• Using tags to filter your Cypress tests

  This week, I have been helping my colleagues migrate our existing WebdriverIO tests to Cypress. For anyone who wants to know what Cypress is and how it's different from Selenium, check out this webinar from Gil Tayar. Anyway, while migrating some of the tests, I remembered that the existing test suite was using Cucumber tags to filter which tests are run on which test environments. Test filtering is currently a useful feature for us as we only run a subset of tests on PR environments. With the Cypress framework that we currently have, we have decided to follow the standard approach of writing the tests using Mocha as its test runner as opposed to Cucumber. While Mocha has a feature to filter its tests by using the —grep pattern, this is currently not supported within Cypress and have been requested as a new feature by their users. I didn’t really want to use the Cypress Cucumber plugin just to utilise the tagging feature so I decided to implement a simple workaround which I am planning to propose to my colleagues while I wait for Cypress to implement this feature . The first thing that I did was I created a module called test-filter.ts which basically filters your Cypress tests based on what tag or tags are provided. This accepts two parameters, the tags that you defined on your spec file and the function that will run when the tags are found. If the environment variable 'TEST_TAGS' exist, we simply split[…]

  15.12.2019 | 3:18 קרא עוד...

• Let’s Test 2019 - Africa Speaks

  A journey to Let’s Test South AfricaIn Africa the Big Five game animals are the lion, leopard, rhinoceros, elephant, and Cape buffalo. (from Wikipedia) All these are large animals. Large was my desire of speaking and teaching at conferences this year.The past 11 month of this year were very bumpy and rocky. 12 submissions - 11 rejections. This was very frustrating. I’ve put so much energy in all the papers I wrote, even had reviewed them from close friends. But it looked like my topics didn’t fit in anywhere. There where moments where I got very emotional about the feedback I received from the reviewers. Seeing workshops getting accepted from others at the very same conference on the same topic is hard and made me thinking. But I understand, reviewing abstracts and deciding which ones make it onto a program and which not, is not an easy task. But at the end let’s be honest: Putting together a conference program is like setting up the stage for a rock open-air concert, you have to have the big names on your flyer in order to sell tickets.So there are usually just a very few places left for “newcomers” or “exotic topics”. But not everything broke down. Far away in the land of the cradle of humankind lay my last hope for this year. Sometimes you win sometimes you lose. After taking several batterings in a row, I’m super happy and excited to announce that I’ll be speaking at @LetsTest_Conf SA this[…]

  15.12.2019 | 3:00 קרא עוד...

• What is Functional Testing in Software Testing?

  In layman terms, functional testing is done to test the functions of the component or system. Here, functional testing refers to the activities that verify a specific action or function of the code. Functional Testing also aims to answer the questions like “can the user do this?” or “how does this particular feature work?”  The functional testing techniques are often based on the specifications or requirements of the software. There are two main perspectives in which functional testing can be done, these are  Requirement Based Testing – In this type of testing, the main priority is given to the requirements, depending on the risk criteria and accordingly the tests are prioritized. This will make sure that even the most important and critical tests are also included in the testing process.  Business Process Based Testing – This type of testing discusses the day to day business use of the system and introduces test techniques to validate the use of system in an environment similar to that. This type of testing uses the techniques that are based on the knowledge of business processes. For instance, consider a personal joining a company. The payroll system will have the business process along the lines of the personal, i.e. paying the employee on the regular basis until the employee finally leaves the company. The post What is Functional Testing in Software Testing? appeared first on Testing Guru.

  15.12.2019 | 11:04 קרא עוד...

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