Automation testing consists of using special tools, almost always separate from the software to be tested. It works to control the execution of tests and to be able to make a comparison between the results obtained and what is expected of them. For test runs we can include repetitive and necessary tests within a formal test process that already exists, or add tests where manual execution is difficult. Below are the general approaches that are typically used for automation testing.
Code or Code-driven Tests: Public interfaces of classes, modules, or libraries are tested with a wide variety of input arguments, and the results obtained are validated as expected.
User Interface Testing: A testing framework generates a set of user interface events, such as typing, mouse-clicking, and otherwise interacting with the software, and resulting changes in the user interface are observed, validating that the observable program’s behavior is correct.
In the case of LoadView, it is a performance testing solution that allows users to run a wide range of load or stress tests, or test types, like creating these the beginning and everything within our loadview web tool, from performance or stress tests, application tests, but also to be able to carry out and create tests from from, like unit tests of web services, or comparison of results for regression tests, etc.
Automation Testing: LoadView Advantages
The process of using this solution complies with the quality regulations in terms of operation, easy understanding and has a fairly broad and descriptive knowledge base, something very positive that helps during the process is the immediate response through chat on needs for any doubts to the technical support area, which respond clearly and effectively, which in the face of any confusion is beneficial as it allows faster progress with the installation, customization, optimization and execution of the tools. LoadView offers significant advantages when integrating and automating our tests:
- Users have full control over the final cost of each test and multiple test types to choose from when performing execution of their tests.
- Platform or interactive portal of the latest technology.
- It allows to create very complete tests of performance as well as to automate, create and edit monitors that can be running for long periods of time, configuring in these alarms and actions before any error or failure in the test load.
- It has one of the most complete scripting recording tools in the market. It not only perfectly captures all the scripts that are running at the moment, very quickly, but also allows you to carry out web image tests! This last functionality perfectly captures each area or frame or image that you want to test and should always be displayed on a web page, which is a great advantage and makes it much easier to carry out Front End tests and web design.
- Wide integration with multiple and important tools for optimization and automation of CI/CD tests such as Jenkins, third-party services such as Azure, Slack, and repositories such as Github etc.
- The most important thing is that it allows us to work or carry out tests in messaging formats such as SOAP and REST, which are the messaging companies that work with the largest number of companies worldwide in terms of web service even allowing integration with clients using AWS or cloud-based services like AZURE.
- Given that it is developed with the latest technologies in mind, this allows integration to almost any system of any client, at least the ones who work with not so deprecated technology.
- Direct email reports can be configured for each execution where the beginning and end of each process is reported, with their respective results at the moment, which is a very important functionality for important companies such as banks, insurance companies, etc.
Among many more advantages, you find a wide range of features and benefits with LoadView.
Automation Testing: Test Case
For our test automation case, we are going to use Jenkins for our example case. Integration with Jenkins is very simple, we will only need to download the latest version of Jenkins, a tool for building projects and scripts, and finally a .war file where we will run the Jenkins from our local host. We will also be utilizing the EveryStep Web Recorder to script a series of steps that will consult a CPA on an Argentine mail website.
Step 1. Create add a new web API testing integration. Account> Integrations> Add Integration> Load Testing Web API as seen in the image below.
Step 2. Download and install the LoadView plugin for Jenkins.
Step 3. Once the Jenkins plugin has been installed and customized on your local host, the LoadView credentials must be registered to proceed with the automation of tests Credentials> Add Credentials> LoadView Security Token (UID). At UID field you have to use the first step password you made.
Step 4. With the previous steps completed, we are going to configure our test scenario. In this case this will be an integrated web application test carried out with the EveryStep Web Recorder. There are a few fields where you will need to enter specific test settings.
- Scenario ID. Paste the test scenario ID you want to use in the build. You can copy the ID from the scenario page in LoadView.
- Error Threshold. This is where you can specify an acceptable percentage of sessions with errors that occurred while testing (failed to access the target resource, no keywords/image found, etc.). If the percentage of error sessions is greater than the specified value, the build will be marked as a failure in Jenkins.
- Average Time. Specify a limit for an average response time measured during test execution. If the limit is reached, the build will be marked as a failure in Jenkins.
Once we get to the final integration, it would look like this:
In the last case, the test is in an error state or failing because in order to make the satisfactory connection between LoadView and Jenkins, it currently needs that the IP is available and registered in a whitelist, which will allow you to finish the web integration process and view all the functions as the results are displayed satisfactorily for each construction or execution.
Automation Testing with LoadView: Conclusion
For this example, we have created our test from the use and integration with Jenkins test automation server case that are displayed in the previous topics, where we perfectly capture the script that is executed when we consult a CPA on an Argentine mail website. Once the test has finished, the summarized results can be found under LoadView Results in the Jenkins build menu. To review more comprehensive LoadView reports regarding the test execution details, select More Details, where you will see full summary of the test, including execution plan, average response times, session information, and any errors encountered during the test. To learn more about LoadView and the LoadView integration with Jenkins, please read our Knowledge Base article.
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