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 […]
Start Automation Quickly with Qxf2’s Framework using Cookiecutter
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 […]
Automate creating new boards on Trello using Python
This post contains a brief summary of my Qxf2 Hackathon project. It also has a link to a GitHub repository with some useful code that you can use to interact with Trello. We, at Qxf2, are agile & our sprints last a week. At the end of every week, someone (we rotate the responsibility) creates a new Trello board, add […]
Qxf2’s automation testing framework uses Python 3
We have updated our open-sourced GUI automation testing framework to use Python3. This update was due for a long time. We have had a lot of requests from people asking for our framework to use Python3 and we finally found the bandwidth needed to migrate to Python3. We will also no longer support Python2. If you already use our framework […]
Automated cloud testing setup using Selenium grid and Docker Swarm
Maintaining infrastructure for automated Selenium cross-browser tests is time-consuming. The cloud testing platforms like BrowserStack and Saucelabs help you. But in some cases, you want to have your own cloud testing environment. This is usually time-consuming and involves setting up and using Selenium Grid. This post helps testers to automate the setup process for cloud-based testing. We hope this post […]
Auto-generate XPaths using Python
In this post, we will present a way to auto-generate robust and short XPaths for the two most common HTML elements automation interacts with – buttons and input elements. We have tested this against more than 50 commonly used websites like Facebook, LinkedIn, Citibank, IRCTC, etc. Why this post? The foundation for robust GUI automated checks is writing good element […]
Tesults: better reporting for automated tests
We wanted a good way to report the test results from our automation framework. So, when Tesults approached us to integrate with our Selenium, Python-based automation framework we were pleased. In this post, we are going to show you how automation can update test results directly on to Tesults. Why this post? If you have ever built a automated testing […]
Building your own docker images for different browser versions
When any application is deployed the software needs to be tested across multiple platforms and different versions of browsers. It’s tough to maintain environments with different versions of browsers. One approach is to use cloud solutions like Sauce Labs or BrowserStack which provides multi-version-browser support. But in case if you want to build your own environment which is easy to […]
SSH using Python Paramiko
Recently, as part of an automated test, we needed to SSH into a server, toggle a service and then check the response on a web application. We used the Python module Paramiko. We ended up writing simple wrappers around the most common actions test automation may need to perform over SSH. In this post, we will share the same. We […]