What approaches do people use for automated testing, what tools do you use and a

Gavin Hume

Certified Senior Developer

over 9 years ago

What approaches do people use for automated testing, what tools do you use and are the tests/testing framework easy to maintain?

I come from an area that automates as much as possible our testing for other application technologies at various levels, Unit Testing, Acceptance Testing, Performance Testing, etc., using various tools, JUnit, Cucumber, Selenium, LoadRunner, etc., and we've seen a significant increase in productivity and quality within our development teams, so we want to extend this to include our Appian applications.

This question appears to have been asked previously but not recently so I wondered if peoples approaches had matured to a level where writing automated tests just becomes part of the standard development lifecycle....

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0 toyerm over 6 years ago

Has anyone had any further developments on this topic?
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0 Rama Thummala
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over 6 years ago

AFAIK,
In Appian we have FitNesse similar to Selenium and We can can integrate with JMeter also. Documentaion also available in Appian Documentation
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+1 Colton Beck over 6 years ago

We've successfully used Selenium and UFT to automate regression test cases. For performance testing, we use JMeter.

Our main concern, particularly with JMeter, is that Appian HTTP response headers and bodies change across versions, so some refactoring is necessary after an upgrade.
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0 toyerm over 6 years ago in reply to Colton Beck

We have just started our Appian project and I have already started playing around with UFT and Selenium for functional testing, and Jmeter and LoadRunner for Performance Testing. Thanks for the tip on Jmeter. Could you perhaps share why you use a combination of UFT and Selenium? Are you using them for different purposes/tests?
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0 Colton Beck over 6 years ago in reply to toyerm

So we don't use them concurrently on the same project, but rather for different projects, as clients sometimes prefer different tools.
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0 toyerm over 6 years ago in reply to Rama Thummala

Hi Raman, how in-depth does your fitnesse scripts go? Have you encountered any issues thus far with Fitnesse as your selected tool for automation?
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0 toyerm over 6 years ago in reply to Colton Beck

Thanks, I appreciate your responses. Which option would you prefer? and why? What are the positives/negatives of each approach?
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0 Colton Beck over 6 years ago in reply to toyerm

We prefer Selenium, but mostly because it's the tool we have more experience using, and find it to be less rigid. This site has more detailed information that describes the differences between the two.
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0 ajaved
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over 6 years ago

We are using a customized version of Selenium to automate regression tests for all our Appian applications. It has worked great as we have expertise in-house and other non-Appian applications also use the same.

Unfortunately, as others have also indicated, our scripts were written for 16.x versions, and since 17.1 upgrade we have had to invest a considerable amount of time to fix and adapt our scripts to new versions. Even though the Appian UI did not change much, the generated code (XPath) did change. We have started looking at Fitnesse as well, because it is supported by Appian and with every version upgrade they make sure it is compatible.

Hope this helps.
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0 toyerm over 6 years ago in reply to ajaved

Thanks Colton Beck and , definitely very handy info. I will try using both UFT and Selenium for now concurrently. My aim is to use UFT for the more longer running business processes and workflows, as the object identification seems pretty solid in UFT example identifies webtables etc quite well. Script creation is also extremely fast with UFT. I would use Selenium more on a smoke tests basis to be included as part of 'lighter' smokes tests to be included as part of CI. I will try to monitor the 'xpath changing after versions' issue based on what Adeel mentioned above (for Selenium). I will feedback on the progress of both these options once I have something concrete to share.
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