QA Automation

DIGIT Test Automation Framework details

Overview

DIGIT Test Automation framework majorly deals with various API services validation. It enables to test and validate back end services across all active environments and as well as tenants.

Scope

Framework is robust enough to function with minimal changes
Framework handles multi tenant with only properties update
Framework can switch environment with no manual update in automation code
Framework handles Kafka related services
Framework supports browser integration for making citizen payment via payment gateway

List of Services Completed

Core Services
- egov-accesscontrol, egov-enc-service, egov-filestore, egov-idgen, egov-indexer, egov-localization, egov-location, egov-mdms-service, egov-notification-mail, egov-notification-sms, egov-otp, egov-persister, egov-pg-service, egov-searcher, egov-url-shortening, egov-user, egov-workflow-v2, pdf-service, report, telemetry, user-otp, zuul
Business Services
- billing-service, collection-services, dashboard-analytics, dashboard-ingest, egf-instrument, egf-master, egov-apportion-service, egov-hrms
Municipal Services
- bpa-calculator, bpa-services, firenoc-calculator, firenoc-services, land-services, property-services, pt-calculator-v2, rainmaker-pgr, sw-calculator, sw-services, tl-calculator, tl-services, ws-calculator, ws-services
E2E - Integration of services
E2E pt services, E2E ws services, E2E pgr services, E2E tl services, mCollect

Approach

Automation is accomplished by building a custom framework using Karate Framework. Karate Framework is a BDD framework which is written on top of cucumber. Unlike cucumber which requires us to write step definitions for each and every scenarios, Karate supports writing scenarios directly in the feature files.

Automation framework fetches data for respective modules wherever predefined values are required while creating a payload
And uses generic functions to generate random mobile number, name, etc to pass values for respective fields in payload
Framework allows to test kafka related services by using third party tool as a proxy to access kafka clusters via REST API called kafka Rest Proxy

Title

Description

Karate Framework

intuit/karate

Gherkin Language

Gherkin is the format for cucumber specifications
Gherkin is line-oriented language just like YAML and Python
Gherkin Scripts connects the human concept of cause and effect to the software concept of input/process and output
Feature, Background, Scenario, Given, When, Then, And But are importantly used in Gherkin
In Gherkin, each scenario should execute separately
The biggest advantage of Gherkin is simple enough for non-programmers to understand

Cucumber

BDD Testing & Collaboration Tools for Teams | Cucumber

MDMS

egovernments/egov-mdms-data

Kafka Rest Proxy

confluentinc/kafka-rest

Tools Used

Environments currently working on

Observations

Currently there are failures in the automation scripts due to existing bugs
Since there are some limitations with Kafka Rest Proxy, Kafka related test cases will not run. Awaiting the required fixes in its upcoming release