Vivek Kumar

Hi. This is, uh, Vivek Kumar. I have total of 12 years of experience into automation function and manual, uh, testing. Out of 12 years, I have 9 years of, uh, experience in early into automation testing using various tools like Selenium with Java, WebDriver with TypeScript, Cypress. And, uh, currently, I'm working with, uh, Mercer India Private Limited. Here, uh, my current role is to, um, automate a web UI, which is developed in Angular JS. And, uh, there for the same reason, we are using the, uh, Node JS based framework, which is WebDriver IO using TypeScript. For the CICD purpose, we are using Jenkins, and for code management purpose, we are using, uh, Git and GitHub. And for test management purpose, we are using Jira. Also sorry. Also, for, uh, nonfunctional testing, uh, like, for performance testing, we are using JMeter. We are creating our scripts in JMeter and running those scripting Blazemeter, uh, like, on cloud.

Okay. So synchronization issues can be fixed with the with the help of, uh, the functionality provided by Selenium, uh, which is, uh, explicit weights. So we have 2 type of explicit weights. Uh, 1 is web driver weight, and the other one is fluent weight. So using, uh, those waits, we can handle the, you know, synchronization issues in, uh, web driver scripts. So, uh, for implicit wait, uh, we are, like, uh, putting expected condition on a particular element. And for a fluent wait, we are, uh, we are setting up a time, uh, you know, to check for the element, uh, visibility or presence of element in regular interval of time. So you can say we are using the polling in fluent weights.

Okay. So, uh, test data, uh, to a Selenium script can be provided, uh, like, you know, uh, through various ways. So if you're using the data driven framework, then your data, uh, should come from any other external files. That would be any, uh, text file, uh, Excel file, or maybe, uh, DB connection you can create. And, uh, for further, like, if you are using a Cucumber b a d based framework, then you can, uh, use, uh, test data directly into your feature files, uh, by putting, uh, examples or scenario outlines. Uh, you can pass the test data.

Okay. So, uh, for that, we need to implement page object, uh, model design pattern so that, uh, we need to have a minimal changes on, uh, on the locator part of our applications. So that that will be that will make your, uh, framework as, uh, stable. And, uh, also, you need to, um, uh, implement some utilities. Uh, if there's some common utilities with respect to your application is there, you can implement, uh, those so that, uh, as your application, uh, grows, uh, you can, uh, you know, handle those, uh, changes, uh, you know, uh, efficiently.

Okay. So if you have APIs, uh, in, uh, like, in your project to be tested, we can implement a rest assured framework with the Java, uh, to, uh, you know, uh, automate your, uh, API testing. So, uh, so, like, selenium in specifically selenium, there's no nothing, uh, related to API testing. Selenium is only for, uh, web, uh, automation, but we can use, uh, rest assured, uh, framework to, uh, test our RESTful APIs.

How to integrate how to integrate performance testing within your Selenium test suite? Okay. So, like, Selenium is made of 4, uh, components, um, offering different performance testing and automation features for web browsers, like, uh, Selenium remote control, we can, uh, use, and maybe Selenium grid, uh, we can use. Uh, also, like, uh, for performance testing, we have a JMeter and Selenium that can be used together for load testing of a website. Uh, so Selenium is used to, like, perform load testing, and JMeter is used to measure performance, uh, testing. Uh, once you measure, like, how fast HTML pages take to load and also check JavaScript and CSS performance. So, uh, like, we can use, uh, the graphical Jmeter interface and some scripting to invoke Selenium code, uh, to, you know, uh, do the, uh, testing.

Review this API scores. They cannot could result in pro to check this to do a status code. Response code is dot get. Response dot status code. What would you suggest to improve the check for the HTTP status code? Okay. So it should, like, you know, it should always return 200. So we can add another assertion or condition so that it doesn't return any other code than like, 200 ones. So we can, like, uh, put the kind of health check status. Like, that is 200 only. I believe it should not return any other code than, like, uh, 2xx. So I think that we can check.

Mistake is made here considering such a human and given the user on the login page when the user enters a relationship, then the user should be redirected to the dashboard and should see that too much. But when the user click log out, then the user should be redirected to login page. Okay. So I think, uh, in place of but we can, uh, use when again. The rest I I feel it is, uh, good.

Describe an optimal approach for creating a scalable and untenable test framework using Selenium and Jenkins. And describe optimal approach for getting a scale and a minimal test framework using Selenium and Jenkins. Okay. So, uh, so, uh, suppose we have created a 2 cumber b r d framework, uh, in, uh, selenium, and, uh, we we want that, uh, those tests to be run, uh, as soon as there's a deployment on our, uh, on our test, uh, environment. So to to automate that process, what we can do, uh, so suppose there is a one job which is deploying some code to your test environment, so, uh, we'll make that job as a upstream job, and, uh, uh, then we'll create a Jenkins job, which is a test job. We'll, uh, mark that job as a downstream job. So we will, uh, create, uh, like, Jenkins script, which will, uh, identify once the deployment of upstream job is successful, then trigger our test job automatically. So, uh, so in that job, we can add add, um, like, we can create that job like, we can configure that job in such a way so that, uh, you know, uh, in post build actions, we get a report, uh, on our emails, and we get to know what is the, uh, result of our, uh, test, uh, so which has executed. So we can we also can like, yes. We need to configure it with the git, uh, GitHub in, uh, git section of Jenkins. Then in, uh, build section, we need to pass, uh, like, which file we want to embed. So suppose if it is a framework using Maven or test NG, so we can invoke the dot XML file, uh, using Maven options in, uh, uh, build actions. And post build action, we can configure how the reporting should be. Uh, so and once that test is done, so who, uh, who are the people should receive the report or the status of execution?

How could you employ manual testing skill to complement your automation strategy when using? How could you employ manual testing skills to complete? Okay. So, uh, so I believe, like, uh, manual flow of your application or manual, uh, you know, manual testing, you need to have knowledge of that unless you won't be able to, uh, you know, effectively complete your automation process. So, um, whenever you are creating any automation framework, so you need to understand the manual flow of your application so that in in your automation, uh, code as well, you can put that flexibility, uh, like, uh, and, also, you can optimize your code with respect to, uh, the, you know, application flow. So suppose there's a there's a end, uh, test case which you are validating, and for that, you already have, uh, created a test data. Okay? But that test data in some other script. But you know that that particular test data is, uh, like, you know, applicable to the other test which you are testing. So, uh, you need to separate the, uh, you can say, the test data from your, uh, you know, test cases so that that common test data can be used at multiple, uh, script. So that kind of knowledge, you'll only get from manual, manual testing skill.

Do take to use Jenkins as part of BDD strategy with Selenium? What approach would you take to use Jenkins as a part of PDD strategy? Jenkins' CIC tool and BDD views in Cucumber. And we we can have that, uh, like, you know, connection. Like, BDD can be connected to Jenkins using framework only. So I'm I'm not sure about, uh, on this.