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Fast and Scalable Automation Framework : “Booster”

Testing is a form of software business insurance. More automation coverage means less risk. and that is good news for everyone.

Sonal PallewarEmail : sonal.pallewar@afourtech.com

“AutomationFramework” and “Whydo we need a frameworkfor test automation?”

A framework is a software solution that can beused in place of ordinary code that offersgeneric functions.

Some of the challenges of automation are:

● Writing and maintaining test automation frameworks

● Scaling to high number of simultaneous tests in various environments

● Reporting and analytics of large number of test results to assess test coverage and build quality

● Ease of use to extend and maintain the framework

● Rich libraries that can be leveraged for quick delivery of automation

Booster–Linux based

multithreadedautomation framework

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”Booster” addresses the above challenges and is used to automate and test several web and mobile frontend applications as well as backend components by executing hundreds ofsimultaneous tests.

Booster is a best-fit Linux based multithreaded automation framework that is fast, scalable and easily extensible. Booster also has readily available rich web, mobile, Linux libraries that can be leveraged to quickly build product specific tests without investing much time in interaction with web and mobile UI interfaces.

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Need of Booster framework

Linux BasedBooster is a Linux based framework

Supports remote execution of web testsSupports remote execution of tests in target environments with the help of paramiko python library.

Supports frontend and backend automationConsists of a rich set of Selenium, mobile and Linuxlibraries

Selenium Grid

Supports serial and parallel execution of tests, Multi-platformsupport i.e. Windows, Linux and Multi-browser support i.e. Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari and also supports headless browser

Integration with CI toolsBooster supports integration with Jenkins and Bamboo

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Web Interface to manage automation suites and report test resultsRich web Interface to centrally define and manage test automation. The user interface helps end users to quickly define test environments, test suites and execute tests quickly.

Containerized DeploymentEasy to deploy Booster

Support for Python 3.xBooster upgraded from Python 2.7 to 3.5 addressing issues like Print statement, HTMLTestRunner had to be made compatible with respect to screenshot attachment in execution reports in case of failure, Unicode/Decode conversions, syntaxes and deprecated support for some dictionary functionalities, handled iterable objects instead of lists, handled NameError for xrange

Future Enhancements

WEB PERFORMANCETESTING

API TEST AUTOMATION

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Tools & Technology

Platform – Ubuntu Programming Language – Python_3.5

Backend – Apache Tomcat, Selenium Grid

UI – HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Django Template

Multi-threading using Python thread library

Database – MySQL

Test Data – json

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Booster Architecture

Config

Configurations

Testdata Loader Database

Test Scripts

Test Runner

AppiumSelenium Grid

Reports

Logs

EXECUTE TEST SUITES

TEST EXECUTOR

TESTDATA

Testdata

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By Design

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About AFour Technologies

Established in 2007, AFour Technologies (a.k.a.

AFour) focuses on Software Product Engineering

Services comprising UI/UX Design, Architecture

Design and Consulting, Software Development,

DevOps (CloudOps, SysOps and DBOps), QA

(Test Strategy and Implementation, Test

Automation, Performance, Security) and

Monitoring. With an excellent track record of

over 10 years and a focus on software product

engineering,

AFour is a true example of self-belief,

consistency, and transparency.

AFour is an ideation

and technology house.

Product companies

associate with AFour

for its product

conceptualization and

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range of technologies like

Java, Python, .NET,

JavaScript (MEAN), LAMP

(Perl and PHP), Angular,

React,

C++.

The company is a hub of

every cutting-edge

technology in software

engineering ʒ Hyper-

convergence, SDN,

Virtualization, Next

Generation Data Center

Technologies, Networking,

Enterprise Mobility.

Till date, AFour

Technologies has

been able to bring

together some of

the best and

brightest minds in

software

engineering.