Backend Test Automation Assignment

Requirements

Environment

• GitHub account
• Java 11 (JDK) (optionally)
• Maven 3.6+ (optionally)
• Any IDE you comfortable with (eg. IntelliJ, VSCode)

Skills

• Java 8+ (coding standards)
• Clean Code
• Maven
• Git, GitLab, GitHub

Instructions

Fork this project

Example

Working in Web IDE (preferable)

1. Open Project in GitPod:

2. Sing-in with GitHub account

3. Create and commit your solution into your forked repository

4. Create documentation in the README.md under the Documentation section

5. IMPORTANT: Enable Repository permissions (e.g. git push) for GitPod when coding from Web IDE here: https://gitpod.io/integrations

   Details here

   Edit permission for GitHub:

   

   

Documentation

Purpose of the project

This is a rest api test framework created to build the automated tests for Gitlab Issues API using Rest-Assured and Java. Gitlab Issues API : https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/issues.html

Required software

• Java JDK 17+
• Maven installed and in your classpath

Project Structure

src/main/java

test

BaseTest class in which the initial steps to create the requests using RestAssured and to log all the details of requests and response.

client

IssueClient class which performs actions (GET - fetch, POST - create, PUT - edit) using the endpoints. This class is used by the IssueTests classes.

config

Library used to manage the properties file : https://matteobaccan.github.io/owner/

Class Configuration is the connection used to load the property file config.properties located in src/test/resources

@Config.Sources loads the properties file and match the attributes with the @Key, so that the value can be automatically fetched.

@Config.Sources({
    "system:properties",
    "classpath:config.properties"})

system:properties will get the property values from the system (as environment variables or from the command line) config.properties It will load file from the classpath. The environment variables are read on the ConfiguratorManager

This class reduces the amount of code used to load, convert and manage the properties file. We can use the properties file in a simplest way possible.

data

changeless : IssueData : contains the test data which is fixed strings and final. factory : IssueDataFactory : which uses java-faker to generate fake data. Lombok is used to generate objects using the builder pattern.

model

Model are created to map the objects through serialization and deserialization

specs

Request and Response specifications used by the clients and e2e tests. Class InitialStepsSpec sets the baseURI and the headers like content-type and private-token. Class IssueSpecs contains the implementation of request and response specifications.

src/test/java

issues

Contains the rest assured tests to test the CRUD operations and edge cases for Gitlab Issues api

src/test/resources

It contains properties file and the allure properties file

postman

Contains the postman tests for investigation purpose.

Libraries used in the project

• RestAssured : Used to test the rest api
• Owner : Used to access the properties from the property file
• JUnit 5 : Used to support the tests creation
• java-faker : Used to generate the fake data
• Log4J2 : Used for generating test logs
• Allure Report : Used to generate the test reports

How to execute the tests

In the file config.properties the values for api.project.id and api.private.token.value needs to be provided. Due to security reasons token should not be stored in the public repositories. Hence, the values for api.project.id and api.private.token.value needs to be provided in the config.properties file, for example :

Test suites can be directly executed by IDE or by command-line. Using mvn test will execute all the tests, as it is the regular Maven Lifecycle. Test classes from src\test\java can also be executed.

To execute tests based on the groups defined use the property -Dgroups and the group names. For example to execute the test related to CRUD operations and the edge cases for Gitlab Issues API:

group	command
CRUD tests	mvn test -Dgroups="crud"
edge case tests	mvn test -Dgroups="edge"

Generating the test report

This project uses Allure Reporting tool to generate the test reports.

• io.qameta.allure dependency used in pom.xml file
• allure.properties file on src/test/resources

How to generate the test reports?

• mvn allure:serve: It will open the test report in the browser
• mvn allure:report: It will generate the reports at location target/site/allure-maven-plugin

Test Results