UFT Developer Training & Framework Workshop

Course Description

Why choose ALPI for a LeanFT Framework workshop training?

• We use certified live instructors in both our in-person and virtual classes so you can ask questions and get answers right away.
• We focus on real-world examples.
• We teach using interactive, hands-on exercises.
• This ALPI course is eligible for a free refresher guarantee so you can re-take the course within 4 months at no additional charge. Contact us for information about this unique benefit that gives you peace of mind.

This course introduces students to Micro Focus LeanFT (Lean Functional Testing), a powerful testing tool that can allow Quality Assurance teams and Developers to develop test cases in a more integrated manner. By developing test cases directly in Visual Studio or Eclipse, applications can be tested despite not being fully developed and/or deployed for general Quality Assurance teams to use. The course then focuses on the development of an automation framework. Overall architecture and components of a framework will be covered so that students can take what they learn in class to build out a test automation framework for a project.

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Duration

5 day(s)

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Time

9 - 5 ET

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Price

$3,675

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Labs

This workshop is offered as a series of hands-on “projects” that require participants to understand, design, and implement components of an automated testing framework. Approximately 70% of the class is devoted to lab exercises.

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Intended Audience

The target audience for this course includes:

• Agile testers
• Automation testers
• Software Engineers
• Automation Developers
• QA Leads

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Prerequisites

A background in programming and/or scripting and 1 year of experience using UFT and VBScript or similar test automation tool.

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Outline

COURSE OUTLINE

DAY 1: 
Course Overview

• Identify the contents and objectives of the course
• Learn the sample Applications

Introduction to LeanFT

• Build a LeanFT web-based test using Visual C#
• Build a LeanFT Windows-based test using Visual C#
• Run the tests with NUnit

Iterating with LeanFT

• Create iterations for an entire test or just a section of the test
• Set up iterations based on the number of values in the array

LeanFT Checkpoints

• Build checkpoints by inserting assert methods for the framework being used
• Report results to the test results
• Control test pass/fail conditions
• Use the Assert within a try-catch statement.

DAY 2: 
Using LeanFT with Eclipse

• Create a LeanFT test using the Junit Framework in Eclipse
• Build a test on a Web application
• Build a test on a Windows application
• Run the test in Eclipse

Enhancing Test Scripts in Eclipse

• Iterate tests through multiple browsers
• Add checkpoints

Creating Application Models

• Describe the theory behind application models
• Create an application model with LeanFT using Visual Studio

LeanFT Summary

• Combine topics and methods from previous labs into a comprehensive test
• Create an NUnit Test project
• Create an application model
• Create a test using an application model
• Add checkpoints to a test
• Run the test against multiple browsers

DAY 3: 
Introduction to Automated Frameworks

• Why use them?
• Who needs them?
• Pros & Cons

Framework Structure

• High-level framework structure
• Framework components

Pre-Conditions/State Validation

• Application Run Status
• Authentication
• Custom pre-test navigation/validation

Test Synchronization

• Validation synchronization vs navigation synchronization
• Handling AJAX Calls
• Handling HTML Dialogs

Object Synchronization

• What is synchronization?
• When is synchronization needed?
• What types of synchronization exist?
• Implementing synchronization

DAY 4: 
Understanding Objects

• Object types
• Object identification
• Object interaction
• Object virtualization

Object Input/Selection

• Methods for Input/Selection
• Dynamic method selection
• Custom method creation

Object Data/Attribute validation

• Methods for Data/Attribute validation
• Dynamic method selection
• Custom method creation

Navigation

• Getting around an application
• What types of navigation exist?
• Implementing navigation
• Using Classes to pass large sets of data for navigation and validation
• Physical vs Event playback

Data Driving

• Maximizing script reusability
• Control structures
• PreDataDriven Test Design
• Easily transition to fully data driven and back again
• How to create test scripts to for data driving without having a data source.
• Database containers
• Data generators
• Using the Test Context for passing data

Keyword Driven Technique

• How to architect a keyword framework
• Developing a maintainable solution
• Understanding the difference between low-level and business-level keywords
• Involving the rest of the test team in the automated, keyword process

DAY 5: 
Function Libraries

• Maximizing reuse
• Extensibility
• Audit & logs

Error Handling

• Playback Errors (Navigation and/or Validation)
• UnExpected dialogs
• HTTP Server Errors

Debugging Tests 

Test Results / Data Exporting

• Capture values and display them in the output log
• Identifying execution results
• Analyzing execution data

 Framework Summary

• Creating a working framework
• Facilitating maintainability
• Data abstraction
• Function reusability
• Function optimization
• Securing framework code