Heroku UI E2E Test

• Tools and framework

  • Javascript
  • Cypress 9.5.0 - web UI automation tool
  • Cucumber - Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)
  • Gherkin - define tests in Cucumber

• Advantages of using Cypress with cucumber

  • Cypress:

    • open source with an active community, support and capabilities like time travel, network traffic control
    • It's more universal because it is written in JavaScript and based on Mocha and Chai
    • cross-browser testing
    • there is no complex environment to set up

  • Cucumber:

    • BDD serves as the bridge between business, Testing and Developers
      • It's easy t0 share the test with non-technical teammates, clients
    • To maintain a higher test automation coverage
    • reduces error rates in test scenarios
    • No need to maintain separate test cases

• How do I use this repo?

  • Prerequisites

    • Download and install NodeJS (v14.17.3)
    • IDE - Visual studio code / WebStrom

  • Clone a copy of the herokuapp repo locally

  • Open the project using IDE

  • Navigate to the herokuApp folder in terminal

  • Run nvm use command

  • Run npm i command

  • Run npm run cypress:open command to run the Cypress

  • Select the Login.feature from the Cypress Test Runner to run the automation

• Next possible steps for improvement

  • Non-functional test:
    • Verify if a user cannot enter the characters more than the specified range in Username and Password fields
    • Verify the login page by pressing ‘Back button’ of the browser. It should not allow you to enter into the system once you log out.
    • Verify the timeout of the login session.
    • Verify the Login page against SQL injection attack
    • Verify the time taken to log in with a valid username and password.
    • Verify if the login page allows to log in simultaneously with different credentials in a different browser
    • Automation test report