In an earlier post I set how to use Specflow to test SOAP endpoints but what about REST API’s? Given the nature of building URLs to interact with them it should be a cinch!… And it was. By leveraging use of the RestSharp library I was easily able to manipulate an example Rest interface over at http://www.thomas-bayer.com/sqlrest/. So lets have a look at […]
Specflow Reports with NUnit3
BDD C# NUnit Specflow TeamCity Test ReportingThis post will look at setting up Specflow reports to work with NUnit3. When you install Specflow via NuGet, there is a tools folder which contains specflow.exe – if we run a batch process after the build on the CI server which points to the NUnit3 TestResult.xml, then we can generate a report and reference it as an artefact in […]
Recording Videos of your Selenium Tests
C# Selenium Specflow Test Reporting Visual StudioIt is good practice to take a screen grab of test failures and review them later, particularly if you have some bizarre wait or timeout error that can be difficult to pin down but sometimes even these can lead you down the wrong path or not give enough context to what went wrong. This led me to explore being able […]
API Testing with Specflow
BDD C# Headless Specflow UncategorizedI’m a big fan of Specflow/ Cucumber, it’s great for creating tests to run against a front end with webdriver but what if we want to keep that same plain English BDD approach and apply it against an API for automated API Testing? It’s certainly possible and this article will cover the basics to get you up and running. I […]
Data Driven Specflow Testing
BDD Gherkin Specflow UncategorizedWhat is it? Specflow has a plugin called Specflow + Excel to allow you to hoard data in a spreadsheet and run tests using the data contained within. Example Download Specflow + Excel from Nuget into your solution. Write a normal looking Scenario Outline such as below and notice that there are no items in the example table and also […]
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There are lots of good reasons to be running a Selenium grid in cloud or Kubernetes containers: It's less maintenance, it's faster with more reliable network hopping, it's self healing and it can auto scale. The post Selenium Grid with Azure Kubernetes appeared first on Test Techie. [...]
Accessibility can seem a bit of a tricky subject. For example there are a whole bunch of compliance levels like ADA, WCAG (A, AA, AAA), Section 508, AODA & CVAA – all different laws and guidelines around accessibility. WCAG is probably the best known of these, government services here in the UK for example are required to reach WCAG 2.1 […] The post Axe Accessibility Testing appeared first on Test Techie. [...]
A slight departure from the usual testing related stuff, awhile ago I made a chat bot service in Azure in a fleeting attempt to dip my toes into AI based tech. The below is a hopefully faithful recreation of how I did it, I really wish I documented it at the time. Make a QNA Service in Azure To get […] The post Creating a chat bot with Microsoft Cognitive Services appeared first on Test Techie. [...]
There are many visual testing tools out there these days. Previously I have covered Applitools which without a doubt is great product with awesome people who contribute a lot to the testing community. I have also looked at Galen which is a more of a DOM layout tester. In this article we will have a look at BackstopJs, which is […] The post Visual testing with BackstopJs appeared first on Test Techie. [...]
You probably already get some kind of metrics out of your tests, whether you get stats from your build, Specflow reports and other build artefacts. This article will show you how to send your data to ElasticSearch and visualise the stats with it’s sister product Kibana. There are several alternative ways you can achieve the same thing here, you may […] The post Visualising test data with ElasticSearch & Kibana appeared first on Test Techie. [...]