Book #3 Redefining a testing automation strategy for a P.O with CodeceptJS & WordPress

Below you can find information and code about this book for sale on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0865TT96K/

Foreword

The 3 volumes of the continuous learning trilogy provide a practical synthesis on the best practices I gained as Trainer and Product Owner (P.O) of web application in the Media industry.

• Book #1: The good and small "Zambian" guide for WordPress. How to run a News Website with WordPress?

• Book #2: Defining a testing automation strategy for a P.O. with CODECEPTION_ & WordPress

• Book #3: Redefining a testing automation strategy for a P.O. with CodeceptJS & WordPress

1. The Book #1 gathers all the materials that I brought with me to deliver a training session in Zambia to a team of journalists from the domestic network ZNBC on how to manage and run a news website. I made as intuitive and operational as possible. It has been transposed mostly to WordPress so anyone can leverage on it. It entails good practices under constraints such as budget, technical environment and team resources.

2. The Book #2 & Book #3 present my understanding and practical experience of web application testing that I gained as Product Owner (P.O) in the Media industry. In these two books, I focus on user acceptance testing that is one of the biggest challenges for a PO of a large web application (back office, website). How to minimize the risks of the acceptance phase? How to master its duration? How to avoid regressions and side effects. Book #2 & Book #3 aim at answering those questions with the help of CP (Codeception) and CPJS (CodeceptJS).

The continuous learning trilogy

Book #1

The good and small "Zambian" guide for WordPress. How to run a News Website with WordPress?

• Github: https://github.com/bflaven/book-small-guide-zambia-wordpress-running-news-website
• Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08645F8DZ/
• Youtube: https://bit.ly/3bDSF2x

Book #2

Defining a testing automation strategy for a P.O. with CODECEPTION_ & WordPress

• Github: https://github.com/bflaven/book-defining-testing-strategy-agile-po-codeception
• Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0864VS2Y6/
• Youtube: https://bit.ly/2UAGTic

Book #3

Redefining a testing automation strategy for a P.O. with CodeceptJS & WordPress

• Github: https://github.com/bflaven/book-redefining-testing-strategy-agile-po-codeceptjs
• Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0865TT96K/
• Youtube: https://bit.ly/2UpWsdZ

Acknowledgments

For book #2 & book #3, after a quick benchmark of the market solutions and the constraints that were mine, I totally relied on Codeception and CodeceptJS. I would like to take this opportunity to warmly thank the Codeception (CP) and CodeceptJS (CPJS) team's excellent work and remarkable documentation that accompanies it. Without this documentation, I believe that I would not have taken such a step.

Codeception - https://codeception.com/

CodeceptJS - https://codecept.io/

Book Introduction

Writing another book on testing is insane!

I should be locked up :) Such a fury in design a testing strategy can only be suspicious! But not for me, this is a logical consequence of a continuous learning process. With this ultimate book, that is not a product of my boredom but rather than a final step in my understanding of testing in a bottom-up approach.

This bottom-up approach allowed me to make more exploration and experimentation with testing with the help of CPJS.

In this book, I tried to be as straightforward as possible. Good reading.

Videos

Videos

All the videos of this Book #3 are available on YouTube in this playlist: https://bit.ly/2UpWsdZ

• Video #1 Install, Init & Writing a first test with CodeceptJS for WordPress

• Video #2 More advanced usage with CodeceptJS testing the WordPress backoffice

• Video #3 Test with CPJS, a WP Plugin using Custom Post Type, Custom Taxonomy, Advanced Custom Fields

• Video #4 Launching a nice Testing Reports Dashboard with the CodeceptJS Plugin Allure

• Video #5 Enable Gherkin & Using Gherkin Features with CodeceptJS for WordPress

• Video #6 Using more advanced Gherkin Features for WordPress With CodeceptJS

• Video #7 With CodeceptJS, launching advanced Gherkin Features for WordPress

• Video #8 Combine Gherkin, CodeceptJS & WordPress Plugin for deeper testing

• Video #9 Testing the WordPress REST API using Chai and CodeceptJS

• Video #10 For a better tests Management with CodeceptJS & Docker

Code

I try not to forget anything. The best thing to do is to make a fresh installation of CodeceptJS (CPJS), finalize the configuration and then cut and paste the testing files one after the other with a WP running on custom URL in MAMP.

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├── api-wp-postman-newman # The usecase for WP API with Postman only
├── better_testing_management_5 # The usecase for "15 Better E2E Testing management"
├── discovering_codeceptjs_2 # The usecase for "chapter VII. Testing with CodeceptJS"
├── wp_testing_source # The WP used for the testing strategy (db, plugins...etc)
└── README.md #This file

Table of content

Introduction

Foreword

I. Testing for the masses

Connecting Agile and Testing

II. Why Testing?

Testing & the Definition-Of-Done (DoD)

III. Guess Who's Coming to test?

In Agile, who is making e2e testing?

IV. Does the Testing Pyramid really exist?

Testing pyramid is a just a thinking model
HEADS-UP: Pyramids in an historical perspective...  

V. Can we talk about Agile Testing?

The buzzing words
1. Why make such an association?
2. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
3. Climb up again the testing pyramid
4. Why CI is a must but keep builds short in time!  
5. Accept limitations and manage your frustration.  
6. How do I start my testing strategy?  
7. Plan strategically, Act primitively  

VI. Agile principles revisited

Bushidō for cowboys testers 
1. Simplicity rhymes with Agility
2. Iteration, the key to empiricism 
3. You'll never walk alone, work as a team  
4. Upper management methodology 
5. Learn by Doing
6. Apply Agile Coding Practices to Tests
7. Ones for the road

VII. Testing with CodeceptJS

Diving into CPJS
1. Install CodeceptJS with Puppeteer
2. Initialize CodeceptJS
3. Create the First Test
HEADS-UP: Using Tags in your tests  
HEADS-UP: MAMP & WP on a custom domain
1. Using MAMP
2. Custom address for WP in MAMP
3. Installing a WP in MAMP  
4. Update your simple scenario  
5. More advanced technics
5.1 Say, Say, Say  
6. Some evolutions in the config
HEADS-UP: Commands to know the version  
HEADS-UP: Commands to know the version  
7. How to check locators when writing your tests.
7.1 The function checkOption
7.2 The function selectOption
7.3 The function grabTextFrom or grabAttributeFrom  
8. Create your testing environment  
9. Writing your first test for WP backend
9.1 Write a gherkin feature 
9.2 Explanations for the code
    9.2.1 The random values for JavaScript variables
    9.2.2 Using constants
    9.2.2 Extra explanations
10 Writing CPJS testing files for Wordpress Backend
10.1 Externalize variables  
    10.1.1 Method_1 "the ugly way"  
    10.1.2 Method_2 "the nice way"  
10.2 Testing the WP General Settings with CPJS  
    10.2.1 Why choosing CP and CPJS is an "asset"?
    10.2.2 Making assertions or leveraging on Mocha.
10.3 Testing an advanced Post creation in WP
    10.3.1 Focus on what matters?
    10.3.2 Is my User Story a real Gherkin Feature? 
    10.3.3 What's new in this more advanced test?
10.4 Upload a media using the function attachFile
10.5 Enhancing measures in your testing writing process 
    10.5.1 Dependency Injection & UAT
    10.5.2 What is Dependency Injection?
11 Extending CPJS functionalities with plugins 
11.1 Plugin screenshotOnFail
11.2 Plugin autoDelay
11.3 Plugin stepByStepReport
11.4 Plugin allure  
12 Using Actor, PageObject, Page Fragments, StepObjects
12.1 Actor  
12.2 PageObject 
12.3 PageFragments & StepObjects
12.4 Using Custom Helper in CPJS
13 Behavior Driven Development : using Gherkin Feature 
13.1 Install gherkin in CPJS
13.2 Create our first feature
13.3 Writing test for P.O?  
13.4 Advanced features  
    13.4.1 Raise the level of the first .feature
    13.4.2 Other Advanced features  
13.5 Command-lines summary for Gherkin  
HEADS-UP: Object.keys() and forEach
14 Data Management REST using the WP REST API  
14.1 Quick presentation of the WP API
    14.1.1 The WP REST API regular endpoints
    14.1.2 The WP REST API specific endpoints
14.2 Testing the output of WP REST API with chai
14.3 Testing WP REST API & Plugin
14.4 Testing CRUD actions of WP REST API with Postman
    14.4.1 Install a Basic Authentication to the WP REST API
    14.4.2 Install Postman and Newman to test the WP REST API
    14.4.3 Using a postman collection to test the WP REST API
15 Better E2E Testing management
15.1 Why organizing the tests?  
15.2 Putting order in practice  
    15.2.1 Watch out the configuration files
    15.2.2 Create Custom Helpers
    15.2.3 My todolist to generate a E2E suite with CPJS.
    15.2.3.1 Things to do and to remember
    15.2.3.2 Extend your project
16 Using Docker and WebdriverIO for your tests 
16.1 About Docker
    16.1.1 Commands for Docker  
16.2 About WebdriverIO  
16.3 Working with Docker and WebdriverIO
17 How to automate your tests? 
17.1 The P.O POC Automation aka P.O.K.P.O.C 
    17.1.1 Basic Automation 
    17.1.2 Advanced Automation  
17.2 Basic automation: AppleScript for Mac  
17.3 Basic automation: Batch for PC 
17.4 Basic automation: Python or Ruby
17.5 Advanced automation with Jenkins
    17.5.1 Jenkins installation on a Mac
    17.5.2 Specify a local address for Jenkins  
    17.5.3 The Jenkins installation TODOLIST
    17.5.4 Configuration for Jenkins
17.6 Inside Jenkins 
    17.6.1 PATH in Jenkins
    17.6.2 Jenkins in English
17.7 Set jobs in Jenkins
    17.7.1 Creating a job in Jenkins
    17.7.2 Job in Jenkins in images 
18 Custom Runner and Automation
19 Additional Information
19.1 Pause () or the interactive shell
19.2 From CP to CPJS: how to convert from PHP to JS?
    19.2.1 Making comment
    19.2.2 Code Gemini  
    19.2.3 List all functions

Conclusion

Take-Away for CodeceptJS

Resources

Code avalaible  

Lexicon

Some Definitions