Google Automation-Automated Testing Search Engine

While I was reading Sep 2011 issue of Automated Software Testing Magazine, but at one page my eye got stuck, where the publisher has partnered with Google to create a software test automation search engine. I tried this and its work great it means gave my all search related to automation.

So here is the word complied for the same magazine.

“The Automated Testing Institute has partnered with Google to create a software test automation search engine. If your are looking for the software test automation information, you will get the best results by using this search engine, because it only searches the sites that matter most to automators. You can also restrict searches to blogs and forum sites."

http://www.googleautomation.com

Enjoy happy automation.

Thanks,

Md. jawed

Dynamically Find controls Type used in web application using WaTin

Introduction:
Using this WaTin feature user would be able to get all the controls types dynamically used in web page.
Details:

  

While performing automation so many times we have faced the issues to find the control type on fly and perform some basic operation or get the properties of controls.

Let me give an example to explain this with clear picture.

Suppose that developer has placed a table on webpage. This table would contents many controls like textbox, button, picture box, label, dropdown, list etc. etc. all this control would appear in table cells dynamically, it means we are not sure when and at what position of cells it will appear in table.

Now we have to read this control on fly and performed some basic operation.

So being an automation engineer, we have programmed our automation code in such a way to know about this control and where it has appeared then performed operation or read properties of that control.

Its bit tricky to handle this kind of situation.

To solve this kind of issues WaTin have provided one best feature to get the type of controls and then based on control we can call our custom method to either get the properties or performed common action.

Here I will only show to how to read controls types on FLY using WaTin.

Below is the Image of web page (to automate this scenario I have developed one basic web application)

And here is the piece of the code to the same.

try

{
IE ie = IE.AttachTo<IE>(Find.ByUrl("http://localhost:28348/Home.aspx"));
var tablecells = ie.Table("table").TableCells;
var type = new string[tablecells.Count];
int i = 0;
    foreach (TableCell tableCell in tablecells)
    {
      try
       {
          string watinType = tableCell.Elements[0].GetType().FullName;
          if (watinType != null) type[i] = watinType.Split('.')[2];
       }
       catch (Exception)
       {
           throw;
        }
    i++;
    }
}
Catch (Exception)
{
throw;
}

And below is the Result when you run the above piece of code. You can see all the controls type in the Type array of string. Shown in below drop down.

Feel free to provide your valuable comments and suggestion.

Thanks,
Md. Jawed

C# Code snippet to send an Email with attachment from Outlook, Yahoo, HotMail, AOL and Gmail

1. Down Load Source Code click here.
Introduction
Using this code snippet user would be able to send an email with attachment through Outlook, Yahoo, AOL, HOTMAIL and Gmail.
Background
Already loads of information are available on internet for the same purpose. But not all the code is placed at one place. So here is my small effort to accumulate all the code at one place and that is nothing better than CodeProject. Hopefully it will be helpful for the beginners or whoever in needs of it.
Using the code
Name Space:

Block Diagram(SMTP Setting for various client):
Below is the Block diagram for the SMTP settings i have used to send out an email from various client providers.

Wherever needed I have explain the code in details. The codes are self explanatory, any way for the same I have included comments. So here is the code snippet to achieve your purpose.
1. Using Outlook:
To send an email using outlook, we need to add a reference to the dynamic link library for Outlook which is called Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.dll.
For the same follow the below steps

1. Go to your solution explorer
2. Click on add a reference
3. Click on .Net Tab
4. Go through the DLL and select Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.dll correctly.

5. When you have selected the correct reference you select the “OK” button and this reference will be added to your project under references.

6. Now we need to add a reference in our class to the Outlook reference we have added to the project in our previous example.
using Outlook = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook;
And finally the code would look something like this:

2. Using HOTMAIL:
To send an email using HotMail, we need to add a reference to the dynamic link library for Hotmail/Gmail/AOL/Yahoo which is called System.Net.Mail.
For the same follow the below steps:
1. Go to solution explorer of your project
2. Select add a reference
3. Click on .Net Tab
4. Go through the DLL and select System.Net.Mail.
5. When you have selected the correct reference you select the “OK” button and this reference will be added to your project under references.
6. Now we need to add a reference in our class to the Hotmail/gmail/aol/yahoo reference we have added to the project.
using System.Net.Mail;
Note: The HOTMAIL SMTP Server requires an encrypted connection (SSL) on port 25.
And finally the code would look something like this:

3. Using Yahoo! 4. Using AOL:
5. Using Gmail:
Note: The GMAIL SMTP Server requires an encrypted connection (SSL) on port 487.

Already I am using the above code snippet for my automation purpose and its working fine for me!!

Thank you!!
Feel Free to provide your comments and suggestion.
Md. Jawed.

QC DATA PULLER using C#

Using this application user can generate report of test case execution from QC(Quality center) in to HTML web page with fancy pie chart and tabular format using C# and OTA API expose from QC(Quality Center).
i have pulished an Articles on Code project for generating report for test cases executed from QC. the report would be in HTML web page format with pie chart and tabullar format.

for more details you visit below link for that:
QC Data Puller on Code Project.
Please go through the link and provide your valuabe comments and suggestion!!
Thank you!!
~jawed

WatiN 2.0 Final Released: Ready to Download

Finally Watin 2.0 released to download.
Below is the Email from Jeroen van Menen.
All,
Last week I have release WatiN 2.0 Final (2.0.50.1179). You can download the zip file from Sourceforge:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/watin/files/WatiN%202.x/2.0%20Final/WatiN-2.0.50.1179.zip/download
or install it using NuGet (need to have the Package Manager console for Visual Studio 2010 installed, get it at nuget.org). Installing is as simple as:
PM> Install-Package WatiN
The release notes can be found on the new website http://watin.org/ (which is still in flux but getting there)
http://watin.org/documentation/release-2-0-50-11579/
Enjoy Testing with WatiN!
Jeroen

~JAWED

Test Automation FX - UI Testing in Visual Studio

Few days back there was some requirement in my project where we have to automate windows application/desktop application developed in C#.Net. I thought to develop an automation framework for the same. But before starting of this we thought for doing some goggle might be some tool would be available to perform my task.

After searching I came across TAFX(Test Automation FX). This was a nice tool which will give you the freedom of language, recording and nice flexibility to customize the generated code after recording.

Let me put some point which I have noted down from web:
Test Automation FX (TAFX for short) enables developers and testers to record and manage user interface tests from inside Visual Studio with 100% .NET code.
You go through this official web site of TAFX:
http://www.testautomationfx.com/
Go through below link to get screen shot of Automation of Calculator using TAFX:
http://www.testautomationfx.com/index.php/screenshots

Shortly, I m planning to give a try to this tool. Will forward my finding and experience in next blog soon.
this is not an open source tool :(

Please comments with your finding also about this tool.

~jawed

Force your Thread to start in Single-threaded apartment state

Use the below piece of code if you want to start your thread from main thread passing multiple parameters to that thread:

//by default this thread will start in MTA(Multi Apartment state)
string firstValue;
int secondValue;
bool thridValue;
//create an thread
Thread myAutomationThread;
// The delegate to call.
ThreadStart ts = new ThreadStart(delegate() { callMyFun(firstValue,secondValue,thirdValue); });
// The thread.
myAutomationThread = new Thread(ts);
// Run the thread.
myAutomationThread.Start();
----------
Now if you want to start the same thread in Single apartment state then just add the below line of code.
(We need to start the thread in STA because WATiN will run in STA mode only)

myAutomationThread.SetApartmentState(ApartmentState.STA);

The whole piece of code will look like this:

Thread myAutomationThread;
ThreadStart ts = new ThreadStart(delegate() { callMyFun(firstValue,secondValue,thirdValue); });
myAutomationThread = new Thread(ts);
myAutomationThread.SetApartmentState(ApartmentState.STA);
myAutomationThread.Start();

~Jawed

How to get Source code of the target web page

Sometimes during the automation development I faced lots of problem when the source code functionality is disable of any target web page.

Then I thought do we have any alternative to solve this problem?
I searched/goggled somewhere here and there. At last I got some snip of code.

I customize the code in such a way that it helped me in 2 ways.
1. When source code functionally is disable of the target web page/web site.
2. When something failed (no control found) during running of automation code then just get the source code and save it in text file. Latter it would help me to find out why my automation code failed or Check for the controls id/value/text etc on that web page.

Below is the code for that

public void GetSourceCode()
{
try
{
//Target website/web page
string strUrlOfWebPage = "http://jawedm.blogspot.com";
//Location to store source code in text file.
string strTextFileLocation = "c://SourceFile.txt";
System.Net.WebRequest request = System.Net.HttpWebRequest.Create(urlOfWebPage);
System.Net.HttpWebResponse response = (System.Net.HttpWebResponse)
request.GetResponse();
System.IO.Stream responseStream = response.GetResponseStream();
System.IO.StreamReader readerSource = new System.IO.StreamReader
(responseStream);
string strSourceForTextFile = readerSource.ReadToEnd();
readerSource.Close();
System.IO.File.WriteAllText(strTextFileLocation, strSourceForTextFile);

}
catch(Exception ex)
{
Console.WriteLine(ex.Message.ToString());
}
}

Thanks ,
Md. jawed

Bugs Status Report From Digite Using WATiN

Web Application: Retrieve Bugs Status/Logged Defects from Digite Using WATiN.

Now onwards getting status of bugs from digite based on CR/WR wise and/or Date wise would not be more painful and time consuming .
even to get the status we don’t need access of digite :)
All this just a Button click away :)

For that we have developed a web application to access this application and generate reports based on following parameters:-

1. CR/WR wise logged bugged.
2. Bugged logged date wise.

Just clicked on button in that web application an email with report would be in your e-mail inbox .
We have hosted this web application at http://172.16.200.127/BugStatus/Default.aspx (Access from Aditi LAN only) location to get access from anywhere and by anyone :)

Fig 1. Web Application to generate report

Description and explanation of code is under progress...Hope shortly I will come back with code explanation and more description about above Application :)

Fig 2. Report sent through Email.

Thanks,

Md.Jawed