Monday, August 22, 2016

vodQA Pune - Less Talk, Only Action - Agenda, Abstract and workshop pre-requisites

vodQA-Pune - Less Talk, Only Action!

When? - Saturday, 27th Aug 2016, 8.30am - 5.30pm


Where? 

ThoughtWorks, Pune 
6th Floor, Binarius Building, 
Beside Sales Tax Office, Shastrinagar, Yerawada 
Pune, Maharashtra 411006 

Map: http://goo.gl/maps/KfuJG


What?

vodQA Pune - Less Talk, Only Action! 
- Registration - 8.30am- 9.15am
- Welcome note - 9.15am


Agenda


Abstracts


1. Automating Web Analytics - Why? How?

Do you know –
What is Web Analytics?
How does Web Analytics work?
Why is it important? How to test Web Analytics?
How can we ensure correct data is sent to the Web Analytics server, every time, for all the actions?


Attend this workshop to learn ‘What is Web Analytics?’ and why it is an extremely important aspect of Software Development & Testing for your product / service to succeed!


We will share some techniques for testing Web Analytics - in a non-automated way - and why that is very challenging and error-prone.


We will learn, via hands-on activity, about WAAT - Web Analytics Automation Testing Framework (https://essenceoftesting.blogspot.com/search/label/waat) - an open-source solution, to automate validation of correct information / tags being sent to the Web Analytic server for different user actions as part of your regular Selenium-WebDriver Test Automation Framework.


Lastly, we will see how the impact of Analytics has changed dramatically with more adoption and spread of IoT (Internet of Things) and Big Data, and what we need to do to be part of the change, if not influencers of change!

Pre-Reqs:

  • JDK 1.8
  • IDE (Eclipse / IntelliJ Idea / etc.)
  • Git
  • Firefox browser compatible with Selenium v2.53.1 (v46)
  • Also refer here for steps to run Appium tests using WAAT

2. Performance testing with Gatling for Beginners

Gatling is a server side performance testing tool. This workshop aims at giving introduction to Gatling and facilitating participants to write their first performance tests using Gatling.
> Brief intro to Gatling
> Using Postman to check stub server(created using mountebank for workshop)
> Write a sample test using gatling (pre set up machines are provided)

Pre-Reqs:
  • Participants should know at least one programming language well (Gatling tests are written in Scala. But participants need not know Scala)
  • Prior knowledge of what 'Performance testing is?' would help.

System requirements:

  • Homebrew (Package Manager for Mac)
  • Java 8
  • Gradle
  • Intellij IDE(Add Scala plug in)


3. Game of Test Automation

We are going to use a game to work out the WHY, WHAT and HOW of test automation within the context of consumers, application, skillset, mindset, etc.

Pre-Reqs: None


4. Security Testing - Operation Vijay

It is now the days of the web. All businesses move their applications online for their customers to use.
Many of these applications contain critical data of the customers such as credit card details, their personal details and so on. These data are very valuable. If these data fall in the wrong hands, they can have disastrous consequences.
Attacks on these systems can destroy the trust that the customers have for the business, they can cause great losses to the customers as well as the business, and so on.
The motivation behind attacks could be different like earning money, earning popularity, destroying a competitor company, etc.
No matter what the intention of the attack is, we need to develop safe applications and we need to know the various vulnerabilities and the consequences of our decisions when we develop applications.
Similarly, we should be aware of the various vulnerabilities before we test the applications so that we can try and exploit it during the testing phase and ensure better quality and safer applications.

Pre-Reqs:
  • Java
  • Modern Browser like Firefox/Chrome



5. Automate your Mobile tests with Appium

Introduction to Appium.
Appium design for Android and iOS
How to locate elements on android and iOS applications(Inspector).
Hands-on code snippet for android and iOS(Wordpress as sample app)
Generating reports (ExtentReports)
Evolve code snippet written above into a Page Object Framework.

Pre-Reqs:
  • IntelliJ
  • Java 1.8
  • MAVEN
  • Node
  • Adb - android debug bridge
  • Appium installed through node(npm install -g appium). Once the installation goes well. Hit command “appium” without quote and you should see Welcome message from appium.
  • Download & install Virtual Box from here
  • Download the basic version on Genymotion Android Emulator from here
    • Make sure you chose the basic version which is free for use(Go to individual tab).
    • You will be asked to create account with Genymotion before downloading the Genymotion package/installer
    • Confirm your account by pressing the link sent to your registered email id
    • Once you download, install Genymotion Android Emulator by following the instructions here
    • Once you install, open/start Genymotion and click on Add(+) link to add a new virtual device and press Signin and login
    • Select Android Version 6.0.0 and Device model Google Nexus 5 or 6. For more details follow the instruction mentioned here
    • Select from available option, Press Next and wait till download finishes.
    • Press start button & you should see emulator running.


6. Increase Automation to REST


What are web services and why we use them?
How to test a web service in multiple ways?
Increased familiarity with automation
Tools used : rest client, postman (mention alternatives), unirest JAVA and requests python

Pre-Reqs:
  • IntelliJ
  • MAVEN
  • CHROME and POSTMAN

7. Let's cook Cucumber


In this workshop we will be covering:
  • Advantages of BDD through cucumber example.
  • Framework setup along with JAVA and Selenium.
  • Writing one end to end test case in real world.
  • If time permits - will be covering basic Refactoring

Pre-Reqs:

  • IntelliJ
  • Java 1.8
  • Maven
  • Firefox 46

8. Mobile Automation using Espresso

Pre-Reqs:
  • Ensure you have Java 7 or beyond, installed on your box. If not you can download it from here 
  • Download & install Virtual Box from here
  • Download and install Android Studio from here
  • Also kindly download the android command line tools from the above link.
  • If you open android studio, it will ask you download & setup Android API and build tools which is useful for debug & compile our apps so please follow the steps. Ensure you have following things installed before you come for workshop and downloading it takes lot of time. 
    • Android SDK build-tools v23.0
    • Android API 5.0 or above
    • Install Android Support library from Extras. 
    • Please google in case of any issues while installing SDK
  • Download the basic version on Genymotion Android Emulator from here
    • Make sure you chose the basic version which is free for use(Go to individual tab).
    • You will be asked to create account with Genymotion before downloading the Genymotion package/installer
    • Confirm your account by pressing the link sent to your registered email id
    • Once you download, install Genymotion Android Emulator by following the instructions here
    • Once you install, open/start Genymotion and click on Add(+) link to add a new virtual device and press Signin and login 
    • Select Android Version 6.0.0 and Device model Google Nexus 5 or 6. For more details follow the instruction mentioned here
    • Select from available option, Press Next and wait till download finishes.
    • Press start button & you should see emulator running.
    • You’re all set for the event. ðŸ˜ƒ

Thursday, August 18, 2016

Agenda published for vodQA Pune - Less Talk, Only Action!

The agenda for the upcoming vodQA Pune - Less Talk, Only Action! is now published.


NOTE: For this event, we will require the participants to get their laptops (and chargers).


When? 

Saturday, 27th Aug 2016, 8.30am - 5.30pm


Where? 

ThoughtWorks, Pune 
6th Floor, Binarius Building, 
Beside Sales Tax Office, Shastrinagar, Yerawada 
Pune, Maharashtra 411006 


Map: 

http://goo.gl/maps/KfuJG


What?

vodQA Pune - Less Talk, Only Action! 
- Registration - 8.30am- 9.15am
- Welcome note - 9.15am


Topics covered: 

This vodQA will focus on hands-on activities. We are setting up a bunch of workshops for participants, please keep a watch for details and pre-requisites required for the workshops.

We will publish the agenda very soon in vodQA groups on 
Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/groups/vodqa/) and 
LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/groups/4281359)

NOTE: For this event, we will require the participants to get their laptops (and chargers).

Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Sharing the pain in Automating with Protractor & WebDriver

As mentioned in my earlier post titled "Taking Protractor to the next level", on 25th June 2016, Nikitha Iyer and I spoke in Selenium Conference 2016, Bangalore, India on "Sharing the pain in Automating with Protractor & WebDriver".

The video is finally available and I am now able to share (see below) all the details of the talk from one post.



Abstract

There is a saying ..."Sukh baatne se badhta hai, dukh baatne se kam hota hai", translated as - "happiness increases & sadness reduces on sharing with others".

We want to take this opportunity to share with our experiences - the good and the bad, in the journey of building a Test Automation framework for an AngularJS based application. 

We will learn, by a case study, what thought process we applied on the given context (product, team, skills, capabilities, long term vision) to come up with an appropriate Test Automation Strategy. This Test Automation strategy covered all aspects of Test Automation - Unit, Integration, UI - i.e. End-2-End tests (E2E).

Next, we will share how we went about narrowing-down, and eventually selecting a specific Tech Stack + Tools (Javascript / Jasmine / Protractor / Selenium-WebDriver) to accomplish the Test Automation for the product.

Lastly, we will share the challenges that came up in the implementation of the Test Automation, and how we overcame them. This will also include how we managed to get the tests running in Jenkins - a Continuous Integration tool. 
This discussion is applicable to all team members who are working on Test Automation!

P.S. We will be attempting to make a sample protractor-based automation framework available on github for anyone to use as a starting point for setting up protractor-based Test Automation framework.


Slides




Video

Friday, August 5, 2016

vodQA Pune - Less Talk, Only Action!

Very happy to announce the next edition of vodQA - 'Less Talk, Only Action!' with focus on hands-on activities

You are required to register & submit for this vodQA edition by filling in the below google form - https://goo.gl/forms/We3002DOlkQXmPsN2

There are limited seats for the workshops, available on first-come-first-served basis. 

NOTE: For this event, we will require the participants to get their laptops (and chargers).


When? 

Saturday, 27th Aug 2016, 8.30am - 5.30pm


Where? 

ThoughtWorks, Pune 
6th Floor, Binarius Building, 
Beside Sales Tax Office, Shastrinagar, Yerawada 
Pune, Maharashtra 411006 


Map: 

http://goo.gl/maps/KfuJG


What?

vodQA Pune - Less Talk, Only Action! 
- Registration - 8.30am- 9.15am
- Welcome note - 9.15am


Topics covered: 

This vodQA will focus on hands-on activities. We are setting up a bunch of workshops for participants, please keep a watch for details and pre-requisites required for the workshops.

We will publish the agenda very soon in vodQA groups on 
Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/groups/vodqa/) and 
LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/groups/4281359)

NOTE: For this event, we will require the participants to get their laptops (and chargers).

Agenda will be published soon.