After the blog post here, we asked Rahul Verma if we could publish our solution on this blog. We were concerned about the same problem given in future contests. After getting a go-ahead, we are here to publish and describe our solution. The application for this contest was “WordPress”. There were three scenarios to be automated within three hours. One of the main requirements was that these scenarios should run unattended.Scenario 1: Publish five unique blog posts. Verify that the blog posts have been published successfully.Scenario 2: Create a user and login with the created user.Scenario 3: Search for a particular post and delete the blog post.Our Approach:We used Sahi Pro to automate these scenarios. We followed what we recommend to our users:- Record with Accessor Repository enabled and create snippets of code- Extract functions and use functions library- Create Scenario files (.s.csv)- Keep the data external to the script and call the file when required- Club the scenario files into data driven suite (.dd.csv )- Added tags for each scenario- Execute .dd.csv from ant targetSo, the final .dd.csv file is as follows:
blogTest.dd.csvHere, we are running three scenario files and tagged these scenarios with tags – all and scn1/scn2/scn3.The scenario file for the first scenario is as follows:We are logging in to the application and adding five unique blog posts. Once the posts are posted, we are verifying and finally logout of the application.
createBlogPosts.s.csvLet me describe the components of a scenario file here.The first line of a scenario file is the column header – TestCase, Key Word, Argument 1, 2.loadSahi loads the Sahi script with required function definitions. In this case, we are loading ‘blogARBlog.sah’ and ‘createBlogPost.sah’. blogARBlog.sah is the Accessor Repository file which we will know in detail later.We are reading the data from an external file. In this case, it is a CSV file. So, we are using the _readCSVFile API[Documentation] is useful for documentation purposes. One can note the purpose of the test case here.In the [Data] [data:Posts:title] [data:Posts:content] [data:Posts:title], we are reading the data from the Posts.csv as per the column headings.The other keywords are functions – login, addPostsAndVerify, logout.As per our recommendation to our users, we also extracted functions and saved it in a separate functions library file.The functions library file and the first script file is as follows:
functionsLib.sah
createBlogPost.sah (Part 1)
