Today I will do a simple demonstration in which a BDD acceptance test written in Cucumber will be combined with Selenium to perform browser automation test. If you are an automation tester you will probably enjoy this video. And if you are a manager you will learn hopefully that this kind of testing should not be used indiscriminately.
Oh, yeah before I forget. If you are a programmer, specially a new one just out of uni, please don’t read this story. Go read something else, honestly. We shouldn’t be doing browser automation. When I did this, it was just preparing a tutorial to give to some testers that wanted to learn about automation.
Companies that use this kinds of test, do it only(or should do it only) for the purpose of having a regression test harness of only of the functionality that is more important critical for them. The reason why, is because exercising the system with a test from end to end can be really costly.
If you are a manager, please take a few seconds, or few minutes if you need to look at that image of the pyramid of testing. Think of it and question yourself why the GUI tests are at the top. Remember that pyramid before you hire an army of automation testers and start automating your whole system end to end from your GUI. If after thinking about it for a while you still are not convinced go to this article of M.Fowler and hopefully you will understand what I am talking about(I just don’t have time now to elaborate, just trust me).
If you are a tester stay and watch, you will like it.
If you are a dev, stay if you want but please avoid GUI automation
If you are a manager go read Martin Fowler before you watch this
Ok so now that I went through the safety check and I have warned the audience, here is the demo. I hope you enjoy
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Originally posted at: http://javing.blogspot.com/2017/04/browser-automation-in-java-using.html
