Testing back-end: automation approach

for manual QCAlyona Tudan

QA Engineer at N-iX

What

Mobile application (front-end) Server side (back-end)

When

Time from summer 2015 Back-end: from 3 web-services to nearly 40 Front-end: from built-in option to standalone app

Why

Why

Why

Why

And much more…

Solution

Automation framework

Soap UI

Input data

Report

DDT Environment handling Resources handling Positive & negative

scenarios Assertions for every step Detailed reports CI Database checking

Schema

Login

Password

Back-end

Front-end

Request:

“Login”: “Login”,“Password”: “Password”

Response:

True

Challenges for manual QC

Writing down test suits with user journeys Full coverage of web-services Writing down asserting using groovy Scripting using groovy

How it looks

Input dataMain tab with test

cases

Tab of the test case with different

scenarios

Using variables

Using properties instead of exact values:

“ValueOfRequest”: “1234” (or “test”) “ValueOfRequest”: “${#TestCase#value}”

“Try” for possibility of empty variablesTry {

ID == null}

catch (Exception) {throw new RuntimeException ("There should be registered user");

}

Replacing text in request

def caseList = context.testCase.testSuite.getTestCaseList() caseList.each

{ def testStepList = it.getTestStepList();

testStepList.each {eachTestStep -> if(eachTestStep instanceof com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.teststeps.RestTestRequestStep){RestRequest request = eachTestStep.getHttpRequest();

def result = request.getRequestContent().replaceAll(“test", “NewTest"); request.setRequestContent(result) } } }

Turning on exact steps

def suitList = context.testCase.testSuite.project.getTestSuiteList()String env = context.testCase.testSuite.project.getPropertyValue("environment");suitList.each

{def caseList = it.getTestCaseList()caseList.each

{def testStepList = it.getTestStepList();

   testStepList.each {

Turning on exact steps

if (env.equals ("PROXY")) {

  if (it.name.equals( “LoginTest")){

  it.setDisabled(true) }if (it.name.equals( “LoginProxy")){

  it.setDisabled(false)  }

log.info "Done PROXY"}

if (env.equals ("TEST")) {

  if (it.name.equals( "LoginTest"))

{  it.setDisabled(false)  }

if (it.name.equals("LoginProxy"))

{  it.setDisabled(true)  }

 log.info "Done TEST"}

DO not forget to close previous brackets }}}

Using loops

for(int i =0; i < 20; i++){def condition = context.testCase.getPropertyValue("Status");def code = context.testCase.getPropertyValue("Code");

if (code == "30") { break }else{testRunner.runTestStepByName("Delay") testRunner.runTestStepByName("GetCode")testRunner.runTestStepByName("JDBC: Check status")}}

One more loop for empty value

def condition = context.testCase.getPropertyValue("Id");

for (int i =0; i < 2; i++){ if (condition != ""){break}else{ testRunner.runTestStepByName("Delay") testRunner.runTestStepByName(“GetId")}}

Report

Conclusion

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