Dennis Whalen's Test Automation blog

Running Postman Tests in an CI Pipeline

In this post I'm going to create a sample endpoint, write Postman tests for the endpoint, and create a Github workflow to run those Postman tests whenever I push changes to the repo.

Cypress

Recording a Cypress Test with Cypress Studio

Cypress Studio is tool that is packaged with Cypress, and allows you to record a Cypress test while interacting with your application.

Cypress

Automagically Retry Your Flaky E2E Tests with Cypress

End-to-end automated tests are notorious for being flaky. If you've spent some time with automated testing you've likely seen E2E tests that that are just not predictable or consistent.

Cypress

Get more detail from you Cypress API tests

The good news is that Cypress is extensible, and has a large active user community. cy-api is one of those extensions, and it puts lots of valuable API-related information at your fingertips.

Cypress

Run your Cypress Tests in a Github Workflow

In my previous Cypress posts I've walked through how to get Cypress setup and running locally. To this point I haven't talked about how to run the tests in a CI pipeline. Well that all changes today!

Cypress

Using Gherkin with your Cypress Tests

Introduction In my previous post we installed Cypress, which also installed a number of Cypress sample tests. These sample tests use the Mocha syntax. In this post I'm going to talk about how to define your tests with feature files instead of Mocha. The examples will also leverage the page

Cypress

Using Page Objects in Cypress

Introduction Page Objects is a pattern in test automation that allow the automation engineer to encapsulate the data and methods used to support automation of a page. Typically each page of the application will have an automation class that contains data, methods, and locators needed for automation of that page.

Quality Engineering

Can DEV and QA work together as one team?

This post is a little different from my typical post. It's really just a question. I'd love to get some feedback, suggestions, and discussion based on YOUR experience working with DEV and QA on agile projects. So what is the question? I've been involved with my fair share of both

Quality Engineering

Improve your Code Quality with SonarLint and SonarQube

Static code analysis is another tool you can use to ensure the quality of your code. It's different from dynamic testing, in that in that the analysis is done against your source code, without the application executing.

Cypress

API Testing with Cypress

In this post we'll talk about using Cypress to run API tests. But what is Cypress? Cypress is an open sourced JavaScript-based test automation framework that is typically used for testing web applications that leverage modern JavaScript frameworks. If you're just getting started with Cypress, you might want to check

Cypress

An Intro to Automated Testing with Cypress

As a QE automation engineer, my responsibilities typically include building both UI and API automated tests. Over the years I have worked with a number of languages, tools, and frameworks to get that job done. For UI tests, I usually work with frameworks that automate the browser via Selenium, with

Java

API Testing with Java and REST Assured - Allure reporting

In my previous posts I've walked through how to get started with REST Assured and API testing. We've setup our test endpoints and created a variety of test methods that validate those endpoints. You can find the complete code for this series of blog posts in my Github project. Up

API testing

API Testing with Java and REST Assured - Schema Validation

In my previous posts I've walked through getting started with API testing using REST Assured, and we've also created a variety of test methods to validate our API endpoints. In this post I want to focus on schema validation, so let's get started! JSON Schema JSON Schema is a JSON

Java

API testing with Java and REST Assured (and The Beatles)

In this post I want to cover some more features of REST Assured and provide examples of ways you might want to use it in your automated API testing. As a bonus, you might learn something about albums from **The Beatles**!

Java

API testing with Java and REST Assured - getting started

REST Assured is an open-sourced Java library that facilitates automated testing of API endpoints. For this post I want to walk through the steps you need to get some basic REST Assured tests up and running on your local machine.

Cucumber

Wow, that's some boring Gherkin!

One of the goals of Behavior Driven Design (BDD) and Gherkin in general is to provide a mechanism to facilitate communication between the business stakeholders and the development team.

Quality Engineering

Measuring Your Team’s Software Delivery Performance

I recently worked with an organization that was looking to make changes to their software delivery processes so they could deliver higher quality software more quickly. We used research and guidance from Google’s State of DevOps report to drive those changes.

API testing

API Testing with Postman

Postman is an HTTP client marketed to both developers and testers to support development and testing of APIs.

E2E Testing - Pulling Strings with Puppeteer

On a recent QA automation assignment my team needed to quickly build and deploy some basic UI smoke tests for an enterprise web application. After some discussion we decided to go with Puppeteer. This is my first exposure to Puppeteer and I want to share a little of what I've learned so far.

Your First Automated Mobile Test

Automated testing for web applications and mobile applications have many similarities, but the switch to mobile apps requires familiarity with some new tools.

Quality Engineering

Stop Creating a Repo For Your QA Automated Tests

QA teams can be responsible for a variety of automated test types, including UI, API, performance, and security tests. Many times, I see these automated tests in a code repository that is separate from the application code repository. Why is this a bad idea?## 1. Encourages waterfall behavior In this

Quality Engineering

Testing Non-Functional Requirements

Most agile projects today include automated functional testing within the sprints, but there are still a lot of projects that don’t start focusing on NON-functional tests until it’s time for a deployment.

Automation Framework

Data Strategies for a Test Automation Framework

When building a QA test automation framework, it's critical to define the strategy for dealing with test data. For example, what’s wrong with this scenario? Given the user successfully logs into registration system When the user searches for course number “ALG-4316” Then the course is displayed And the course

API testing

API Testing with Karate

A number of tools and frameworks exist to support automated testing of API endpoints. A relatively new player in the area is the open source tool Karate. In this post I want to review some of the basics around API testing, talk about what sets Karate apart from other tools,

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