How to setup Automation Testing Framework?

Hi,

     I'm going to test web application from the scratch development by writing selenium webdriver script. Before that, I have to setup the automation testing framework.

So, please help to form the automation testing framework using selenium webdriver.

What are the things I have to do?

Guide me please..

Thanks in advance

You have to decide on the following before setting up automation:

1. Is your application web based application? Selenium is appropriate for web based applications. 
1. Language in which you will code, JAVA/Python/Ruby/c#, JAVA is most comfortable if you already know the language.
2. Are you going to support all browsers, chrome, Firefox, IE?

Go to http://docs.seleniumhq.org/download/
Go to Selenium Client and WebDriver Language Bindings 
     Download the appropriate language webdriver.
Extract then into a folder.
Add these jar files to your automation project in Eclipse (if you are using Eclipse for build environment)

Go thru online tutorial on web driver there are plenty available for free.

Good luck!










     

Thank you for your valuable reply.

As you said, I'm familiar with Selenium WebDriver + Java and adding respective jars so and so....

As of now, I have not worked in any web based applications from the scratch.

But now, I got the opportunity to work with web applications which is going to be started soon.

So, as a Automate Tester, need to setup the Automation Testing Framework is it?

I don't know how to start, what are things needs to do etc?

Please guide me from the beginning for setting up automation environment...

Thanks again

hi,

If you have already worked with selenium and JAVA for automation, you are in a better position.

In order to come up with a framework for your automation, person from outside the project cannt
do much, as we will not know what your software is doing.

I can give you an example: 
Suppose your software is interacting with social networks(say Twitter, Lin, Facebook)
you will have to verify if the post has been received and clicking on it will result in
something else.

In this case, you may have to use twitter / facebook/ Linkedin APIs to access the timeline.

So now you may have to think about helper classes and adapter classes. helper classes
will help you call the APIs of twitter/FB/Lin and adapter classes will actually call the 
twitter apis which will connect to twitter a/c and extract information.

This is only one small part of a huge automation framework.
You have to list down what all things you can automate in the first place.

Hope this helps
Hema