Selenium 2.0 is the incorporation of the WebDriver API. WebDriver is intended to give a more straightforward, briefer programming interface in addition to addressing few impediments in the Selenium-RC API. It empowers you to utilize a programming dialect to compose test contents in various programming dialects like html, Java,.net, Perl, ruby and which empowers you to conditional operations, looping and other programming ideas which influences you to test contents strong. Selenium-WebDriver was produced to better help dynamic site pages where components of a page may change without the page itself being reloaded. WebDriver will probably supply a very much planned question situated API that gives enhanced help to current propelled web-application testing issues. II. TESTNG FRAMEWORK TestNG is a testing framework motivated from JUnit and NUnit yet presenting some new usefulness that make it all the more intense and less demanding to utilize. It is an open source computerized testing system; where NG of TestNG implies Next Generation. TestNG is like JUnit however it is significantly more intense than JUnit yet at the same time it's enlivened by JUnit. It is intended to be superior to JUnit, particularly when testing integrated classes. Cedric Beust is the maker of TestNG. TestNG disposes of the vast majority of the constraints of the more seasoned structure and enables the designer to compose more adaptable and intense tests with simple explanations, grouping, sequencing and parametrizing. 2.1 Advantages of TestNG There are number of advantages however from Selenium viewpoint, real favourable circumstances of TestNG are It enables to deliver HTML Reports of execution Annotations made analyzers life simple Test cases can be Grouped and Prioritized all the more effortlessly Parallel testing is conceivable Generates Logs Data Parameterization is conceivable IJTIMES-2018@All rights reserved 700

3 Test Case Writing for CERP Application Composing a test in TestNG is very basic and essentially includes following steps: Stage 1 Write the business logic of the test Stage 2 Insert TestNG annotations in the code Stage 3 Add the data about your test (e.g. the class names, methods names, group s names etc) in a testng.xml document Stage 4 Run TestNG 2.2 Annotations in TestNG Figure 2: Annotations in The annotated method will be run before all tests in this suite have The annotated method will be run after all tests in this suite have The annotated method will be run before each test The annotated method will be run after each test The annotated method is a place where execution of test case starts Advantages of utilizing Annotations It identifies the methods it is interested in by looking up annotations. Hence method names are not restricted to any pattern or format. We can pass extra parameters to annotations. Annotations are strongly typed, so the compiler will signal any errors immediately. Test classes never again need to broaden anything, (for example, Test Case, for JUnit 3). III. MAVEN Maven is a manufacture apparatus which is again a different build Tool. It is a product venture administration tool which gives new idea of project object model (POM). Maven enables the designer to mechanize the procedure of the making of the underlying folder structure, performing the compilation and testing and the packaging and deployment of the final product. It chops down the great number of ventures in build process and it influences it one stage to procedure to complete a build. IJTIMES-2018@All rights reserved 701

4 3.1 WHY MAVEN IS USED? International Journal of Technical Innovation in Modern Engineering & Science (IJTIMES) As I said above it cuts down the tasks in build process. To summarize, Maven simplifies and standardizes the project build process. It handles compilation, distribution, documentation, team collaboration and other tasks seamlessly. Maven increases reusability and takes care of most of build related tasks. It helps in bypassing my steps like adding jars to the project library, building reports, executing Junits test cases, creating Jar, files for the project deployment and many more. A very significant aspect of Maven is the use of repositories to manage jar files. MAVEN LOCAL REPOSITORY This is the place where Maven stores all the project jars files or libraries or dependencies. By default the folder name is.m2 and by default the location in windows 7 is Libraries\Documents\.m2. MAVEN CENTRAL REPOSITORY Maven Central Repository is the default area ' for Maven to download all the project dependency libraries. For any library required in the venture, Maven first look in to the.m2 organizer of Local Repository, in the event that it doesn't locate the required library then it looks in Central Repository and download the library in to nearby archive. DEPENDENCY KEYWORD Dependencies are the libraries, which are required by the project. For example Log4j jars, Apache Poi jars, Selenium Jars etc. Dependencies are mentioned in the Maven pom.xml like this: <dependencies> <dependency> <groupid>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupid> <artifactid>selenium-java</artifactid> <version>2.43.1</version> </dependency> </dependencies> SUREFIRE PLUGIN The Surefire Plugin is utilized amid the test period of the build lifecycle to execute the unit tests of an application. It creates reports in 2 diverse record designs like plain content document, xml records and html records also. Regardless of whether you are utilizing TestNG or Junits structure for reporting, this module is must to use, as it causes Maven to distinguish tests. <plugin> <groupid>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupid> <artifactid>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactid> <version>2.20</version> <configuration> <!-- Suite testng xml file to consider for test execution --> <suitexmlfiles> <suitexmlfile>testng.xml</suitexmlfile> </suitexmlfiles> </configuration> </plugin> IJTIMES-2018@All rights reserved 702

5 IV. EXTENT REPORTS International Journal of Technical Innovation in Modern Engineering & Science (IJTIMES) The automation test script which I have made was up and ran effectively. Presently its opportunity is to produce graphical representation of report. Testers frequently need to create test execution report to demonstrate the consequences of the test execution. Likewise we have to show the report which can be effortlessly justifiable to everybody by showing a few graphs. So awe your group by sending stylishly satisfying reports which has Graphical portrayal utilizing Pie Charts and customized details. 4.1 EXTENT REPORTS IN SELENIUM WEBDRIVER In automation testing, importance of reporting the results is so high. We can use this tool within our TestNG automation framework. Extent Reports is an open-source reporting library for test mechanization which can be effortlessly coordinated with all test-systems, for example, TestNG, JUnit, and NUnit and so on. These reports are high rich HTML reports. It gives results in the form of PIE charts. Utilizing Extent Reports we could create custom logs, include snapshots. We could utilize outside XML record to give additional data. We can provide below information to the report using XML file as in the figure below Report Title Report Name Report Headline Environment Information Host Name User Name Date Format Time Format Figure3: Extent report of CERP application IJTIMES-2018@All rights reserved 703

6 ADVANTAGES OF EXTENT REPORTS It provides dashboard for the entire test run Generates reports in the form of PIE Chart Allows us to append the new report with the existing report or to replace the existing report with the new report Able to change the display order of the tests (i.e., Old test at the top and Newest at the end or viceversa) Can be integrated step-wise log information in the report Feasibility to include screenshots in the report Can add information like Host Name, OS Details, Author Name, Environment Information related to the test suite execution etc., Can be customized heavily using an external config file such as Report Name, It supports testing frameworks like TestNG, JUnit, NUnit etc., PRE-REQUISITES TO GENERATE EXTENT REPORTS Java should be installed TestNG dependency should be added in pom.xml Extent Report dependency should be added in pom.xml extent-config.xml It allows to configure HTML Report STEPS TO GENERATE EXTENT REPORTS Firstly, create a java maven project in eclipse Create a TestNG class CERP and add code into it. 4.2 CODE EXPLANATION Import two classes ExtentReports and ExtentTest. ExtentReports: By using this class we set the path where our reports need to generate. ExtentTest: By using this class we could generate the logs in the report. Took three methods annotation such as passtest, failtest and skiptest and a method annotation and another method endreport annotation Here my intention is to generate a report with all the three types of results such as Pass, Fail and Skip. Used object of ExtentReports class (i.e., extent) in the startreport method which was assigned annotation to generate the HTML report in the required path Used object of ExtentTest class (i.e., logger) in the remaining methods to write logs in the report. By using this external XML file (extent-config.xml), we could change the details such as Report Theme (either standard or dark), Report Title, Document Title etc.,we use extent object and use loadconfig() method to load this xml file. Refresh the project after execution of above ExtentReportsClass.java file. You could find an HTML file named Report.html in your test-output folder. Copy the location of the Report.html file and open it by using any browser. You could see a beautiful high rich HTML reports as shown below. V. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Test automation is the best and easier demanding ways to deal with perform testing on any product. Additionally, extraordinary compared to other points of interest of test automation is that the product is reusable and all the test scripts can be reported and maintained up-to-date effortlessly. The utilization of Selenium Web driver for mechanization testing of web applications is exceptionally productive, basic and the outcomes acquired are more exact. It underpins the utilization of different instruments like the manufacture devices and so on., in integration with itself for better ease of use and precision. IJTIMES-2018@All rights reserved 704

7 In this Results and Discussion, the CERP Application has been taken to demonstrate the process of automating the modules of the CERP Application of MVJ College of Engineering. The Figure 4 below explains the Academics Module of CERP and Figure 5 explain the Students attendance module of CERP which have been automated in this paper. Figure 4: Academics module of CERP Figure 5: Report module of CERP IJTIMES-2018@All rights reserved 705

8 Figure 6: Report with all the three types of results: Pass, Fail, Skip of the Test Cases VI. CONCLUSION In this paper I have automated various Modules of CERP Application, and generated Extent Reports for the same wherein it gives the total number of test cases run, pass, fail and skip.with the extent reports you will get delightful and responsive UI. In this paper I have achieved test results in the form of graphical representation like pie charts. It is easy to use reports in which nontechnical people can understand the report easily. VII. ACKNOWLEDGMENT I hereby acknowledge and thank the authors listed in the References for the valuable information and survey statistics. REFERENCES [1] Satish Gojare, Rahul Joshi, Dhanashree Gaigaware Analysis and Design of Selenium WebDriver Automation Testing Framework Procedia Computer Science Volume 50, 2015, Pages Big Data, Cloud and Computing Challenges [2] Arjun Rana, Vinay Rishiwal An Automated Data Driven Continuous Testing Framework International Journal of Advanced Engineering Research and Applications (IJAERA) Vol. 1, Issue 3, July 2015 ISSN: [3] Nishmitha G.C, Dr. H.D. Phaneendra Implementation of Page Object Model in Selenium Automation International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer and Communication Engineering (IJARCCE) Vol. 5, Issue 5, May 2016 [4] Page-Factory Based-Selenium-Automation-Framework : Selenium-Automation-Framework [5] PageFactory : [6] POM : IJTIMES-2018@All rights reserved 706