When you are designing UI test automation
framework for any micro services architecture based application, then
how you will design, so that your automation suite run time will be
minimum?
Obvious answer is run test cases in parallel. Apart from
that, how you will design your automation framework, so test cases run
in faster way?
As per me, I will create automation framework such
way that we can leverage APIs (As it is micro service based
architecture) in test cases. Write test case such way that all the
preconditions will be done by API and then perform actual part of test
case through UI.
Let's take an example, assume there is test case
which required to create one record in system and then perform some
operations on that record. Here, create record in system is
precondition. So, I will do that thing through API first then login
application through UI and perform actual operation and verification. It
will take less time then run test case full in UI mode.
Here,
you might have question that if create record from UI is not working
then it will be miss. No. We can create small smoke suite in CI/CD which
will be always triggered before full automation suite is triggered. If
there is any failures in smoke suite then full automation suite will not
trigger.
So, all basic functionality like Login, Logout, CRUD
operations will be test through UI in smoke suite. Smote suite should be
run in maximum 10 minutes. So, you don't required to do that from UI in
all your test cases.
In that way, you can also maximum utilize
your selenium grid architecture. AS, any browser session will open only
for main test cases operation, precondition will be always done through
API.
So, this way we can create hybrid automation framework (UI + APIs) and decrease automation suite run time.
