Framework for automation of cloud-application testing using selenium (FACTS)

Abstract

A framework is an amalgamation of integrated tools, libraries, utilities and its coordination to interact with the other automation components. The motive of designing a test automation framework is to implement uniform standards towards automation throughout the organization to achieve the desired outcomes. Test automation framework is required to maintain the standardization of the activities performed to manipulate the operations (addition, modification and deletion) on the test scripts and functions easily, to provide the scalability and reliability. Tools, process and testing team are the three key player of test automation. The proposed framework is based on the consideration of test environment (includes language binding, IDE, automation tools and testing framework). Selenium WebDriver is used as web application automation framework to execute test across multiple browsers that supports multiple operating system with variant programming language. Selection of WebDriver automation tool for this framework is due to their internal architecture to directly communicate with browser for fast execution. The combination of test automation tools (i.e. Java, Eclipse, Selenium and TestNG) makes JEST for designing test automation framework. Both Positive and negative test must be performed to verify functionalities of applications to handle unusual exceptions.