Automation Seed

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The Automation Seed project template is designed to expedite, simplify, and secure the automation of User Acceptance Testing. Pre-configured with Webdriver & Selenium and entirely containerized with Docker, it's a plug & play solution that saves time and eliminates the need for cumbersome setup and configuration. Plus, with no hardcoded system or user credentials, it's a more secure solution for your QA automation needs.

Motivation

Tired of dealing with outdated and sluggish QA automation frameworks? We were too. That's why we created this repository to solve some of the common pain points, including:

• Frameworks with outdated technologies
• Cumbersome setup and configuration
• Compatibility and configuration issues to run tests over different browsers
• Security risks such as hardcoded system or user credentials within your config files
• Limitations to support different environments with advanced CI/CD pipelines

Features

• Works out-of-the-box, a plug & play solution that eliminates the need for cumbersome setup and configuration.
• Secure! No more hardcoded system or user credentials
• Entirely containerized with Docker for seamless testing across different environments.
• Pre-configured with:
  • Webdriver & Selenium for faster and easier testing
  • Github actions for easy integration into your CI/CD pipeline
  • Support major browsers including Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge
  • Report page deployed, for test metrics and insights.
• Built with the latest technologies and entirely in TypeScript, you can reuse those libraries to write your own tests.

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Quickstart

You’ll need to have Node 16.13.2 or later on your local development machine (but it’s not required on the server). You can use fnm to easily switch Node versions between different projects.

$ git clone git@github.com:nanlabs/automation-seed.git
$ cd automation-seed
$ fnm use
$ yarn
$ yarn test --help

Dependencies

This installation guide assumes you have chocolatey for Windows, brew for Mac OS, or are running a Debian based Linux distro. Additionally, you should have FNM and yarn installed on your system.

• OpenJDK: This is an optional dependency that will be required only if you decide to run using your local capabilities. JDK is required for being able to run tests locally on your machine. The only tested and proven version is OpenJDK 11 JRE.

  • Linux: sudo apt install openjdk-11-jre-headless
  • Mac: brew tap AdoptOpenJDK/openjdk && brew install adoptopenjdk11-jre
  • Windows: choco install adoptopenjdk11jre

• NodeJS: You’ll need to have Node 16.13.2 or later on your local development machine. You can use fnm to easily switch Node versions between different projects.

• Framework Dependencies: To intall the required dependencies, set the current active directory of a terminal session to the cloned repository location and run yarn install

• Visual Studio: To be able to utilize debugging you'll need VS Code.

Executing Tests

You can specify the suites within ./config/wdio.suites.conf.ts.

Available Scripts

• yarn test:local will execute the tests using your local machine capabilities
• yarn test:remote will execute the tests using the capabilities from Selenoid - Check the section Remote Tests execution using Selenoid for more information about remote execution.
• yarn test:docker - Soon.

Execute Suite

Example:

FIREFOX=1 yarn test:local --suite ci.periodic

Execute Spec Files

Example:

FIREFOX=1 yarn test:local --spec "./test/specs/**/*.ts"

Capabilities

You can specify the following environment variables to set the capabilities you want to use:

# Will use upto one instance of chrome, upto three instances of firefox and 2 instances of safari
# locally
CHROME=1 FIREFOX=3 SAFARI=2 yarn test:local --suite ci.periodic

# Will use upto two instances of chrome and one instance of firefox in the remote server
CHROME=2 FIREFOX=1 yarn test:remote --suite ci.periodic

Environment Variables

• WEBDRIVER_LOGLEVEL: will specify the loglevel for webdriver. info by default.
• WEBDRIVER_SPEC_FILE_RETRIES: The number of retry attempts for an entire specfile when it fails as a whole. 0 by default.
• OUTPUT_DIR: if set, it will specify the directory in which we want to store all the logs. Will print the logs on the stdout by default.
• MAX_INSTANCES, CHROME, FIREFOX, SAFARI are used to specify the capabilities of the test execution.
• BROWSER_VISIBLE will execute the browser without headless mode.

Example:

FIREFOX=1
BROWSER_VISIBLE=true
export FIREFOX BROWSER_VISIBLE
yarn test:local --suite ci.periodic

Remote Tests execution using Selenoid

When using the remote execution mode it is needed to provide a url and port for a running Selenium Hub. For that we hightly recommend using Selenoid.

You can give it a try locally as follows:

yarn selenoid --start --ui # access to `http://localhost:8080` to see the Selenoid Dashboard
FIREFOX=1 yarn test:remote --suite ci.periodic

you can learn more about the selenoid script by running yarn selenoid --help.

It is possible to specify another Selenium Hub with the env variables SELENIUM_HUB_HOST and SELENIUM_HUB_PORT.

CI/CD

We have different workflows that will be used on CI/CD using Github Actions. The workflows will be executed using Selenoid so it is needed to only use the yarn test:remote script inside them:

You can go to Actions to see the list of available workflows.

For example, you can use the Custom Workflow Execution to execute any specific suite on Github Actions using Selenoid:

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Config Files

Config files are used to specify the settings for the browser, logging, reporter and other configurations. Each config is setup for a different environment with the server or local runner set and the browers to run the tests on defined.

The different configs can be found under ./config/. Each config inherits from wdio.common.conf.ts but a config property set in the main config can be overwritten in any inherited config.

Reporters

We use two different reporters in this framework. This allows to have results displayed either to the terminal used for executing tests or sent directly to GitHub Pages.

Spec

Test reporter, that prints detailed results to console and is useful for running and debugging tests locally.

Creating Tests

You can read the full documentation about how to create tests, the existing tools and design patterns we use here