Automation is getting more and more required in organizations today simply because it saves QA engineers a lot of time to do regressions and allows fast feedback about the quality of the code and the product. Almost every company today has some form of software automation. Whether it is on the API or UI level, automation testing is getting more and more popular and automation engineers are in high demand. In this blog post, we will focus on UI automation…
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What is MsTest framework? MsTest framework is a unit testing framework for the ASP .NET framework that allows us to write automated tests without the help of any third-party tools or libraries. It’s one of the most useful test frameworks out there and it comes along with Visual Studio IDE by default. MsTest framework has various options like different test attributes, data-driven tests, assertion library ability to execute the tests in parallel, etc. It can be used for client-side or…
What is assertion? An assertion is a form of validation statement in the programming language which verifies if the given result or outcome is correct and valid. The purpose of using assertions in test automation is to identify if the given outcome of a particular scenario is equal to the actual outcome. In other words, checking the expected vs actual result for a test. If they are not the same then the test would fail with the failure message shown…
What is Cucumber? Cucumber is a test framework that is used for writing BDD tests for web applications in a simple English language text called Gherkin. Tests written in Cucumber can be easily read by everyone within the team whether technical or non-technical individuals. It provides some form of live test documentation that is updated regularly but in the background, there are methods that are mapped and executed with each Gherkin sentence. When BDD comes into the picture, Cucumber is…
Why do we want to test all the features that we have implemented and released? Is that really necessary and should we focus on the new features only? These are a couple of questions that were asked many times during the process of evolution of software testing in many organizations. To answer these questions we need to think about what makes our application great and how to maintain the stability of the quality of the application. In this post, we…