Gum bichromate is a 19th-century photographic printing process based on the light sensitivity of dichromates. It is capable of rendering painterly images from photographic negatives. Gum printing is traditionally a multi-layered printing process, but satisfactory results may be obtained from a single pass. Any color can be used for gum printing, so natural-color photographs are also possible by using this technique in layers.
- David Ramer
- www.Bichromate.org
- DavidWRamer@yahoo.com
- Created 8/9/2011
Like painting a picture, QA members want to create an automated testing environment that paints a picture of the stability of their product. Bichromate uses the following tools: Java, Selenium, Appium, and TestNG to paint a testing framework that drives all automted testing. Page object model design and data driven tests are the concepts Bichromate incorporates to paint the product picture of quality.
Create a new testNG project in Eclipse.
To access the webDrivers for local, proxy, SauceLabs, Browser Stack inherit from sTestWebDriverFactory
To gain access to the data driven tests and auto setup tunnels to Saucelabs and BrowserStack integrate your test classes with a new inherited sTestWebDriverFactory (make a copy of sTestWebDriverFactory, integrate your sTestWebDriverFactory)
To gain access to the base page object model design inherit sTestBasePageDeclaration
There are three log file factories used in Bichromate
POMLOGGER - used to capture any errors or messages in pages created for testing.
testExecutionLogFactory - captures results of all tests run. When the @afterSuite is run, this logger generates a history report found in reports\reports.html
webDriverLogger - used to capture all usages of webDriver creation.
- private static sTestJiraFactory
- sTestOSInformationFactory
- webDriverLogFactory
- sTestScrollIntoViewFactory
- sTestHilitePageElementFactory
- sTestScreenCaptureFactory
- sTestZipFileFactory
- sTestSlackFactory
- sTestHipChatFactor
- sTestVideoCaptureFactory
- sTestMySQLConnector
- sTestFTPFactory
- sTestCustomerAccountManagerFactory
- sTestLogFileFactory
- sTestCleanupFactory
- sTestZipCodeAPI
- sTestNewRelicFactory
- sTestKibanaFactory
- sTestTestDataStorage
- sTestVideoCaptureFactory
- sTestLoremipsumFactory
BichroMate is built off the TestNG framework.
- TestNG - http://testng.org/doc/
BichroMate generates the following Reports:
- TestNG Reports
- Extend Reports
- BichroMate Report that captures history of all tests run.
- First time the test was run
- Last time the test failed
- How many times has the test been run
- % Pass rate
This section outlines the tools that are provided with BichroMate
- CronJob - Built in cronjob lets you schedule jobs on your local machine before promoting the tests to a CI environment like Jenkins or Team City
- LogFileFactory - Tool to parse log files after the test has run. You can also use the U/I to parse log files
Running tests within a CI environment. Bichromate has the following system variables that will override the property files defaults
- -DBichromate.spreadsheet=stageTestSetup.xls
- -DBichromate.worksheet= X
- -DBichromate.table=x
- -DBichromate.logFileIP=35.162.206.134
- -DBichromate.dbServerName - server name to access the DataBase
- -DBichromate.dbName - DB schema name
- -Bichromate.sshServer - sshServer name
BichroMate integrates with the following organizations:
- SauceLabs
- Browserstack
- Selenium Grid.
There is just one function call to create a webdrive that connects to these 3rd party integrations
- BrowserStack - https://www.browserstack.com/
- SauceLabs - https://saucelabs.com/
- Selenium Grid - https://www.seleniumhq.org/
- Updated Bichromte to 3.13
- Added new web drivers for Chrome and Firefox headless
- Updated to the new release of Bichromate 3.11
- Now uses BichroMATE Maven Repo version 3.10
- Added the pomFactory that will take a URL and turn it into a properties file and a POM file to be added to the base webdriverfactory
- Created a new test page: www.bichromate.org/seleniumTestPage.html This page has Ajax script that populates a table very slowly. Gives testers the opportunity to test out their selenium waits.
- sTestBasePageObject is now abstract and includes a function isAjaxLoaded(). Override this function for each page that has to determine if ajax has loaded.
- BichroMate is now in the Maven Central Repo. To access it you use the following Dependencies:
- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.github.dramer/Bichromate
- Added bichromateJars folder. This contains the Bichromate jar files that need to be added to local mvn repo.
- Initial version. Sample project coming soon. Email DavidWRamer@yahoo.com for more information.
- In Appium version 1.6 to find app elements you need do something like: driver.findElementByXPath("//android.widget.Button[@text='+']").click();
- BichroMATE has been used succesfully in in two companies to date.
- 12 weeks and 5 QA to fully automate www.elance.com regression suite.
- Built an entire CI/CD environment(Jenkins) for www.BillFire.com in 4 weeks. This included proxy access to DBs to confirm table results in BillFire's Application