Thursday 7 June 2012

DCKAP Announces New Magento Test Framework

DCKAP has announced its innovative testing method of Magento Test Automation Framework, or TAF for short. This tool has been nominated as the optimal tool for running functional test in a normally installed Magento application by the Magento developers in DCKAP. This announcement by DCKAP has excited a lot of Quality Assurance testers. The main reason for this excitement is that this tool makes it simple to develop all kinds of tests without building an infrastructure for automation.

Besides running repeated tests, Magento TAF can also be used to create tests and write test automation scripts. Test automation scripts created within the framework can be used for testing most Magento functionality. With the users coming up with wide spread needs everyday DCKAP updates its Selenium framework to cover even more varieties of tests.

DCKAP has updated its workings with Magento’s comprehensive Smoke Test Suite which analyzes the full scope of the whole Magento Community Edition. The test cases that are implemented during the Magento nightly builds are covered using this suite and DCKAP’s Magento developer test it thoroughly.

Magento Test Automation Framework captures screenshots when a test failure occurs and saves it in the temp folder in .png and HTML formats for the Magento developers to analyze. The failed test name contains the class name, test name and a time stamp, this way it’s easy to retrieve the screenshot. And the full path to the screenshot is stored in a log next to the error message so it can be accessed directly.

Magento TAF provides the ability to the Magento developers to test unlimited UI areas. Several store views or stores utilizing different designs can be tested using this option. Each store – or store view – can have a unique UI map but operate with the original set of tests. This removes nesting and naming restrictions for UI map folders and allows users to organize them as they wish.

2 comments:

You can do a wide range of tasks thanks to the Magento developers who have kept on improving the software over the times. Thanks for sharing the article.

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