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Learning Software Testing with Test Studio

By : Rawane Madi
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Learning Software Testing with Test Studio

By: Rawane Madi

Overview of this book

Test Studio is Telerik's QA solution for automating your manual testing. With Test Studio's standalone edition or Visual Studio plugin, you can rule out the possibility of unreliable test execution and UI recognition, non indicative test results and reports, dispersed test repository, low code coverage, and unaffordable learning curves. With no code, this tool provides an intuitive IDE to effortlessly create maintainable tests. If you are looking for a solution to automate testing for your web, desktop, or mobile application, you can now benefit from Test Studio's rich automation features. "Learning Software Testing with Test Studio" will illustrate how to reliably automate test cases when it is time to relinquish manual testing habits. This book is all about less theory and more hands-on examples to present a complete manual and automated solution for your ASP .NET, WPF, Silverlight or iOS apps. This book gets you started directly with automation in Test Studio by exploiting its recording powers through series of concrete test cases built around the equipped applications. Each chapter starts with a typical automation problem which is then approached using Test Studio specialized automation features. You will learn how to create record and playback functional, performance, and load tests. Furthermore, we will see how to insert verification steps, logical constructs, convenient logging operations, and how to convert test scripts in order to implement keyword and data-driven architectures. To endow your tests with additional flexibility, each recorded automation feature will be approached from its coded perspective through the usage of the underlying ArtOfTest Test Studio automation library. This book also illustrates how Test Studio can automate pre-conditions, test result inputting, and the capturing of system states during manual test case execution in order to keep the tester's attention focused on the important details.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Learning Software Testing with Test Studio
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Automation element recognition


As the proverb says, "A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.". In automation, no matter how smartly you devise your tests the element recognition mechanism can still break test execution. Hence, one of the factors for making automated tests robust is the capability to induce unique element identification at runtime. You will not be able to guarantee stable and reliable test executions unless you build a flexible and valid element repository.

In addition to carefully crafting the element's recognition logic, the long term aim is to have the logic behind these elements centralized in one place. This will boost test maintainability and increase the automation return on investment.

The material in this chapter is the common ground for automating any test using Test Studio. The element recognition topic is going to be tackled from its different sides to enable comprehensive decisions when storing elements.