Why this post? At Qxf2, we use Mailchimp to send out our weekly newsletter. We have been following pairing activity every week to fill up our newsletter template in Mailchimp and schedule the newsletter. To fill the template, the paired-up team had to look at various resources to come up with articles for various sections, which is tedious so we […]
Automation newsletter generation in Mailchimp
XRAY server version Integration with Jira for behave BDD
Why this post XRAY is a Test management plugin for Jira. This plugin helps you automate your complete testing process. Also, it has easy integration with BDD which is something we have implemented at our client. There are server and cloud versions of XRAY. This article talks about simple methods which we implemented to get XRAY Server integration done with […]
Exploratory Testing using Chrome Extension
This post is for those who do a lot of exploratory testing. Exploratory testing is an important part of the agile environment, it helps testers to keep up with rapid development. It’s considered a phase where tester learns, does test design, and executes it simultaneously. This article helps the tester by highlighting how using a plugin from chrome called “Exploratory […]
How to run Qxf2 framework tests in parallel using pytest-xdist plugin
In this blog, we will show you how easily Qxf2’s page object model framework can be run in parallel using pytest-xdist plugin. As pre-requisite, Fork, and clone our framework. Follow the Readme.md and set up the framework. To run GUI tests in the framework parallel use the below command. As we have only 3 GUI tests I have passed 3 […]
Email your pytest results as html report
We have noticed that sometimes we want to see test results in our email inbox even though good reporting tools are being used. We at Qxf2 Services, use pytest as our test runner. A simple utility email_pytest_reports.py has been added to our framework which can send pytest results as simple HTML reports. This blog is on how we built an […]
How to start using the Qxf2 framework with a new project
This post will help you in modifying the Qxf2’s open-sourced test automation framework to use with your new project. In this post, you will learn about the files and folders to edit and delete so you can use the framework to write tests for your web or mobile application. If you want to read more before you start Here is […]
Learning Python when you already know Java
This blog is an outcome of a few adjustments that I made while moving from Java to Python when automating my tests. This will help you with basic pointers about how Python syntax is different from Java. Why this post? As an experienced Java automation engineer, when I started my journey into Automation using Python, I had this very basic […]