Field : Automated testing tools

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COURSE : SOFTWARE SYSTEM TESTING 

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Title INFO-6053 Project 3 – Automated Testing with Selenium

Due Date Monday, January 8th

2018 by 11:59 PM

Submission
To

Project 3 drop box on FOL

Project
Structure

This is a group project. Each group may consist of 3 to 6
members. Each member of a group will receive the same
mark for the project

Marking Scheme

Available
Marks

Item Score

5 Selenium IDE test of add contact form

5 Selenium IDE test of edit contact form

5 Selenium IDE test of error form

10 Selenium Web Driver test of either the edit contact
OR error form (only one of these forms needs to be
tested using Web Driver

)

5 Project report

5 Grammar, spelling, following instructions.

35 Total

Background Information

Your testing team is part of a new company that is developing a set of web-

based applications for home and business use. While none of the

applications are anywhere near ready for release, the development team

has completed its first prototype of the contacts module that will be part of

the core of all of the new applications.

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The company’s management have decided, after investigating a number of

options, that a large portion of the testing of its applications will be done

using the Selenium tool suite. Management have left the decision about

which Selenium tools to the testing team. They have also decided that the

testing team will perform some tests on the contacts prototype for two

purposes:

 To assess the current state of the contacts module.

 To help the testing team to determine which Selenium tools to

use by performing some automated tests on the prototype.

The prototype of the contacts module consists of the functionality to add,

edit and view contact information via a web interface. While the basic form

structures and page layouts are correct, no CSS has yet been applied to

the pages, although some simple formatting has been put in the HTML tags

to make the pages easier to read. There is no JavaScript on any of the

pages and none is planned for the finished version of this module.

The application consists of 3 main forms, one to add new contacts, one to

edit and existing contact and one to allow the user to correct any data input

errors made while using the other two. The basic layout of all 3 is the same

although the underlying functionality is different. There is also a simple

HTML page that lists all of the data for a selected contact. Another page

displays a list of all contacts and includes buttons for viewing or editing the

details of each contact. A fourth form is used to display the results of

saving/updating the database.

The data gathered and displayed by this module is stored in a single

MariaDB (MySQL equivalent) database table with the following structure

(shown as an SQL table create command):

CREATE TABLE `addresses` (

`addr_id` int(20) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,

`addr_type` char(10) NOT NULL,

`addr_first_name` varchar(50) DEFAULT NULL,

`addr_last_name` varchar(50) DEFAULT NULL,

`addr_business` varchar(75) DEFAULT NULL,

`addr_addr_line_1` varchar(75) DEFAULT NULL,

`addr_addr_line_2` varchar(75) DEFAULT NULL,

`addr_addr_line_3` varchar(75) DEFAULT NULL,

`addr_city` varchar(50) DEFAULT NULL,

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`addr_region` varchar(50) DEFAULT NULL,

`addr_country` varchar(50) DEFAULT NULL,

`addr_post_code` varchar(20) DEFAULT NULL,

`addr_email_1` varchar(128) DEFAULT NULL,

`addr_email_2` varchar(128) DEFAULT NULL,

`addr_email_3` varchar(128) DEFAULT NULL,

`addr_phone_1_type` varchar(10) DEFAULT NULL,

`addr_phone_1` varchar(25) DEFAULT NULL,

`addr_phone_2_type` varchar(10) DEFAULT NULL,

`addr_phone_2` varchar(25) DEFAULT NULL,

`addr_phone_3_type` varchar(10) DEFAULT NULL,

`addr_phone_3` varchar(25) DEFAULT NULL,

`addr_web_url_1` varchar(128) DEFAULT NULL,

`addr_web_url_2` varchar(128) DEFAULT NULL,

`addr_web_url_3` varchar(128) DEFAULT NULL,

PRIMARY KEY (`addr_id`),

KEY `first_name` (`addr_first_name`),

KEY `last_name` (`addr_last_name`),

KEY `business` (`addr_business`),

KEY `email_1` (`addr_email_1`),

KEY `email_2` (`addr_email_2`),

KEY `email_3` (`addr_email_3`)

)

The database table described above and the input fields on the web forms

are related as follows:

 The column names in the database table should be the same

as the corresponding form field’s name and id attributes.

 The input fields on the forms should be in the same order as

they appear in the table.

 The maximum length of a form field must be the same as the

maximum length of the corresponding table field.

 The database field addr_id is never displayed or edited on any

form or page. It may be included on a page as a hidden input

field, although this fields name and/or id attributes are not

required to match the database field name.

The input error form is only displayed when data validation fails on either

the new contact or edit contact form. At this time, data validation checks

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that a least one of the name fields (first name, last name and business)

contains one or more characters; and that at least one of the address,

phone, email, or web site fields contains one or more characters.

Your team’s task is to test the operation of the prototype’s functionality and

report any problems. This testing must be performed using the Selenium

IDE and Selenium Web Driver tools to help your team develop the skills

that will be needed when full product testing begins.

Project Specific Information

1) The web application to be tested and all of the tools necessary are

pre-installed on a Linux virtual machine for VMWare Workstation.

This VM can be downloaded from http://ity-

ftp1.fanshawec.ca/_SST/INFO6053 (only accessible on-campus).

The download file is a zip file, you will need to decompress it before

opening it with VMWare Workstation. The use of 7zip is strongly

recommended. Use the username user and password Linux1 to

access the VM. This user account has sudo access to

administrative commands.

2) Rather than using the Linux VM, you can also install the web pages

and other tools on your own computer if you wish. The file

address_book.zip available from the Project 3 drop box folder

contains the PHP scripts for the web site and an SQL source file for

the database. You will have to install all of the necessary tools and

libraries to perform the project tasks on your system. See the

PowerPoint slides about Selenium for information on the tools that

you will need.

3) The Selenium related PowerPoint slides used in class describe all of

the IDE and Web Driver components necessary to do this project.

There are also many online resources and published books available.

4) The form for adding a new contact has no known errors in it, so you

can use it as a reference for the other two forms.

5) On the Linux VM, the initial page of the application can be loaded

using http://localhost/index.php (or simply http://localhost as it is the

default page).

6) You are NOT required to fix any errors you find.

http://localhost/index.php

http://localhost/

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Project Instructions

1) All tests are to begin by going to the page http://localhost/index.php

(or http:///index.php.

2) You are to test all 3 data entry forms (add new contact, edit and

existing contact, input error). The input error form is only displayed

when an error occurs while working with one of the other forms.

3) All 3 forms must be tested using the Selenium IDE using an

automated test for each.

4) In addition to the automated IDE tests, either the edit form or the error

form must also be tested using a Web Driver test program. This

program must report all errors found on the form during a single

execution.

5) You are to write a report that:

a. Lists the name and student ID of all team members,

b. Briefly describes the tests performed (no more than 1 page per

test), and

c. Describes, in detail, all errors found during testing.

Submissions

1) You are to submit 3 files to the Project 3 drop box:

a. A Microsoft Word document containing your report,

b. A zip file containing your Selenium IDE tests in the default

HTML format.

c. A zip file containing your Web Driver test code, include both

source and binary files (for Java, *.java and *.class files) and

any project configuration files needed to compile/execute the

test. For example, if you develop your test using Eclipse,

include the entire Eclipse project directory.

2) All files must be submitted prior to the deadline specified at the

beginning of this document.

http://localhost/index.php

http://localhost/index.php

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Hints

1) All known errors are on the edit and error forms.

2) There are no PHP compilation errors

3) The database table is correct.

4) Make sure that all of the test data you use results in distinct values in

each form field so that it is possible to check that output appears in

the right places.

5) Remember that there are many HTML attributes that can appear in

an element on a page, some of which can affect the data input or

output capabilities of an element.

6) Remember that this application is a prototype, there is no

data validation on any of the forms.

Plagiarism

Remember that plagiarism is an academic offense, make sure that your

group does its own work.