QA/Execution/Web Testing/Docs/Automation/Testcases/ConfigFiles

Config-file documentation

We have 3 configuration files that we use in our automation test cases:

1. configurationAMO
2. browserConfig (will be renamed to TCParameters)
3. GridConnection

configurationAMO:

This file is not available on SVN for viewing. It contains tuples/associative arrays of the following:

1. Different user types such as admin user, non-admin user, a user with developer rights, a user with certain   addons etc.

A sample user array looks like non_adm = {'login':'nonadminuser@example.com', 'pwd':'somepassword', 'fname':'John', 'nick':'john_non_adm'}.

So, if you want to acces the user array from AMOfunctions.py then the code would look like:

user = self.objConfigAMO.getUserInfo(userType)

and in your test case it would look like:

self.objAMOfunc.login('userNonAdm' sel)

2. Different add-ons. If you want to use a specific add-on then it should be added to the addons array in this file.

Note: It is recommended not to use a specific add-on unless necessary. Currently, our tests picks a random add-on from the home-page if you call the function getRandomAddonVersion2(appName, sel)

borwserConfig (TCParameters):

TCParameters has variables defined with values that are required to run a test case. We will have 3 copies of TCParameters, one for Smoke Tests suite, one for Basic Functional Tests suite & one for Full functional tests.

Some of the variables defined here are:

• limits for processing loops
•  maxCategories = 3 # maximum number of categories checked in test case
•  maxItemsPerPage = 10 # maximum number of items (ex: personas, add-ons) checked per page
•  # sortOption and sortOptionControl is being replaced by page specific options.
•  sortOption = # sort option parameter for a test function. possible values listed in test suite
  
•  sortOptionControl = # sort option control to select, if script handles multiple. values listed in test suite
•  # list sort and filter options
•  AMOhomePageSortOptions = ('recommended', 'popular', 'added', 'updated')
•  AMOhomePageSort = AMOhomePageSortOptions[0]
  

Depending on the kind of test suite, the values will differ. For e.g. maxCategories = 1 (for Smoke Test Suite); maxCategories = 3 (for BFT Suite); maxCategories = all (for FFT);