This post will serve as a quick tutorial to understand and use Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. As a hands-on experience, here we will learn how to host a sample website using the apache web server on the EC2 Linux instance and collect the real-time logs of the website to AWS S3 using Kinesis Data Firehose. Why this post? Streaming data […]
Collect real-time streaming data and store in Amazon S3 using Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
Setup Linux testing environment on Windows using WSL1
Update: This solution works on WSL1 only Why this post? If you are one of those testers that had been using a Windows machine and have had to setup a Linux system for running your Selenium automation test, this post is for you. I had to setup a Linux system for running the automation tests for one of our clients. […]
Sending Email through Amazon SES with Flask App
This post is about sending automated Emails with Amazon Simple Email Service(SES). We wanted to explore Amazon SES and hence implemented a sample Flask app to send an automated email. What is Amazon SES? Email is the heartline of any business these days. So sending an automated email,is an important part of business, whether it is the response to a […]
Getting started with Unit Testing using mock in Python
Unit testing is considered as a vital phase in software testing. Anyone who has been involved in the software development life cycle will have encountered some form of testing. Although the aim of testing is to find bugs, it cannot guarantee the absence of other faults, no matter how creative the test cases are designed. Unit testing enables a more […]
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 […]
Build and Test iOS app with Qxf2 Framework and Appium.
Why this post? In this post, we are going to look into, how to test an iOS app with Python-based testing framework using appium. This is a step by step procedure, right from building an app, writing a test for iOS app in Python using Qxf2 test automation framework and then actual testing of app with Appium on Mac OS […]
Start Automation Quickly with Qxf2’s Framework using Cookiecutter
We came across Cookiecutter when working at a client. It is a tool that helps you create new projects based on templates. We decided to try it with our test automation framework. We have provided all the code used in this project on GitHub so that you can follow along. What is Cookiecutter? Cookiecutter is a command-line utility that creates […]
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 […]
Automation testing of Text to Speech web app
As a part of Qxf2Services Hackathon, I had picked up a project to automate testing of a readily available Text to Speech web app. To follow along, I assume you have some familiarity with Python, Selenium. Overview of Text to Speech Demo app To try out the testing of Text to Speech, I was looking for a readily available web app which can […]