Automation Framework Knowledge Base

Owned by Pundaleek H (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Jan 20, 2021
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Problem Statement

  • Provide approach on how Consumers and Producer based APIs will be tested

  • POC on below core services to showcase all automation principles and guide

  • Localisation- Upsert and search call

  • FileStore- Search File

  • Property Tax- Create Property

The Solution

  • Design & Implement Robust Automation Framework

  • Build a modular Framework so any future changes don’t have impact on the entire framework but limited to specific area

The Goal

  • Implement a framework that is robust enough to function with minimal changes

  • Framework handles multi tenant with only properties update

  • Framework can switch environment with no manual update

  • A new environment can be integrated with update to framework properties

Plan and Outcomes

Automation Framework : High Level Architecture

Description :

Global Properties:

  1. Configuration
    The only rule is that on start-up Karate expects a file called karate-config.js to exist on the
    classpath and contain a JavaScript function. The function is expected to return a JSON object
    and all keys and values in that JSON object will be made available as script variables. And
    that's all there is to Karate configuration! You can easily get the value of the current
    'environment' or 'profile', and then set up 'global' variables using some simple JavaScript.

  2. Global Variables:
    Non-JSON values such as Java object references or JS functions are supported only if they are
    at the "root" of the JSON returned from karate-config.js.

  3. Switching the Environment:
    Karate is flexible, you can easily overwrite config variables within each individual test-script -
    which is very convenient when in dev-mode or rapid-prototyping and also environment
    specific Config will be taken care here.

  4. Test Properties:
    Contains all properties related to Tests cases like Feature file, Http requests, responses, test
    data etc.

  5. Framework Properties:
    Contains All properties related to Karate framework like pom.xml, YAML files, .md files etc.

  6. Reports:
    We can generate default BDD cucumber reports and we can integrate reporting plugins.

  7. Tests:
    Contains test scenarios feature files with execution tags, Assertions etc.

  8. MDMS call:
    Fetching the test data from MDMS and using in tests.

Technologies are being Used :

  • Java

  • JavaScript

  • Gherkin

  • BDD framework - Behavior Driven Development is a software development approach