Devops for Growth

Software quality has always been important but seems that lately it has become more generally acknowledged fact that quality assurance and testing aren’t things to be left behind. With Java EE Web applications you have different ways to achieve test coverage and test that your application works with tools like JUnit, Mockito and DBUnit. But what about testing your web application with different browsers? One great way is to use Robot Framework which is a generic test automation framework and when combined with Selenium 2 it makes both writing your tests and running them quite intuitive.

This estimation can be done with two approaches one through “Requirements” to be automated and Second can be directly from the Application interface. I prefer to use application interface/pages, if available to analyze. How, through traversing Application Pages one by one as per the application flow and can say those below points are the specific columns in Excel.

• First, Analyze Page –> Page Name
• Second, On Page sections to be automated –> Section Name
• Third, Section functionality –> Functionality
• Fourth, operation to be performed on Page –> Operation
• Fifth, Requirements which are covering through –> Requirement Covered
• Sixth, Per Operation Estimation –> Effort
• Seventh, Total effort –> Total
• Eighth, Number of Locators on section or on page –> Locators
• Ninth, Estimation for finding the correct address of the locator on the page –> Locators Est
• Tenth, Total effort on that point for locators –> Total Locators Estimate
• Eleventh, Identification of recovery scenario if any on that operation –> Recovery Scenario
• Twelfth, Identification of Synchronization point if any on that operation –> Synchronization
• Thirteenth, Identification of checkpoint on that operation if any as per the requirement –> Checkpoint
• Like this, we can have few more columns and list down the triggers for mails, snaps, logs, exceptions etc.

Only, major global chunks left to be estimated like Reviews, Manual Intervention, Integration, Configuring input & outputs and Logistics. These always depend on the scenario as well as need and sometimes specific percent is defined for these objects of total effort.

Robot Framework is a keyword-driven test automation framework, written in Python. Features include: high-level architecture, simple tabular syntax, data-driven test cases, separate test data editor, clear reports. It's functionality can be extended through self-developed and Remote libraries.

UiPath has pioneered the screen scraping of running desktop apps with 100% accuracy in under 16 milliseconds. Prior to UiPath, screen scraping had a low accuracy rate and was slow and fragile.
UiPath features an innovative technique for extracting text from running apps, even if they are hidden or covered by another app.
Web scraping is a premier feature of the screen-scraping landscape, as there are dedicated methods for extracting pattern-based data that span multiple web pages.