• Use Case

A Next-gen browser and mobile automation test framework using WebdriverIO with Mocha JS. Write your BDD tests using cucumberJS and it is particularly useful for testing web applications and native mobile applications for iOS and android enabled devices.

Use Case

An automation team in a project is using the WebDriverIO framework and its plugins to design powerful and robust automation tests and perform end-to-end testing of the web application. The client has requested the project team to test the application from the user’s perspective by implementing BDD which aims to help both developers and quality engineers build software that is predictable, reusable, resilient to changes, and not error-prone.

The team has decided to use Mocha as it supports both BDD and TDD framework and write acceptance test scenarios in the same tool used by developer for unit testing and same tool used by quality engineers. These scenarios must be mapped to the automation test code.

The project team must look forward to designing a framework that can integrate both BDD and TDD scenarios with the WebDriverIO test automation code, execute on multiple browsers, and generate interactive test reports like Allure, JSON, HTML etc.

Mocha provides a way to write a structured code for testing the applications thoroughly, classifying them into test suites and test cases. Mapping errors to corresponding test cases allows us to produce a test report after the run.

Supports both synchronous and asynchronous testing: Mocha is designed to fortify asynchronous testing with features that invoke the callback once the test is finished. It enables synchronous testing by omitting the callback.

webdriverIO-with-mochaBDD will enable the team to achieve automated testing of the application from the user’s perspective.

• Framework: WDIO-V8 with Mocha (V10x).
• Features:
  • Page Objects Model uses with ES6 /ES7 style class base approach and TypeScript support
  • Examples with demo app https://search.yahoo.com and http://the-internet.herokuapp.com
  • Examples of multi browser and headless browser execution using - Chrome and Firefox
  • Cloud testing Integration with BrowserStack, Sauce Labs, LambdaTest
  • Multiple reporting (Spec, Xunit/Junit, Allure, JSON) and Hosting Allure and Xunit/Junit reporting on WebServer.
  • Examples of read/write data from MS-Excel for easy test data management from external data sources with examples
  • Examples of DB connect to any RDBMS (Oracle, MySql, TeraData, Vertica etc.), any query execution / fetching result set etc. with examples for E2E testing
  • BrowserStack, Sauce Labs, LambdTest and Appium specific .config file ( for playback on mobile device.) For one click Appium setup on local machine for iOS and Android refer to [appium-setup-made-easy-OSX](https://github.com/amiya-pattnaik/appium-setup-made-easy-OSX){:target="_blank"}

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