Delve into designing a test automation framework using Java and Selenium. Learn about Selenium basics, TestNG, build management, logging, and reporting to automate web applications effectively.

ui-test.tar.gz

Java

TestNG

Bash

ui-test

ui-test-1

ui-test-frmk

ui-frmk

Testing the user interface for any application is generally time-consuming when done for each new release. UI test automation is the most common and effective way to simulate the actual user journey and business use-cases for any application.
In this course, you will learn how to design a test automation framework from scratch for automating any web-based application using Java, Selenium, and TestNG. You’ll start by learning the basics of Selenium and TestNG and then move on to learn about build management, logging, and reporting, which are key learnings for any QA engineer or developer. By the end of this course, you will have successfully created a UI test automation framework.

Design a Test Automation Framework with Selenium and Java

# What is the grouping of tests?

TestNG allows to group related tests using tags. We can also have groups depending on other groups. TestNG allows having configuration methods that can run before starting or ending of tests belonging to a group. We can invoke tests belonging to a certain group or regular expressions too, while excluded from another group.

# How to group tests?
Each test can belong to one or more groups. This grouping can be done to test methods or test classes. When giving at both places, the one given at the test method takes precedence. This becomes ***Partial test grouping***, as all the test methods in the class belong to a group, and this method belongs to another.

```java
@Test(groups = { "functional" })
public class SampleTestClass {

    @Test(groups = { "sanity", "functional" })
    public void testA() {
    }


    @Test(groups = { "sanity" })
    public void testB() {
    }

    public void testC() {
    }

    @Test(dependsOnGroups = { "sanity" } )
    public void testD() {
    }
}
```

Here, in the above example, `testA` belongs to both `sanity` and `functional` groups. `testB` belongs to the `sanity` group only. `testC` belongs to the `functional` group only because there is no group explicitly annotated over this test method and therefore inherits from the class level `@Test`.

`testD` will not start until all the test methods belonging to the group `sanity` are completed, and `org.testng.TestNGException` will be thrown if no tests belonging to `sanity` were run before `testD`.

---

Now that you are familiar with grouping the tests, in the next lesson, you will learn about `@DataProvider` and `@Factory` annotations.

In this topic, we will see how to group tests.

Introduction to UI Test Automation

Selenium WebDriver Basics

TestNG Framework

Build Management

Configuration Management

Logging

Reporting

Designing the UI Test Automation Framework

Sample UI Test Framework

Grouping of Tests

What is the grouping of tests?